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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
NOVEMBER 22, 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, Kate Aanenson, Paul Oehme, Todd
Hoffman and Roger Knutson
PUBLIC PRESENT:
Denny Laufenburger 8673 Chanhassen Hills Drive North
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mayor Furlong: Thank you and good evening and welcome to those here in the council
chambers and those watching at home as well. We’re glad that you joined us this evening. At
this time I would ask members of the council if there are any changes or modifications to the
agenda. Otherwise without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as published. I’d like to
start this evening by extending an invitation to the Chanhassen Tree Lighting party. This holiday
season as it approaches quickly, I’m happy to invite everyone to a wonderful city event. City of
Chanhassen and the Chanhassen Business Council are proud to announce the 2010 Tree Lighting
Ceremony. I invite all area residents, their families, friends, children and grandchildren to come
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and join me and my family on Saturday, December 4 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the City Center
Park in the plaza for this event. People of all ages will enjoy activities including the official
lighting of the City Center Park, refreshments, caroling, gingerbread display, gingerbread house
display, live reindeer and a visit from Santa and some of his helpers. The entire event is free.
No registration is required. Please come and if you’d like more information feel free to contact
City Hall. It’s a great event and I’d like to thank our Park and Recreation Department for their
work in terms of putting the lights on all of the trees in our park. It always look great every year.
I know it will this year and also the Chanhassen Business Council for their co-sponsorship of that
event. Move now to our consent agenda.
CONSENT AGENDA:Councilwoman Tjornhom moved, Councilman Litsey 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 November 8, 2010
-City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated November 8, 2010
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Receive Commission Minutes:
-Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated October 26,
2010
b. Approval of 2011 NPDES Permit Reissuance.
Resolution #2010-94:
c. Approval of Resolution Authorizing the City to Apply for a Grant
from the MCES Municipal Infiltration/Inflow Grant Program and Execute Grant
Agreement.
d. Approve Nominees for Environmental Excellence Awards.
Resolution #2010-95:
e. Approve Resolution Accepting $4,000 Carver/Scott Statewide
Health Improvement Program (SHIP) Active Living Incentive Reimbursement.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
Ken Wencl: My name is Ken Wencl. I live here in Chanhassen for the last 11 years. For a
number of months I’ve been talking about the usage of water in our city. When I drive by places
and I see sprinklers going in the rain, not only irrigation systems but hoses and things like that
and it goes on and on and on and so last Thursday when I got our paper it fell right in place. The
only thing the this paper did not mention is one thing as to how to save water. Keep your lawns
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green. Also want to invite you to a watershed on November 30 which is going to be on this
subject and we’ve got several high powered speakers. One from the Three Rivers Park District
that will talk aeration and how we can do this. Aeration has several benefits. Many benefits.
It’s a win/win situation for everybody. It’ll save the City pumping. It will save the expense of
the, to the landowner and it’ll save the water for our kids. The way we’re using water now, I
don’t think there’s going to be anything left but water that comes out of the Mississippi runs
through a bunch of treatment plants and it’s not good clean water anymore. We’re ruining that
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ground. But anyway I invite you all to the watershed on November 30. You’ll find it very
enlightening. We even have nice cold beer or pop there. It’s at the Legion Hall. So come there.
I’ve also go a sheet on the back that I came up with ideas myself. Reasons for the core aeration
of green space. I hope you all read it because that tells you the things that we can save from the
city and from the landowners by following a no cost, very little low cost to get the job done.
Some of you may have known or may not have known that I’ve been talking to a young lady
here in the Chanhassen staff about this subject of probably getting everything in the city of
Chanhassen aerated. The water that comes from heaven should come down and drop in your
yard and stay in your yard and we can accomplish that very, very easy. So if you hear about it, I
hope you give her the support that’s needed. The watershed is interested through me to
partnership with you to get this job done. We’ve done things in the past but I think this is the top
of the list now, to get into this thing and take care of it once and for all. I thank you and ask for
your support.
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Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Anyone else who would like to address the council this
evening under visitor presentations? Okay. Thank you. Let’s move on then to the next items
under our agenda.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE.
Mayor Furlong: Let’s start with Sergeant Anderley from the Carver County Sheriff’s
Department. Good evening Sergeant.
Sgt. Peter Anderley: Good evening council, mayor. You have the numbers I guess from the last
month. If there’s anything you’d like me to clarify on those, I certainly can touch on those.
Couple of things to note. Our crashes and things like that I’m sure after this week has raised up a
little bit. After the wintery mix that has come upon here in November. I know that I haven’t run
the exact numbers from this weekend already but I can tell you they were somewhere around 130
calls for service in the county in 12 hours Saturday night. Just mostly car related to crashes, to
accidents, to cars in the ditch, that type of thing. Nothing major. Didn’t sound like any major
accidents. Just a lot of messed up traffic and that type of thing. I think we even had some more
this morning with the morning commute. We had a couple of minor rollovers and some crashes
around but again just a reminder. It’s wintertime. Slow down. Leave a little extra early. Take
some time getting to where you’re going so we can save those issues and hopefully get to where
we’re going safely without having our mishaps and ending up in the ditch. Other than that it’d
been very quiet on the crime in the city and hopefully we’ll continue doing that. Winter parking.
We have started issuing citations given the recent snowfalls and that type of thing so please
remember to move your vehicles if you’re in violation of the winter parking. And if you have
any questions again the City’s web site has that on there. As far as that they could also call the
sheriff’s office if they need some clarification as far as the ordinance goes.
Mayor Furlong: And generally it’s no overnight parking and no parking on streets after a certain
snowfall, is that correct?
Sgt. Peter Anderley: Yep, no parking 1:00 a.m. til 7:00 a.m. any day and then no parking until
the street has been plowed from curb to curb after 2 inches of snowfall.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Alright. Good. Any other questions for Sergeant Anderley or any
questions? Very good, thank you. Appreciate the report. Chief Smallback is here. Good
evening Chief.
Chief Roger Smallback: Good evening. We’re year to date calls through October, or actually
through today is at 577 calls for service. Through today for the month of November anyway
we’re at 34 calls for service. As Sergeant Anderley noted, it had been a rather quiet month up
until Mother Nature changed her mind. The snow storm and the ice storm did generate quite a
few calls for fire as well as police. There was one structure fire in November. It occurred on
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November 17. It was a home on Topaz Drive. It occurred at 1:00 in the afternoon and that was
a, I believe that was a Wednesday. The fire was in the garage of the home. Fortunately the
homeowner was home. Discovered it right away. We were able to get on it rather quickly and
keep it from extending into the structure. The fire made a terrible mess in the garage but it
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never, it was all what we refer to as a content fire. Meaning that the fire didn’t get into the actual
structure. It was just burning content in the garage. So we were able to get to it quickly and get
it out. The home is still inhabitable. There was a number of things stored in the garage that were
either destroyed or damaged. There was one car in there but the car suffered some heat and
smoke damage but it was drivable.
Todd Gerhardt: Chief, a big thanks goes to Sergeant Anderley for putting that one out?
Chief Roger Smallback: I don’t know, was that you Peter with the… Oh, okay. Yeah, the
deputies kind of took the wind out of the fire with some dry chem and that so that certainly
limited the extent of the fire. Over the next 5 or 6 weeks there’s many holiday celebrations and
family events that take place. I would like to urge everyone to take extra care with candles and
fireplaces during this time of year. They’re the big fire starters during the holiday season.
Candles on tables and people, fireplaces that don’t get used too often or get used improperly are
the source of many fires during the holiday season. Just ask that everyone take extra precautions
when using those things. Think about fire safety and don’t get a fire ruin your holiday. Any
questions?
Mayor Furlong: Questions for the Chief this evening? No? Very good. Thank you very much.
Appreciate your service.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, council. Just wanted to highlight that we’ve started putting a fire call
summary sheet together in the packet. I think it’s helpful for the council to compare and contrast
from one year to the next. Year to date. Monthly and the type of incident that the fire
department handles. Very similar to the animal control CSO officers and our law enforcement
department so thank the Chief and his staff for helping put that together.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you for pointing that out and thank you. Very good, thank you. Let’s
move on then with the next items on our agenda which will be consider some amendments to our
City Code.
CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO CITY CODE: CHAPTERS 1 AND 20 CONCERNING
KENNELS, CHAPTER 16 CONCERNING SOLID WASTES, AND CHAPTER 20,
ZONING CONCERNING USES IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.
Mayor Furlong: Do you want to address these all at once or?
Kate Aanenson: Yes, thank you Mayor. I was just going to point that out. I’ll just go through
all of them and if you have questions but then we can just have one motion. All the ordinances
are attached but I’ll just briefly go through all of them. The first one is regarding kennels. I did
hand out a revised ordinance. It should be at your place. There’s just a little bit ambiguity so I’ll
take a minute to go through this. In the year 2000 the City changed the definition of a private
kennel, and that’s regulating how many pets you can have in a household. In 2003 we updated
or recodified the City Code and for some reason the new language didn’t get put in so we’re
going back to the 2000 language and putting it in. But again as it shows in this ordinance, it’s a
little bit hard to read but what the intent was with the private kennel was to limit how many dogs
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you could have so what the intent is, you cannot have more than 2 dogs without having a kennel
license or 3 cats or a combination of. You could have 2 dogs, 2 cats but anytime you have over 2
dogs you need a kennel license or 3 cats. So the new language specifically says that and then the
combination there within and that’s how we are currently, the City is currently addressing private
kennels, so typically there’s a little bit different standard to get a private kennel. How you
manage your pets so this is currently how the City is operating. This just brings it back in to
conformance so again the change really in this from 2000 change is just clarifying the definition.
So if there’s any questions on that.
Mayor Furlong: Questions? If someone has the number of pets that brings them to a level of a
private kennel, I know that’s not specifically…but what if somebody’s watching at home, what
does that mean? What does that mean?
Kate Aanenson: They would just need to come into the City. There’s a little bit different
standards that they would apply for like how much space you have and how you’re managing on
the property and that sort of thing. Typically with, with 3 dogs when you do that, sometimes the
neighbors might not be aware of that. We often have kennels, some of them have, maybe they
have a half acre and they want 4 dogs and we just let the neighbors know if they have any input
on whether or not the dogs are a hazardous. We’ve changed some of those definitions when we
went through the City Code just to make sure that they’re fenced or how they’re monitoring
those and whether or not there’s rabies tags and those sort of things just to make sure that’s all in
check.
Mayor Furlong: And then the public purpose there is to try to avoid nuisances to the neighboring
property?
Kate Aanenson: Exactly. It’s all about nuisance. That’s correct.
Mayor Furlong: Alright. Okay. Any questions on this right now? Okay.
Kate Aanenson: Okay, thank you. And then the second one would be solid waste. Currently the
City regulates when you can pick up trash and noise. We get calls on this on snowplowing.
Snowplowing the ordinance can go 24/7. Whenever we need to do to plow the streets but trash
sometimes can be another nuisance in that it’s currently regulated in the residential areas but we
have residential areas that butting up against commercial and there’s no regulation on
commercial. We’ve had numerous complaints on this over the years regarding waste haulers that
pick up commercial at 5:00 in the morning. As early as 5:00 in the morning and so what this
does now is make it consistent. The commercial pick-up consistent with what we do in
residential. Regulating the hours that be between 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Regarding the nuisance
so that would just regulate again the commercial making it consistent with the residential trash
pick up.
Mayor Furlong: Any questions on this? Have we been in touch when we receive complaints,
have you been in touch with the haulers?
Kate Aanenson: Yes, we talk to the haulers about that.
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Mayor Furlong: What’s their reaction in those instances?
Kate Aanenson: Because we’re not regulating it there’s, we just ask them for a courtesy and
sometimes if they’re running behind, weather related, I think people are tolerate of that sort of
thing but I think there’s always those peak seasons in the spring and the fall when maybe you
have your windows open and that seems to be the higher irritating, irritate part of it I guess.
Todd Gerhardt: Holidays too.
Kate Aanenson: Yeah, holidays.
Todd Gerhardt: They get caught up.
Mayor Furlong: Now this ordinance does allow for Saturday pick up.
Kate Aanenson: Yes it does.
Mayor Furlong: So on Labor Day.
Kate Aanenson: Correct. When you have those holidays.
Mayor Furlong: When they don’t pick up on a holiday they, everything gets shifted.
Kate Aanenson: That’s correct.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Kate Aanenson: Okay? And then the final one is the commercial central business district. Now
we did spend some time talking about this at the work session and I took your comments and
modified, made some modifications to it. I think the council asked the staff to kind of look at
two other maybe models and we looked at the Wayzata and the Chaska and kind of blended
those two. If you look at Wayzata Central Business District, they did what our city attorney
recommended. They enumerated everything and they had a long list. Chaska grouped them into
4 categories. But what we did is we revised our’s and kind of did a blend of the two so, and then
did have the city attorney review it. So what we did is we took some of the uses that had similar,
based on the standard industrial classifications such as anything that would be a beauty shop,
barber shop, kind of grouped those together. It did make it easier for us to use and for the
consumer, the business owner to also define whether or not, so we reduce that list down. Made it
easier to read so we appreciate the input we got last time from the council. I did attach those two
other cities kind of to show what they did so we, I think it made it easier to read but yet met the
goals which we had again, what the city attorney had directed us to make sure that we didn’t
leave something open ended. That we might have an unintended use that we wanted to put in
that central business district. And then the other thing we did clarify, make sure we do have high
density housing in there. A land use section in the Comprehensive Plan. It says, I think housing
says multi family but if you go into the land use section of the Comprehensive Plan it does allow
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for higher densities and there is that opportunity in other places in the central business district
that we said that can compliment that. So that is the definition of how many units they could get,
is in the Comprehensive Plan. So with that we did make the changes that you had recommended
and would support, recommend you supporting those 3 ordinance amendments.
Mayor Furlong: So question then on the housing aspect. The residential aspect. If I’m reading
this correctly, this speaks to a multi family dwelling.
Kate Aanenson: Correct.
Mayor Furlong: Including senior citizen housing but you’re saying the underlying zoning speaks
to a high density level.
Kate Aanenson: The land use, yeah. The land use says you can go up to high density which in
our.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Kate Aanenson: With our City Code goes up to, if you look at the land use map, goes up to 16
units an acre.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, and that’s the equivalent of an apartment building effectively?
Kate Aanenson: Yep. Like what we have at Presbyterian Homes. Something like that, yeah.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Okay. Alright. Other questions for Ms. Aanenson on this one? Okay.
Very good. If there are no other questions, we have items 3(a), (b) and (c) before us this
evening. Would somebody like to make a motion regarding all 3 of them? Councilwoman
Tjornhom.
Councilwoman Tjornhom: I’d like to make a motion that the Chanhassen City Council approves
the ordinance amendments to Chapters 1 through 20 concerning kennels, Chapter 16 concerning
solid waste and Chapter 20, Zoning concerning uses in the Central Business District.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Councilman McDonald: I’ll second.
Mayor Furlong: Made and seconded. Any discussion?
Councilwoman Tjornhom moved, Councilman McDonald seconded that the City Council
approve the following City Code amendments:
1. Chapter 1 and Chapter 20, Zoning concerning kennels.
2. Chapter 16 concerning Solid Wastes, Operating requirements.
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3. Chapter 20, Zoning concerning Permitted and Accessory Uses in the Central
Business District.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS:
Mayor Furlong: Any council presentations this evening? Just a couple items. Last Wednesday
had the opportunity, Councilman McDonald was with me at the American Legion for lunch on
Wednesday to celebrate the, and Mr. Gerhardt, Mr. Hoffman, Ms. Aanenson, Ms. Hokkanen.
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Everybody here as well as other members of city staff. It was the recognition of the 50
anniversary of the Chanhassen Chamber of Commerce. The founding of the Chanhassen
Chamber of Commerce and now of course the Chamber of Commerce is part of the Southwest
Metro Chamber of Commerce but the Chanhassen Business Council wanted to make a point to
celebrate and it was a great celebration. I know that there was a program planned. The program
fell by the wayside when everybody just started, that hadn’t seen each other for a number of
years, just started talking and enjoying their time together but it was a, it was a very fun event.
Consistent with the 1960’s when they were founded they had green jello with fruit inside I think
and some orange jello with something inside of that too and a hotdish and other aspects so they
had some fun with it. There was, I’m sorry.
Todd Gerhardt: I thought I was at a Lutheran funeral.
Mayor Furlong: It was a great event. A lot of history and what was nice and I’d certainly be
interested in other people’s comments too but what was nice was to see so many good people
that have done so many good things in this city over the years as part of opening businesses.
Taking an entrepreneur risk and being rewarded for that. Obviously everything didn’t always go
smoothly but looking back they can see how they contributed in making this city a great place
and it was nice too to hear comments of over the years and they were consistent comments over
the last 50 years of what a great relationship the businesses had and the Chamber had with the
City, and that’s a credit to a lot of the people. Ms. Aanenson’s been with the City for 20 years, is
that right? And Mr. Gerhardt for more than that. A few more than that, but I mean and Todd as
well you know. The people that were in that room were people that all of you had worked with
over the years and been a part of making this city what it is today so it was a very fun event and I
just wanted to start out and say Mr. Gerhardt, maybe you had some comments too on that or
share some thoughts.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, when I first started here you know I would go over there and give updates
on what happened in the community development wise. We had everything on foam boards so
you’d walk over there with your big foam board. Now the mayor does a great job of giving
updates with power points and Laurie making everything look good.
Mayor Furlong: Yeah, right. Give credit where it’s due… Usually about 10 minutes before we
present. It looks good.
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Todd Gerhardt: And Kate has worked with them on sign ordinances and you know landscaping.
Every part of the ordinance has always gone through the Chamber and Todd and his staff have
always been at every one of the Chamber events. Either marketing an upcoming event or
partnering. When we put our list of partnering together, the Chamber has just been a huge
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partner of our’s, especially with the 4 of July activities so you know credit goes to all the
departments here that take on an active role. And it was just fun to see some of those people.
And everybody stood up and gave testimony. If it was their first meeting there. There was a
handful of those individuals and when I made the comment that the first time I attended there
was maybe 12 people and I really felt that it was my job to try to bring in more commercial/
industrial to fill those rooms up and I think we really accomplished that. It’s a very active group.
They’re still active with the downtown council but they’re even stronger as a larger organization
with the Southwest Chamber so. And I met my wife at a chamber event so I shared that with the
group and I think I turned 5 shades of red. So you know it was a great event and I think
everybody had fun.
Mayor Furlong: Well and to your point, you know as much as we’ve worked with them, they’ve
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worked with the City and when you look at events such as the 4 of July and I know the
Chamber puts on the business fair and that’s an opportunity for those businesses to meet and
greet potential customers which is wonderful, but it’s also often times for people to see what are
some of the businesses here in town. The Chamber continues to help sponsor the, we just
announced tonight the tree lighting party that’s going on. They’ve done that year after year.
Serving hot cocoa and hot cider and being out there and being a part of that so they continue to
do that so you know I think as much as, it works together so well because everybody’s been, had
a common goal. Just making Chanhassen a great place for people to live and work and do
business and so you know one of the things I would say too to people listening, I know all of us
as well, is in the coming holiday season there are a lot of what you need to get is right here in
Chanhassen. There’s a Buy Chanhassen program that the Chamber is sponsoring. I know all of
us are familiar with that and this is a good time of year to remember that. They do a lot for us
and if we can help support our local businesses, we’re just supporting our friends and neighbors
who are working there and the Chamber does a great job. The other thing I would say too, the
Chamber’s just one of the great civic organizations that we have in this town. I know the
Chanhassen Lion’s are opening up their tree lot later this week for Christmas trees over by Cub
Foods again. I saw the trees on the ground there so that’s coming up. Give them a thought and
then the Chanhassen Rotary Club the day after our tree lighting ceremony, the tree lighting is on
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December 4, which is a Saturday. The next morning is Breakfast with Santa. The pancakes
and Santa Claus are here and his wife may be in attendance there at the pancake breakfast out at
the Chanhassen Rec Center so there again with all these organizations, what’s interesting is all
the money they raise, whether it’s the Rotary, the Lion’s, the Chamber, it all comes right back
into Chanhassen to support, whether it’s scholarships. The Chamber has contributed thousands
of dollars of scholarships over the years to high school students and the Lion’s of course do all
sorts of great things in town and the Rotary Club as well so it’s just, I’m saying this as an
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opportunity, and then I’ll move on. Because of the 50 year, a lot of people have done a lot of
good things over the years and now it’s just our turn to take on what they’ve created and what
we’ve done ourselves and keep moving it forward so thank you for that. Any other discussions?
If not we’ll move to administrative presentations. Mr. Gerhardt.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
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Todd Gerhardt: Okay, 50 anniversary. We hosted the 276 Leaders Group. That’s the, all the
cities. Managers, mayors, assistants, probably quarterly have them. We rotate it among cities in
the school district and we hosted this last Wednesday and it was a lot of fun and what really
came out of this is, we’re going to establish a database of where we share resources with the
school district or with other communities within 276 and see what we can grow on. You know if
another city or school district doing something that we can share resources or duplicate in
another community. And then also to say that we are you know sharing resources. There may
be some projects out there that people don’t know that we’re sharing like we contract for
lifeguards through Community Ed. Some people may not know that so we’ll try to get that word
out in our communication, the Connection. I’m going to write one of my stories on that so it was
a good meeting. It’s nice to get an update after elections and seemed like everybody’s going in
the right direction and things are good. With the exception of Excelsior. I’m kidding. I’m
kidding on that one. Nick does a great job over there and with the limited resources they have,
they do a great job. Nick always likes to share some good stories. What’s going on so. Nick
Reuhl’s the mayor of Excelsior. We’re there for him.
Laurie Hokkanen: He may not know this but there was a great picture of him at the Chamber.
Kate Aanenson: Yeah, I saw that one too.
Mayor Furlong: Was there?
Laurie Hokkanen: Yeah. Probably 25 years ago.
Todd Gerhardt: Well and Nick was the architect on the first phase of the senior center and I
think he was also involved with the fire station.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Anything else?
Todd Gerhardt: That’s it.
Mayor Furlong: Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt or his staff?
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION.
Councilman McDonald: Yes, I’ve got one. I saw where there’s a little bitty article in the
correspondence package about Kate. Would you give us a little bit about that?
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. Kate has been on the Sensible Land Use Coalition. It’s a group of
developers, both commercial, residential, private planners, city planners, city developers, city
managers and Kate has been on the Board for several years.
Kate Aanenson: Six maybe.
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Todd Gerhardt: Six years.
Kate Aanenson: I don’t remember. Actually the city attorney’s also a member of the Board.
Todd Gerhardt: So we’re well represented on that Board but Kate was chosen this year to be
Vice President of the Board and we’re very proud of Kate’s role on that board and to be selected
and she’s going to bring a wealth of knowledge and leadership to that group and she always
comes in and gives me updates on the programs they’re putting on and it sounds like they have
fun and they go on retreats and they do a great job.
Mayor Furlong: Congratulations.
Kate Aanenson: Again Roger’s on the Executive Board too so. Well thank you. Thank you for
acknowledging that. Appreciate that. The opportunity to serve. Again it’s a great way to find
out what other communities are doing and problem solving and I think, and I think the city
attorney would agree, it’s nice to have both parties at the table. Private development and the city
people trying to resolve issues or find that commonality and that’s what I think is exciting when
we come back from those once a month luncheons and we are a member of that so if anybody
else finds something that’s interesting that they’d like to attend, we’re always trying to get other
people, the elected officials to come and talk, listen at those too.
Mayor Furlong: You started to say talk but then you emphasized listen.
Kate Aanenson: Talk and listen.
Mayor Furlong: Oh talk and listen. Okay.
Kate Aanenson: …we actually have elected officials that do speak at those. Just trying to find
people that have the courage to get up and give their views but I think sometimes just learning
from each other is the opportunity. It’s sitting at a table that people you may not know and
learning from them what’s going on in their business and it’s very enlightening.
Todd Gerhardt: It’s probably one of the most diversified groups, wouldn’t you say Roger?
There’s a lot of attorneys in there. Developers. Planners.
Kate Aanenson: Engineers.
Todd Gerhardt: Engineers. It’s a good group. I’ve attended several of the other seminars and
was Fred Hoisington kind of the founder, founding fathers on that?
Roger Knutson: I guess so, yeah. A group of people.
Todd Gerhardt: And he was a planner that we consulted with a lot in the downtown
redevelopment.
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Mayor Furlong: Very good. Just a final thing coming forward then, we have just a quick
announcement. Two opportunities that we’re going to be getting together again as a council this
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year. One is on December 6, which is our Truth in Taxation hearing. They don’t call it that
anymore but it’s a public hearing related to our budget and property taxes. I don’t know if the
property, preliminary statements have come out yet or not. Has anybody seen those? If not,
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usually they come out just about a week or a few days before so but December 6, Monday,
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December 6, 7:00 right here in the council chambers is our public hearing with regard to our
2011 budget so all interested parties are welcomed to come, listen and watch and make
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comments as well on that. And then our final meeting will be on December 13, the following
week, at which point we’ll adopt the budget and a number of other items. Anything else to come
before the council this evening or anything else on the correspondence packet? No? If there’s
nothing else this evening then is there a motion to adjourn?
Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ernst 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 7:40 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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