CC 2003 01 27CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
JANUARY 27, 2003
Mayor Furlong called the City Council meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. The meeting was
opened with the Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:
Lundquist, and Councilman Peterson
Mayor Furlong, Councilman Labatt, Councilman
COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Councilman Ayotte
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Roger Knutson, Justin Miller, Teresa Burgess, Todd
Hoffman, Kate Aanenson, and Bruce DeJong
PUBLIC PRESENT FOR ALL ITEMS:
Mark Beckstrom
Misty Hiben
Janet & Jerry Paulsen
Mark Senn
Albin H. Olson
Deb Lloyd
Uli Sacchet
Melissa Gilman
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
INVITATION TO FEBRUARY FESTIVAL.
Mayor Furlong: First item, a couple public announcements. This Saturday will be our annual
February Festival held out at Lake Ann Park. This is an annual event that the City conducts in
cooperation with local businesses and sponsors and I'd like to invite all the residents and their
family and friends to come out and join my family and me for a fun time. The event starts at
noon. There will be sledding, snow permitting, skating and a bonfire. Boy Scout Troop #330 is
going to be selling kits to do some s'mores for the bonfire. The Chanhassen Lions will be
offering some hot food concessions. The ice fishing contest will run from 1:00 to 3:00 with
$2,000 in fishing contest prizes to be awarded, and a total of $3,500 up for grabs. It should be a
fun time. There will be bingo and a search for the Friends of the Library medallion which is
buried somewhere in the city. I think those are already happening. Finding the medallion is
worth $1,100. This is a great day and a great way to have some fun during the cold winter
months here. Mr. Hoffman has guaranteed that there wilt be warm weather and the fish will be
biting so we'll take him up on that and I encourage everybody to come.
PRESENTATION OF THE MINNESOTA LIVING WELL COMMUNITY AWARD BY
MAUREEN MELGAARD-SCHNEIDER WITH MID-MINNESOTA SAIL/EDP.
Kate Aanenson: Can I just take a couple minutes before she, I just wanted to say that this is
something that the staff had worked with, specifically Sharmeen A1-Jaff on our staff. We had
presented a request from the Senior Commission to do a survey. We found a different way to do
the survey. Instead of $16,000 we found a way to do it for a lot less. $25.00. We actually used
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the internet. Worked with the Senior Commission to survey the community so I'd like to thank
Sharmeen who was unable to be here tonight, for all the work she did and the Senior Commission
for the work that they've put in. Maureen Melgaard-Schneider is here to make a presentation to
the City Council and the Senior Commission.
Maureen Melgaard-Schneider:
Maureen Melgaard-Schneider.
Seniors... Independent Living.
Good evening Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council. I'm
I'm the Regional Coordinator for Mid-Minnesota SAIL. The
Mayor Furlong: Excuse me. Could we have you speak to the microphone so the folks at home
can hear as well.
Maureen Melgaard-Schneider: I'm sorry. Maureen Melgaard-Schneider, Mid-Minnesota SAIL.
I'm the Regional Coordinator for the Seniors Agenda for Independent Living, Elder Care
Development Partnership. We serve 13 counties, Carver County being among them and we've
had the pleasure for the past several months of working with the Chanhassen Senior Commission.
I want to let you know City Council and guests that you have a very active Senior Commission
and they have been a model for other senior commissions in other neighboring communities so
you need to feel very proud of their work, We worked in partnership to survey the city of
Chanhassen to find out how ready are you for growing numbers of older adults. Are you senior
prepared and are you senior friendly? And out of that has come the survey which I believe was in
your packet and I'm going to ask if the Senior Commission members will stand up and maybe
they could, could they give their names? We start with Sherol.
Sherol Howard, Dale Geving, Jean Mancini, Mel Kurvers, Tom Faust, A10lson.
Maureen Melgaard-Schneider: As I said, it's been a pleasure working with these folks. The
survey has led us to believe that we have an additional partnership to do together. We are
considering the possibility of updating our senior services directory for Chanhassen and not only
would it be a paper directory, which we know can sometimes get out of date, we would also
include it on the web site and make it available technically for people who have access. So that
will probably be the next thing that we work on. I'm here to present you an award to the City of
Chanhassen for being a Minnesota Living Well community. We have appreciated the test
marketing that you' ve done. The survey that I referred to, and again the opportunity to work with
go-go senior commission and I really am very proud to present your award.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you very much. Can we get you up here and the entire Senior
Commission for a quick picture?
Maureen Melgaard-Schneider: Sure.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Lundquist seconded to
approve the following Consent Agenda items pursuant to the City Manager's
recommendations:
a. Establish 2003 Fees:
2) Resolution ~2003-05:
3) Resolution g2003-06:
4) Resolution F2003-07:
5) Resolution #2003-08:
Group Picnic Reservation Fees
Engineering Fees
Development Review Fees
Surface Water Management Program Fees
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7) Resolution 82003-09: Liquor License Fees
8) Resolution #2003-10: Dog and Cat License Fees
9) Resolution g2003-11: Waste Hauler License Fees
10)Resolution g2003-12: Recreation Center Fees
d. Approval of Engineering Consultant Contracts.
e. Approval of MnDot Partnership Agreement.
f. Authorize Well Siting and Consultant Work Order for Well No. 9.
Resolution 82003-13: Approval of Request for Tax Exempt Gambling Permit and
Temporary On-Sale Beer and Wine License, Spring Fling School Fundraiser, April 26,
2003; and Resolution g2003-14: Request for Tax Exempt Gambling Permit to Conduct a
Car Raffle, St. Hubert Catholic Church.
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Resolution g2003-15: Approval of Request for Tax Exempt Gambling Permit,
Minnewashta Elementary School Fundraiser at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater.
i. Approval of Bills.
Approval of Minutes:
- City Council Work Session Minutes dated January 13, 2003
- City Council Minutes dated January 13, 2003
Receive Commission Minutes:
- Planning Commission Minutes dated January 7, 2003
- Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated December 10, 2002
Resolution g2003-16: Approve Amended State Aid Variance Resolution for Century
Boulevard Improvements, Project 97-1C.
1. Resolution g2003-17: Accept Utility Improvements in Powers Ridge Apartments,
Project 00-04.
n. Approve Recommendations for the Environmental Excellence Awards.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS. None.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE UPDATE.
Sgt. Dave Potts: Good evening Mayor, Councilmen. I'd like to welcome our new mayor.
Councilman Lundquist as well. This is my first meeting in front of the new council, and will also
be my last.
Mayor Furlong: It's nothing we said.
Sgt. Dave Potts: No, you're well aware of some of the changes I believe the Sheriff has gone
through the council on some of the changes down at the sheriff's office and new assignments for
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some of the sergeants and reassignments for some of the other sergeants, and I'll be touching on
that before my presentation is done this evening. First to just kind of what I normally do for the
council is go through the items I listed in the memo that I've addressed to the mayor and council.
First one typically is the sheriff's office area report for each month, and what we have because
this goes through the month of December, we have the entire year to kind of review back on, as
well as the numbers for 2001. So just thought I'd review those quickly for council regarding
some of the numbers that increased or decreased a little more significantly than most others.
Numbers do fluctuate year to year. Not a big deal but I thought I'd just point out, just for council
information, some of the numbers that had bigger changes in them. First off at the bottom of the,
it's kind of the cover page. It shows 2002 monthly, 2002 year to date, 2001 monthly and 2001
year to date. Kind of list of criminal and non-criminal calls that officers responded to. You see at
the bottom of those lists there for 2001 there were 10,500, and in 2002 9,900. Shows kind of a
significant decline there of about 600 calls. But about half of those, just over 300 of those calls
were in the area of vehicle lock-outs. During 2002 is when the sheriff's office discontinued it's
practice of responding to vehicle lock-out calls so that number dropped about 315, which makes
up again about half of that 600. But some of the other numbers that dropped up in the criminal
area, miscellaneous criminal which is just a, kind of a whole conglomeration of more minor
criminal type calls were down by 33 from last year to, or from 2001 to 2002. And theft calls were
down by 35. Down in the non-criminal area, alarms. Mostly burglar alarms that are typically
false but get checked on. They're down by 40. Domestic disturbance calls were down by 47.
Animal calls were down by 42. Interestingly, 3 of the main calls that the fire department
responds to, those being medical calls, fire calls and accidents with injuries, were all down 43, 38
and 33 respectively. A few of the numbers that went up from 2001 to 2002 include the assisting
other agencies. That would be giving some mutual aid assistance to the City of Chaska police
department who is our main one, but may assist Eden Prairie, Minnetonka or the South Lake area
as well. Boat and water calls were up 43 from year to year. Traffic was up 117 and that number
includes all the traffic calls and traffic stops and anything traffic related. And then where it says
special traffic, down at the bottom, was up 86 and those are the traffic details that officers
perform as part of our kind of focus on traffic enforcement that I'll touch on in the work plan
summary for the year. That' s just a brief overview on some of the number changes from year to
year. Does council have any comments or questions on the number sheets there? Okay. Item
number 2 is the sheriff office area citation list. I don't have any comments on that, unless council
had any comments or questions on that item. Okay. Continuing, item number 3 is the year end
summary for the 2002 work plan, and for Mayor and Councilman Lundquist's information, the
work plan was something started by Sheriff Olson when my position, the sergeant's liaison
position first started here in 2000. It was kind of a way to bring our ideas, as well as members of
the City Council and city staff' s ideas and formulate it into an annual work plan that gets kind of
formulated at the beginning of the year and then with a summary at the end of the year. And the
work plan items can be simply focus areas. Areas that we all kind of agree on should be areas
that officers kind of hit on during the year, or can be specific goals or objectives that we would
like to accomplish during the year. So that's kind of a little bit of the history on it. Just to go
through some of the items briefly. Under contract administration, Project Leadfoot. Page 2 and
3. Number of paragraphs there. The only comment I have specifically is it mentions 16 new
neighborhood contacts during the year. Those contacts are generated by citizens calling us with a
concern about traffic safety, usually speed in their neighborhood or a street near their home and
we typically will kind of work with that neighbor. Send them a packet. Our Project Leadfoot
packet that has a lot of information, both educational as well as actual activities that they can
become involved in. And it mentions only 3 or 4 of those contacts and it took the next step and
did some of those activities in their neighborhood. And kind of what it highlights for us is, it's a
small percentage of people that get actively involved but yet with Project Leadfoot in place, we
do have a nice, solid process for dealing with those types of complaints, and cutting down on the
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recurring complaints from the same area. Perhaps different people because when we have all of
our records at hand we can review those with new complaints and kind of, it steadies the whole
way we deal with traffic complaints throughout the city. It' s a nice program. One of the items in
there talks about the sheriff's radar trailer is an item we use. We can use it in the winter when
there isn't a lot of snow, but mostly it's a fair weather tool that we use. Displays the passing
motorist's speed as they drive by it. That's one of the more positive parts of the program or the
visual things that people can see when they're driving around the streets and something we try to
use quite a bit. We utilize a part time or a reserve deputy to place that trailer out in the morning
and then return it in the evening. Sometimes we kind of run short of getting people to do that, so
what one of the ideas I mentioned we're looking at ways to more fully utilize that trailer in
Chanhassen. One of the ways we're looking at doing that is perhaps coordinating with the city
public works department and having that trailer stationed right here in Chanhassen and having
maybe some of the city employees be able to put it out and take it back so we can get more
regular use of it throughout the city, as just one idea with regard to that. Moving on to page 4
under law enforcement operations, item number one is traffic enforcement. Traffic enforcement
has been an ongoing focus area well before we had a work plan or a sergeant liaison to the city of
Chanhassen. We kind of formalized it into the work plan here, and in my summary I mentioned
enforcement visibility, and kind of way of a definition. Enforcement visibility is the perception
that the deputies are always there, in any given spot and the reality that the motoring public never
knows when we will be there. So we try to hit some of the common areas around the city for
traffic complaints as well as a lot of the more heavily city streets. For example on the west,
Minnewashta Parkway. One of those through streets connects Highway 5 and 7. Get a lot of
traffic through there. Lake Lucy Road. Pleasant View Road. Bluff Creek, down towards the
south end of the city. Some of those more well traveled city streets that we try to focus some of
those enforcement visibility efforts on. And that's where I mentioned these special traffic details.
Something that we've been using during my time in here and kind of increasing our use year by
year. Here in 2002 approximately 145 of those special traffic details where an officer is parked or
working heavily in a specific area. Specific street on the city. Increased our visibility in those
areas a total of 50, between 50 and 70 hours. A little more visual impact, as well as during the
time 60 citations and 92 warnings for just those special traffic details. And then since I was
putting some numbers in there about the special traffic details I thought I'd just give you a feel for
how the traffic enforcement numbers sort of break down, and that moves into page 5 where I
mention 1,750 traffic stops were conducted during the year. 700 miscellaneous traffic calls. 300
driving complaints. 150 alcohol related traffic calls or, and/or stops. And 350 motorist assists,
kind of the whole traffic ball of wax there. Looking back in history a little bit, while that total for
2002 would, under our traffic line would add up to 2,730. Kind of taking a step back, 2001
would have been 2,613. 2000 would have been a significant jump down to 1,611. '99 would
have been 1,406. '98 was 1,583. And there's a lot of factors in that big jump from 2000 being
1,600 and 2001 being 2,600. One of the major factors is that was a transition period for the city
in increasing their contract with the sheriff' s office. Going from where they Were prior to 2001 at
32 hours of patrol service a day, up to their current starting in 2001 of 48 hours a day. So you
brought more deputies into the city that way and of course that's always going to increase your
numbers. Internally some things that have changed is officers calling in their traffic stops more
frequently than they did years ago, so that can change the numbers as well. So when we see a
number jump like that, 1,000 in one year, there's a lot of factors that go into that. Not just that
many more stops were made in one year. But they are increasing year by year. The last sentence
under that traffic enforcement piece talks about that the traffic enforcement, see traffic details are
incorporated into standard information that will be updated and distributed to Chanhassen
deputies annually. And that same sentence is in a couple other areas in the summary, and what
that's referring to is, I've started a packet of information that be distributed to deputies annually,
and it lets them know that traffic enforcement, the city parks, juvenile violations, these are every
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day, run of the mill things that are important throughout the city despite whether they are or are
not on the work plan that we have with the city. So that's kind of what that comment refers to.
Moving on to juvenile violations. I also put some numbers in there, and I was a little hesitant to
because I wasn't sure of the accuracy, the complete accuracy of the numbers. What I was able to
find out is, it looks like my numbers under juvenile citations should probably be pretty accurate.
I don't have any numbers for traffic citations for juveniles because they don't code those
separately. Nowadays most juvenile traffic tickets are handled just like adult traffic tickets. They
can mail in their fine or whatever, where it used to be a separate process where they had to go
through court and everything else. So they don't keep the same stats for traffic citations as they
do for others. But you'll see I've listed several numbers there. 33 alcohol use. 19 drug or drug
paraphernalia. 10 assaults. 10 thefts or shoplifting. 9 curfew and 11 others. Total of about 90
tickets. I don't have the numbers for '01 but looking back at 2000 we had 65 total citations for
juveniles, 25 of those being alcohol and drug were combined at the time so it went from 25 in
2000 to about 52 in 2002. So the numbers are increasing there. And I do mention that. It's more
of a standard practice now to deal with juveniles in an enforcement capacity rather than years ago
you'd catch some kids with booze, take the booze away. Tell them to, you know get on home or
whatever. It's not like that anymore today. Handled more in a more formal process and a more
enforcement process. Due to just the times are changing. We see the problems that alcohol and
drugs can bring us and therefore some of the stricter enforcement measures. Moving on under
crime prevention, public safety education. I'd just like to mention under this area, this is not
specifically work direction for the city's crime prevention specialist, Beth Hoiseth, but more how
the sheriff's office is going to work with or the how the sheriff's office should focus some of it's
work with Beth and her endeavors. Communication with local businesses is the first item where
it mentions the contract supervisor working with the crime prevention specialist. And the
business crime watch network is one of our, is our biggest business communication piece.
Primarily through the use of e-mail as well as education to businesses in reporting procedures and
calling us when the need arises are the two big things there. Kind of boasting over 100
businesses signed up for that program so far, and it's going to be a big push again this year for
both the business watch network as well as the neighborhood crime watch as well. I mentioned in
the summary that a presentation that Beth and I were going to be doing for the Chamber, that was
going to be happening in I believe it was, we were going to do that in November was postponed.
That's actually going to be happening tomorrow at the Chamber's luncheon so that will wrap up
kind of that piece of our 2002 plan. And my last comments on the work plan are under the
community involvement participation area. Item number 2. Community events. This just
highlights the number of events, kind of chronologically through the year where the sheriff's
office either participated or sponsored or assisted the city in some of their events, and that was
just kind of a laundry list for council's information there. And with that, comments, questions
regarding the work plan summary? And for Mr. Mayor and Councilman Lundquist, the
summary, what it is is, it's the actual work plan that we started with and then the paragraphs
under the heading of summary are just what I added here at the end of the year.
Councilman Peterson: Very thorough. Very nice.
Mayor Furlong: Very good. Any questions?
Councilman Labatt: No.
Mayor Furlong: I guess two things. One, I know the council had an opportunity to meet Sergeant
Olson earlier. I see he's here tonight. Welcome. What sort of transition process are you going
through with Sergeant Olson' s part of the transition?
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Sgt. Dave Potts: Well Jim currently works a county wide roving shift as a patrol sergeant and
that allows him to get into Chanhassen, so him and I will be sitting down here between now and
February l0th when the actual change takes place so I can kind of bring him up to speed on sort of
what I've been doing for the last 3 years up here and I've got quite a laundry list in my office to
go over with him. But then even after that, I'm still just a phone call away so I'm sure there's
going to be issues you know. Things come up. It gets quiet and then they resurface a few months
later so we'll still be exchanging information and phone calls and that kind of a thing as well.
And because Chanhassen's where I grew up. It's a place I like a lot, I'll still be working with
Beth in some of her crime prevention activities. She's always looking for extra deputies to help
out in that respect as well so, I'm not going anywhere really. Just different assignment.
Mayor Furlong: Well we certainly thank you for your services over the last 3 years. I know you
stepped into a position that was new and there's been a lot of change and we appreciate your
dedicated service over that time and wish you well in your next assignment.
Sgt. Dave Potts: Well appreciate the comments. Thank you very much. Under my miscellaneous
items.
Mayor Furlong: I thought you were done.
Sgt. Dave Potts: No. You can't get rid of me that easy. This is my last night. I'm going to
stretch it out a little bit.
Mayor Furlong: Alright.
Sgt. Dave Ports: The 2003 patrol schedule is attached. That's the sheet that looks like this one
right here. And what I do each year for the council is just highlight what the patrol schedule
looks like here in the city. I list the names of the deputies that actually work in the city and kind
of break down where those 48 contract hours come from. And it just denotes there all the letters
A's are the contract deputy hours. The deputies work 10 ~fi hour shifts. I just to keep it easy here
kind of listed it as 10 hour shifts and we have a patrol team one, patrol team two. That means that
when patrol team one in on their days off patrol team two is working. So you have 5 deputies
that cover the city each day. Two on the day shift. Kind of an hour staggered in their shifts.
Two on the afternoon-evening shift and then our overnight guy. Then t put some of those X's in
there, both on team one and team two. Beginning February l0th we'll have a county wide roving
deputies and those deputies will assist throughout the county as the call load dictates, as well as
filling in if somebody takes a day off, calls in sick, that type of thing. And then as you move
down it just shows the Chanhassen liaison sergeant as well as the primary investigator for the city
of Chanhassen. And then I list the county wide roving supervisors, both the sergeants and the
corporals. They're going to be working 12 hour shifts, so that's why you see a 6:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. shift and 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m...regular deputy is out, for some reason the corporal can fill
that shift and that's throughout the county again. Wherever the need may be. And I always put a
note on there that it's, when you look at this you kind of get a feel for the deputies that are in
town but it doesn't necessarily give you a feel for what happens when the big calls come in. I
usually throw those examples out during the year when we have some of our more major
incidents, whether it be an accident or a criminal incident such as the American Legion robbery
we had some time ago where we had I think 4 or 5 patrol personnel on the scene within a very
short period of time. Chaska sent somebody up. Our investigators were called out. Our
· administrators were called out so you know you're looking at 6, 8, 10 officers that will respond to
something like that, even though certainly our contract doesn't show that. But those services are
always available as the need arises. The next item I just threw in a brochure, just a point of
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interest for council entitled restored of conferencing. This is a program that's gone through a few
different name changes and I don't know that I could remember them all. But basically what the
program is is for some of the more minor juvenile offenses and bringing those juveniles into a
little different system than just the run of the mill standard court system. Conferencing brings the
victims in with the offenders as well as law enforcement and professionals to kind of facilitate a
healing process and educational process that has been found to be both better for the offender in
getting them not to commit this type of crime again in the future as well as satisfaction for the
victims as well. Much higher than what the old standard court process has been in the past. We
do have a full time person housed right out of the sheriff's office, Maureen Farrell who is kind of
our direct contact with the program so we're looking for that to kind of grow as time goes on
here. And when I talk about the more minor juvenile violations such as vandalism and petty theft
and that kind of a thing, looking for a diversion than just running them through the standard court
process. The next item was Chief Deputy Paul Tschida. I had hoped to have him here tonight.
Just put you face to face with our new Chief Deputy and let him talk about coming on board but
he wasn't available this evening so I thought I'd just let you know that I believe his official
swearing in is going to be tomorrow morning at the County Board and he'll actually start his
official duties kind of working with our current Chief Deputy Denny Owens for the next few days
here and then taking over February 1st full time. So I'm sure he'll be up and you'll get to meet
and greet with new Chief Deputy Paul and his last name is Tschida, even though looking at the
spelling you might not guess that. And then I was just going to mention to the council my new
assignment. Originally was, I would be a full time county wide patrol sergeant on the day shift
but we've had yet another change and it looks like I may be housed right out of the sheriff's
office in Chaska on administrative assignment down there. It hasn't been completely finalized.
One of those two positions though, but that's what I'll be doing for the near future. So any
comments, questions from council on those items?
Mayor Furlong: I said mine earlier.
Sgt. Dave Potts: I appreciate your comments. I appreciate.
Councilman Labatt: I think I'd just like to thank Dave for his 3 years here of service for Chan.
Nice to have you, and good luck in your new plans.
Sgt. Dave Potts: Thank you very much.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Chief Wolff?
Todd Gerhardt: He was not able to make it tonight so we will get him on for our next meeting.
SEWER BACKUP CLAIM, TOM O'BRIEN, 449 SUMMERFIELD DRIVE.
Todd Gerhardt: If I could quickly give you a staff report and then open it up for Mr. O'Brien to
comment. Mr. O'Brien was present at our December 9t~ meeting requesting the City Council to
reimburse him for costs due to a sewer backup that occurred at 449 Summerfleld Drive. Mr.
O'Brien's claims are approximately $16,000 in cleaning services, contents of about $6,000
damage and he's also asking that we install a back flow preventer and that the city issue a letter
talking about the measures that have been taken that the incident not occur again. Staff is
recommending that the City Council deny Mr. O'Brien's claim and encourage him to work with
St. Paul Companies regarding his claim.
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Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Mr. O'Brien you're here. Would you like to make some
comments?
Tom O'Brien: Sure. Tom O'Brien, 449 Summerfield Drive. There really are 3 key points that I
want to touch on. One would be negligence because that's kind of the key threshold with regard
to St. Paul Companies in their denial of the claim, at least as I understand it. The other would be
representation by an agent of the city which we received and the third point would be leverage in
moving forward and trying to resolve the situation. First of all negligence is, as I understand it is
defined as what reasonable people can agree to. If you refer to some of the information that's
included in the background packet that Mr. Gerhardt supplied, for example from the letter I
received from St. Paul Companies denying the claim. First let's talk about what we do know or
what we think. I think we can all agree on. And I quote from St. Paul Companies. The most
logical reason for the backup in your home was that it was caused by construction debris.
Foreign materials could get in the lines through connections that are made for each individual
household. Some examples of materials could be pieces of PVC pipe, rocks, dirt and sand. St.
Paul Companies also, at least in this letter states that the City of Chanhassen had only, had control
of the lines for 9 months and I don't think that's correct given the timeline that Mr. Gerhardt has
provided. But their issue is that they don't think there was a reasonably foreseeable risk in that
there was no way that the City could reasonably be charged with notice under those
circumstances. If you look at the incident report, there's also agreement there. The logical
culprit for the backup would most likely be construction debris. Foreign materials get into the
lines through the connections, including PVC pipe, rock, dirt, sand or building materials. And in
a similar incident that occurred in Eden Prairie, and I gave you some background on that as well.
A letter that the City of Eden Prairie issued said that waste concrete had been dumped into a
downstream manhole resulting in blockage and subsequent backup in the neighborhood. So I
think we can at least agree that construction debris appears to be a fairly well known problem
with regard to sanitary sewers. Now if we look at the timeline. December 15th of 1999, the lines
that were installed were televised so at that point you knew that the lines were clean and I don't
doubt that at all. On January 11a of 2000 the City accepted the utilities and that was roughly 3
years before our backup occurred which was October 12th of 2002. In Mr. Gerhardt's summary
he notes that the city sanitary sewer jetting cycle is 3 to 4 years, but known problem areas are
jetted more frequently. And again I think we can agree that the construction materials would
constitute known problem issues. So then I guess the question would be what occurred from the
time that those lines were jetted out and televising accepted by the City to the time that we had
the blockage. And I've got something here that I can pass out.
Todd Gerhardt: Tom, I handed that out so they have one.
Tom O'Brien: Did you? Well let me just hand that out because it might just highlight a little bit
what the situation was there on the particular loop that was involved. I think what you received
from Mr. Gerhardt included the entire Springfield neighborhood, and I'm not even going to deal
with that. I'll just deal with the area that included blockage. The blockage was found in Lyman
Boulevard and ran down Summerfield Drive to our home at 449 Summerfield Drive. But when
the City accepted the sewer lines, there were 10 homes along this street. By 2002 there were 50
homes there, so in the course of time that you took over the lines, and we had the blockage
problem 40 new homes connected to that sewer line. Now to me it seems reasonable that the City
would have known about the amount of construction that was there. Knowing that the
construction debris is a known problem for sanitary sewers, I think reasonable people can agree
that some measures should have been taken and apparently none were. So that's the first point.
The second is representation by a city agent. We received, and again there's a copy of that in
your packet. Cori Wallis with the Utility Department responded to the call. Jetted out the lines.
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At the time when he completed it, as we were wondering what to do next, he said look. Clearly
this was a city problem. We found the blockage out on Lyman Boulevard. It was backed up all
along Summerfield Drive, and issued us the card that said send all bills to Chanhassen City Hall,
Attention Todd Gerhardt, City Manager. Now we acted on this representation from the City and
now we're being told that that won't be, that the City's not going to stand behind that. My third
issue has to do with leverage. Mr. Gerhardt's recommending that we go back to St. Paul
Companies and try to work through this claim but the troth of the matter is, the City of
Chanhassen pays a $180,000 premium annually for this general liability policy that you have.
You have much more leverage than I will with St. Paul Companies. Furthermore, if you think
there is liability on the part of Lundgren Brothers, who had done the construction, you too have
much more leverage than I do in dealing with them. The dollar amount that we're talking about
is pretty insignificant to St. Paul Companies, to the City, to Lundgren Brothers, but it's quite
significant to my family. So, but we've been patient up to now. Our request has been very clear.
I think we've been reasonable and I'd like to get this issue resolved.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Are there any questions from the council for either staff or Mr.
O'Brien? Comments or questions. Okay. I guess from my standpoint, Mr. O'Brien we can
certainly empathize with the situation. I do appreciate your patience. I know that was something
that you have exhibited as the staff has prepared their findings. At the same time I'm inclined to
support their recommendation at this time based upon the information I've received so, I want to
thank you for your patience. I guess what I would like to do is ask if there's a motion. If there's
a motion on this matter.
Councilman Peterson: Yeah, I'd make a motion that we support staff's recommendation and
deny the claim by Mr. O'Brien.
Mayor Furlong: Is there a second? I'll second that. Is them any discussion on the motion?
Councilman Peterson moved, Mayor Furlong seconded to deny the claim submitted by Tom
O'Brien based on the fact that no liability exists on behaff of the City and that Mr. O'Brien
continue to work with the St. Paul Companies to resolve his claim. All voted in favor,
except Councilman Labatt who opposed, and the motion carried with a vote of 3 to 1.
FINAL APPROVAL OF 2003 BUDGET.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, City Council members. As a part of our 2003 budget, we still need to
finalize $300,000 worth of expenditure cuts or new revenue sources. Staff is recommending that
the administering of the rental licensing program come in-house. That would be an additional
$50,000 in revenue that we would not hire out, either through a contractor or hiring a new
employee. We are also asking for $32,000 in new revenues through our Park and Rec
Department in a variety of different fees. Also looking at $59,000 worth of service level cuts out
of our Park and Rec Department. We're also looking at not doing the 2004 survey, community
survey and that we look to do that every other year. We are not going to hire the new street
employee. Look to hiring that employee potentially in 2004. That's a savings of $32,000. We
had also had excess revenue estimated in the 2003 budget, that's approximately $51,000. The
elimination of old bank taxes. We were paying property taxes on the old bank as a part of our
2002 budget, and that was included as an expenditure in our 2003 budget. The bank is no longer
being rented out so we filed for exemption on that so we will not have to pay those property taxes
in 2004. Or '03, sorry. Maintenance materials from public works, reduction in sand and salt and
a variety of other materials. Reduction of $35,500. And also other equipment for public works of
$500 bringing the total increase in revenues and cuts to $300,000. And at this time staff would
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recommend that the City Council endorse the 2003 budget cuts and new user fees and transferring
the $300,000 to our debt service.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Are there any questions for staff?. Any discussion? I think these
were generally completing the proposal to transfer the $300,000 over to the debt service fund
which is I believe what we wanted to be doing here with these funds so I commend staff for their
efforts in putting these numbers together and for the work that they've done on this as well. If
there is no further discussion, is there a motion to approve staff's recommendation?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to approve the staff recommendation of the $300,000 in cuts and
transfers to the debt service.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Is there any discussion on the motion?
Resolution ~2003~18: Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson seconded to
approve the 2003 budget cuts as listed and transferring $300,000 to the debt services
account. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
ENDORSEMENT OF PROPOSED 2003 BUDGET REDUCTIONS AND NEW
REVENUES IN ANTICIPATION OF POTENTIAL STATE AID CUTS.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, City Council members. You probably read in the paper that there's some
anticipated state aid cuts that will fall back onto the cities as a part of our state deficit. Right now
the city receives approximately $330,000 a year in state aids from the State of Minnesota. Staff
has put together a list of potential cuts as a part of those anticipated from the state. Some of the
modified changes from the handout include, we added the $14,000 in savings from the old bank
building. That got transferred to our permanent cuts as a part of our 2003 budget. We had also
transferred $35,500 in maintenance materials to the 2003 budget cuts, and other equipment of
$500. Moving street lighting to our state aid cuts of approximately $25,000, and staff is still
anticipating an additional $25,000 worth of cuts to be determined in the future. Bringing the total
to $248,91 ! worth of service level cuts and $63,600 in new revenues and approximately $25,000
in cuts to be determined, either through user fees or through additional budgetary cuts. Service
level cuts. At this time staff is asking that the City Council endorse this list. After June when the
legislators wrap up their session we would bring it back to the City Council for your
consideration and prioritizing each of these proposed budget reductions.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Are there any questions for staff?.
Councilman Peterson: So just to clarify for everyone that these cuts, we're assuming that they're
all going to happen so all of your activity and all your staff's activity will assume that these cuts
will happen throughout the year, or throughout the first 6 months. Then you'll bring it back to
this council to approve any variances from those cuts, right?
Todd Gerhardt: That's correct.
Councilman Peterson: Okay.
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Councilman Lundquist: I just wanted to echo again what Mayor Furlong said in his previous note
that, to thank you and your staff for going through and finding these cuts that are going to be to
the public as a whole not a huge service level impact. I think it's important in light of everything
else that's going on, that we can demonstrate that we're able to go back and find some money out
there as our residents are telling us that our taxes are suffering. That we can go back and actually
. find some money. None of these cut services, tax cut for our residents this year on the levy but I
think it's important that we're demonstrating staff and council can go out and make those cuts so
thanks for working with staff.
Todd Gerhardt: Thank you, and I'll pass that on.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions for staff?
Councilman Labatt: No.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion on these items? I guess the one item that I'd like to mention is
under the proposed revenue increases under the fire department to begin charging for fire calls. I
know we brought this up at the work session but that's something I think I'd like to review further
and not that I'm necessarily removing that item from this list but maybe just if it's $5,000 from
the fire department in new revenue sources rather than specifically specifying we're charging for
fire calls and review. Maybe that's the way it will end up but maybe there's some other options
in terms of false alarm charges or something else that we can look at.
Todd Gerhardt: Okay. We can do that. I think during one of our work sessions we talked about
potential false alarm calls and looking at that program also I know the fire department does track
those items and we can bring that back and see what the number would be.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any other questions or discussion? If there's none.
Councilman Labatt: I just wanted to, we haven't approved the l(a) stuff yet. The consent agenda
so in here though on these proposed revenues we're just endorsing these but we haven't approved
them yet so.
Todd Gerhardt: The actions taken on the fee schedule will then reflect back into this schedule
and we can modify the numbers if we need to. If you increase them, you know we can reflect
that. If you want to decrease any of the fee schedules, we can also reflect that in the schedule and
make it up through potentially other cuts.
Councilman Labatt: Okay.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions or discussion on this? If there is none, again I commend the
staff. Councilman Lundquist said it well so I won't repeat but another good job and good
collaborative effort. Is there a, do we have a motion yet? We don't. Is there a motion to approve
staff' s recommendation for this item?
Councilman Peterson: So moved as amended by your comments on the fire department issue.
Mayor Furlong: Is there a second?
Councilman Labatt: Second.
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Mayor Furlong: Any discussion on the motion?
Councilman Lundquist: Just for clarification. We are endorsing these cuts, we're not approving
them at this time, is that correct?
Todd Gerhardt: That is correct. And if I could just make a modification to the motion reflecting
whatever fee schedule changes that you make, that we will reflect that as you're endorsed motion.
Mayor Furlong: While endorsing, this is the scenario under which we will be operating until
change by the council?
Todd Gerhardt: Correct.
Mayor Furlong: Is that clarified? Okay. Any other discussion?
Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Labatt seconded to endorse the proposed 2003
budget reductions and new revenues in anticipation of state aid cuts, as amended. All voted
in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
APPROVAL OF PRELIMINARY AND FINAL PLAT FOR OLD VILLAGE HALL
ADDITION.
Kate Aanenson: Thank you. This is a preliminary and a final plat. We're doing both at the
same time based on the, what we believe are an ability the Planning and the City Council to
approve it. The subject site again is on West 78t~ and Great Plains. The underlying subdivision
which I know was a little bit hard to read included several lots, and I'll just go through those with
you. This is Lot 8A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. Those are all the underlying lots of the
Pauly/Pony/Pryzmus as we call it, or we're renaming it the Village Hall plat. Where the village
hall located now includes the right-of-way into West 78th and the old right-of-way for Great
Plains. And I'm just trying to take you back historically. Give you some perspective of how that
looked. If you look at this. This is looking up Great Plains before it was realigned. The old
Great Plains. This was the railroad tracks, which is you can see the old village hall. Can you see
that well enough? That's where the old village hall used to sit. As the city contemplated a
redevelopment plan for the area, they looked at relocating Great Plains and it was actually moved.
Again this is, we moved this old village hall to the middle of the right-of-way which we vacated
that right-of-way so we took the building which was on one of the lots so we could complete the
Great Plains and put it on that right-of-way. That's why it's on that 66 foot wide that was right-
of-way for the road. Since we owned it we moved it onto property that we owned. We had to
relocate it. Just show you the back again of what those buildings looked like before, again this is
a project from the HRA at the time to redevelop this site. The whole downtown, and I'll go
through that again in a minute but that's what the backs of those buildings looked like. So if you
take where this curb line is, just north of that is where this old city hall sits. So as you follow that
through, if you can back that out again. That's how this property line, so what we're looking at is
creating this lot. The right-of-way. The right-of-way for Great Plains. This lot and this lot and
them will be a lot remnant. The curb line is actually what's shown on the back of that building
right now is approximate where we came up with that line. This is a redevelopment project.
What we're used to seeing is a lot of new development. I just wanted to go through with you on
this project. This is Todd's project. Redevelopment of the downtown. The old downtown.
Maybe you can just zoom in just a little bit for them. I just wanted to show you on the north side
a similar project which Todd did. This would be the old St. Hubert's, which is now Chapel Hill.
This building here, and then West 78th. So this shows the buildings that were sitting there in
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place. The new Great Plains...buildings were relocated. Similarly the City bought those
businesses, the four businesses that were there. Some of them were leased back for a period of
time. Some of them were removed in the late 80's. Some of them were bought in the 90's and
rented back and now they've all been removed for development purposes. I'll just put up the one
more map as long as we're on that scale. I know it's hard to read but this map has all the property
owners so there was a lot of assembling of undersized property. This is the central business
district which has the most flexible zoning in the city as far as lot size. The minimum lot size
requirement in this area is 10,000 square feet. This lot is not 10,000 square feet. We own that
lot. The Planning Commission had concerns with the variance because it was undersized. Again
it was plunked there to remove it from vacation of the right-of-way. When this plat came
forward, since we are the applicant of the plat, there was an easier way to provide for this. When
we do extractions for parks, which we do on a lot of developments. We plat them in outlots.
There's no legal requirement for lot size for an outlot. To remove any variances from this project
we could just create that as an outlot instead of a lot. Just call this Lot 1 and leave this as an
outlot. Then there's no minimum lot size. It's where the village halt was moved to again. It is
existing right-of-way. The Planning Commission had concerns that the plat was created, and
again you saw the building lines that were sitting underneath before, included all that property.
There is the parking lot behind that. So there is a way to accomplish it without variance. The
Planning Commission didn't want to approve it with variance and did recommend denial of the
variance for that lot. They also had concerns about the use. Again because the City owns it, any
negotiation of purchase agreement would require us to agree that, and I'm assuming that the City
would under that purchase agreement, make it a condition that it be approved by the Planning
Commission and the City Council. Any site plan, which we've done with most of our other
projects so the concern about that, we're cognizant of what the issues are. I believe the staff is,
what the concerns are as far as design competing with the area and at one time had contemplated
actually doing design standards for this area. So again, I did confer this with the city attorney just
to be clear. We could create an outlot there. This is no minimum lot size standard. Really the
goal is just to preserve this. It's an open space. This is green space. When the EDA bought the
property, the intent was to develop the property. There was some consensus or some direction
from the, and I put those notes in here, that when this property went to the park commission that
they did consider it as a park site, as they did at the old, the other one that we acquired at the other
end of town. The old Hanus-Red-e-Mix site as possibly pursuing for park. Since that time with,
at that time the library expansion wasn't contemplated and the direction for the city park actually
began in front of this building and as you approved tonight, that's where we're moving our
resources. So with that we are recommending approval and if you wanted to approve it with the
modification to this subdivision, you could approve it with modification of Lot 2 now just being
called an outlot and then it would be in compliance. So with that I'd be happy to answer any
questions that you have.
Mayor Furlong: Questions for staff.
Councilman Peterson: Kate, what was the square foot is going to be what?
Kate Aanenson: For Outlot 2?
Councilman Peterson: Yeah.
Kate Aanenson: 7,392.
Councilman Peterson: One of the things that the Planning Commission brought up is kind of a
what if scenario. What if city hall, old city hall burned down and a different council decides to
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slap something in there, and I don't know whether this is a question for Roger or not, but what
kind of, what kind of caveats can be put in there to prevent something like that happening, if we
can do it at all.
Kate Aanenson: Yeah, and outlot's unbuildable, right?
Roger Knutson: That's correct. How can you protect what you do now from the actions of future
city councils? I think you know the answer.
Councilman Peterson: Yeah.
Roger Knutson: The City Council makes the rules and the City Council can change the rules.
Councilman Peterson: Even if we change it to an outlot, a future council could change, redefine
the outlot to.
Kate Aanenson: A private lot.
Roger Knutson: Or you know, I'll just make this up but you could for example replat it into a lot
and change, grant a variance or change the minimum lot size. You know all sorts of possibilities
but you really can't protect this from the actions of future councils.
Councilman Peterson: Yeah. That's the only question I had.
Councilman Labatt: Kate in your alternatives you talk about the historic conservation easement.
Can you just talk a little bit more about that?
Kate Aanenson: Yeah, I'm sorry I put this other one on to you. I wasn't smart enough to think of
it sooner, but I did confer right before this with the city attorney regarding the outlot. The other
one would be if we own all the property we would just put a conservation, we would just
encumber the property by putting an easement over what we want to preserve. You know what
we would do in any other, we'd just call it an easement for old village hall and whatever
restrictions we want to put on there and we would do the same thing. That's another way to
accomplish it. What we're trying to achieve is preserving that area right around with the village
hall. That 60 feet by whatever where it currently sits, and again whether it's arbitrary or not, that
curb line has served as the function of that little area. And it was really actually until the chamber
went in there, it was pretty used infrequently. It doesn't have a lot of square footage to it, and
actually in meeting with SHPO when we went through and moved the old, as part of the EA for
the depot, when we moved it, they didn't want it moved to that area because what they consider,
this is their term, not out term, is a zoo. It really should be left historically where it was. Once
you start moving things it loses some of it's historical characteristics and because we tipped it at
an angle that was also kind of a no-no too so historically it's not correct. But certainly there's
integrity in preservation. It's not this person's intent to differ from that, preserving area as it's
being used now, and I guess that's how we came up with that area that's currently what it's using
that space now. And it would have a cross access parking agreement.
Councilman Labatt: So are we better off doing the outlot or the easement?
Kate Aanenson: Maybe that's a question I'll let Roger answer. I guess I hadn't thought of the
outlot one til as we were sitting here tonight.
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Councilman Labatt: 6:45.
Kate Aanenson: We started talking about if you were to extract something, if it was a
development we would want to preserve that area, we don't have a minimum lot square footage.
Are we trying to get a different way to end the means? What we're really trying to preserve is
that area as it's being used. That green space which was the old right-of-way. So I'll maybe let
Roger, if there's any difference.
Roger Knutson: They both get you to the same place. I don't, frankly I think whatever is
administratively easiest to do would be the way to go because they both accomplish the same
thing.
Kate Aanenson: Administratively I would say probably just leaving it as an outlot.
Roger Knutson: That's, all the change is a number to a letter.
Kate Aanenson: Right.
Mayor Furlong: You had mentioned Kate the difference between development and
redevelopment. Can you expand a little bit on that on what you're referring to?
Kate Aanenson: Yeah.
Mayor Furlong: For my understanding.
Kate Aanenson: Again going back to the plan for the downtown, when there was a lot of under
utilized businesses in the core of the downtown. The HRA at that time put together a tax
increment plan to remove some of the properties that were blighted, and again that was Todd's
project that he worked on and tried to take and redevelop the downtown, some of those areas that
were not paying the taxes that they could have been paying by not being at their full potential. So
the plan was put together to buy some of those properties. Include some roadway improvements.
Sewer and water improvements, to make all that happen to provide for future development and
West 78~ as we know it today as it goes all the way out to 41. So this was kind of the catalyst for
some of that older part of town that again wasn't being utilized. So long term, this was part of
that, and it was acquired through the city's tax increment financing. Again on the north side, that
project has already gone forward as I indicated. The medical office buildings. Maybe Todd, if
you want to comment on some of the other buildings that were relocated.
Todd Gerhardt: Oh you had so many. You had Bernie Hanson's Lawn and Sport dealership sat
where the second phase of Medical Arts, between Axel's and the two story medical building.
You had the Lebolla property. The whole entire downtown, that area had infrastructure that was
30 plus years old. If there was ever a fire in that area, we had to hook up a fire truck, we would
have collapsed the watermain. You had periodic flooding in the area. There was no storm water
system. You had a 3 phase electrical line that went through the downtown area. I think it took us
almost 3 years just to clean up the title work that existed in the area. You couldn't see on one of
Kate's handout's but there was remnant pieces all over the place. You had a single family house
in the back of almost a heavily industrial area. There was the Hanus truck repair facility started
out in that area where they would fix heavy duty trucks that needed body work. Bait shop. Two
old gas stations. I mean it was quite a nightmare for a redevelopment project and so what we did
is we came in, built uniform parking lots. Curb and gutter. Storm water system. The pond down
here off of Market Boulevard is where all the storm water goes now. We had buildings that
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physically had holes in their walls to let the water go through when we'd get those 100 year rains
and so the Pauly/Pony/Pryzmus site was acquired and the improvements were made in that area,
but they did exist once the improvements were made. They did not have uniform parking. The
city had a large lot in there that old village hall sat on. And so we combined our parcel with a
few of the other ones to make a public parking lot that you see today, with a trash enclosure in the
middle that serviced both the Pony Express bar, Pauly's and the Pryzmus office and apartments
that were up above. So the intent early on was one to try to have the existing businesses co-exist
there that were not ready to be bought out and ultimately decided to sell out and for us to get a
bigger and better use on the site and one that might be a little more appropriate for the area. Since
that time when we demo'd the buildings, I think people were attracted to the open space that
came in there. It was a site that we looked at as a potential library. We did have another potential
redevelopment use for office retail user that was denied. A two story use that was not endorsed
by the public or the City Council or Planning Commission. And no matter what would go on that
site, we'd have to go through that same process and one that the City Council would have to
consider that is an appropriate use. If anything is you control it. You own it. You decide if you
want to sell it to whoever might develop on this site. But we did spend a lot of money in
acquiring those sites and it is one of our potential revenue sources to help offset our TIF deficit.
So that's redevelopment in 5 minutes.
Kate Aanenson: Yeah, I was just going to add too. Similarly on the north side there's shared
parking on the north between Medical Arts and Axel's. As you go in the back there, there is kind
of common parking. It's my understanding that this parking lot would have a cross access for the
village. It does with Remax, but then the parking lot would be sold to whatever that business is.
As Todd indicated before, that was our parking lot. We kind of disassembled it all together.
There were too many uses for that at that time and we took the first two buildings down. The
other two sat there for a while. It just kind of cleans all that up. Get a use on there that meets the
standards and go ahead.
Mayor Furlong: I guess the question I have, and I think it was brought up in the Planning
Commission was, since this is the City, or the EDA is the petitioner for this, are we treating
ourselves the same way we treat a private developer in that similar situation?
Kate Aanenson: I guess if you look on the north side of the street, again where we did the shared
parking and worked those arrangements out and we pushed those buildings as close to the street
as we could. We see this being developed similarly. You have a different feel that you're in that
old town. Those were kind of our design standards. We see this being developed the same way.
We want that building close to the street. You have a sense of arrival as you come from that
direction and that's how we see this being developed, but meeting the standards.
Mayor Furlong: And how about with regard to, and maybe the solution of an outlot...variance
request but from the variance standpoint would we, has there been similar examples where
private developers have...the same thing? Now perhaps not with the historical issue.
Kate Aanenson: On the north side I'm not sure exactly.
Todd Gerhardt: Well the north side we own all the parking lots with the Medical Arts buildings
and Axel's so title to those parking lots are to the city. And we contract for snowplowing, seal
coating, and lighting in the area, and then we assess that cost back to Axel's, the Medical Arts
and similarly we do the same at the old village hall site. We assess back to the church, Remax
and ourselves based on what you see the old village hall would create there. So are they all
sitting on 11,000 square foot lots? I don't believe so and, but I mean we can verify that but when
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you're working on redevelopment sites, you need flexibility in it. I mean they're difficult. The
bowling alley is probably the one that's on everybody's mind right now and the title issues, the
remnant pieces that go along with that are kind of the sticking point of why we don't have a
purchase agreement on that site right now. Allowing the movie theater that sits in. You know
you've got downtowns, they typically don't have setbacks. You try to get the sidewalk, the
boulevard section in there and you bring it up to the street and I think Kate did show you what the
impact of this site would be if you were to create old village hall as an 11,000 square foot
minimum lot size in this area. You would almost make the other site unbuildable. Taking a big
section from there. And so if you're intent is to try to redevelop the site, you've got to try to give
the site flexibility in making it as marketable as possible.
Mayor Furlong: Is there...do we have a, is there a potential buyer or?
Kate Aanenson: There's interested parties.
Mayor Furlong: Multiple parties or a specific?
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. I mean really when you go through the downtown area you only have 3 or
4 parcels that are available or on the market. As a part of our strategic plan last year and also as a
part of our process in solving our TIF deficit, one of the solutions were to sell the parcels that the
city owns and you get them back on the tax rolls and to take those revenues to help offset that TIF
deficit. So that's what staff is doing with this replat is trying to make this site marketable and
getting it ready to be sold.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions for staff?
Council, any discussion?
If not, we'll bring it back for discussion.
Councilman Peterson: Yeah I think you raise a question, have we done, have we granted a
variance before in situations like this. Not specifically in the downtown per se but clearly we've
made reasonable variance requests happen before. I think this one happens to be one that's
reasonable too. Particularly, obviously you're not even going to have to do a variance if you do
an outlot scenario so that being said I'm comfortable moving ahead with either the outlot or the
variance. I guess preferably the outlot is what we're leaning towards so.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any other discussion?
Councilman Labatt: Outlot's the way to go.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Is there a motion?
Councilman Labatt: I would move approval per staff's recommendation creating Lot 2 as an
outlot.
Mayor Furlong: Is that sufficient?
Councilman Labatt: Approving preliminary and final plat?
Councilman Labatt: Yes.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, sounds good. Is there a second?
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Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: A second. Any discussion on the motion?
Councilman Labatt moved, Councilman Peterson seconded to approve the preliminary and
final plat for Old Village Hall Addition with Lot 2 becoming Outlot B, as depicted in plans
prepared by Otto Associates, dated 9/12/02, revised 12/23/02, subject to the following
conditions:
1. Revise the plat name to Old Village Hall Addition.
2. Record cross access agreement for Outlot B and the Re/Max site across Lot 1.
3. Record a parking agreement for Outlot B against Lot 1.
The property line between Lot 1 and Outlot B must be a minimum of ten (10) feet away
from the existing Old Village Hall building.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
CONSENT AGENDA:
Mayor Furlong: Why don't we move at this time to those items that were pulled off the consent
agenda. Take them, well let's take them in order unless based upon discussion...move them
around, l(a)(1). Park dedication fees. Councilman Lundquist.
Councilman Lundquist: Mr. Mayor, the reason I asked for this one to be removed is these are
fees that we typically, that we do charge to developers...developments and they go towards
constructing new parks and trails and services for the community and staff recommendation, with
all the follow-up comparisons to communities in the metro area, some of similar size or bigger
size, vary in ranges. Staff's recommendation was that we have single family units that charge
$2,200 a unit, multi at $1,800 a unit and commercial at $7,000. In looking at the back-up in the
pages and the spreadsheets, in comparable communities to our's that have an extensive trail
system and extensive parks and value that park and open space as much as Chanhassen does, I
think that our, given the cost of our land that we need to acquire to build those, I'd like to see the
fees go to the proposed residential single family at $2,400 a unit, multi at $2,000 a unit, and
commercial to be left at staff recommendation, $7,000 an acre.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any other discussion on this item? If not, I guess I will discuss with you
with regard to your, the issue raised. My concern is, I certainly appreciate the concern is that
these directly impact the price of the homes in our city and that is an issue. Home prices are
rising and the more fees that the city imposes to the developer will be passed along with higher
prices and that's a concern I have with this. Though at the same time our parks are important and
we need to adequately fund them and maintain them so, I'm concerned about it and I just wanted
to express that concern at this time and the impact it has. If there's no other discussion, do you
want to make a motion in that regard?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to approve resolution establishing park dedication fees at
residential single family/duplex $2,400 a unit, multi-family/apartment units $2,000 a unit,
commercial/industrial properties, $7,000 an acre. And also that we amend Chapter 18, Article IV
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of the Chanhassen City Code concerning parkland dedication requirements as detailed in the
ordinance amendment page.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Is there a second to the motion?
Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Is there any other discussion on the motion?
Resolution g2003-19: Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson seconded that
the City Council combine park and trail dedication fees into one "park dedication" fee and
establish the 2003 rates as follows:
Residential Single Family/Duplex Units
Multi-Family/Apartment Units
Commercial/Industrial Property
$2,400/unit
$2,000/unit
$7,000/acre
Additionally, amend Chapter 18, Article IV of the Chanhassen City Code concerning
parkland dedication requirements as detailed in the attached ordinance amendment. All
voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
Mayor Furlong: Item l(a)(6). Councilman Labatt. Fee structure for vehicle lock-out.
Councilman Labatt: I've had a problem with this since we discussed talking about it and I just
wanted to pull it for separate consideration. I don't think we should be charging our residents
who lock themselves out of their vehicle but.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Is there any other discussion on this matter? If there's not, is there a
motion to, is there a motion?
Councilman Peterson: Motion to approve.
Mayor Furlong: Is there a second?
Councilman Lundquist: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion?
Resolution g2003-20: Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Lundquist seconded to
approve charging $50 per incident for vehicle lock-out services provided by the City of
Chanhassen. All voted in favor, except Councilman Labatt who opposed, and the motion
carried with a vote of 3 to 1.
Mayor Furlong: Item l(b). Councilman Lundquist. This is regarding approval of plans and
specifications and authorize advertising for bids, City Center Commons.
Councilman Lundquist: Thank you Mr. Mayor. The reason I asked for this item to be removed is
for comment on what this item actually is and the significance of it. This is the park around our
new library and the old bank building and all the areas surrounding it and quite a bit of effort and
expensive design work and landscaping has gone into putting this park together. It looks like a
fabulous design. It's really going to finish off the library and make it a great area for the
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community but what we're talking about is going out to bids on a project in the neighborhood of
$800,000 to a million dollars and although we're not authorizing the funds at this time, I thought
it was a significant dollar amount that it warranted that being pulled for further discussion so that
many of our residents that are watching tonight or in the audience, realize that's what that item is
and the dollar amount we're talking about.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Is there any other discussion? If there's none, is there a motion?
Councilman Peterson: Motion to approve.
Councilman Labatt: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion on the motion?
Resolution g2003-21: Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Labatt seconded to
approve the City Center Commons plans and specifications as presented and authorize the
advertisement for public bids. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with
a vote of 4 to 0.
Mayor Furlong: Item (c). Approve plans and specifications and authorize the bids, advertising
for bids, Lift Station 1 Improvements, Project 01-11. Councilman Lundquist.
Councilman Lundquist: Teresa, this is more questions for you is, funding methods for this... I
think this is the one you talked about the utility fund being the source of funding for that, is that
correct?
Teresa Burgess: Correct. This one is proposed to be funded 100 percent out of the utility fund.
Councilman Lundquist: And when I looked through the capital plan and the utility fund I didn't
see this item specifically listed so I guess my question is, is this an addition to what you proposed
as a project to the utility fund or were you planning on substituting this item for something else
that was already in the plans for utility fund dollars?
Teresa Burgess: This project was not part of the CIP. It was initiated based on a council action.
It was not something that staff brought forward. It was council directed us to do.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay. So that, this would be in addition to the amount that was
approved on the CIP?
Teresa Burgess: Correct.
Councilman Lundquist: In December.
Todd Gerhardt: Just a better clarification on that. Part of it is a maintenance issue, which the
budget allows us to use money for. So I think there's 10 feet of watermain that's going to get
replaced as a part of this.
Teresa Burgess: This is sanitary sewer.
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Todd Gerhardt: Sanitary sewer, I'm sorry. And we're also installing paver bricks in there to help
offset costs that we incurred. Every year we have to go in there with our Vac truck and we dig it
up so I'd almost classify this capital installation as a maintenance item.
Councilman Lundquist: My concern is more around the addition of it rather than a substitution. I
mean this is council action that was done...CIP plan is put together and I guess even if it wasn't.
If it's a big enough priority and I'd like to see rather than continuing to spend 695, $695,000
that's in the CIP for this year, that we consider substituting something on that list in the amount
of $115,000 on this one with that so that we can keep that capital budget where it's currently at.
Todd Gerhardt: We can do that, but periodically we will have emergencies that if we can have
the flexibility to bring those back for your consideration and, or if, this was kind of an ongoing
thing for almost a year. Discussion with the homeowners association so.
Teresa Burgess: If I could clarify for the council. Nothing in the CIP that's under the utility
section will go forward without coming to the council anyway, so rather than at this time deleting
something to make a funding balance, we will certainly take a look at it and if there's something
that can be bladed, we will. But I would like to keep the flexibility of bringing those projects
back for council to consider at a future date when we've done a feasibility study on it.
Councilman Lundquist: Absolutely and I'm not suggesting that we go ahead and take anything
off of the list. I guess my viewpoint is that...I guess my expectation is I don't want to see utility
fund projects at the end of the year add up to more than 695 that's in there now. Going forward if
we know that there's certain projects that certain funds and areas that we need to do under
maintenance that we have to budget for those and call them general maintenance utility, whatever
they may be and so I'm not suggesting that we delete any projects on there. And if this one's a
high priority, it needs to be done, it needs to be done but realize that at the end of the year I' 11 be
critical if we get to a point where we're exceeding money that's in that CIP.
Todd Gerhardt: Makes sense.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Councilman Labatt: Oh, one quick question. Is this the lift station or is the next one that you
pulled?
Todd Gerhardt: They're both.
Teresa Burgess: They're both lift stations.
Councilman Labatt: Which one was the one that had the screening that the resident wanted us to
pay for the screening of it?
Teresa Burgess: I believe both have had the request for screening. Lift Station #10 is the
generator and as part of our discussions with the property owner for the improvements to that lot
we are putting in the generator. And we are required to screen a generator. That is our zoning
code requirement.
Councilman Labatt: Okay. And what are we going to screen it with?
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Teresa Burgess: We will be putting out a bid for fencing and we are not specifying the type of
fence. It just has to meet our zoning code and we will then bring that for council consideration
once we' ve received those proposals.
Councilman Lundquist: This is the Sunrise Hills, that was Lift Station gl, correct?
Teresa Burgess: Correct. They're linked project. It's Lift Stations 10 and 1 and so they are the
same project, but it is two lift stations.
Councilman Labatt: So I'm confused here as to why you say we're required to screen them.
Teresa Burgess: Because of the generator, we're required to screen a standby generator, correct.
Councilman Labatt: Okay.
Todd Gerhardt: But Teresa we're not screening Lift Station gl.
Teresa Burgess: We are not screening Lift Station gl. The request was made at one point by a
property owner, but we're not doing it. And we're not required to and to do that would actually
be more intrusive than to leave it as is.
Councilman Labatt: Okay. That's the only question I had.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any other questions? Comments? If there are none, is there a motion
regarding item (c)?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to approve plans and specifications for Lift Station 1
improvements and authorize advertising for bids.
Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion on the motion?
Resolution g2003-22: Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson seconded to
approve the plans and specifications for Lift Station gl Improvements and authorize the
advertisement of bids for the project. All voted in favor and the motion carried
unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
Mayor Furlong: Item l(m). Award of bids, generator for Lift Station gl0.
Councilman Lundquist: I'll make this one real quick because it just tacks on... I'm assuming as
Teresa has stated, this is going along the same project that we just talked about advertising the
bids and this is out of the utility fund as well.
Teresa Burgess: Correct. When the plat for Big Woods on Lotus Lake came through the council
directed that we install a permanent generator.
Councilman Lundquist: That's all I had.
Councilman Peterson: Just to give you some background Brian. When we approved those a year
ago, began the process, we had the money in the capital plan. It was an extra per se, so the
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question was asked and the funds were carried forward. I'd be interested to find out why we
didn't put that as a line item if we knew it was there and we already approved it so I think that's
just a, that's just a... If we know we're doing a capital project, we should have it in the capital
plan as a marked line item.
Mayor Furlong: Just a point of clarification. This is just to award the bid for the generator itself.
It doesn't have to deal with any other issues related to it's installation of the generator.
Teresa Burgess: No, this is just the generator. We'd like to get the order placed for the generator
so it will be ready by April. We will be coming back to council for award of contract for the
installation and wiring and the pad renovations. Those will be a separate contractor.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any other questions on this? Is there a motion regarding it then?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to award bids, generator lift station number 10.
Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion?
Resolution ~2003-23: Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson seconded to
award the bid to Ziegler (Caterpillar) in the amount of $31,960.52 for a generator at Lift
Station #10. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Furlong: Any council or commission liaison updates?
Councilman Peterson: The only item that I have regarding Southwest Metro Transit. I think
you're all aware that they had a rider incident recently where a rider boarded a bus down in
Minneapolis and came out to Eden Prairie and did a bomb threat from there which the Eden
Prairie police department did a fine job in mitigating and to resolve the situation. There was no
bomb but I think what it did, it tested our emergency procedures for Southwest Metro and they
really worked well. Ridership really wasn't affected and albeit a scary situation, it tumed out to,
as best as it could have been. The other item is that we did close finally on all the land that
surrounds Southwest Metro Transit station. That now is in the hands of developers and they have
begun digging dirt so the Culver's and the Krispy Kremes and Ruby Tuesdays are being quickly
put together and should, you should see a very different development by year end so everybody's
pretty excited about that so it will be a very, very interesting building site for everybody in this
region so, that's it.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any questions? Any others? I guess the only one I would
mention. Mr. Gerhardt and I attended the Minnetonka School District meeting this, I guess it was
this past week.
Todd Gerhardt: Yep.
Mayor Furlong: With the other mayors and city administrators in that district and it was a good
meeting. I think there, the issues that we're dealing with, especially with the budget, the concern
about state aid is prevalent. It affects different cities differently but they're all looking to deal
with it. ! guess what I was pleased in attending that meeting is that I knew coming into tonight
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we had a plan already in place and that was kind of nice to know that we're taking on so, but just
some information... Anything else? If not we'll close council presentations and move to
administrative presentations.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Todd Gerhardt: Kate's prepared to update the City Council on the proposed 2005 MUSA work
plan and at this time I' 11 send the mic over to Kate.
Kate Aanenson: Thank you. I'm looking for some direction from the council. I'll make a brief
presentation. What I did, I put together again kind of a flow chart. We identified this 2005
MUSA area. We're going to go through the boundaries. Audubon. 212. And Lyman. 650 acres
in that project area. You gave conceptual approval to Town and Country. They have to do an
Environmental document. What we agreed to at that point is that we do an area wide assessment.
We did meet with the EQB Monitor who is the state agency that reviews environmental
documents and with the city attorney, I met with them to put together what we believe is a better
strategy to do this project. Not look at this piece in a vacuum but step back and plan for that
whole entire area as we affectionately call it the 2005 area. So what we have going out is the
RFP's just about ready to go. We've got the draft form. Sending that over to the attorneys and
that will go out. We'll get proposals back on that. You want to go to the last page, I've got kind
of more detail notes. The last page and that's kind of what I really want to focus on. So we've
met with SCH. They've given us the draft. We've made comments and it's ready to go as I
indicated. We just want the city attorney to look at that. Then it will, we were looking for a
committee to actually work on the analysis of this. When we did the Highway 5 corridor study
we had a specific task force. What I'd like to do on this is mainly use the Planning Commission
because they're going to be seeing the blunt of this as we go through the comp plan, but I would
also like to have at least 2 council. We can't have 3, but we'd like to have 2 at least involved in
the process so as we move things forward people have a grasp of where we're going to with this.
It is a large planning project. Different than redevelopment but, so I wanted to keep planning and
City Council and I'd like a park commissioner and of course engineering, planning staff and park
and rec staff would be involved with this too. So with that we've kind of got a study committee.
A group that's reviewing this. We've got our assessment out so once we get, put it out for bid.
The goal then is to come back and meet with the neighborhood. There's about 13 large
significant property owners in that area. We've been meeting with them. They know they're in
the next for development. Meet with them. Share with them the cost. Town and Country will be
bearing the cost for their assessment. They will be doing a much narrower scope because they
have to delineate all the wetlands. The rest of it in meeting with again the Environmental Quality
Board, what they indicated to us is that we can do a more cursory review so that's less cost and
any specific property owner to pay and add to it and we can include that and amend that in the
document the purpose of meeting with them. So meet with the property owners and the
developer to apprise them of what the costs are. Come back and get your approval and tell you
how we're going to pay for those costs to do that project. So now they're out doing the study, the
consultant. We need to find out exactly where the roads are going to go. How wide they need to
be. How we're going to get sewer to these areas. The significant natural features. Again
planning the area. This is an area wide review that was done for Gateway Business Park so
we've done these before, but it's a lot to digest so as part of this group we'll be coming back and
getting feedback. Breaking it down into bite size pieces instead of just having one public hearing
and trying to dump it on all at once. Kind of tracking that also, we also know there's the school
district's possibly looking for another site. We need a fire station so we're looking at some of the
public, whether we want a park. How big of a park we need, so as we pull some of those
numbers together we'll be also providing some other process that this group, study group will be
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looking at too to kind of pull that together identifying, as we've done other comp plans. We
know we need a school in this area, maybe identifying one or two pieces so as properties come in,
it's not the last guy. The last person in gets everybody stuck. We need to look at where it needs
to be based on traffic patterns and the like. Planning at it's best so I've kind of broken down a
couple of meetings, and again as we look at their proposals that come back, we have a better idea
of how many meetings we think we may need and how some of those could just be staff oriented
too, so I kind of broke them down by topics. Again then we have a comment period. It has to be
published for 30 days. We offer a comment period. Pursue that. And then what I've put in there
is once we get that done we're kind of shooting on our time line, probably August and I think
that's pretty realistic. Now if we get bogged down on a lot of issues, there seems to be some
controversy, there's some big hurdles that we hadn't anticipated. School district decides to put
down a large school on the site. We need to rethink maybe some of our land uses, that may slow
something down as we find something we hadn't anticipated. But I think by August we could
have things in place and that would allow Town and Country then to proceed with coming back
with their preliminary and final plat so they could be ready to go actually maybe a little bit
sooner. But that also requires the city to make some decisions. We would also have to kind of
maybe provide, we've got the lift station there, provide the extension of those services under
probably an assessment project so that would be kind of a separate study so there's a lot of
different things going on. But the main thing I wanted to communicate to you that we are going
forward with this process. Kind of give you an idea of where anticipating it going and then I
would like your approval on kind of how I've laid out, or if you have some other ideas or
direction on that.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any questions?
Councilman Peterson: The only question I had. I'm assuming when you get down to the
selection of the consultant, have we budgeted those funds for this project this year?
Kate Aanenson: Those would be coming out of the storm water and utility funds.
Councilman Peterson: Both?
Kate Aanenson: Yes. Right, and both of those are anticipated as development occurs, again
Town and Country will be paying their portion of what's required. They have to do an EA, so
they're obligated for that. So actually in the environmental document we've called out for the,
whoever does it, prepares a document has to attribute a cost separate to this project, to Town and
Country project to the rest of it. And some of it for the wetland stuff that we can use, we'll
attribute to that so it will be broken into a couple different funds, but we will share that with you,
how we're going to pay for that.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is the expectation that those funds would then be reimbursed?
Kate Aanenson: Correct. And I'm also anticipating that some property owners may be ready to
go forward once we maybe come back with them and we have to tell them we'll be on your
property. That some may be willing to. They've been all being negotiated with. That they may
be willing to actually have that level of detail in the scoping document. That they might want that
so they're ready to go forward. Some of the more detailed delineation on the area wide. And that
would allow them to kind of proceed forward too so.
Councilman Lundquist: So what about those landowners that would want to proceed with that,
that would be...
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Kate Aanenson: Be an option.
Councilman Lundquist: ...off of the city.
Kate Aanenson: That's correct. And also in the environmental document it does allow some of
the cost to be assessed, for some of the hearing cost. Some of the cost of preparation so that's
something that I need to confer with the city attorney too to get clarified but some of those costs
can be passed through too. Costs of public heatings and notices, send that to the applicant so
we'll work on that too. Oh, the other thing I was going to say is once you have put this process, I
do have a work session scheduled with the Planning Commission so I'll be sharing this same
process with them. And then I did speak to Town and Country who' s again kind of the tail that' s
wagging the dog on the rest of this, to let them know that there's a process in place and that we'll
be sharing that with them too after I get your approval.
Councihnan Peterson: So you need a couple of people is what you're asking?
Kate Aanenson: That's correct. And if you're comfortable with the Planning Commission.
Again, the Planning Commission is going to be really the lead to review the comp plan, but I
certainly want someone from the park commission and certainly the park director would be
involved in that too because, and the city engineer, because the elements come across the board as
far as planning.
Mayor Furlong: You mentioned presenting this to the Planning Commission in a work session.
Kate Aanenson: Yes.
Mayor Furlong: What other discussions have you had...
Kate Aanenson: They're aware of the Town and Country project. We did tour some other new
urban projects. Talked about planning and long range. I haven't shared to them this level of
detail yet but they know we're doing a longer range plan in this area.
Councilman Peterson: It looks like a good plan. Let's just get it moving.
Mayor Furlong: Is there, are there, I'd be willing to serve as one of the members from the
council, unless there are two others that would like to.
Councilman Labatt: I was thinking you and Craig would be good. Craig's a former planning
commissioner.
Councilman Peterson: I'm fine with that.
Councilman Labatt: If Craig didn't want to do it, maybe Brian.
Mayor Furlong: You say Craig has experience. What do I have?
Councilman Labatt: You're just a rookie.
Mayor Furlong: I need to learn. Okay. Thanks. Any other administrative reports Gerhardt?
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Todd Gerhardt: Just wanted to highlight in the correspondence packet. When we entered into
our prosecution contract with Carver County, I've been putting in for more Brian and Tom's
information, our share of the prosecution contract for 2002 is in there, and then also the statistics
for the quarter. So that comes quarterly.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Good, anything else?
Todd Gerhardt: That's it.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, no other items to be said tonight?
Councilman Lundquist: How are we doing on the library?
Todd Gerhardt: We're moving along. They're anticipating that the floors to be poured here
starting next week, so you'll start seeing gaps in the buildings, wherever there's openings
enclosed with temporary windows or walls and start pouring the floor, so it's a good thing.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions? If there's none, if there's a motion to adjourn, the council
will reconvene at a work session back up in the courtyard conference room. If there's a motion to
adjourn.
Councilman Labatt moved, Councilman Lundquist seconded to adjourn the City Council
meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 8:50
p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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