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CC 2011 09 26 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 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 McDonald, Councilwoman Tjornhom, Councilwoman Ernst, and Councilman Laufenburger STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Laurie Hokkanen, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, Todd Hoffman, and Greg Sticha PUBLIC PRESENT: Laurie Susla 7008 Dakota Avenue Lesley Chilton 10154 Wildduck Pass, Eden Prairie Sarah Waller 9917 Windsor Terrace, Eden Prairie Shayne Mullaney 17448 Frondell Court, Eden Prairie Jackie Johnson 13142 Beehive Court, Eden Prairie Mark Sonstegard Ryland Homes, Eden Prairie PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Furlong: Thank you and welcome to everyone here in the council chambers as well as those watching at home. We’re glad that you joined us this evening. We do have some students from Eden Prairie High School working on a government class so welcome for that and you picked a good meeting to come to. We don’t have a very long agenda. With that let’s move into, we have been, one item has been added to the agenda. It’s item 1C which will be considered as part of our consent agenda. Resolution relating to the issuance and sale of some general obligation bonds. Other than that one amended, to members of the council, is there any other proposed amendments to the agenda? If not, without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as published and amended. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilwoman Tjornhom 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 September 12, 2011 -City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated September 12, 2011 Receive Commission Minutes: -Planning Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated September 6, 2011 -Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated August 9, 2011 nd b. Pioneer Pass 2 Addition: Approve Addendum to the Development Contract; and Approve Plans and Specifications for Mass Grading (Outlots B, C & E). Resolution #2011-54: c. Approve Resolution Providing for the Issuance and Sale of $3,720,000 General Obligation Water Revenue Bonds, Series 2011B and Pledging for the Security Thereof System Net Revenues. Chanhassen City Council – September 26, 2011 All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: Mayor Furlong: Mr. Gerhardt, is Mr. Radde here? Todd Gerhardt: I talked with Darryl and he could not make it this evening. We’re going to reschedule and also have another gentleman from the Highway 212 Medical Center come in and talk about the new center over there and the services that they provide and so we’ll put that onto a future agenda. Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Anyone else for visitor presentations this evening? No? Okay. Let’s move on to our items of business this evening. LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE. Mayor Furlong: Lieutenant Enevold, you seem to be ready so we’ll start with you first. Lt. Jeff Enevold: I’ve been ready all day Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: From the Carver County Sheriff’s Office, good evening Lieutenant. Welcome. Lt. Jeff Enevold: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council. I know you have my monthly report there and I didn’t see anything that jumped out at me but I’ll be glad to answer any questions you have on that. I would like to take a few moments of your time and update you on an end of summer DWI enforcement campaign that the sheriff’s office was involved in. I’d like to talk a little bit about that and some of the penalties that are associated with DWI’s and then some advice on how we can prevent ourselves from thth becoming a DWI statistic so. August 19 through September 5, the Carver County sheriff’s office participated in a DWI enforcement campaign along with 400 other law enforcement agencies across Minnesota. During that time Carver County arrested 15 drunk drivers. 6 of those drunk drivers came from the city of Chanhassen. This statistic really kind of blew me away when I first read it. On average in Minnesota 30,000 motorists are arrested each year for DWI. You think about that, that’s about 82 on average a day that are taken off the roads for driving under the influence which even shocked me. On 2010 284 drivers were arrested in Carver County. 41 of those were arrested from the city of Chanhassen. And again these aren’t all Chanhassen residents. These are visitors and people from other communities that are coming into the city. To date, January 1 to date we’ve arrested 74 drivers for intoxication in Chanhassen. Councilman Laufenburger: Say that again. st Lt. Jeff Enevold: 74 to date, January 1. Councilman Laufenburger: Versus 41 in 2010. Lt. Jeff Enevold: Correct. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Lt. Jeff Enevold: There are two types of penalties associated with DWI’s. There’s some administrative penalties and then there’s some criminal penalties. First of all if you’re administrative penalty, you’re arrested for DWI. Your license is automatically suspended for 90 days. You also may be required to have an ignition interlock device placed on your vehicle which means every time you get in that vehicle, 2 Chanhassen City Council – September 26, 2011 before you can start it you have to blow into the machine. If there’s alcohol on your breath your car doesn’t start so you can’t go anywhere. If you haven’t had any alcohol, it will allow your car to start and you can drive away. Refusal to submit to a test is a mandatory one year, your license is gone. Criminal penalties, you can have up to 90 days in jail for a first offense. $1,000 fine. The conviction for a first offense remains on your driving record for 10 years so any prior convictions after that will enhance the penalties for those 10 years that that’s on your record. So now to help us in the law enforcement world to reduce the incidents and make our roads safer we ask the visitors and the citizens of Chanhassen to, number one plan for a safe ride. You know plan out your night. Make sure you’re not going to drink and drive. Designate a sober driver. Use a cab or a public transportation, if that’s available. Consider staying at the location of the event or the celebration, if there’s a hotel nearby or motel, stay there. Family members should let their families know that you know you’re available 24/7/365. If you need a ride, if you’re in a situation that you think isn’t safe, you know call. Call your family members. If we can’t find a ride for you, we’ll find somebody who can come and pick you up. I’ve said that to my daughter. She’s a senior in high school. I’m not naïve you know. I know that this can happen so. And lastly, really report impaired driving. Call 911. Be prepared to provide location, license plate and observe driving behaviors. I think if we all do this and we plan ahead we can avoid drinking and driving. We can make our roads safer and make a difference for everyone in the community so, that’s all I have for you folks tonight, unless you have any questions of me. Mayor Furlong: No, I appreciate the update. Questions for the Lieutenant. Councilwoman Ernst, then Councilwoman Tjornhom. Did you have a question? Okay, Councilwoman Tjornhom. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Of the DWI’s that you had in Carver County, how many of them were minors and how many of them were over. Lt. Jeff Enevold: That’s one thing I didn’t, there was 75 pages that I went through. I haven’t broke that out and you know there’s, I haven’t broke out how many are from the city of Chanhassen as opposed to other surrounding communities but I could get that information for you. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Yeah, I just, I was just curious to see… Lt. Jeff Enevold: Okay. Any other questions? Mayor Furlong: Any other questions or comments either on the DWI enforcement or other matters? Lieutenant, thank you. Lt. Jeff Enevold: Very good Mr. Mayor and council, thank you. Mayor Furlong: Appreciate the report. Assistant Chief Coppersmith is here this evening. Good evening. Assistant Chief Coppersmith: Good evening Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: With the Chanhassen Fire Department with the monthly report. How are you? Assistant Chief Coppersmith: I’m doing outstanding and hope everybody’s doing the same. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Assistant Chief Coppersmith: Mr. Mayor, council members. Reporting on the past month with the Chanhassen Fire Department, since the last meeting the fire department had one 20 year veteran retire. We have a staff presently of 49 fire fighters. 3 of them are on leave and 5 of them are going through the 3 Chanhassen City Council – September 26, 2011 basic fire fighter training at this time. As far as calls go, year to date 2010 we had 472. As of this morning we are sitting with 409, which is a decrease of 63 calls. A little bit more in perspective, last month in 2010 we had 41 calls but this past month in 2011 we only had 29, which is a decrease of 12 so things are looking good as far as fire safety within the city. The only other thing I’d like to bring to the th attention of the council is next month is the Fire Prevention Month so the week of October 10 through th 14, the fire department will be having all 4 elementary schools, grades 1 through 3 come through the fire department for a fire education class. We also do preschool and kindergarten that come in on other days during that month and we normally will see approximately 1,500 students from pre-K up to third grade, and that’s not done by just myself and the fire marshal. We have about 30 fire fighters that volunteer th their time to come in during that week to entertain and teach the kids. The end of that week, October 16 is the fire department open house from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Depending on weather and if there’s the Vikings are playing, we can see 700 to 1,000 people, men, women and children. Not only Chanhassen residents but they come from distances outside of Carver and way west Carver because they hear how well our open house is, and I strongly encourage all of you to stop by for 20 minutes, 30 minutes. Bring kids, bring grandchildren. That’s all I have unless someone has questions for myself. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for the Assistant Chief of the Fire Department? No? Very good. Thank you for the report. Assistant Chief Coppersmith: You’re welcome. Mayor Furlong: Appreciate it. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS: None. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS: Todd Gerhardt: I just want to thank Carver County deputies for, and our fire department for making a safe homecoming parade in Chanhassen. Big turnout. It was exciting to see how many people showed up and the units increased dramatically over last year and almost every sport team or organization within the Chanhassen High School was represented in the parade so that was fun to see. So great turn out and everybody was safe and fell a little short in the victory but exciting game. Mayor Furlong: Great, thank you. Other administrative presentations? Todd Gerhardt: Oh, Laurie has an announcement to make. Sorry, forgot about that one. Laurie Hokkanen: The City received 3 awards from the National Research Center, which is the agency that helps us with our community survey and based on the results of the 2010 survey they compare us to the approximately 500 jurisdictions that participate and in two categories we ranked within the top 10% of all jurisdictions comparatively in terms of where our residents ranked our services and that was in city parks, and then separately in recreation programs so we received what’s call the Voice of the People Award in Excellence for both of those categories. And then we also received what’s called the Transformation Award for fire services. We made one of the most significant improvements in our residents rating of our fire services in 2010. So we’ll be getting a press release to everyone probably tomorrow morning. Mayor Furlong: Excellent. Good. Any questions for staff? No? CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None. 4 Chanhassen City Council – September 26, 2011 Councilman Laufenburger: Just one final comment Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Yes. Councilman Laufenburger: Chief Coppersmith, Vikings don’t play that afternoon. In fact even if they were scheduled I’m not sure that they would play anyway but they play Sunday evening at 8:20 against Chicago so you’ll have no conflict for your open house. Assistant Chief Coppersmith: Thank you. Todd Gerhardt: They’d play the first half but not the second half. Mayor Furlong: With that, Councilman Laufenburger would you like to make a motion to adjourn? Councilman Laufenburger: I’d be thrilled. Motion to adjourn Mr. Mayor. Councilman McDonald: Second. Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilman McDonald 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 7:15 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 5