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City Council Meeting Minutes April 16 2019 Page 3 of 8 Councilmember Stolzmann stated she asked this be moved to the regular agenda. This is an important project on our work plan with a two-year budget of $500,000 This is a design -build project and she would like to affirm what work is being done as there is no formal scope of work in the project. She wants to make sure dead trees will be removed, branches will be pruned, sprinkler systems will be repaired or replaced if needed, and that bushes and shrubs will be trimmed or replaced if needed She would like that affirmed She would also like to ask Council to add two intersections to this scope Hoover and Bella Vista and Madison and Cherry These areas are publically owned land with over grown and dead trees and many people complain about them They should be spruced up as a part of this work. Councilmember Loo stated the Parks Board is now looking at the subdivision entryways It is a complex issue The Board will be coming back to Council with a report of those issues and some options for Council to consider For those specific intersections some short-term fixes might be an option Councilmember Stolzmann stated these two intersections need immediate help while a longer term project can do more later as well. It would make a big impact on the streetscape now City Manager Balser stated there is money in this year's budget for design around intersections with implementation money in 2020 for entryways If staff gets direction to add these two intersections to the project we will have to see how it fits in the budget and the timing within the larger project. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton suggested taking care of those two areas with money from the 2018 turnback funds Councilmember Maloney stated it is not clear what we are trying to do here We have heard from residents they want these streetscapes to be welcoming The intent should be to spruce up all of the streetscapes overtime The two areas Councilmember Stolzmann mentioned clearly need work. We don't want the technical issues holding up the ones that really need work. Councilmember Loo stated the focus on medians is easy because we know we own them The entryways are more complicated because we don't know who is responsible for what in these areas. Surveying may be required to get some answers Councilmember Leh asked if we know if there are legal issues on these two proposed entryways He would like to take care of what we can if there are not too many challenges from a legal standpoint. Councilmember Stolzmann stated that while all of the discussion is going on we should spruce them up for now as a matter of good will.