1979/07/11 Council Minutes - Laserfiche WebLink

296 July 11,1979 Councilman Baker agreed with Dr.BrUSt about a need for a comprehensive comyttee with more community involvement from the public and felt it could not be initiated by the government. , Mr.Bob Dixon,Frontier Bank,concurred with Mr.Rodland and Dr.Brust to ' do something Positive. Mr.Roy Carney,Past:resident of the South Everett Association,felt I the program would take time and could not imagine"at the traffto situate." , would be if the City waited to do the improvementS. Be saggested"ing the basic idea of traffic flow in the Evergreen Way area alreadY Presented and accepted by Councyl. The traffic engineer should be instructed to in- ' elude the right turn lanes as access and egress,acceleration and deceler- ation lanes to access to businesses,their parking strips and driveways ardng the area in their marking program and let the propertY owners'it e - ' possible,mark their oym driveymys where the right-of-gag and hdaghtTP extends sufficiently to mark the right turn lane for access and egress now and use as much of the street as possible,and do as much of that work as possible just by lining. ,, , President Aldcroft asked Mr.Came"n what"lent-tries what is for parki', deceleration or coming into a turn for a business,and Mr.Cameron replied b that first it was the surface,legal signing,and'en painting of the stryping. !, Councilman Baker asked if more parking and driveway restrictions would en- courage better movement of traffic in that area,and Mr.Cameron said they do as requests are received on a case-by-case basis. Id .1.H, Hugh Warren,Public Works,said that widening the roadwaY withont curbs and e rl ii' and gutters will not solve the drainage problems and could cause more,and there was"'identified source of funding to do the drainage at thts time. TOf.V=rtd=a1=114.,aCel rget-PT.ITZ=ft0U7=d0r:1111 :7.7:0 bond issue and have left for undefined anrmal capital outlay programs aproxi- mately"00,000 per year. These could be allocated on an annual basis and used for either drainage or sewer programs,City-wide. 3 e 1 il 060-70,000. President AlOrcht stated he would meet with the Mayor mla present the idea itiiiiI of a need for a comprehensive citizens'committee to work on"Ms problem. He asked if anyone else wished to speak on this subject,and no one replied. .1 RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REPORT- (CB 797-320) ! Tim Strunk,Risk Manager,reported that the basic goals for 1979 were to develop a predictable insurance budget and reduce the City's exposure to risk. The first six=nth activities of 1979 included: 1.. I A. Contracting wyth Marsh 6 McLennan,Inc.as Broker of ReCOrd,end B. Developing a Proposed Safe"PolieY Outline(draft', C. Developing a Proposed Risk Management,.,icr'draft), D. Assisted in writing Fooling FeasibilitY st.,,,,and I!. E. Commercial insurance and Self Insurance. I I NI