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12 Planning Department • Vehicle use, except for essential zoning enforcement activities, must be authorized by the director. • Limit zoning enforcement vehicle use to complaint response and staff-initiated actions related to health or safety. • Use of vehicles for meetings will only be authorized if meeting cannot be postponed. Police Department • Officers not responding to calls for service will be encouraged to use business and station sites for report writing. • Personnel will carpool to work assignments, meetings, or training. Public Works Department DATA • Advertise the Air Awareness Campaign inside the DATA buses, insert information on DATA bus designation signs, and display posters at the main terminal. • Offer free passes to City employees and other local coalition member employees to use during ozone alert days. • Provide Transit Days at coordinator's work site to educate and to encourage employees to use transit. Traffic Operations • Traffic signal loops will not be cut. This operation uses two small gasoline engines (one on the saw and one on the air compressor) with no pollution controls. • No longline markings, stop bars,. or crosswalks will be installed. No arrows, legends, or symbols will be installed. There will be no approval ofnon-emergency lane closures by contractors unless the closure will not create significant congestion in the non-closed lanes. Street Maintenance. Water & Sewer Maintenance ROW Maintenance • Assign duties that minimize small engine use and assign duties that use hand tools. • Assign weed trimming and small mowing crews to litter pickup, or to assist the impact team with litter removal. • Maximize the use of water when sweeping streets. • Minimize warm up time on vehicles and restrict truck idling at work sites. • Avoid use of small motorized equipment, such as blowers, mad vacs, etc. used in litter pickup. • Restrict or reschedule pothole patching and other small road repairs. 7