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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
MARCH 8, 2010
Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. The meeting was opened with the
Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:
Mayor Furlong, Councilman Litsey, Councilwoman
Ernst, Councilwoman Tjornhom, and Councilman McDonald
STAFF PRESENT:
Todd Gerhardt, Laurie Hokkanen, and Todd Hoffman
PUBLIC PRESENT:
Andrew Larson 2427 Hunter Drive
Nathan Taylor 7516 Bent Bow Trail
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Gregg Lovell 600 West 78 Street
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mayor Furlong: Thank you and welcome to those here in the council chambers with us and
those watching at home. We’re glad that you joined us this evening. For those in the council
chambers I would encourage you to make sure you get your name on the sign up sheet, if you
haven’t already so that you get full credit to being here this evening. What I’d like to do at this
point is ask any members of the council if there are changes or modifications proposed for the
agenda. If not without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as distributed.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Litsey moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded to
approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s
recommendations:
a. Approval of Minutes:
-City Council Work Session Minutes dated February 22, 2010
-City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated February 22, 2010
Receive Commission Minutes:
-Planning Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated February 16, 2010
-Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated February 23,
2010
Resolution #2010-18:
b. Approve Resolution Accepting Donations from Local Businesses
for Special Events.
Resolution #2010-19:
c. Audubon Road Reconstruction Project 10-02: Approve Plans and
Specifications; Authorize Advertising for Bids.
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Resolution #2010-20:
d. 2010 Street Improvements (Erie Avenue) Project 10-02(a):
Approve Plans and Specifications; Authorize Advertising for Bids.
Resolution #2010-21:
e. 2010 Sealcoating Project 10-04: Approve Joint Powers
Agreement; Authorize Advertising for Bids.
f. Approve Amendments to Chanhassen Gateway and Southwest Village PUD Agreements.
Resolution #2010-22:
g. Approve Resolution Accepting $2,000 Donation from KleinBank
Chanhassen for Summer Concert Series.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: PRESENTATION OF $2,000 DONATION FOR THE
SUMMER CONCERT SERIES, GREGG LOVELL, PRESIDENT OF KLEINBANK
CHANHASSEN.
Mayor Furlong: We do have Gregg Lovell, President of the KleinBank with us this evening that
wanted to make a presentation. Good evening Gregg. You want to say a few words right there
and Todd and I will work our way down.
Gregg Lovell: Yes, thank you. This is an honor and privilege for us to be here again this
evening. This is I think our second year we’ve had the opportunity to sponsor the Summer
Concert Series so we enjoyed it last year. We believe the residents of Chanhassen and others did
as well so it’s a pleasure for us to present this check for $2,000 to sponsor this year’s series.
Todd Gerhardt: Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Todd can take this through the drive thru tomorrow.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. I’ll get it in that tube one way or another. Gregg, I just want to thank
KleinBanks. You guys have been a great corporate citizen. Constantly giving back to the
community so thank the Klein family and the whole organization. Thank you.
Gregg Lovell: Thank you very much.
Councilman Litsey: Thank you very much. Great series.
Mayor Furlong: The Summer Concert Series is a great event that we have afternoons and
evenings. Great time to bring people out and gather together and KleinBank has done a
wonderful job sponsoring this last year and we look forward to it again. It’s just a great
community event. And it makes you think of spring. That’s always good.
Todd Gerhardt: We have a park out there somewhere underneath the white snow.
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Mayor Furlong: Yes we do. Alright, very good.
APPOINTMENTS TO COMMISSIONS.
Mayor Furlong: Under items of new business this evening, over the last 2 meetings in February
and again this evening we interviewed candidates for the Planning Commission, Park and
Recreation Commission and Senior Commission. We have interviewed a couple and we’ll
continue to interview others for our Environmental Commission but this evening we wanted to,
for the council consider and make appointments to the Planning, Park and Rec and
Environmental, excuse me, and the Senior Commission. I was looking for my topics here. Make
sure I can get to the right spot. Do you have the paper? Can I borrow it for a minute? We had
a number of good candidates as always to fit the limited number of positions that we had but we
appreciate everybody for their application. Following the interviews I would move, and in a
moment ask for a second, that we have City Council has 3 positions on the Planning Commission
and I would move that we appoint Denny Laufenburger, Kevin Ellsworth and Andrew Aller to
those 3 positions. We have two-3 year positions on the Park and Rec Commission and I would
move that we appoint Tom Kelly and Cole Kelly, unrelated I believe, to those 2 positions. And
then for the Senior Commission I would move that we appoint Charlie Robbins and Naomi Moe
to those two-3 year positions as well. Again great candidates all and we appreciate the interest
that people expressed. First I would ask if there’s a second to that motion.
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second.
Councilwoman Ernst: Second.
Councilwoman Tjornhom: There’s a third to that motion.
Mayor Furlong: Third, that’s good. Thank you. And then also open it up for any discussion or
comments that other members of the council want to make as well.
Councilwoman Tjornhom: I think I just want to say that once again it’s so encouraging to have
these applicants come and see what fine people we have living in our town. I mean quality
people came and it was, they’re never easy choices but this time once again I’m just so
impressed with everyone who did fill out an application and come interview and so those who
did not necessarily make a commission, I hope they will come back and re-apply for other
commissions because they are certainly special people and look forward to working with them in
the future with something else.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other thoughts or comments?
Councilman Litsey: I think that sums it up very well. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Councilman McDonald: I will go with that.
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Mayor Furlong: Okay, very good. I was thinking after tonight and even last meeting, not only
good people but personally it helps me re-energize my excitement when you meet people that
have passion for the other areas that we get involved in. We do get involved in a lot of areas but
we do have some really good people that applied in addition to those that were appointed this
evening but the passion that you see in people really, for me at least helps re-energize the
purpose for why we’re all here. With that then if there is any other discussion. If not we’ll
proceed with the vote.
APPOINTMENTS TO COMMISSIONS.
Mayor Furlong moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to make the following
commission appointments for three year terms each:
Planning Commission:
Denny Laufenburger, Kevin Ellsworth and Andrew Aller
Park and Recreation Commission:
Tom Kelly and Cole Kelly
Senior Commission:
Charlie Robbins and Naomi Moe
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS:
None.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS:
Todd Gerhardt: Two public announcements I’d like to make. First, there was an informational
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meeting coming up here on March 15 regarding a Level 3 sex offender that was moving into the
community. He has chose not to move into the community so that meeting has been cancelled
and thank the Carver County Sheriff’s office. They were very organized on this issue. We got
information out to the schools and the daycares in the area. We got our crime alert notice out so
Beth did a great job so, but the gentleman decided to move elsewhere and so I just want to make
sure any public viewing tonight understood that that meeting has been cancelled and he is no
longer living in the community. The second item, if anybody is visiting Applebee’s, I just want
to assure the public. It’s not a health concern. They had a fire this last evening. It was an
electrical fire on the south wall of the building and it wasn’t any of the grease traps or anything
like that. It was an electrical fire and they’re still investigating but they will be probably closed
for a while until they can go in and fix the damage that occurred so.
Councilman Litsey: Was there a lot of smoke damage then?
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. We had to cut a hole in the roof. There were flames coming off the roof
when we arrived so there was quite a bit of damage on that south side so it may take a while for
them to get the work done and re-opened so that was fire damage there that caused the closure.
That’s all I have.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt or his staff this evening?
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CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION.
Mayor Furlong: The one item I’ll make note of there and that deals with the schedule for the
assessments. Board of Equalization. The last few years the City has been working with the
Carver County Assessor’s Office in terms of handling the Board of Appeal and Equalization, and
this relates to assessed values for homes. That information will be coming out in the next couple
of weeks. I do want to point out that, that for those interested in talking to the assessor about the
basis for their assessed value of their home, there’ll be opportunities to meet with them the week
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of April 19 through the 23 at the Carver County Assessor’s Office. Very often, and this is for
people watching at home, very often people come to the City during December, during our Truth
in Taxation’s hearing and make comments about the value of their home and their assessed
value. The time to deal with that is now in the springtime, not in December so if you have
questions or concerns I would just encourage people and maybe we can do what we can to try to
get the word out a little bit to let people know that this is the time. Even though the official
announcements come out and everybody, or the property owner gets that in the mail. Anything
we can do to try to encourage people to make sure that they know now’s the time to, to have
those questions asked and answered as opposed to waiting to later in the year when nothing can
be done about it at that point.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, the Carver County Assessor’s phone number is 361-1961 so.
Councilman Litsey: You know that from memory.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. I just wanted to emphasize that a little bit. I know all of us are aware of
it but I think it’s good for residents and property owners to be aware and to be vigilant for the
information in their, in the mail. Anything else this evening? If not then, once we adjourn with
our council meeting we will continue our items under the work session. Being complete with
this is there a motion to adjourn this evening?
Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to adjourn the meeting.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. The City
Council meeting was adjourned at 7:20 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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