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CC 2011 02 14 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the Flag. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Furlong, Councilwoman Ernst, Councilman Laufenburger, Councilwoman Tjornhom, and Councilman McDonald STAFF PRESENT: Laurie Hokkanen, Kate Aanenson, Paul Oehme, Todd Hoffman and Roger Knutson PUBLIC PRESENT: Steven Hansen Key Financial Strategies PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you and welcome to everybody who’s here this evening and those watching at home. We’re glad that you joined us. At this time I would like to ask members of the council if there are any changes or modifications to the agenda. If not, without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as published. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilman Laufenburger seconded that the City Council approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: a. Approval of Minutes: -City Council Work Session Minutes dated January 24, 2011 -City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated January 24, 2011 Receive Commission Minutes: -Planning Commission Work Session Minutes dated February 1, 2011 -Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated January 25, 2011 Resolution#2011-07: b. Accept Carver/Scott Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) Reimbursement. Resolution#2011-08: c. Well #9 Rehabilitation Project 03-02-01: Accept Quote. d. Adoption of 2011 Legislative Priorities. e. Adoption of 2011 Key Financial Strategies. Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 f. Approval of Request for Temporary On-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License, April 9, 2011, St. Hubert Catholic Community. g. Approve Release of Special Assessment Agreement; Apple American Limited Partnership. Resolution#2011-09: h. Approval of Public Improvement and Special Assessment Agreement, Ellie Leimer, 725 Santa Vera Drive. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: None. UPDATE ON TH 101 AND PLEASANT VIEW ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. Mayor Furlong: Let’s go to a staff report please. As I understand there is no action required of the council this evening. Is that correct? Paul Oehme: That’s correct Mayor. This is just a staff’s update on the proposed improvements for this intersection and trail improvements along this corridor so. As Mayor and council may recall, the council did authorize staff to apply for a grant application through MnDOT for improvements to this intersection. The intersection in question is kind of shown here on this map. Kind of the upper east corner of the community off of 101 and Pleasant View. Fairly well traveled section of state highway in this area. Staff has been monitoring this intersection for several years. There have been some documented significant accidents at this intersection and we have heard from property owners in this area about the delays, trying to get onto 101 from Pleasant View. And then also staff in working with the parks department, there is a trail gap section from 101 at Pleasant View up to the regional trail and Highway 62 and the city of Minnetonka so both of those items were eligible for funding through a, it’s basically a cooperative agreement grant through the State of Minnesota. Specifically MnDOT. The application was approved this, earlier this year and we’re starting to go through the process now to, through the process for those improvements. So council did authorize staff to apply for the state grants, as shown here and improvements at the intersection and pedestrian path extension. Currently Pleasant View and 101 is shown here in this aerial photograph. North is up on this sheet here so currently 101 and Pleasant View there is just two through lanes of traffic here. There are right turn lanes at the intersection but looking at the intersection and the accidents that are associated at this intersection, staff felt that making some modifications to this intersection may help decrease the accident rate at this intersection and also help with potentially some of the delays getting onto 101 from Pleasant View, especially from the Chanhassen side. Eden Prairie is to the east here so just as a reference. So basically the proposed improvements are shown here. What we propose to do is add left turn lanes at the intersection. At Pleasant View Road on 101 so that would allow for traveling, vehicles traveling north and south do not have to stop behind vehicles that want to make a left hand turn as they currently do now. It’s not, it’s illegal for vehicles to go around. Vehicles stopped at the intersection making those left turns because of the configuration of the intersection as it currently exists today. So that would A, help the vehicles in the intersection on 101 making those left hand turns to have a safe location to make 2 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 those left hand turns without potentially having a vehicle behind them. And having a rear end collision. And then also it would help increase the traffic movement through this intersection with not having as many delays at the intersection with the amount of traffic that potentially stacks up at the intersection because of the left hand turns, turning vehicles that delay some of the through movements as it currently exists. Also including in the project would be a right turn lane on Pleasant View. There is only one lane of traffic on Pleasant View right now so any vehicles wanting to go southbound on 101 have to wait for the vehicle, if their vehicle is heading and trying to go left on northbound 101, for that car to clear the intersection before they can make a right hand turn so potentially it would be a little bit more, little less delays at the intersection with the added improvement. We also are looking at widening the intersection a little bit. Little better shoulder that currently exists out there. There is proposed, we have some curb and gutter on the west side of 101 north of Pleasant View Road to delineate the section of roadway from the trail section so we have, there’s an elevated surface disconnect between the road and the trail to separate those improvements. And then intended, extended a trail from Pleasant View Road up to the regional trail again. That would definitely help the pedestrian movements in this area that are documented. There are a lot of folks that use this section of road to get from the existing trail on 101 up to the trails on 62 and right now it’s really not a safe condition to use the shoulder of the road since it is fairly narrow in this area and some of the banks are fairly steep so making that improvement would definitely help the situation out there as it currently exists. And then drainage improvements on 101 and Pleasant View would also be included. Some storm sewer would be added. Extending the trail on Pleasant View Road to the west to the existing trail crossing is about 1,600 feet to the west and then adding curb and gutter on Pleasant View Road so. One thing we did talk to MnDOT about, and MnDOT was kind enough to do some turning moving counts out here and take some counts, traffic counts for us and evaluate the intersection for a signal and currently the traffic volumes and the accidents that we see out there do not meet the threshold for MnDOT to warrant or allow for a signal to go in at this intersection at this time so staff is still monitoring the intersection. If anything changes in the future in terms of delays or additional delays or anything else that would warrant a signal we would request that MnDOT install a signal at that time. So here’s a drawing of some of the improvements that are planned for the intersection of 101 and Pleasant View. North again is to the right here so this is northbound 101 so as it is today so this shows the left hand turn lane at the intersection. Likewise at the southbound turn lane into Pleasant View Road. The Eden Prairie. The yellow shows some of the widening and the shoulder work that will be going on at the intersection so there is some substantial widening basically on the, more on the east side than on the west side so lengthening out the turn lanes to meet current requirements for stacking as well. Improve shoulders as shown here in blue. There’s some steep grades out there so better shoulders would help traffic in this area as well. Shoulders on the east side as well. We’ve proposed to relocate the trail as it currently exists today south of Pleasant View Road. We have to push that trail to the east, or to the west farther to get some separation from the back of curb there so there is some easements that would have to be acquired to make that trail accommodation. And then again the right hand turn lane on Pleasant View onto southbound 101 is part of the improvements as well. Curb and gutter again would be along Pleasant View and 101 at this location here and storm sewer as well. Lengthening out the turn lane to this location is one of the improvements. The trail will be 10 foot wide on 101 and approximately a 6 foot boulevard is anticipated. Green space between the back of curb and the trail. Going north here this is Pleasant View intersection is down here. Going north, here’s the trail extents again on the 3 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 west side of 101. The curb would tie into the existing curb out here so the black line shows where the new curb would be and then again storm sewer would be constructed on the west side of 101. The trail extended all the way up to Highway 62 or Town Line Drive as you go west there. There would have to be a retaining wall because of the grades out here at this location for extent of the trail so those would necessitate easements from property owners at this location too so if we move forward with the project and we’re going to have a neighborhood meeting here, and I’ll get to that, and identify the needed easements for the improvements. Shown here is Pleasant View Road improvements so 101 is to the right here and as you go west, Near Mountain is an intersection. Nearest intersection for pedestrians. Ramps would be improved here. Currently Pleasant View is a rural section road so curb and gutter is proposed to be on the north side. We’re not looking at putting any curb and gutter on the south side at this time. But most of the improvements, or all the improvements will be to the north. There will have to be some retaining walls out here because of the grades as well so we’re looking at needing some temporary construction easements from some of the property owners out here for those improvements as well. The trail extension would be extended to the Near Mountain trail as it crosses Pleasant View Road so that would be the terminus of the trail section. It’s about 1,600 feet from the west terminus of the trail to the new trail to 101. And then curb and gutter would be extended farther to the west and the section in back of the road would be graded out a little better than it is right now. Currently there’s a ditch section and we’re looking at, they’re anticipating putting some sewer in there to try to clean up that area so it’s more manageable and easier to maintain in the future. That’s basically the improvements in a nutshell. The total estimated project cost to date is $775,000. The State grant that you’re, we’re eligible for is a max of $594,000 and MnDOT indicated that would be a lump sum payment for these improvements. Included in that is about $44,000 for engineering. The offsetting cost that the City would have to pick up would be for all the improvements on Pleasant View Road. That includes the trail and the turn lane on Pleasant View Road. The right hand turn, the right turn lane. And then curb and gutter and then storm sewer improvements as well so identified here would be the funding sources as they are budgeted to date for those improvements. If the project moves forward we anticipate the next step would be to have a neighborhood meeting. We’re looking at the first week in March and coming back with a feasibility study and authorization for th the staff to proceed with plans and specs on March 14. Currently we are out surveying this area. Trying to get some information for plans and specs. As we move forward we anticipate submitting 90% plans to MnDOT the end of April. That’s the biggest timeframe. The biggest lag in the schedule to get authorization from MnDOT. There’s several departments that it has to run through to get comments on for actual letting us bid out the project so there’s kind of a significant window there. And then once we get the final plans and specs done we’re anticipating another meeting before construction and then a City Council approval sometime in June for the plans to be authorized for bids. And then awarding the contract, construction contract in August and starting the project in September with the substantial completion in October of this year yet so pretty aggressive schedule that’s laid out if we want to try to get the project completed this year. Otherwise if we’re delayed because of MnDOT review or whatever, other factors may exist, we potentially would like to push the project back to probably spring of 2012 because it is king of a lengthy project and weather conditions in September-October can, and later can get problematic for construction of these type of improvements so just make you aware of that. And then that’s basically all I had to share with you tonight. If there’s any questions or comments I’d be more than happy to try to answer at this time. 4 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions for Mr. Oehme. Councilman Laufenburger: I do. Mr. Oehme, what participation from the City of Eden Prairie have you had with this project? Paul Oehme: We had a conversation with Eden Prairie, oh it was about a month ago now and they, we actually had a conversation before we actually applied for the funds. The grant funds too and at this time they’re, they don’t see as much benefit for these improvements in Eden Prairie. A lot of the traffic for their residents end up going off of Dell and accessing their house and their property through other means so. Councilman Laufenburger: And Dell is a light controlled intersection isn’t it? Paul Oehme: It is a light controlled intersection, yes. Councilman Laufenburger: So no benefit that they’re willing to accept? Paul Oehme: Not at this time. Todd Gerhardt and I met with them about a month ago and they’re not willing to, they didn’t see the benefit for their residents at this time so. Councilman Laufenburger: Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Some of the construction takes place on the east side of 101. Are they being cooperative in terms of, from that regard? Paul Oehme: Yeah I think they are. They are. At this time we’re not anticipating to need any easements or right-of-way from any of the property owners in Eden Prairie. We, all the storm water that currently is in this intersection ends up in Eden Prairie’s system so they are willing to work with us on allowing for additional impervious surface to end up in their system. We have to make some modifications I think for rate control and I think we can accomplish that in either the pond that exists there today or some ditch sections so they, they’re willing to work with us on those improvements but I think financially they’re a little reluctant at this time. Mayor Furlong: Other questions for Mr. Oehme at this time? I have a few. I guess first of all with regard to this intersection, what problems have we seen from a safety and mobility standpoint? I think you touched on that but it sounds like most of it’s on the Chanhassen side in terms of the problems. Paul Oehme: Right. I think most of it’s on the Chanhassen side. The delays on Pleasant View I think contribute to the accident rates at this intersection I think especially in the peak periods. The A.M. and P.M. time frames. I think there’s vehicles that are a little anxious to get out of the intersection and we see some, some kind of a t-bone type of hits at this intersection which kind of relates back to spacing and traffic gaps along 101 which feel that the turn lanes will help clear out that intersection. Make the traffic move more fluidly through this area and help, and help reduce the amount of delays on Pleasant View. 5 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 Mayor Furlong: It sounds like these improvements are very similar to some of the improvements that were made over on Powers Boulevard in terms of some of the intersection I’m thinking, Lake Lucy and Powers Boulevard. The turn lane on Pleasant View is similar to the turn lane that the City added to Lake Lucy a number of years ago when we upgraded Lake Lucy and with the County improvements to Powers Boulevard, adding in left turn lanes. It sounds like it’s a similar type of an engineering improvement to the road. Is that? Paul Oehme: Absolutely. Yep, they’re very consistent with the improvements that took place last summer on Powers Boulevard, especially at Lake Lucy. Mayor Furlong: Have we seen any improvements on Powers Boulevard in terms of, and it’s a short period of time I understand but in terms of traffic flow, safety? I know that a number of people were cited for illegally passing on the right. Passing a car that’s turning left to, by going through the turn lane. That opportunity exists here right now. I assume that those have been reduced if there’s no reason to pass. Paul Oehme: Yeah I’d have to talk with our law enforcement about that intersection but in terms of accidents on Lake Lucy and that stretch of road that has those turn lanes, I’m not aware of any accidents that have taken place so. It’s brand new so we’re going to have to wait and monitor it and see if those improvements really do add a beneficial effect to that area. Mayor Furlong: Okay. I will say as an antidotal evidence, I’ve received a lot of positive comments from residents that drive Powers Boulevard and drive Lake Lucy to the improvements that were made so, people that are driving it that I’ve talked to certainly appreciate it. Mr. Hoffman you’re here. Maybe you could give us some, a little bit on the trail improvements and the benefits that you see. Has the park commission seen these plans or will they see it as part of the, we’ll try to get it to them and as part of the process here. Todd Hoffman: Yes. Mayor Furlong: Once they’re more specific. Maybe you could give us a little background on how you see the benefits from our trail system to some of these improvements being proposed. Todd Hoffman: Glad to Mr. Mayor, members of the council. The park commission has not seen this specific set of plans but they’ve seen, in fact the plan set that this trail system was based off of was developed by the Park and Rec Commission. Park commission takes a look at gap sections and so as we finish out our trail section, trail system they’re interested in finishing those final links and when Highway 101, the trail along the west side of Highway 101 north was constructed it was stopped at Pleasant View at that time, but that future connection, that last piece from Pleasant View to Town Line and then the piece along Pleasant View to get the folks farther west on Pleasant View was left out. So the commission has been taking a look at this. Budgeting it. Taking it. Put it in the budget. Taking it out of the budget. The last time it was costed out as an individual project it was somewhere in the range of $400,000 and so they have not forwarded that as a recommendation to the council simply out of cost and so when this opportunity came up, I was happy to work with Paul to take a look and see if they could get it 6 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 included as part of the grant opportunity. Originally MnDOT said they perhaps might not be interested. Paul continued to push the issue and so they were, came ahead and put the trail into the project so it finishes those last final segments. It connects residents up to Eden Prairie and Minnetonka. Connects people to the park at North Lotus Lake Park. It really finishes off a nice section of trail system that’s been missing in our community for some period of time and the park commission, I can’t speak for them but I would think they’d be fully supportive of the project. We talked about it at their last meeting because it does include their $95,000 of matching dollars so. We’ll present it to them in full detail at a future meeting but they’re aware of it and they’re excited about the project. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Okay. Good, thank you. Any other thoughts? Comments on this. I know this is an intersection that as a City we’ve been watching it carefully and Mr. Oehme you mentioned that MnDOT has been helpful and cooperative in terms of monitoring this intersection from a safety standpoint so it’s nice to see some improvements taking place that should help with both safety and mobility in this area. Paul Oehme: Absolutely. Mayor Furlong: So good to see. Good to see and I think your comments about the timing of the construction project, it looks like we’re starting in September if everything goes alright. Paul Oehme: Right. Mayor Furlong: We’ll just have to be wise when we look at that and make sure that we don’t try to squeeze something in if it’s not going to fit. But certainly work forward diligently to try to get it completed as soon as possible. Paul Oehme: Yeah we do have time in terms of when the grant dollars have to be spent by so we do have some flexibility there. Mayor Furlong: Are we doing the engineering in-house or is that being done outside? Paul Oehme: No we have to hire an engineer to do this. This is a little bit above our staffing and time… Mayor Furlong: Will the City be the lead agency on this? Paul Oehme: We will be the lead agency. MnDOT will have to review the plans and approve them but we’ll have to put all the plans together. All the notifications and all the names and all the meetings and so forth. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Can you bring up the calendar again? The schedule of events. So the first opportunity for residents to be involved would be next month at the neighborhood meetings? Paul Oehme: Right and we’re looking the first week in March. We haven’t picked a date yet but. 7 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 Mayor Furlong: Okay. Paul Oehme: And we’ll have another neighborhood meeting someplace, some time in June before the City Council considers authorizing us to bid out the project too so there are two notices there. Inbetween those two neighborhood meetings we’ll definitely have to have some additional neighborhood interactions too because there are some easements, construction easements, permanent easements that we’ll need from some of the property owners too so I’m sure we’re going to have a lot of on site discussions too with neighbors. Mayor Furlong: Very good. Thank you. Anything else? No? Very good, thank you. There is no action required of the council this evening on this item but I thank Mr. Oehme and his staff and Mr. Hoffman as well for helping us out. That completes our items of business this evening. It’s a light agenda but let’s go ahead and move to council presentations. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Furlong: I’d like to start by just extending my thanks and appreciation to Councilwoman Tjornhom and I understand Councilman Laufenburger for their assistance and help out at Feb Fest this last weekend. Or two weeks ago I guess it was now. Thank you for doing that. The weather cooperated I understand and it was a good event. Councilwoman Tjornhom: If I may step in Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Please. Councilwoman Tjornhom: I was, I have to make a city confession. No one tell anybody but this is actually my first Feb Fest I had attended. I’m not necessarily a cold weather sports person or ice fisher person, men, women whatever so, it was fun to see actually. Over 1,000 holes were drilled. I was shocked the lake didn’t sink. Everyone stayed dry and caught lots of cute, little fish and I was amazed at the wonderful prizes and just the good time everybody was really having so next year I’m going to go find some camo and tip up I guess I’m supposed to use and a hard plastic can or whatever they were sitting on and try my luck at it myself so Mayor thank you for letting me have that experience. It was really great and Denny, I can’t think of a better person to be emceeing that. He was wonderful all day and so really I think we represented the town very well without you Mayor but we missed you so I’ll challenge you next year to an ice fishing contest. Mayor Furlong: You’re on. Councilman Laufenburger: I thought Councilwoman Tjornhom’s antidotes about you and your fishing expertise or lack thereof. Councilwoman Tjornhom: No, no Denny. You weren’t supposed to talk about that. 8 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 Councilman Laufenburger: Quite appropriate. Quite appropriate. But I think everybody had fun. Weather cooperated. It was a, it’s just amazing to see how many people come together to support, to make this event happen led by Todd and Jerry and specifically John Stutzman, the park and recreation department but the Rotary was there. Camp Tanadoona was there. Culver’s must have gotten rid of I don’t know, thousands of burgers so it was a fun event. Great thing to do. Mayor Furlong: Well and our area businesses contribute the prizes. Councilman Laufenburger: Absolutely. Mayor Furlong: So when you’re talking about the great prizes that are there, that’s from our local businesses and we appreciate that. Todd, Mr. Hoffman, anything you want to talk about for Feb Fest? Todd Hoffman: Absolutely. Thank you all for helping. Over 200 fish caught and registered. Record number of fish caught and unlike a fishing contest which finished up this Saturday in Alexandria where they caught zero fish for two and a half thousand people, hard to explain that so it was nice to see a great crowd. The weather helps and again just appreciate having everyone come out and help and the Rotary does a tremendous job. Culver’s. Camp Tanadoona. The library. The medallion hunt you’ll remember, don’t forget the medallion hunt. Mayor Furlong: Right. Friends of the Library. th Todd Hoffman: …and people get very excited about that so coming up on our 19 year and then th soon to be our 20 anniversary so we’ll see you all back on the ice next year. Councilwoman Tjornhom: One thing mayor if I do catch the fish, will you take it off the hook for me? Mayor Furlong: Absolutely. Absolutely. Very good. Other council presentations? Councilman Laufenburger: If I may. Mayor Furlong: Please. Councilman Laufenburger: Over the last 2 weeks I’ve had the pleasure of being part of two business openings here in Chanhassen. First of all Fitness Revolution. This is located at 530 th West 79 Street, Suite 120. Justin Yule is the owner and proprietor of this. He’s been operating inside the Chanhassen Rec Center for the last 16 months or so and had a wonderful relationship and built a clientele and now decided to follow his own advice to have faith and take action and now he has a wonderful location for his, listen to this. Look Great at the Lake Boot Camp. And he has, by the way he has openings at both 6:00 a.m. and 9:30 for any council members or anybody in the public. He also has an upcoming event called Buns and Guns and I’m not young enough to know and understand exactly what that means but I don’t think it has anything to do with hot dogs or artillery but he’s got great experience. He’s got great experience in the fitness 9 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 business. He’s excited to help people achieve their goals through exercise, nutrition, education and socialization so congratulations to Justin and Fitness Revolution. The other one is a new clinic in town called Physicians Diagnostics and Rehabilitation. They’re located at 18912 Lake Drive East, right near the, just east of McDonald’s on the frontage road there. Owner Todd Ginkle now has opened, this is his fifth facility. He also has offices in Burnsville, Edina, Maplewood, and Coon Rapids. His is a very specialized facility focusing on pain in the back, neck and spine and he’ll employ about 50 people across all of his clinics and I bring this up because he was especially complimentary of city staff in helping him during his location and his business set up here in Chanhassen. I was pleased with his comments but not surprised so, and of course I want to say thanks to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce for their work in welcoming these new businesses to the community so thank you Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other council presentations? I attended the Excel meeting. This is the meeting sponsored by the Carver County. Brings together the cities and townships and such earlier this month and was topics there or discussed were the fiber loop ring. That’s going to be one of our items on our work sessions coming up to get an update there as well as the county road plan and some of their plans for improving county roads. The Highway 5 improvements which we were talking about earlier this evening at our work session and will continue tonight is certainly something that they’re involved in as well. They have a number of projects that they’re looking at and I think some of those are going to come back too, or come to us through work sessions or while they’re here in the next year or so, so just wanted to share that with everybody that I was there. And then finally I will say that in addition to Feb Fest I didn’t see any other members of the council at the Daddy-Daughter Date Night this last Saturday but I can tell you that unfortunately there was a photographer there that I’m paranoid. I think he was following me around right during the chicken dance and the hokey pokey and, but I will, I do want to say that’s a great event that again our park board puts on. No, it wasn’t Forrest. But park department puts that on. It’s a great event. It’s Friday and Saturday night and if there are any dads out there that want to have fun with their young daughters, that’s a great way to do it next February and a lot of fun. It’s 2 hours of just focusing on your daughters so my personal thanks to the park department for their efforts and I know I extend that for all the other parents and fathers that were there on both Friday and Saturday nights so thank you for that. Todd Hoffman: Thank you. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS: Mayor Furlong: Ms. Hokkanen, good evening. I almost called your Mr. Gerhardt but I didn’t. Laurie Hokkanen: I’d take it as a compliment. Mayor Furlong: That’s very nice of you but you shouldn’t have to. Administrative update. Laurie Hokkanen: You covered most of what I had on my list but I did want to let you know that we learned that the DNR opened Lake Lucy for liberalized fishing today and asked Mr. Hoffman to expound on what that means. 10 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 Mayor Furlong: Okay. Todd Hoffman: Mr. Mayor, members of the council. From time to time the DNR opens lakes in the state for liberalized fishing due to low oxygen levels and with the snow cover coming on in November it reduces the sun light that penetrates our lakes and starts the decomposition of plant material and other nutrients which are in the lake earlier. That actually takes oxygen out of the lakes and so there are many lakes in Hennepin County, Carver County. Lake Lucy has been opened as of noon today. This will come as a shock to some of the area residents and what it provides for is, any licensed fisherperson in the state of Minnesota can go to Lake Lucy and take fish in any quantity for their personal use in just about any manner. So they can take over the limit of fish. Any amount. Any species and the restricted, you cannot use seines, hoop nets, fike nets or explosives but you can. You can use gill nets. You can use spears. Mayor Furlong: Guns and buns okay? Todd Hoffman: So if you hear rumblings around the community about liberalized fishing, this is the first time that I recall a lake in Chanhassen being opened. It will cause alarm to some of our th residents. It may, it only lasts through February 28 so it may never catch on but you might see some increased activity on Lake Lucy. Mayor Furlong: I guess in that question because the purpose here is to reduce. Todd Hoffman: Take fish before they die. Mayor Furlong: Before they die. Low oxygen levels. Do we have an aerator working on Lake Susan now? Todd Hoffman: Lake Susan is fine for oxygen but Lake Lucy is not. Mayor Furlong: Is not. Todd Hoffman: The question mark here is Lake Lucy is down to about 2 parts per million at the surface, just under the ice, but about .7. Fish start to die at about .1 but Lake Lucy was low a couple of years ago and there was not a winter kill so I think if you hear concerns from residents it’s going to be that it’s been low before and they did not winter kill and so I think you’re going to hear that some residents are disappointed that the DNR chose to open up Lake Lucy. Councilman Laufenburger: How about the thickness of the ice. Is there a safety concern there? Todd Hoffman: No. Plenty thick. Really what leads to low oxygen is that snow cover that’s been on for so long. There’s little light penetration. If you do get some light penetration over the winter you still can get photosynthesis with the plants but not with this big of snow. Mayor Furlong: Other items? Laurie Hokkanen: No sir. 11 Chanhassen City Council - February 14, 2011 Mayor Furlong: Okay. Thank you for sitting in this evening. Mr. Gerhardt is not with us so I want to make sure we’re on record thanking you for your service, both at the work session and at the meeting. Laurie Hokkanen: You’re welcome. Mayor Furlong: Any questions for Ms. Hokkanen or the other city staff members? No? Okay. Very good. CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None. Mayor Furlong: If there’s nothing else to come before the council this evening, we will be continuing our unfinished work session items and we’re going to stay right here in the council chambers to do that. We just won’t be on cable TV so, with that if there’s nothing else to come before the council this evening is there a motion to adjourn. Happy Valentine’s Day everybody. Councilman Laufenburger 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 7:40 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 12