Purchase several City branded bikes for employees to use during work. Employees could check out bikes (and helmets) for use on breaks or lunch for exercise, lunch, errands or other purposes. This could be a pilot program to see how a bike share program could work in a corporate environment.

A very frequent and common complaint filed with code enforcement are dead lawns. I've talked with dozens of residents that have expressed frustration with their neighbors' front yards because of dead ugly lawns. The EGMC requires property owners to maintain their landscaping to avoid from it overgrowing but it does not require watering of their landscaping to keep it healthy causing lawns to dry out, become patchy or become dirt. 

I'm proposing that the City consider a turf reimbursement program that would encourage the replacement of lawns with drought resistant landscaping. The program would reimburse property owners of residential properties (specifically SFDs) that replace their sprinklers with a drip system and their lawns with drought resistant landscaping to reduce the use of water and beautify their neighborhood. 

I think we should consider cutting out paper business cards and offer employees and our contacts a digital business card option instead. This could reduce printing costs and spare the environment. I saw an example of such a thing here: https://www.mobilocard.com/

CSD offer a number of Co-Ed sports activities such as Softball / Soccer / Basketball / Volleyball.  I think it would be a great idea if we - as a City - entered teams.

Failing that - can we have a way on ElkNet for people who want to play sports outside of work to find Teams / Teammates from within the City. I currently play on a Co-Ed soccer Team and we would love to recruit new team members - I am sure there are soccer players in the City who used to play / want to play again - it would be great if there was a way to find them!

It would be nice to have a digital sign where we currently hang banners at our beautiful Railroad Plaza.

Last Wednesday, I was ready to leave for home, removed my badge and then at the last minute, I remembered I needed to get a form from upstairs.  I went through the back door in the Bldg. Dept. into the hallway to go upstairs and immediately realized I  didn't have my badge.  Since it was after 5:30, I knew there weren't any employees in the Bldg Dept in the area I had just come through and no one in the vicinity to hear me banging on the door.  I started banging on the Lunch Room door, thinking if someone was still in the Planning Dept., they would hear me, but that didn't work.    I didn't want to exit the building, without any way to get back in.   I ran upstairs and started banging on the door hoping someone was on the 2nd Floor to let me in.  After several minutes, someone came to the door that was leaving to go home.  In all the years I have worked for the City, this was the first time I had this happen and hope it is the last.   This panic situation made me realize there should be emergency phones in the hallways that could be connected directly to dispatch.   Target has phones throughout their store to offer help when needed, which the same idea could be implemented in our building.  

Paper towels are used to dry our hands and open bathroom doors around City Hall. A lot of paper towels are being used daily to open doors (which can be seen in a blue bin next to Public Works) and can also be found in urinals for some random reason. However, this was resolved with a blue bin next to the urinal.

The fact that people typically use at least two towels to dry their hands combined with the likelihood of pull out extra towels to open a the bathroom door and discard them can significantly increase the number of towels used. Towels must also be bagged and removed from the restroom on a regular basis, and any that have landed on the floor must be cleaned up.

Why not resolve it with a hand dryer and a "no touch door foot pull & commercial touchless door opener" tool for the two set of doors in the bathroom?

The existing EV parking stalls are always full and I have noticed a lot more electric and hybrid/vehicles in the parking lot. I would love to see the City install additional EV chargers in the parking lot for employees and the public. This would encourage people to make their next vehicle an electric vehicle. It would also be a great if City Hall could be an example to other business to encourage them to install chargers for their employees.