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opportunities to engage the community. He reviewed the other action items related to community engagement and noted that staff suggests because those are more of everyday duties and processes, those items should be considered as part of the organizational culture rather than listing them in multiple places. The Council agreed. He confirmed the consensus of the Council to keep the item related to approving safety and mobility of the transportation corridors. City Engineer Westby stated that no traction has been gained with the County related to the CR 5 corridor. He confirmed that the item has been included on the plan for more than one year. He explained that as development proposals come forward, they include a portion of improvement to CR 5 as needed to support the development. He explained that the study looks at the corridor as a whole to project needs for the future and development projects impact how long the study will be accurate for the corridor, therefore it is important to get the timing right for when the study is done. He stated that the County offered to assist with the study but noted that the County has other priorities at this time as well, including Highway 10. City Administrator Ulrich stated that the study will take into account the future land use. He noted that a consultant study would use some staff time and hoped that the County could cost share that study. Deputy City Administrator Gladhill confirmed the consensus of the Council to keep the CR 5 corridor within the plan. He stated that staff would suggest moving the Highway 47 study to the parking lot and confirmed the consensus of the Council. He provided a recommendation for a new strategy to enhance the priority street light plan in order to improve lighting intersections and promote pedestrian safety. He moved to the next strategy related to a connected community and additional background information was provided with the intent behind that strategy. He stated that perhaps the overarching strategy would be to divide that into two categories, the first on the park land and connectivity and the second being related to recreational programming. He also confirmed consensus of the Council to have a strategy to complete parks capital maintenance plan for existing parks. He referenced the customer service process improvement strategy and confirmed consensus to move that under organizational culture. He noted an additional action that could be added to review existing metrics and the system to track customer/resident interaction, but it was the consensus of the Council to explore an interactive request feature under the website strategy. He moved to the next strategy related to enhance sustainability and efficiency and the Council direction was to change enhance to spotlight. He reviewed an additional action item related to solar, electric charging stations and other opportunities but the Council did not support adding that action item. He confirmed the consensus to keep the water treatment plant action item within the plan. It was also confirmed that the new public works campus item can be removed as that is already in progress. Deputy City Administrator Gladhill asked if there would be an appetite to setting aside City dollars for open space preservation. He provided additional details on how Andover chose to preserve open space areas through the use of levied dollars for that purpose. Staff provided additional details on how the land would be protected and available for public enjoyment. It was the consensus of the Council to explore the concept further. City Council Special Work Session / May 18, 2021 Page 3 of 5