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Approval of Agenda
AGENDA
CHANHASSEN SENIOR COMMISSION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1993
9:30 A.M. TO 10:30 A.M.
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1. Approval of Minutes dated December 11, 1992.
2. Interview Applicants for the Senior Commission:
9:40 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:00
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10: 10 - 10:20
10:20 - 10:35
Adjournment
Dale Geving
Henry Dimler
Grayce Johnson
Albin Olson
Make a recommendation to the City Council
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MEETING, CONTACT SHARMIN AL-JAFF AT CITY HALL (937-1900)
AND A RIDE WILL BE ARRANGED.
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WE WILL BE TAKING A TRIP TO VISIT THREE SENIOR HOUSING
SITES. A BOX LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED ON THE BUS.
11:15 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
1 :45 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
At Eagan Senior Housing
At Burnsville Senior Housing
At Hastings Senior Housing
At Chanhassen City Hall
CHANHASSEN SENIOR COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
DECEMBER 11, 1992
Chairwoman Montgomery called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m.
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MEMBERS PRESENT: Barbara Montgomery, Selda Heinlein, Betty Bragg, Sherol
Howard, Emma St. Jo~n, Bernice Billison and Jane Kubitz
STAFF PRESENT: Paul Krauss, Planning Director; Sharmin AI-Jaff, Planner
I; and Dawn Lemme, Senior Program Coordinator
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Chairwoman Montgomery noted the Minutes of the
Senior Commission dated November 20, 1992 with the following changes:
On page 3, "an hour before- should be changed to "an hour after-;
on page 10, changing "3 plates" to "3 stories"; and on page 28,
correcting the spelling of Marvel Heath and SAL.
CALLING NETWORK FOR FRAIL ELDERLY.
AI-Jaff: I presented this item to Scott Harr. He's the Director of
Public Safety and he said, if there was an emergency, they would respond.
Not...but advertisement so it's ready to go. It's just waiting for your
approval. What we're going to do is the, after we advertise this in the
paper, people will apply. Seniors who will apply for, to be on the
calling network, will receive a phone call from the volunteers at the
senior center every day, and in case there wasn't an answer, that's where
the Sheriff Department would respond. So this is waiting for your
approval. If you think that's the way to go about it. ~
Montgomery: Alright. Then what do you need as a recommendation from
us? A motion. Okay. Is there anybody who'd like to make a motion that
the Senior Commission recommend approval of the Calling Network for the
Frail Elderly as suggested by staff?
Howard: I so move.
Montgomery: Is there a second?
St. John: I second it.
Howard moved, St. 30hn seconded to approve the Calling Network for Frail
Elderly as presented. All voted in favor and the motion carried.
Bragg: I was talking with someone on Sunday about that.. They were
telling me some horror stories about people that have, even were wearing
the telephone alerting system and that when they, one of them had it in
her purse. She'd been shopping and she tripped and fell and her purse
flew way beyond her and she wasn't found for like 36 hours. There was
another equally bad where they weren't able to reach the calling system
and they were wearing it. And their fall pinned their arms in some way
so I'm so happy that you've worked out a system because even some of the
things that have been developed, you know have malfunctioned.
AI-Jaff: The idea came from you. It was your suggestion.
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Bragg: But you pursued it until we could.
CONCEPT OVERVIEW OF CHANHASSEN SENIOR HOUSING STUDY - PRESENTATION BY
GAYLE DAVIDGE WITH MCCOMB GROUP.
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(Gayle Davidge's presentation was not being picked up on the microphone
very well.)
Gayle Davidge: ...Phase 1 was really just a phase to gather information
from the community. Numbers and statistics that we can determine how
many units and size of units that would work. And in that case...72
units with larger unit sizes than are normally found in the market or in
senior housing.
Howard: But you had mostly one bedroom.
Gayle Davidge: Correct. Now Phase 2 is the phase that's very, very
hands on. It's a phase that requires a lot of input and a lot of
direction. It involves site selection, which is critical. Where the
number of units will be placed. And the architectural design. Would it
be one level with a two level atrium or would it be two stories? Will it
be configured in a configuration on the site of the project also
determined in Phase 2. I'm really excited to go on to Phase 2. That's
the interesting phase where you have a lot of options and a lot of the
different alternatives. I suppose one thing we didn't touch on last
month. and it really is important, is the difference between apartments
versus a bungalow. And this is something I know that Sherol mentioned.
The bungalow concept works when you have a larger mass of land relatively
inexpensive which generally means it needs to be developed in an outlying
area. From discussions with pastors and ...keepers and yourselves, and
others in the community, it was very apparent that the City and the
community it served, wanted a senior project to be near downtown so the
seniors could walk to the post office and to shopping and the senior
center. When you develop a project in town, the property is extremely
expensive and usually the site is very small and you're not able to
develop a bungalow simply because you don't have the land mass or the
inexpensive property necessary to develop individual bungalows. And this
is why the determination was made on our part to go with apartments
versus the bungalow simply because the financial constraints and of
purchasing a large number of acres in downtown Chanhassen, which I
understand aren't available anyway. So that's one issue I know that was
brought up last month and you wanted to try to touch on. The other item
that struck me was, this project does not have to be multiple story. I
actually would like to see it be single story with a 2 story atrium and 2
story community room. And again, that's a function of architectural
design which comes in Phase 2. And also the site itself is finally
selected. Basically I just would like to answer questions.
Howard: We were given to understand there was a possibility of bungalows
at the beginning. Now certainly Paul knew about the land and all this
from the very start. Were we just given the wrong impression that this
was a possibility?
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Gayle Davidge: No. Bungalows are possible when there's a community that'
is not, I don't know how to phrase this. When the community attitude is
such that transportation or wanting to walk to services isn't an issue.
and it turned out in the interviews that that was an issue. That was
something that everyone felt pretty strongly about.
Howard: Well we have two groups. We also have young seniors such as
I consider myself, who are interested in the senior housing but we want
garages and to have cars. I think you have to cater not only to the very
elderly but also to the younger seniors. And they're not being considered
by this report.
Gayle Davidge: Well this was a very difficult recommendation because you
do have two distinct senior populations here in Chanhassen. You have the
elderly, old, old population and a large group of 55 to 64, which are
very active. Very young seniors. And our hope is that, there really is
a market for only one project at this time, based on the numbers. Our
hope is that the project would be developed as a flexible project. That
people move into the project as they age in place, that other services
and other amenities could be added to this structure.
Howard: Is there a possibility of combining the two? Having a few
bungalows in a center building?
Gayle Davidge: Bungalows as free standing bungalows?
Howard: Or...maybe a couple quads.
Gayle Davidge: You know we can discuss that with Arvid Ellness, ~
certainly and that's very appropriate to put.
Howard: That way you'd be catering to the younger seniors and the older
ones.
Gayle Davidge: That's very appropriate to bring that up with the
architect.
Bragg: I'd like to add my support to Sherol because I too felt that we
should have bungalows. Yes, and we'd move in. But you may a point that
you didn't want, the people did not want to move again during their aging
process and I wanted to say that when you consider the aging process,
you're talking at the maximum 30 and 35 yeaTS and that people do move
during that period. You don't just stay in one spot for 35 years. Given
the blessing of that many years of being aged. But I did not know
exactly where this was, building was going to be placed and I was given
to understand that they were going to have it down near the cemetary
that's in town and I was very adamant against that. And then the last
meeting, we were told that's it down on the west side in a farm that
exists, and I thought that was a far better choice but if it were a
matter of giving up bungalows in order to get a more, better location.
Howard: Behind the business park.
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Bragg: Yes. And I thought that was a better
would give up on the idea of the bungalows in
location. If we had the choice of only two.
a lot of benefit in being able to walk to the
choice. In that case I
order to get the better
And I did think there was
amenities.
Kubitz: May I get my nickels worth in...couple years older than you. You
will find out that there's a vast difference in what you can do now and
what you can do 5-10 years from now.
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Heinlein: Unless you go running around like I do.
Montgomery: Selda, you're a wonder.
Kubitz: Well I do a lot more but my husband is only 2 years older than I
am and he can do very little. And you have to consider that.
Gayle Davidge: I would think it would be appropriate to bring up with
Arvid. Now I've talked with him just in a very preliminary way of
letting him know that Phase 2 was ready to begin with the site selection,
which you know he'll be doing. To bring up with him, would there be some
way to use, maybe to have say four of the larger units set out with their
own garages possibly, you know within the constraints of the site and
all, and that's something that he really needs to think about and
address. I would encourage you to discuss it with him.
St. John: Having your own garage and that way would lead to some, if
there's a man in the couple, that he would have like a workshop or
something and wouldn't have to just sit in the apartment and no place to
go afterwards or for anything.
Gayle Davidge: Yeah, hopefully the project will also have a big
workshop.
Howard: I think people, these places that were more individual I think
would always have people ready for them as the people in them moved on to
the main building where they didn't need these things.
Gayle Davidge: That's a really good idea Sherol. Once you've made the
decision to move.
Howard: Moving's not that big a deal. You hire somebody and they do it
for you.
Gayle Davidge: Too, if you have a few units set developed that will
serve as very independent units, and one or another of the partners
decides that we really can't stay in this unit any longer, for whatever
the reason, it's moving within the facility. It's certainly not as
difficult a decision as moving from your home into the building.
Bragg: I think most of the, of course we don't have too many senior
housing projects in this area, but I think that there will be waiting
lists for every type of housing that you're providing there.
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Howard: Has your group studied any that became bungalow projects or has .
Arvid?
AI-Jaff: In Champlin.
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Gayle Davidge: Yeah, we did the bungalows in the Champlin project.
Howard: Oh, maybe we could visit those.
Gayle Davidge: The project that I recommended you take a look at is
Copperfield Hill up in Robbinsdale, and I believe you're going up there.
Bragg: And we're going there today.
Gayle Davidge: Yeah. Now Copperfield Hill is an apartment building and
I didn't recommend you look at it because it's an apartment buliding.
But because it has really well laid out common areas. It has very
functional community spaces and I really like the way they recessed the
doorway so everyone has like an individual entrance. It's not just like
an apartment building. And there are no projects that I found anywhere
in this market that did what I hope will occur here at Chanhassen. There
are bits and pieces from various projects that I think would work well
and I think that Copperfield Hill has some design features and the
community room and the utilization of space for common areas that I
really liked. That I think function really well, which is why I
recommended that you look at it. I don't know of any single level
projects like this in the area. They're usually just two pricey for
developers.
One thing occurred to me. If there are just two 2 bedrooJlt
that mean then that there wouldn't be anymore than two
would be able to live there either? I mean unless, I mean
they would need the space of 2 bedrooms.
Montgomery:
units, does
couples who
quite often
Gayle Davidge: The two bedroom units that exist in the market now are
the ones that don't have waiting lists. And there are two 2 bedroom
units that I found that haven't rented for the last 2 or 3 monhts. We
can increase the number of 2 bedroom units. My idea, or the idea that we
had was with the 1 bedroom den. That larger 1 bedroom den unit would
function like a 2 bedroom.
Howard: That sounds good but you didn't have many of those. Only 16.
54 1 bedroom.
Gayle Davidge: Yeah. It's about 25% of the project and we certainly can
increase that to about a third of the project and it's something that we
should talk about too. If you feel strongly that there is a need for
more larger 1 bedroom den or the 2 bedroom units, we can change the mix
to include up to one-third as those size units.
Montgomery: I noticed that there was quite a variation from say 5% 2
bedroom to about a third 2 bedroom and I wondered what made that
difference in determination of these places.
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Gayle Davidge: You're talking about the comparable projects on the
market?
Montgomery: Well I'm not sure really but it just, now I can't find the
page number here.
Gayle Davidge: Well it would be one third, 1 bedroom and den and 2
bedroom combined. So combining those two categories. Generally from one
third to three-fourths of these projects are 1 bedroom.
Montgomery: I didn't remember whether that was a price factor or whether
there was consideration that the rent would be too high if they were 2
bedroom or whether it's just a need.
Gayle Davidge: The rent is one of the major issues in the 2 bedroom.
The 1 bedroom den seemed to rent out very well.
Howard: I noticed the 1 bedroom with the den can be as large as the 2
bedroom so I wouldn't care what you called it.
Gayle Davidge: Right. And when I talked to Arvid Ellness about that, he
said well, there are projects that go from 75% 1 bedroom, 25% larger
which is what we're recommending for 2/3 1 bedroom and 1/3 larger as...
We can change that to have more 1 bedroom dens.
Montgomery: Was some of that determination from the interviews and the
information that you got in the area?
Gayle Davidge: Most of that c~me from what was working with other
projects and in interviewing the managers and the building owners of
senior housing both in this market and outside of the market, there
seemed to be a real desire for the larger 1 bedroom unit and the 1
bedroom den units but the 2 bedroom units seem to just not stay rented
well. I think that's a function of price.
Montgomery: Maybe because, was part of it because the bedrooms then had
to be smaller in order to have two?
Gayle Davidge: I don't really know...
Montgomery: Were you saying that the cost is based on square footage if
it's subsidized and that's figured that way?
Gayle Davidge: Right. It's calculated by the number of.square feet
you're actually renting. And when you get into the 2 bedroom units,
there is a lot more square footage so you're paying proportionately
higher. But as Sherol pointed out, we really felt strongly about the
larger 1 bedroom den. We recommended that they be the same size as the
small 2 bedroom because that seems to work really well.
Montgomery: Maybe we can take a look at that today. Are there units
like that we would be able to take a look at?
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Gayle Davidge: Copperfield does have a unit with a den, yes. I'm sure
they'll show you units. If when you called, did you ask to see the
inside of any units? .~.they normally, when you tour a project, they ~
will normally show you the various layouts. Now Copperfield still has ~
really nice variety of layouts in their units. Even within the 1
bedrooms, they're n6t all the same. They'll be laid out differently.
There will be a walk-in closets in some cases is at the end of your hall,
you know for storage, as well as the hanging closest in the bedroom.
Some of the units have a walk-in right inside the bedrooms, so they have
a really nice range of layout floorplans. And I think the architect that
designed that building was Darrel Farr Construction. Darrel Farr.
St. John: This is at a different location at the Presbyterian Homes but
friends over there, there's two different couples, and they have the
bedroom and a den but use it as you know, they can use it as 2 bedrooms.
It's very nice.
Gayle Davidge: It's really nice...hideabed in there when you have
company.
Howard: I think that's the ideal thing because you don't need 2 bedrooms
all the time but occasionally if company, someone from out of town
visits. I have another thing under the unit features. I have a friend
who works at Friendship Village and she said their worst mistake is
putting bathtubs in all the units and they have found that a stall shower
with a seat in it is the ideal thing to have and then on each floor have
a sitzbath thing where people can take a bath. But she said there are so
many people that can't get in and out of a tub. Arthritic people and.
grab bar makes no difference and I've become arthritic and I know gett-
up is very difficult. So she said those with bathtubs.
Heinlein: There was some program on I happen to catch the other day
where they were talking, this man was showing a building that he had
taken over. It was a narrow building but he had one of those tubs. It
was just like a square almost and there was a seat in it.
Howard: Well this is a shower with a seat in it. Yeah, and she said
that's the way to go in these buildings.. In a senior building rather
than a standard tub.
Montgomery: I remember seeing that, I think it was Auburn Manor.
Remember where we?
Howard: Well I just noticed they said tub/shower combination on this
unit.
Gayle Davidge: Yeah, when I talked to Arvid about that too, he mentioned
that there is a nice option for those people coming into the building
initially to decide if they want just the walk-in shower or if they want
the tub shower which is, as Selda was saying, the square tub with a seat
in it and the shower over it which seems to work very well too. I can
mention that in the report too.
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St. John: I just hope that the seat in that shower isn't someway
designed that it's not slippery.
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Gayle Davidge: Yeah. they're not supposed to be.
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St. John: Because somebody had a little fall in one, sliding off of the
seat you know when it was wet.
Kubitz: I took a nice fall in my sister's tub when I took a shower
because they don't have...the bottom non-skid and boy did I take a
tumble.
Howard: I have one other question. On page 28. under recreational and
community spaces recommended for this type of building. It said, now I
can get details on something from you, if I want them right? It said,
interest was expressed by Chanhassen pastors and seniors in having a
meting room open to community senior groups. Now that we already have in
our senior center and I doubt that all the pastors in Chanhassen were
aware of this. And also any seniors you talked to that aren't aware of
it so I'd like to have a list and I will personally call these people and
acquaint them with the fact that we have a meeting room open to community
seniors.
Gayle Davidge: Oh, they are all aware of that. They were.
Howard: Why would they need two?
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Gayle Davidge: They were mentioning that it would really be nice, one of
the pastors put this really well, and he's the pastor at St. Hubert's who
said you know. it's really nice when they go out to give communion or
speak with one of my parishoners that if we need to have like a little
meeting or some Bible study, it could be done there. And I've seen this
done in other projects where the community 'room becomes an extension of
the family within the facility in also reaching out to the community.
Not as in holding community events there, as you would do at the senior
center. But in allowing the pastor to come in and administer to his
parish and be able to have the facility open to that sort of idea.
Howard: Would this be the same space that was used as a party room?
Gayle Davidge: ...we looked at on here was having a small office that
could be used by visiting...pastor and if they did need to have a larger
group, in the case of a Bible study, that they could possibly use that
but no, it wasn't for community functions. Like people ~ouldn't come in
and just schedule a community function there. But as a part of what was
happening within the facility itself. And I can change this language to
better reflect the interest...
Howard: Well this implies they need a meeting, which they do not.
Gayle Davidge: Yeah, I'll change the language. I understand why you're
confused by that and I can really change that language. It's that
everyone does know that the senior center exists and the senior center is
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open to be scheduled for a variety of lectures and workshops and that
type of thing.
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Howard: Is there room that people can rent or use for large groups?
private individual, which they normally call party rooms.
Gayle Davidge: Yeah the community room would serve that function. And
also the dining room when the dining room's not being used. Can also be
set up to function in that way too. I know sometimes people want to have
like a large family gathering. If they have a large family and they want
to use the kitchen within the facility.
St. John: That would be two separate rooms like the party room and the
dining room? Two different areas?
Gayle Davidge: And again that's something that should be addressed in
architectural designs of the structure.
Montgomery: Does anybody else have some questions? Gayle, you were
saying something about when you start the next project or the need for
all kinds of input into that. Maybe you could explain that to the
Commission.
Gayle Davidge: Well Phase 2 is the phase that looks at sites and selects
the site. That's something that I think all of you should be consulted
about and look at the various sites and have input into that. Also in
Phase 2, the architectural design and these are some of the issues that
we've touched on today and it's critical that the facility be deSigned..
a manner that's in keeping with how you want to live. Because once it
built, it's there so.
Howard: Nothing has been designed?
Gayle Davidge: Nothing's been designed.
Montgomery: Gayle was suggesting that she would like to hear from you
personally if you have questions or something you want to tell her and I
thought maybe she could give you her phone number again, just so you'd
have it handy. Do you want to write that down?
Gayle Davidge: It's 339-7000 and yeah, I just want to reiterate that I'm
always happy to come down and meet with you and talk to you and I'm very
willing to talk to each and everyone of you on the phone. The input
that you've already given for the first phase was invaluable and it will
be even more critical.
Howard: Tell me in what way did you use our input in the first phase.
Gayle Davidge: In determining what the attitudes were towards senior
housing, which really is very good in this community. And the desire,
just seeing how much desire and how much...the illustration that you
wanted to be able to walk to the Post Office and to walk to the grocery
store.
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Montgomery: Paul, did you have any comments for us?
Krauss: Just one thing. I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier... One thing
I've learned over the years, as with these types of feasibility studies,
is the answer isn't always what you might have expected and the answer
may not be exactly what you wanted because what we're paying them to tell
us is what the market wants, which may not be the same thing. Well it's
true. I've learned this much in particular the senior projects. It's
one thing to ask somebody to, Mr. and Mrs. Agerage Senior what's your
perfect type of housing situation. Well I'd like a small private home
with a nice little garden and somebody to cook dinner...make sure that's
somebody watching out for me. There'd be a long list of things. I'd
like to be able to walk outdoors... And then when you're confronted with
well, are you willing to pay $3,000.00 or $4,000.00 a month or I mean,
but more importantly, when you're actually faced with moving out of a
home, what kind of a unit are you. It's one thing to think about
hypothetically what you want but I've learned that people don't move
unless there's a pretty darn good reason. I mean giving up a home is not
~. "ething a lot of us want to think about. And it's something that you
't normally do unless you thought about it a long time and it fits
r lifestyle better or it's something unique to them. So what it gets
~~~n to is I've learned that just sitting around thinking about
hypothetically what you want and maybe what you really would move into
when it's time for you to think about moving, might be two different
things and it's a very tough thing to ~ome to terms with.
Howard: Paul, there's quite a large proportion of seniors who are single
women who have already faced this move. Once you've done it once, the
second time isn't much. We've already left our homes.
Krauss: We're also winding up Sherol, we have, or in your neighborhood
we ~ave a senior housing project. A lot of the fourplexes and the quads
anc stuff that were developed in the 70's and early eo's have almost
con0erted to senior housing... Didn't plan it but that's what it turned
into. And that's great. I mean it provides what people were looking
for. A little less space. A little, you don't have to worry about
mowing the lawn. Those kinds of things. And is the market providing it,
do we need to compete with it... And that's not covered in here because
it's not particular a senior project. It's not, but if we were going to,
and I'm not trying to argue pro cottages or against cottages or anything
else but one of the things after we got this and Sharmin and I were
talking, one of the things you realize is that the kind of image that we
dev€_ Ded about the cottage type situations, really...walks and talks a
whole t like the quad developments that we already have in town. So it
may be ~ reason that when you're actually looking at what people are
going to need, that that's not what's coming up. There's no magic to
this stuff. We hope there's science to it. You know it is something of
an art. We think folks we hired are helping us with that and then you
need to throw in a little bit of your gut level, this feels right or it
doesn't feel right. And if it doesn't feel right, let's ask why and
let's get an answer.
Howard: My point was not the quads or that. My point was making such a
huge issue out of moving. And that's not as big an issue for some of us
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as it would appear in this study or what you're saying.
Krauss: No, and you know you've had more experience with it than I dol
but I know, I mean I saw a lot of the projects tnat were developed in t
80's...it was different stuff but allover the Twin Cities you have a
tremendous, I mean developers see something...and they all build it you
know and there were a tremendous number that came on the market for
senior...and they all had these glowing feasibility studies that said,
wow. There's tens of thousands of senior households in the Twin Cities.
Build it and they will come. Well what they've found out is, build it
and they'll think about for 3 or 4 years and maybe they'll get around to
doing it. People don't move lightly. I mean I see that in my own life.
I mean I used to move a lot before I got married and had kids. It's not
something... You do it but you have to have a pretty good reason to do
it. And you want to move into something that offers you more or better
suits you than what you have now. And unless we can provide that, we're
going to be in trouble and it's why we get a little cautious and you
don't build on the presumption that everybody is going to think that this
is the greatest thing since mashed potatoes and they're all going to come
tomorrow. I think that's why, one of the.~.here was to talk about you
know almost phasing the number of units that you have. You want to be
cautious. You don't want to sit around with a bunch of empty projects.
We saw that down in Mankato. What did it take them to lease that thing
out? 3 or 4 years. And now it's working great you know.
St. John: When you mention the quads now, and they were talking about
the bungalows and Sherol living in one of these quads. Do you feel that
that is so much better to have a cottage type? Would you have more .
advantages?
Howard: No, I have three flights which is bad.
St. John: Yeah. that I agree. Yeah.
Howard: And also you do have a lot of seniors but the opposite side, you
have fully as many newlyweds and tiny tots. So it's half and half and
there's a great turnover with the young people. They have 2 children and
it isn't large enough so they move out. But you see very .few high school
children. Little children and seniors. The two opposite ends. About
50/50 I think.
Krauss: Well you know, clearly it wasn't built.
senior housing. It just kind of turned into it.
folks. the seniors who move in there, I mean you
affluent.
purposedly built as
And you find that the
have to-be fairly
Howard: It turned into it because it was the best the community had to
offer for those of us who became widowed or something. Where do we go?
Krauss: It fit the bill.
Howard: Within the area.
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Krauss: But I know like Tom Workman moved out. I guess he supposedly
sold it to an older couple... You're talking about people that are
pretty mobile. Who have enough dollars to have a lot of freedom to make
decisions. They're not. cheap homes. I mean comparability they're not
terribly, not as expensive as a single family home but they're fairly
expensive. Who are still in a position to take care of a lot of details
themselves... But again, the supply of people to move into your project
isn't...pretty small and you've really got to hit that right on. You're
really marketing these things. Hitting the market. Being as astute as
any retailer in what they're selling is a major part of a successful
project. You just can't build something that feels right or looks right
or, it has to be right or it's not going to work.
Gayle Davidge: A couple things we talked about too before you came in
was, in the recommendation...recommends up to 3 stories which isn't to be
interpretted that it has to be 3 stories or even has to be 2 stories. If
we have...site it, well one level would be wonderful with 2 level atriums
and that's one thing that... And the other thing we talked about was if
we can do one level, could we have some of the units become, have a
garage right next to them. Still be attached because some of these will
be...little more independent... That's something that needs to be
addressed in the architectural design. It isn't something that I would
feel comfortable recommending but Arvid... And the other thing that we
discussed is that Phase I will really determine...Those are important
issues that require much more input than determining...
Krauss:
...there's a lot of number crunching.
Howard: What's considered successful? As the building is completed,
what percentage occupancy is expected immediately to be successful?
Gayle Davidge: Most of the facilities that begin really actively,
pre-marketing before construction begins, are usually 80% to 85% occupied
before they even open. And I would say that that could vary...with the
proper design and proper site and proper...
Krauss: But when you set up your financing package for a project, you
want to be conservative and you're probably going to assume...occupancy
for a period of time, just to be on the safe side so that 6 months down
the pike if you've only got 80% occupancy, 70% occupancy, you don't run
out of cash because you didn't get your minimum. But that's just all
numbers...
Montgomery: It'd be nice if we had a crystal ball and knew all the
answers ahead of time. Well there's a lot to think about. A lot of
things to juggle.
Howard: Is there anything on sites? We have defined the business park
and the farm across the street. And a spot on Lake Lucy Road. Are those
the three?
Krauss: Lake Lucy Road?
Howard: Did you have a property off Lake Lucy Road you talked about?
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Krauss: No, we had this one over here. The farm. We still have, well
I guess 78th Street. Or right down across from St. Hubert's. 4It
Bragg: By the cemetary.
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Heinlein: ...it may not go up that road, but the beautiful homes that
has been built around Eden Prairie cemetary. They are just beautiful and
they're all the way around. I thought at first and I thought, well what
difference does that make.
St. John: Nice quiet neighborhood.
Kubitz: Well I think when you're younger you don't mind that. I think
when you get older you...
Montgomery: Does anybody else have any more questions for Gayle?
Krauss: Well actually somebody, I don't know if it's big enough
actually. Who suggested that anyway? You know where Kenny's Market is?
That little building...well Kenny's is the biggest tenant and they've
always been marginal. Especially now that we have a legitimate market in
town and people shop there. And the rest of the uses in there are kind
of...
St. John: Isn't that where the cleaners are?
Krauss: Well the cleaners is a little behind, yeah. And there's one ~
other developer in town... ~
Bragg: But then you'd be forced to have an apartment with a couple of
layers.
Krauss: It's not that big of space.
Heinlein: The new one in town is the biggest one around. The one that's
across from me there. That's 3 stories.
Krauss: That's 3 stories with an underground garage.
Montgomery: Yeah, there'd be less options if it were in that.
Krauss: Yeah, that parking lot there...we own the parking lot and St.
Hubert's uses it on Sunday and Pauly's uses it when they have a crowd.
It's something to consider.
Montgomery: Well I remember they had to do a pollution clean-up or
something there for the gas station.
Krauss: Yeah, that's all been done.
Montgomery: That's all, nothing lurking under there?
Krauss: Yeah, we cleaned all that up before we put in the street.
There's a site we haven't been able to figure out what to do with it,
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I don't know. We'll either put, yo know where the Taco place was? We
tore that down.
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St. John: In the...TH 5 and 78th S reet?
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Krauss: By spring Apple Valley Red is going to be torn down. So
you have a big island of land there. We haven't been able to figure out
what to do with that. It's fairly long and skinny. One end of it is...
highway.
Bragg: A little dangerous for seni rs walking.
Krauss: Well, we looked at doing p destrian connections like a bridge
over the railway tracks and another bridge to the south. I don't know.
Maybe if you did it so that you're, I mean there are ways to design
buildings when you want to turn you back on something like a highway so
that you only have hallways or some hing on that side so all the units
face downtown or look back over to t. Hubert's. Something like that.
It's not my favorite choice out it' something I'd kind of like...
Heinlein: How much acreage is in t ere?
Krauss: Quite a lot. I don't know
See we own the Hanus building. The
to be a lot of junk back there. Bo
back there. That whole area is goi
cleaning it all up. I
St. John: Doesn't that go up towarJs the cemetary there?
that? I
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Krauss: Well it doesn't, I mean th
cemetary.
St. John: I said to Betty, that so
senior apartments which is very bad
There's 5 streets or something that
parking place and they see the high
not very attractive around there.
Heinlein: Well where's ~hat other
Paul? The one where they tore all
Krauss: Where the stop light is ri
front of McDonald's, it's going to
to go into the Taco building. It r
to take out that apartment building
off hand but it's long and skinny.
one with the auto place. There used
ts and trucks and stuff were stored
g to come down. I mean we're
Well isn't
railroad tracks separate it from the
nds a little like the. South Shore
for walking. The crossroad there.
comes together and then there is no
ay going UP from one side and it's
ighway going to come through there
he buildings down.
now, where they're rebuilding in
straight north. So it's not going
straight north. That's why we had
Howard: Yeah. Otherwise you come ff of Dakota and go right straight
across.
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Krauss: You go straight across, ye h.
more land over there than there is
access is tough. The only access i
So there's actually going to be
when we're all done with it. But
that place is off of Great Plains.
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Kubitz: Will 78th Street still continue to go right into TH 57
Krauss: No, it's kind of going tO,both of them, 78th Street and the.
front road kind of come up like this so they.
Kubitz: You can go down 78th Street and get onto TH 57
Krauss: Well, you'll go down 78th Street, go up and then get on TH 101
and then get on TH 5.
Montgomery: We'll have to see a map.
Howard: If you could have more on that location, because there's more
land than the other location, I think it's worth considering.
Krauss: We'll get out some maps and see how much land is going to be
left. We're talking about building a real nice landscaped feature...with
an entrance into downtown, so it's something that would be merged with
that.
Montgomery: It would be a longer walk however to anything. So that
would be quite a long walk.
Krauss: If we do these pedestrian bridges we're talking about.
Montgomery: It's still a long way to the senior center. Or the market
you know.
Krauss: When we get the architect out here and we'll draw up a list o~
sites and all of those...
Montgomery: That would help. See where the boundaries are and how far
it would be from.
Gayle Davidge: I think too, Arvid would be very happy to take you to
look at some of the products he's already developed so he can get
feedback about what you like and what you don't like.
Howard: That would be helpful.
Montgomery: Well I suppose we should get onto our next item here. Is
there anybody else who has a final question for Gayle before we close?
Bragg: I'd just like her to give us a list of places that we should go
and look at.
Gayle Davidge: Okay. I've been talking to Sharmin about that too and I
will. I'll put on that list why I think it would be appropriate.
Bragg: What the features are that we're supposed to look at.
Gayle Davidge: Like Copperfield, I really think some of their features
in the recessed doorways is very nice. Very well utilized.
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Montgomery: Well thank you very much Gayle. We appreciate your coming
out.
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Gayle Davidge: Thank you. I'm excited to start on Phase 2.
Montgomery: Yeah. That will be a real challenge.
UPDATE ON SENIOR CITIZEN COMMISSION VACANCIES.
Montgomery: Here we have some applications I see.
Al-Jaff: We received four applications. However, one of them was a
resident of Excelsior so we eliminated that application. We have three
applications here. Henry Dimler.
Bragg: Let's take him. He's the only man that.
AI-Jaff: Grace Johnson and boy, this writing is so small I can't even
read it.
Howard: Way to go Selda.
Heinlein: I decided I am stepping out.
AI-Jaff: Really?
Heinlein: Yeah.
. Montgomery: What did you say?
Heinlein: I have definitely decided I am stepping out.
Bragg: She wants to rescind this.
Montgomery: You don't want this application? Is that legal?
Heinlein: I told you at the time that I would think about it and give a
decision today. I've thought about it very, very hard.
AI-Jaff: And you don't want to be on the Commission?
Heinlein: I just feel like I want to start doing things, if I want to go
away, if I want to do this, if I want to do that, I want to be free to do
it. I've got other reasons too. I mean nothing to do with the group
here but I mean it's just, I'm finally going to get to see my one son
after 2 years I haven't seen him. I'm going to get up for 4 or 5 days
and that's all. I miss my kids.
Montgomery: Well, we're going to miss you Selda, that's for sure. Well
you come by and put in your two cents worth anytime you want here.
St. John: We can still come and visit and listen in on the Commission?
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Montgomery: Oh you bet. Give us all kinds of direction while you're at
it. ...Well Selda, we just can't say enough to thank you. ...
Kubitz: Did we only have...I thought we had more applications than tha~
AI-Jaff: Well we had 4 applications but one of them was from Excelsior.
The applicant is from Excelsior and your By-laws say you can only have a
Chanhassen resident.
Montgomery: Well Betty, how about you now?
Bragg: I'm going to go off and have a man that's applied and that's my
seat he's going to take.
Montgomery: But we have 3 vacancies.
St. John: I'm going off too.
Montgomery: See we have 3 vacancies and 2.applicants.
Heinlein: Grace Johnson, you know her don't you? That's the one that
has been, well she's been out for quite a while but her only problem is
that she will need transportation to get back and forth.
AI-Jaff: We can arrange that.
Heinlein: She's, what is she. Grace is.
Bragg: 73.
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Heinlein: And she does walk with a cane right now. She's had a couple
knee surgeries and she's still walking, and she is really interested in
it.
Montgomery: Maybe, shall we then wait a little bit and see if we have
some more applications?
Bragg: Well I think I would accept these two. This Mr. Dimler is born
in the Village and he could carryon the traditions and the history.
Montgomery: Would anyone know.
Heinlein: Yeah, that's who we were talking about, Grace 3ohnson. She's
been a member of the Senior Group oh about...the other day Sharmin was
there and you've got to sign it. And Dawn was there, you've got to sign
it. I said well, I'll think about it. My son told me to stay on. But
truthfully there's so many things that I like to do that I'm not able to
do it. It seems like all my time now. I spend 2 and 3 days up here at
the center. And I mean I just, I like to read. I like to do crossward
puzzles. I like to do handwork and don't tell me about the craft...it's
not a craft deal. But I just made up my mind and I have another personal
reason so.
Howard: Selda, do you know this Mr. Dimler?
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Heinlein: Well I met him. I talked to him.
Bragg: Chuck's father. It says he was ex-President of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Heinlein: Well that's Ursula's father-in-law.
Bragg: Yeah, exactly.
Howard: I tried to talk Mark Littfin's father into it but.
Montgomery: We're still short one person.
Krauss: Well you know what we can do is fill two of them now. We had
this...Planning Commission. Ask one of you to stay on until we can get
another person to apply...
Howard: Do you know this has never been in the paper?
Heinlein: It has been.
Howard: Not in the way that you wanted it.
Montgomery: It was during the election or something when nobody was.
Krauss: We could mail out notices to the Senior Club.
AI-Jaff: If we can wait until about Thursday, I will go and ask one of
my neighbors...
Heinlein: Oh heavens. Forget it. When I saw her say she wanted, I
thought oh, no. You know who I'm talking about.
St. John: I know.
Heinlein: Well you know we would laugh. She came in one day and we were
playing Bingo and we said, oh are you going to play Bingo? Oh no, I just
came in for that free cup of coffee. But no, I mean no.
Montgomery:
another one?
Well Paul, how should we handle this if we still need
Should we wait to make a vote or should we go ahead?
Krauss: Well, I mean I have the same problem with the Planning
Commission. What you might want to do, you do it either-two ways. You
can fill some of them now and ask one to stay on until we get the other
position filled, which will probably be in January. There's so many
people coming through the Senior Center now, we have access to so many
more names that I'm sure with a little bit of publicity we can get.
Bragg: Get one more.
Krauss: Otherwise you can just postpone the whole thing until January
which gives you time to get some more names.
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Howard: We don't decide anyway do we?
Montgomery:
Yeah, we d~n't decide. We just make the recommendation. 4It
Krauss: You make a1recommendation to the Council and the Council
confirms it.
Montgomery: Well, maybe we should just wait then. Do you think that
would be a better way to do it? So we won't make any motion yet then.
Heinlein: Maybe I would fill in if I had to.
Krauss: If you all would agree to go through January on the Commission
and we'll try to get the names so that at your meeting in January will
have, I don't know if that's okay...
Bragg: We can do it that way. And then if Selda, she's willing to stay
on.
Montgomery: You'd rather get the two on now?
Bragg: Yes. And let them start in January.
Heinlein: But you won't be there.
Bragg: That's right we won't so we're just going to sit quietly.
Heinlein: You just want to leave is what it amounts to.
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Bragg: Yeah, I'm going on a trip in January.
St. John: So am I.
Heinlein: I might know more in a couple weeks but right now I'm on a
teeter totter.
Montgomery: You don't know if you'll be here in January either then?
Heinlein: Well January I should be here. I will be here for the January
meeting.
St. John: I'll be here in January but I mean if you want to just take
these two or would you rather wait with all three until you probably have
more?
Kubitz: I would rather wait until January.
Howard: I would too. You'll be leaving. We live with this Betty.
Bragg:
here.
Yeah, but I look forward to your having two really good people
They look interesting...
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St. John: That's okay and these two could still be chosen in January.
Montgomery: Now who would rather do it now? And accept these two and
have someone stay on.
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Bragg: I would prefer to do it that way so that I now I can leave in
January.
Heinlein: You may leave Betty.
Montgomery: Alright, then we'll just delay it until the next, the
January session then right? And if we have new people, they can be
invited to the January meeting. And we'll hope we'll have another one.
Howard: I would like to suggest, having the fourth January meeting.
Well it's next on the agenda.
Montgomery: In connection with these good people who have spent all this
time, both on the task force for a year and 2 years on the Commission,
I just would like very much to express our thanks and maybe Paul, you'd
like to say something in that connection.
Krauss: I feel that Sharmin and I have been priviledged to work with you
all. This has been fun for us as well. I mean I think you all need to
pat yourselves on the back. You went from there being no recognition of
anything for seniors to putting yourselves on the map. I mean there is,
you're a vital part of this community. The contributions of seniors are
now recognized on a regular basis. The City has an understanding that,
in the same way we fund soccer teams and basketball teams, and sweep
streets, that one of our fundamental charges is providing for our seniors
as a part of our community. I mean it's part of the continum that makes
Chanhassen a community. And I think it sets us apart from so many
suburbs where you just kind of get lost like every other suburb. We're
losing 3 of our members. You're the founding group here. There are good
people out there and I'm sure we're going to move forward but you're the
founding group. You're the people Sharmin know and.
Bragg: The history.
Krauss: We're saddened to see the three of you move on but we understand
that you've made a real strong contribution here. And we're just glad we
had the opportunity to work with you.
I want to thank the two people sitting
I mean they have made it possible for us
Kubitz: May I say something?
here that have worked with us.
to...
Bragg: Absolutely. And I don't think any of that would have been done.
Kubitz: They have done a fabulous job with providing us with a center...
Bragg: RealI, I'd like to second that. I really feel that this is a
unique community and it has, the history of it has been, it was loosely
organized and was just a little village. Teeny village and we've seen it
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move into the city status and I know I find myself coming over here more
to shop than I did before because I feel a kinship with that and I'm j~~
terribly excited that you're going to be involved with the senior hous~
and there are a lot of things that I think, that I didn't even envision
when I was on the task force. So I'm sorry to be leaving but I do feel
that other people need to have their voices heard and for that reason
that I am moving on to other things. And I was going to say that I am
pursuing the Carver County Advisory Committee and I think that's probably
enough, although as all of us are saying, we would like to come back and
hear what's going on here because that energizes ourselves for other
service.
Krauss: There's a real vital role. We see this on the Planning
Commission. We love it when Planning Commissioners graduate to...and
we've already broken them in. There's a whole, I mean there's just a
myriad number of organizations that as senior programs, service programs,
and to have people who we know who we're comfortable with what Chanhassen
is doing. Who know what Chanhassen is doing, out there at County level
or at a church level or wherever, we're just being participants of the
Senior Center, I mean that's great. I mean you need those networks and
that's real vital for us.
St. John: I just want to say that I am, feel very priviledged to have
worked on the task force and on the Commission and with Sharmin and Paul
and I have learned so much. Sometimes I haven't contributed as much as
what I would have liked to but I'm really priviledged to have been on
this.
Howard: I would like to make a suggestion. A lot of buildings have t~
sort of thing. I think we should have a framed, either a plaque that's
engraved or something framed for the Senior Center telling when it was
dedicated and who was on the Commission at the time.
Montgomery: Do you have something that I think is hidden over there?
Bragg: Now what would you have done if I had said yeah, I'm going to
stay on?
Montgomery: Well you get it anyway for your service. Here's for you
Betty and you know speaking of networking, you have done such a terrific
job of that and you've been so helpful. I just can't say enough to thank
you for it. And this is for Selda. And Selda, how would we ever have
managed without you just getting in there and all of your publicity
accomplishments and keeping the history and all the things you've done.
We're going to miss you. And this is for Emma. And we just thank you
Emma with all the knowledge that you've had from all your experience at
the South Shore Center and all of your helpful suggestions. Really,
you've just been great.
St. John: Well thank you very much.
Montgomery: Always been ready to help out and we just thank you.
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Heinlein: This is like the last Sunday I attended church at myoId
church before I moved up here. The services were over and the pastor
said, everybody remain seated. Selda has been a faithful worker in our
congregation for how many years. 10 or 12 years. As secretary and etc.
and he said, now she's going to go far away from. us. He had me bawling.
I couldn't even go up to go the front and accept.
Bragg: Well, you've touched us all and thank you. And you have
energized us so we're going to go on..
St. John: Are all of you coming to the brunch tomorrow morning?
Krauss: No, I've got my one son has basketball and the other one has
Scouts.
Bragg: He has family responsibilities too, right.
St. John: And he has come. He's been there.
Montgomery: Well we're going to have to get on with our hurry up agenda
here.
3ANUARY MEETING TIME.
Montgomery:
everybody.
January.
We wondered if having it on the 22nd would be alright with
Is there any problem with that? There are 5 Fridays in
Howard: I would really appreciate it. Then I won't miss the meeting and
I'm going in February but I can make the third one in February. I can
work around it and not miss a meeting if we can do that.
Montgomery: Is that alright with you?
Krauss: Yep.
Montgomery: Okay Sharmin? Okay. Make a note then.
Krauss: If we can get the architect out, we may ask some evening kind of
aS$er:ble informally sometime. If we did that, we'd probably get a bus
and probably have lunch. We'll try to give you enough notice.
Montgomery: Okay. Did you say something about another meeting Sherol or
was that the one you were talking about? The 22nd.
Howard: No, that was the one. I really do appreciate it.
UPDATE ON SENIOR ANSWER LINE (SAL).
Bragg: Sharmin and I both attended the Senior Answer Line meeting and my
feeling was that they left it a little bit, they didn't accomplish all
that they were going to do. We didn't hear a vote did we?
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Al-Jaff: They didn't vote. However, I spoke with Jerry
meeting, who's the director of...and he said that he had
about it that it will be approved.
more after the
a good feeling
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to were the two
Bragg: I had the same thing. Now the people I talked
out going commissioners. The one from Chanhassen.
AI-Jaff: Al Klingelhutz.
Bragg: Al Klingelhutz and then Mr. Conservative. I can't think of his
name but those are the two out going persons and even the one that was so
conservative in his asking for us to find out more costs, told me that he
would vote for it but I don~t know if he'll even be in office in January.
He said he would have vote for it because I tackled him a little bit. He
was trying to look for some funding from SAL for it and I talked to Vicky
Peterson. She said, oh SAL won't pay for anything because they don't
have any money she said.
Howard: What did they do with all that mo~ey that they had?
Bragg: I don't know but whoever's allocating all that. See there are
several counties and there's only this one county that will benefit it
first.
AI-Jaff: Maybe this program does not qualify under their funding system.
One thing that one of the commissioners kept on pointing out, why is
Chanhassen doing that? Where's the catch?
Bragg: That's the one I think I'm talking about. That's Mr.
Conservative and I can't think of his name.
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AI-Jaff: And after a while I just said, if we don't get the County, I
said Chanhassen wants this program and Senior Answer Line does not go
into a city only. They have to service the entire county. So without
the County helping us out with this, we're not going to be able to get
the service.
Bragg: I would like to say one more thing and I know it's probably going
to be written. But several people said to me that since we were Eastern
Carver County, that we were under suspicion every time we propose
something. It's this old, well who are you anyway because it's grown so
and they're used to handling all the power over the rest of the county
and when we start to, we're the young upstarts and they tend to be very
suspicious of everything we do. And so after the meeting was over, the
person that I had put in charge of the subcommittee that brought out all
the costs and were presenting the items to ask for budget, said to me, is
there a way we could disguise that the phone is even being answered over
here. She suggested that we have a different signal. Not that, you know
that there be a buzzard or different sound that when the computer was
accessed from the western part of the county, that there be a different
sound so they don't know that it's going through the Chanhassen exchange.
I couldn't believe that. This is really something. I had a suspicion
that it was rural areas feeling that here's a city that's emerging tha~
bigger than any of us and that they're kind of, like the tail wagging ~
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dog see. But I just wanted to point that out to you, and I know it's
going to be on the...but r still risk that she brought up.
AI-Jaff: When the phone is going to be answered, it's not going to say
Senior Answer Line. It's going to say, you have reached the City of
Chanhassen. If you want, after hours.
Bragg: Oh after hours.
AI-Jaff: If you would like Administration, push 5. Public Safety, push
3. Senior Center, push 6. Senior Answer Line, push whatever number.
That's what it says right now.
Bragg: Is there any way you could, would they have to have a different
number or something assigned to it?
AI-Jaff: I personally am starting to get offended with this attitude.
Bragg: Well I was offended.
AI-Jaff: Chanhassen children go to Chaska schools and no one has ever
complained about that so what's wrong with Chanhassen having the Senior
Answer Line?
Bragg: Except that we have Watertown, Young America, there's another
little town close to Young America.
Howard: New Germany. Norwood.
St. John: Mayer.
Bragg: And there's another town.
St. John: Waconia.
Bragg: Waconia. That's a bigger town. And then there's another one,
Cologne.
St. John: That's south of Waconia.
Bragg: Okay. But all of them have been established and have been in
charge. They've had the power. Now here all of a sudden, here I use the
expression young upstart and I think it's adviseable. That they're not
used to hearing from us.
Heinlein: That's why I'm surprised I got along so well around here.
Coming up from Chicago, I really felt as though when I joined the Senior
Group at first, I mean there was no acknowledgement of me at all. It
took quite a while before I could say anything you know.
Bragg: It's nothing that we can change but I heard it so often as I was
leading that group and then when the subcomittee person, who is very,
she's an authority on geriatrics and...in that area, was telling me that
she thought that would be a very good idea. Is to be able to disguise
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December 11, 1992 - Page 25
the source and where the computer is.
Heinlein: Who is this?
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Bragg: Marvel Heath. I'm glad I passed it on to you then.
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Montgomery: When will we have the final word? Do you think in January?
AI-Jaff: Well we're hoping that we would implement, at least we would
get all the approvals over and done with in December. And then I will
have to contact Julie and Julie will pick up the rest of the work. At
least getting it approved through her commission and then we will go
through implementing and installing the service and hopefully come
February we will be able to have the service available.
Montgomery: We can hope. But maybe you could work out some of those
details. Maybe talk to Marvel Heath. I don't know.
AI-Jaff: I would rather talk to Gary Borch.
Bragg: Yeah, I would say that's what you should do too.
AI-Jaff: I mean Gary asked me if they can contract hours with us and I
said...so it is a County service.
Montgomery: Well then he would be the one then.
AI-Jaff: Yeah.
Bragg: I think he must be sensitive to this too.
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Borch?
He was extremely helpful. I mean the County was, Betty I don't
You weren't at the meeting were you when we met with Gary
Bragg: No.
AI-Jaff: Okay. They proposed to pay $12.75 per hour for the Director
and we were thinking that maybe Dawn could pick up those 10 hours. Be
part of her overall job. And that's why we used her salary. Her hourly
salary. They were willing to pay benefits. They will pay for the phone
line. Anything that 1-800 number will cost quite a bit and the County's
picking that up. I mean those were all things that came from the County.
And I really liked working with Gary.
Howard: His attitude was apparent from the first meeting.
Bragg: That didn't surprise me as I said but the commission was in
favor. I did sense that even as I say the one. He is going off and I
don't know who's taking his place but Ursula Dimler is taking
Klingelhutz' place. And so if I didn't hear action like a motion was
made, seconded and carried, I didn't hear that. But I'm hearing that
they didn't think that that was expensive at all. Because they had just
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December ii, 1992 - Page 26
got through passing something that was a million dollars and here's is
only $10,000.00.
Montgomery:
Well let's hope all of this will work out then.
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Bragg: I think it will. It's just a matter of time.
AI-Jaff: We're all Carver County. I mean why do they have to keep
pointing out that we're Chanhassen, this is Chaska...
Bragg: I think it's going to go away but just be sensitive to it.
Montgomery: Sharmin, how about our time here?
AI-Jaff: The bus is outside waiting. Lunch is upstairs waiting.
DISCUSSION ON STARTING A CHANHASSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Montgomery: Well we had better get on with it then. I think what we'll
do with the discussion, number 7 of the Historical Society, we will take
that up in January. And I think Dawn was going to talk to somebody,
Karen I think, about that. And somebody has already got something in
motion wanting to start a branch so maybe we don't have to worry about
it. We can be supportive of it but we'll find out.
SENIOR COMMISSION COMMENTS.
Montgomery: Okay, does anybody have anything else before we close?
Bragg: I'm making this fast because I did get something that I would
call kind of a scam item and I said I'd like to just present it. It came
addressed to me.
St. John: I got one of those too and that's the second one I've gotten.
Bragg: I think it's the second one I've gotten too and it's selling
beauty. Can aging be reversed and it says, try it. It's only half price
and it's...so they're hiding who they are and.
St. John: No return on it and I don't know.
Montgomery: Do you want to put in here and we'll give that to Sharmin.
Bragg: Get a collection of them.
St. John: I almost accused Earl's daughter who lives in Los Angeles of
just picking it up.
Howard: ...Golden Terrace. Has anyone heard of Golden Terrace?
Montgomery: Yeah, I got a phone call. I think we'd better ge on with
it. Does somebody want to make a motion to adjourn?
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December 11, 1992 - Page 27
Bragg moved, St. 30hn seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in
favor and the motion carried and the meeting was adjourned.
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