A local law that will officially change the dates of when alternate parking happens in the city is on the agenda to be discussed during today’s City Council work session.

The changes to the date have been discussed by the council multiple times over the past few months. According to the work session agenda, the city desires to change the dates from October to March to November to March. Daily alternate parking regulations in the city right now run from October 1 to March 31 each year, and this change will make those regulations run from November 1 to March 31 instead.

During a work session in March the idea of the change was discussed in detail, specifically how the city would have to change the signs that tell the dates of the alternate parking in the city. The plan would be to patch over the dates on the larger green signs and to replace the smaller red signs in the city.

Mark Roetzer, city public works director, said at that meeting that the cost to replace the green signs would be more than $100, while buying patches to cover the two sections with the months costs about $7 a piece. The small red and white signs cost $16 each to replace, where two patches on those would be $14, so in that case the signs would just be replaced. The project total would be $3,785, not including labor for the traffic department.

It was also discussed at that meeting that many people have expressed to the city that having the alternate parking begin in October is too early, and that there is a lot of support for the November change. The end date for alternate parking will stay the same.

The local law to officially change the date will be discussed during the work session, to be voted on later in the month at the city council’s voting session. The City Council’s Housing Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the police training room on the fourth floor of City Hall followed by 7 p.m. meetings of the council’s Finance Committee (mayor’s fourth floor conference room), Public Safety Committee (police training room) and Public Works Committee (Development Department conference room). The whole council will have a work session at 7:30 p.m. in the police training room.