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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
AUGUST 26, 2013
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, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, Todd Hoffman, Greg Sticha, Mitch
Johnson, and Miranda Hopp
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION,
TEEN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you and welcome for those here in the council chambers with us, as well as those
watching at home, we’re glad that you chose to join us this evening. At this time I would ask the council
to adopt the agenda with one modification. I’d like to move the recognition of the teen volunteer program
up to the public announcement section rather than visitor presentations. Other than that without
objections we’ll go ahead and proceed with the agenda as published. I’ll get to the consent agenda in just
a minute, if that’s. Okay nope, that’s fine. And I just moved something ahead of the consent agenda so at
this time we have the pleasure this evening of recognizing a number of teenagers who have participated in
the Teen Volunteer Program this year. I’m going to come down to the front. I’d like to invite Todd
Hoffman and others to come up and join me as well from the Park and Rec Department and we’ll
recognize some volunteers. This year, for the first time, I think it’s a new program this year, we offered a
teen volunteer program this summer. We had 22 teenagers that helped out the Park and Rec Department
and did a variety of tasks around the city including helping with our community events and youth
programs, senior activities and worked on some of our parks and such like that and maybe we can talk
just a little bit about the program Todd.
Todd Hoffman: Yeah, Mitch is going to do that. It’s his program so I’d like to invite Mitch to talk about
it.
Mitch Johnson: Hello. Good evening members of the council and Mayor Furlong and guests. Like the
Mayor said this is our first year of the teen volunteer program. We’re always looking for a way to get as
many people involved with some of our programs and activities throughout the year and the teenage
market is one of the ones we’re always really trying to you know kind of a target audience we’re going
after. We thought it’d be a great way for them to get, you know stay busy in the summer. Getting
experience as far as interviewing and kind of the real world experiences as they get into high school and
looking for some employment opportunities and just a way to get involved with the community. See what
the city is like. You know maybe get in some different parks they’ve never been to and just give them
some of those experiences in the community. It’s been highly successful and looking forward to
continuing in the future.
Mayor Furlong: Very good. Sounds good. This year there were over 200 hours of volunteer service by
the members who participated in this program and some are not done yet because they’re still going to be
working on some projects over the next coming weeks so with that I’d like to invite those that are here,
when we read your name off, if you can come on up. We’ll give you a certificate. Have everybody stay
up here and we’ll get a picture at the end so let’s start with Mariah Aker. Is Mariah here? Eric Benson.
I’m going to struggle on this one. Katheryn Furlong. David Hodell. David. Did I pronounce that right?
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David Hodell: Yep.
Mayor Furlong: Ali Muffenbier. Bailey Muffenbier. Nick Olson. Laura Price. Jake Smith. Sam Smith.
Let’s give them a round of applause.
(A picture was taken of all the volunteers with Mayor Furlong.)
Mayor Furlong: Thanks so much. We really appreciate your help. Just a quick follow-up for those
watching. Mitch or Mr. Hoffman, for people that might be interested in participating next year, the
information was out in the Connection I assume or on the website, is that correct?
Mitch Johnson: In the summer Connection we’ll post that.
Mayor Furlong: In the summer Connection next year? Okay, very good. Thank you. Let’s move on
now with our agenda items. The first set will be on the consent agenda.
CONSENT AGENDA:
Mayor Furlong: I know Mr. McDonald you had an item that you wanted to remove from the consent
agenda for separate discussion.
Councilman McDonald: Yes Mr. Mayor. I would like to remove item number 6 which is the approval of
the resolution of support for Southwest Transit for discussion among council.
Mayor Furlong: Are you looking for a long discussion? Should we bring that up after the law
enforcement presentations or under new business?
Councilman McDonald: Wherever you want to put it, I’m fine with that.
Mayor Furlong: Why don’t we just bring it up under, we’ll add new business after G after H, if that’s
okay.
Councilman McDonald: That’s okay with me.
Mayor Furlong: Alright, thank you. Any other items? Items 1 through 7 excluding 6 under E.
Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded to approve the following consent
agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations:
1. Approval of City Council Minutes dated August 12, 2013.
2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated July 23, 2013.
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3. Approve Amendment to Pages SP-2 and SP-3 of The Preserve at Bluff Creek 5 Addition
Development Contract.
4. Bluff Creek Woods, 7331 Hazeltine Boulevard, Applicant: Martin Schutrop:
a. Final Plat Approval.
b. Approval of Development Contract.
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5. Fretham 15 Addition, 6300 Chaska Road, Applicant: Curt Fretham:
a. Final Plat Approval.
b. Approval of Development Contract.
7. Surface Water Management Plan Update: Award of Contract.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
None.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE.
Lt. Jeff Enevold: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council. I got a short power point for you here and I also
have our School Resource Officer, Bob Zydowsky who’s going to give an update on the 2013/2014
school year. Just wanted to update you on National Night Out. Before we got to National Night Out Beth
came into my office a couple weeks before and said what can we do to kind of make things new and make
things a little bit more exciting on National Night Out. So I thought about it and I said to Beth, why don’t
we implement some of the programs that we’ve done in our Citizens Academy and bring them out to the
neighborhoods and see what they think about it so one of the things we did here is we purchased a mat
that goes with the DWI goggles that you have to walk down and this was really a big hit in some of the
neighborhoods. Some of the kids got involved. You’ll see some of the, and some of the kids just goofed
around and played on it. Some other things that we implemented were, we talked about let’s bring the
taser out there so we got a cardboard target. We brought the tasers out and we let some of the folks shoot
some training rounds and we also brought out our preliminary breath test which gives you an alcohol
reading and we showed them how to use that and we brought some Bianca in case anybody didn’t have
any beers at their party so brought some Bianca and kind of showed them how that worked and it was
pretty successful. I mean I think they really enjoyed it and it kind of gives them a feel of some of the
things that we do and changes things up a little bit so. And then we also showed off the squad cars that
we have. We’ve got some great equipment in there and hopefully that’s a recruit we got sitting behind the
wheel there so. And then you can see some more, Sergeant Bromwell was at this neighborhood and I
think Todd and Laurie were with John so great, great event. Then you can see how National Night Out
ended there. The Chanhassen storm rolled in and kind of put a damper on things so we had to call it quits
early. And I’ll ask Bob to come up here and kind of give his update on the upcoming school year in the
Chanhassen High School.
Bob Zydowsky: Thank you Mayor.
Mayor Furlong: Good evening.
Bob Zydowsky: City Council for having me. I guess I’m just going to kind of go through some of the
things I do to get ready for school. You know there was a buzz today at school, the teachers are back.
They’re getting their bulletin boards ready and it’s alive and well at Chanhassen High School but you
know some of the things I’ve done this past year in January, the 3 of us always attend a conference in
Duluth. Minnesota Juvenile Officers Association. There’s about 250 officers that attend that so it’s a
great conference to network with other SRO’s from different communities. Kind of talk about how
they’re doing different types of things. This year in January if we’re approved to go there so I can do
some live exercises with lockdowns and those sorts of things. This past February I attended a Prepare
class, kind of a crisis prevention and a preparedness with school safety planning. That was sponsored
through the school district. And in early June Mental Health for Teens was sponsored by the Carver
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County Mental Health Consortium. We had faith based people there. Social workers, law enforcement
attended that. You know then in June again, end of June there was a training sponsored by Chaska Police
Department. This is one of the first training’s I’ve been to where we actually had to go in and extricate
people out of the school but we also brought together those first responders. Firemen. Waconia
Ridgeview Hospital was there too where they would actually have to go in with us and extricate people so
that was a great exercise for us to do because we’ve never, ever integrated anybody other than usually law
enforcement, unless we do some big, mass casualty incident but I know the school district is planning
next year, summer of 2014 to do a, kind of a mass casualty if you will but to integrate the fire department,
and I know I’ve talked to John Murphy with our fire department who said we’re really interested in
getting to know what you guys do so that when we get called we know what to expect so we’re going to
work on that for 2014. And then this week we’re going to have, the SRO’s are going to have breakfast at
Perkin’s and we’re just going to kind of talk about new laws. Some new policies that the County
Attorney’s office has and just kind of brainstorm some of the different things we want to do you know
and one of the things I found going back to the road for the summer, after 12 1/2 years. Thank you
Lieutenant Enevold for doing that. But it was great. It was great other than wearing all that stuff. I’m
not sure how I did that for so long but just talking to kids. It seemed like every call I went on I knew the
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parent. I knew the kid and just getting out and talking to those kids. 4 of July, I bet I talked to 400 kids
up there and just getting to talk to those kids. Getting the gossip you know. Who’s broke up with who.
Who’s dating who. What are kind of the new trends and what are we going to see this year. That’s kind
of what’s most important for me. So that’s kind of you know some of the things we do. What are going
to key in on this year? You know drug use and abuse is always going to be a big one. And then another
thing we’re going to kind of look at is kind of the emotional stability of kids. You know we have the
balance perspective and growth at Chanhassen High School that Principal Dorway started last year and
we find that kids are so busy with everything from church responsibility to school responsibility to jobs,
to whatever so to really take a hard look at that and you know help kids get through emotionally and those
sorts of things. As far as plans that we have for lockdowns or terrorism type things, the County has their
own plan. We’ve integrated that with the school plan. By State law we practice lockdowns 5 times a
year. We also do 5 fire drills and then the annual tornado drill so, but I’m fired up. You know we’re
looking to have a good year. First football game is Thursday. We play Hudson so I suspect everybody
will be there. Do you have any questions specific of me?
Mayor Furlong: Any questions?
Councilman Laufenburger: I do Mr. Mayor. Bob, you coming here tonight is a great opportunity for me
to just say to you, I observe the manner in which you connect with these students at the high school and I
think it’s a credit not only to you but it’s also a credit to the things that you do to make yourself available
and not a police officer but really a friend so on behalf of the parents of those kids, I just think you do a
wonderful job.
Bob Zydowsky: I appreciate that yeah. You know I’ve done quite a few things. Patrol. Detective work.
I’ve been on a SWAT team. I’ve taught people how to be patrolmen but the school thing is by far I think
the best. It’s the hardest job because if I come in on Monday and I write a ticket to a kid for whatever it
might be, the next day I see him is Tuesday and then I see him Thursday at the football game so it’s a
whole different. It’s not like writing citations and they’re off and you never see them again so it’s a big
family. You have to treat kids differently because they’re all individual but I appreciate that.
Councilman Laufenburger: Well I think you’ve found a sweet spot at the school so I congratulate you on
that Bob.
Bob Zydowsky: Thank you.
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Councilman Laufenburger: Can you just say, what’s the, describe the best day that you can have and
maybe a not so good day?
Bob Zydowsky: Oh, you know one of my first days at the high school, my first week at the high school,
you know we do the lunch in the commons area and there were, you know we were at that time about
1,300 kids and I was scared out of my wits because there’s 1,300 of them. There’s one of me. They
knew, you know a lot of them knew each other but over the weeks you know I got to know. I pride
myself in trying to get to know as many kids as I can. You know every day is a different day. It’s like
coming to school and reaching into that bag and reading, oh there’s a car in the parking lot with a shotgun
uncased that’s loaded and the keys are in the car and the car’s open. That’s a call that I had. You know
so it’s everything from Officer Bob we’re doing a videotape on how to make a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich. We need peanut butter. Alright, let’s go to the cafeteria and we get the peanut butter. And so
there’s such a wide variety of things. Bad days, I don’t know that I’ve really had a bad day. You know I
tell my partners upstairs that ah, it was a busy day at the school. Yeah, right. What did you do? Well
you know some of them have shadowed me and they’re like holy cow. You know you’re not just sitting
in your desk waiting for something to happen so you know I don’t know that I’ve really had a bad day.
Every day’s a good day as far as I’m concerned so.
Councilman Laufenburger: Alright, well as a citizen of the community. Not a council member but it’s
worthwhile to know that you and your demeanor and the practices that you follow Bob are really
contributing to not just the education of the kids but also the social maturity that they all encounter so
thanks Bob.
Bob Zydowsky: I appreciate that. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Any other comments? Thank you very much.
Bob Zydowsky: Yep.
Lt. Jeff Enevold: I concur with that Councilman Laufenburger. Bob does a terrific job for us and we’re
very careful to pick who our School Resource Officers are. We have Ben Karnes out in Waconia who
does a fantastic job. Jeff Trigg down at the Coop but you know Bob has developed a great relationship
with those kids and you know they know who he is and he does a terrific job and we’re really proud of the
job he does there so. Last one is just questions. We found this guy wandering around the neighborhood
and he asked us for a ride home so.
Mayor Furlong: He sure looks comfortable back there doesn’t he?
Councilman Laufenburger: How much time did he get?
Lt. Jeff Enevold: Not enough.
Todd Gerhardt: I look pretty happy…
Mayor Furlong: Any questions for the Lieutenant? Very good, thank you very much.
Lt. Jeff Enevold: Great, thank you Mr. Mayor and council.
Mayor Furlong: Chief Wolff is here tonight with the Chanhassen Fire Department. Good evening Chief.
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Chief John Wolff: Good evening Mayor, good evening council. I’d like to take a few minutes just to talk
about staffing. We’re at full staff and I was at a meeting last week with other fire chiefs regionally and
one of the themes of this meeting was best practices and there was a lot of focus on staffing and recruiting
for combination departments, volunteer departments, paid on call departments and really what I found
myself in this room with others, I was in a very unique position that our city, the City of Chanhassen
really had, we had 18 applications. We had 8 people that met the standard and we hired 3 of them. We
have, for the first time ever a waiting list of 5 firefighters. I just, I think it says a lot about the city that we
live in, that people want to contribute. That they want to give their time and you know you look at Bob’s
passion and that’s what we try to create in the fire department too are people that want to give like that
and so, I’m just very happy to report that we’ve had a lot of success with our staffing. Year to date calls
are up 18%. This is primarily driven by really we had such a low year last year and weather kind of drove
that. Fire alarms and EMS calls are up both about 25 to 30 percent. They’re kind of the larger block of
calls that we get and you have the report there. But really we’re coming back more towards the norm of
what we’ve seen over the past 5 years. We did have a building fire, a small building fire behind a home
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on August 10 off of Laredo Drive and the fire was extinguished fairly quickly. It was an early morning
fire discovered by one of the neighbors. Recently we supported the Miracles for Mitch Triathlon which is
really a huge event for this city. It draws in, someone told me it’s the largest youth triathlon in the
country so that’s pretty impressive. And we’ve been supporting that organization. And then a new event
last weekend. An organization, I think I mentioned this the last time I was up here out of Excelsior that
does charity work for, it’s to help with world hunger for children and they had a mud run over at
Minnewashta Park and they needed mud because it’s been so dry so we brought a fire truck over there
and helped create the environs and also provided support with EMS. I just want to mention to our
citizens that this is a, kind of a time that they need to be very wary of the heat outside. The combination
of the heat and humidity is creating this 100 plus heat indices thing that you know folks, elderly, children,
people that work outdoors. People that don’t have access to air conditioning. Those are the folks that are
vulnerable and just keep an eye out for those people and make sure you’re checking in on those. Drink
fluids. Rest in shady places if you do have to be outside and try to avoid exertion. Athletes, a number of
athletic programs were cancelled today, tonight, tomorrow and that’s good, smart planning on the part of
folks that are running those. From a firefighting perspective, when a fire happens on a day like today it
almost doubles the resources you need on the people side because you just get, you’re lucky to get half
the work out of the firefighter because of the heat so we’re knock on wood, we’re hoping nothing happens
tonight, tomorrow. I’ll take any questions from council.
Mayor Furlong: Any questions for the Chief? Any words of caution with regards to recreational fires?
Have we had any problems with those? It’s fairly dry.
Chief John Wolff: We have not and we’re still issuing burn permits.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Chief John Wolff: And we do education around that but really we don’t, we’re not in a fire danger here in
the Twin Cities yet but we’re getting close so we need rain.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, very good.
Chief John Wolff: Yep.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you very much.
Chief John Wolff: Thank you.
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CONSENT AGENDA: E(6). APPROVE RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR SOUTHWEST
TRANSIT.
Councilman McDonald: Yes Your Honor. Thank you. The reason I wanted to pull this off is that, this is
a very important resolution and I think it carries more weight and it also sends a much better message if
we as a council comment upon it and then do a voice vote upon it instead of having it hidden in the
consent agenda and I guess the reason I feel that strongly about it is because of what’s going on. I mean
this is critical to our services with Southwest. If there are not accommodations made so that Southwest
can either co-exist or survive as part of the light rail that’s being built by Met Council then we could see
services within this community really deteriorate quickly and one of the areas that this would have most
impact upon would definitely be our senior community. I’ve had numerous talks with people in the
Senior Commission. They’ve really appreciated what Southwest did this summer as far as the circulator
bus. We did increase that. There are plans on the table to again be able to get people to Eden Prairie
Mall. None of this will happen if Southwest is forced to reduce it’s services to lose it’s presence in Eden
Prairie. At that point the whole thing comes into question as to why do you even have the service so I just
felt that it was important and I wanted to pull it off so that some words could be said and to really
emphasize what I think is a very you know strong and well worded and well written resolution on the
whole subject and I do want to give it some air time and also to focus upon it because we did put a lot of
work into it and I think it sends the proper message as to how this community feels so that’s why I pulled
it off.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other discussion? Comment. I mean I would concur with Councilman
McDonald with regard to his comments on the resolution I think and we discussed this at our last work
session and there was desire to take the resolution, the draft resolution and make it a little bit stronger and
clearer with some of the items, specifically with some of the proposed bus rapid transit services here and
Carver County and in my opinion, and the resolution speaks to it as well, that those are simply not needed
whether they’re operated by Southwest Transit or Metro Transit or anyone. The services that Southwest
Transit is currently providing are equivalent to what any bus rapid transit service would buy, provide in
my mind and as such you know we look at some of these items within the regional plan, making sure that
they’re worthwhile and that they’re, it’s a good use of regional dollars is really the key part. To make
sure that when investments are made in the regional system that the services compliment one another and
not compete and that’s a concern that I know many people have with regard to some of the services being
proposed so. I know the other cities, Chaska and Eden Prairie who are members of Southwest Transit are
also adopting or considering similar resolutions. Either have adopted or are considering and so I think it’s
a way for the 3 cities to recognize the success of the Southwest Transit has had over the years and the
services that our residents have received from the organization and really it’s a benefit. It’s 3 cities doing
more together than each of us could do individually so from that standpoint I’d be happy to support the
resolution.
Councilman Laufenburger: Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Furlong: Yes.
Councilman Laufenburger: I too am happy to support the resolution and I think that Mr. McDonald
makes it very clear and states it very well that in fact if, besides these resolutions, if the communities of
Eden Prairie and Chaska and Chanhassen and not just the community leadership but the people who use
the services, if we are silent about the movement that seems to be coming out of the Met Council, then we
really, we make the mistake of letting something that has performed exceptionally well, Southwest
Transit for a number of years, escape from our fingers and the outcome is, as you have said, services that
will not be on par with what Southwest Transit has provided. Former City Council member Craig
Peterson, also former Met Council member Craig Peterson addressed us in the work session and made it
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very clear that there are other ways in which we as communities will be able to step up and make our
voice heard on the importance of continuing Southwest Transit in this environment. Providing the
services so while I strongly support the resolution, I’m ready for whatever is next that needs to be done in
order to protect the services that are provided to, not only our citizens here in Chanhassen but also
citizens in Chaska and Eden Prairie as well so I also support the resolution Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other comments?
Councilwoman Ernst: Sure Mr. Mayor, I’ll make some comments.
Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst.
Councilwoman Ernst: Well I appreciate the fact that Craig Peterson and Len Simich came in and made us
aware of this situation because quite frankly I was not aware of it and the threat that it poses to many of
us, I have had the great pleasure of using Southwest Transit and the service that it provides is unlike any
other transit really that exists today in the metropolitan area. And I have mentioned this to several other
riders and it’s very, it’s very concerning to many of us so I’m just glad that we’re aware of the situation.
We can do something about it and I definitely will support this resolution.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other comments? Otherwise is there a motion?
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, council members. I did receive a phone call from Carver County Administrator
Dave Hemze and Carver County Board is considering adopting a similar resolution so I don’t know if Len
knew that or not but to get the County support on a service within the county is great so I wanted to make
sure everybody knew that.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Councilman McDonald: And I guess Mr. Mayor I want to recognize that Mr. Simich is in our audience
tonight and you know is here to show his support again for our actions tonight.
Mayor Furlong: Anything you’d like to add Mr. Simich?
Len Simich: Thank you Mayor, members of the council. Well basically thank you. I mean the support
has been overwhelming. This is the third stop of my tour of four now because we will be going down to
the County. Chaska and Eden Prairie have also passed similar resolutions. We do very much appreciate
it. This is your transit system as I mentioned during the work shop. The three cities came together some
27 years ago because you were not getting the type or the levels of services that you needed and you
desired and I think the services that have come forth really are nothing that I have done or the council
themselves but the collaboration of all 3 cities so we’re very grateful for your support and I heard the
word threat because there is a threat out there right now. A lot of things are working against us. Too
many to go into right now over the council meeting but with LRT, with BRT, there is a squeeze being put
on Southwest Transit and this level of support that the 3 cities will give us we hope will go a long way in
helping at least curb if not stop some of that so thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Mr. McDonald, would you like to make a motion?
Councilman McDonald: Thank you Mr. Mayor. I make a motion that we approve the resolution of
support for Southwest Transit.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
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Councilwoman Ernst: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Hearing none we’ll
proceed with the vote.
Resolution #2013-41: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded that the
Chanhassen City Council approve the Resolution in support of the continued operations of
Southwest Transit and opposing any actions of the Metropolitan Council that would make
Southwest Transit service obsolete. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a
vote of 5 to 0.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
None.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Todd Gerhardt: Just a quick update on roads. 101 and Pleasant View we did complete the electrical, the
utility poles have been moved by Xcel so that project can move ahead. As we waited for those poles to be
moved the contractor did move over to the 41 and Chaska Road area and been told that the curb and
crossing will be put in place here by the end of the week, so before school starts so that’s nice to know.
101 is moving along nicely. The benefit of this dry weather is that they can work and so really like to try
to schedule a time for council to get out and take a look at some of our road projects this year.
Greenwood Shores was kind of our first step in projects and that one is about 90% complete with seeding
and back filling of curb in those areas that received curb so, but I’ll try to survey council to see what your
schedule looks like and maybe we can fit that in. Another thing, we had a record this last Sunday in the
amount of water pumped. We have 8.9 million gallons in one day and that was this last Sunday and I
don’t know have you heard today yet?
Paul Oehme: I’ve not heard yet today.
Todd Gerhardt: Okay, so.
Mayor Furlong: Good thing we have that odd/even.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, maybe tomorrow. But this dry weather we, you know our system handled it.
Knock on wood that the new water tower came on line up at Minnetonka Middle School West. That was
kind of a saving grace there and the Rice Marsh trail. We did start construction on that. We have a very
eager contractor that has been very efficient in how he’s going about building that trail. Having almost a
third of it already rocked and about three-quarters of the grubbing has been completed so we think by the
end of September that will be completed all the way over to Eden Prairie and we can schedule a joint or
collaborative effort with Eden Prairie to kind of recognize that feat of having a 3 mile loop around Rice
Marsh through our two communities. And that’s all I have.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt? Or his staff I should say.
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION.
None.
Councilwoman Ernst 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 7:40 p.m.
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Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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