Agenda - Council Work Session - 01/10/2017

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off.The City is looking for incentives the community can provide to invest in building and site improvements. • Public Tree Inventory. Over the last decade or so, the City has begun encouraging planting boulevard/street trees as part of new development. As our street tree population grows, both physiologically and in actual number of trees, we are in need of an inventory to manage this often overlooked community asset. A completed inventory would allow the City to utilize tools such as i-tree to inform and educate both the public and policy makers on both the environmental and financial benefits street trees provide. • Exploration of Organics Collection Program (curbside or drop-off). The City has a successful curbside recycling program for standard recyclables; however,food and paper waste (organics) constitute the largest component of our waste stream. We would like to research, analyze and implement an optional organics program (whether curbside and/or small scale drop-off)for residents. • Floodplain Modelling. The City's Flood Insurance Rate Maps, which were just updated by FEMA in December of 2015, still include a number of areas identified as floodplain but without detailed analyses to provide a Base Flood Elevation (BFE). This has created some difficulty for various property owners and the City desires to complete modelling of these areas to be able to provide at least an estimated BFE that could be used as part of a Letter of Map Change application to FEMA. • Volunteer Opportunities and Program Development.The City participates in a bi-annual statistically-significant citizen survey benchmarked against peer communities. One of the primary findings of this survey continues to be strategies to create additional opportunities for residents to participate in the community.