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City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />August 9, 2016 <br />Page 4 of 7 <br />Councilmember Loo stated impact fees are' payments from developers to pay for <br />needed increases in services. She stated she thought many of the items listed as <br />impact fee eligible don't seem eligible to her. City Manager Fleming stated those are <br />items he feels qualify, but if there are items Councilmembers want to not pay for with <br />impact fees, that can be changed. <br />Members discussed how impact fees are generated and what that funding may or may <br />not be spent on. The funds are collected from developers and the City has six years to <br />spend them on growth related projects. City Manager Fleming stated the final budget <br />proposal will include a list of those projects for Council consideration that he is <br />recommending be paid for with impact fees. Councilmember Loo stated she wants only <br />items included that are clearly related to growth and increasing capacity. <br />City Manager Fleming stated tonight's proposed budget includes the direction Council <br />gave staff at the June budget. It includes at least $1.5M in the pavement booster <br />program and balances other projects around that priority and targets a $2 Million <br />reserve while incorporating an overall PCI of 75 and no street lower than 35 in the next <br />five years. <br />Councilmember Loo stated the BRaD committee is discussing parking and will likely <br />recommend Council fund the parking study. Economic Development Director DeJong <br />noted the study will.require outside help to create a strategy for parking; including <br />building, operating and maintaining it, what revenue sources might be available for <br />building and operating a parking structure, how it works with surface parking and how to <br />implement a permit program, etc. <br />Members discussed what a parking study might provide, if it could be realistically <br />implemented, or if there is support for it. Members generally agreed implementation of <br />any parking plan is going to be difficult. <br />Members agreed to move the parking study to 2018 understanding it will need to <br />happen and the Council will have to make some major decisions on this issue sooner <br />than later given the issues in downtown and citizen concerns. <br />Councilmember Stolzmann asked for some items to be added into the budget. She <br />asked that the library book bike be included and noted she thought impact fees could be <br />used for this as it is expanding the capacity of the library. She asked for the Dillon Road <br />quiet zone to be included when the other quiet zones are completed. She asked that <br />median renovations start sooner, but other members were content with leaving that in <br />2018 while the Parks Board prioritizes the list of work. <br />Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated the amounts listed in the proposal for paving are as low as <br />he is willing to go. He would like to see the out year numbers increased for anticipated <br />inflation. <br />