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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
NOVEMBER 22, 2004
Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was opened
with the Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Furlong, Councilman Ayotte, Councilman
Labatt, Councilman Peterson and Councilman Lundquist
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Elliott Knetsch, Justin Miller, Kate Aanenson, and
T odd Hoffman
PUBLIC PRESENT FOR ALL ITEMS:
Dennis Hanson
6450 Pleasant View Circle
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: INVITATION TO TREE LIGHTING
CEREMONY.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you and good evening to everybody. Welcome. On the agenda,
just by way of an announcement, the City Council work session agenda was amended to
add an added item which we will actually pick up after the close of this regular meeting
in the Fountain Room. The City Council will be in a training session. Public is welcome
to attend. Are there any other amendments or changes, modifications to the agenda as
published? If there's none, the agenda as published will be followed this evening. I'd
like to start out with a public announcement regarding the tree lighting ceremony. A
week from this coming Saturday, on Saturday, December 4th. This is one of the special
events that the City, in cooperation with our local businesses and other sponsors put on.
The parents and children, grandparents are certainly invited to attend this event. It will
be in City Center Park, same as last year. The event runs from 5:00 to 6:00. There will
be refreshments, Christmas caroling, Santa Claus is going to be visiting, bonfire, hot
chocolate. It's a fun event. It's a nice night to bring out the family, have some fun in our
new park so I hope to see everybody there.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson
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 8,2004
-City Council Verbatim & Summary Minutes dated November 8,2004
-Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim & Summary Minutes dated October
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c. Approval of 2005 Property Assessment Contract with the Carver County
Assessor's Office.
d. Accept Food Donation from ARAMARK for Presidential Visit.
e. Resolution #2004-79: Accept Utility Improvements in Powers Ridge Apartment
Homes 2nd Addition; Project No. 00-14.
f. Approval Partial Release from Development Contract for Chanhassen Lakes
Business Park ih Addition, Project 99-11.
g. Approve Recipients of Environmental Excellence Awards.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to O.
Item l(b) will be discussed after item 4.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
Bill Griffith: Thank you Mr. Mayor and council members. My name is Bill Griffith.
I'm representing Paws, Claws & Hooves on their plat. Their final plat application for the
Paws, Claws & Hooves addition. The council's had a fair amount of correspondence
from our office and presentations from our office so I'll just be brief and address a couple
of open items. First of all I want to thank the engineering staff for working with us on a
revised condition related to the paving of the road, the private driveway into our client's
property. Our contractor looked at the requirement to tear out the existing road and
reconstruct it and said there's probably a most cost effective approach which is to add
another lift to the roadway and to widen it slightly and so that, I think the engineering
staff agreed after some soil tests that that would be a cost effective way to address the
condition and so we were able to provide the same level of service in terms of meeting
the road specifications at about 1/5 the cost. So we think that's a good resolution of that
item and thank the engineering staff for working with us on that. The second item that
I'd like to address, which has not been resolved is the park fees, and as you know the City
requires park dedication both on commercial and residential lots. This lot, because it's in
the business fringe district allows for either use, residential or commercial. If it was a
residential use the, I understand that the park dedication would be somewhere around
$2,800 for a single family home. Instead, the City is requiring $20,000 because it's a
commercial lot. In either case this lot will not create park demands. It is essentially, it's
used now as a stable. It's not actively used at this time but it's developed as a stable and
creates literally no park demand. If a single family home is constructed here, and I
believe one could be with the request for a building permit, then it would be, it should be
and would be treated like a single family home and pay a park dedication fee of $2,800. I
raise this again. It's been raised before. I raise it simply to preserve our opportunity to
address it if we decide to appeal the dedication. I don't know that the council's going to
address it beyond that but I do think it does beg the question when the same lot could be
used in different uses and the fee is 10 times the amount, you have to question the
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justification for that and that's exactly what we're doing. Similarly condition number 16
relates to storm water management fees, which of course throughout the city would make
sense where there are storm water facilities, the benefited property should pay for the use
of those facilities. In this case, in the business fringe district there are no storm water
facilities. The storm water facilities are private. They were required when this property
was developed and they've been maintained by our client every since. And so there's no
nexus for connection to the charges that the city's levying for storm water management.
And again we would object to those, I object to them for the purpose of appeal. The
Council can respond if it likes. And then finally, just kind of an obscure condition that I
think is a matter of housekeeping, at least I hope it is, and that's on page 4. Condition, at
the bottom, condition number 5. And what it says is prior to the recording of the final
plat, submit the results of the annual on-site sewage treatment system monitoring plan as
required by the conditions of the on-site plan approval in 1998. The monthly reports
shall be submitted to the city staff prior to recording the final plat and then monthly
thereafter. In reviewing this with the septic company and our client, that was a 5 year
condition and at the time the type of system that was used was considered an
experimental system. It's now routinely used. It's no longer considered experimental by
the state rules and should not be subjected to monthly reporting. Typically any type of
septic system reporting is done on an annual or maybe a bi-annual basis, but to submit
monthly reports on a system that's been in use for 6 years really seems like over kill, and
in fact when our client first started reporting to one of the building officials, the building
officials says I have no system for taking monthly reports from you and it really, and
essentially waived the requirement. So I think that the appropriate, after 5 or 6 years of a
system operating, I think annual reports would be sufficient but really I believe because
we've met our requirement, is the condition should be deleted. So those are my
comments. I appreciate the opportunity, I asked your city manager for the opportunity to
address you and he was gracious and called my office and said we'd be given that
opportunity so thank you for that.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Councilman Peterson: Just to clarify sir. Are you speaking to condition number 9 on
page 7 resulting in the sewer treatment system? You said page 4.
Councilman Lundquist: Page 13 in our packet. Condition 5.
Councilman Peterson: Well I'm looking at page 7, number 9.
Bill Griffith: The condition, I've got your staff report for this matter and it's listed on, at
least a part of this report is page 4, condition 5. Now some of these conditions are picked
up and repeated as it's stated in the report.
Councilman Lundquist: Craig, the recommendations start on page 10.
Councilman Peterson: Got it.
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Councilman Lundquist: Page 4 of the recommendation.
Councilman Peterson: Got it.
Bill Griffith: Again thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. We're still within visitor presentations, if anybody else
would like to come forward and address the matters to the council. Seeing no one we'll
close visitor presentations for this evening and move on with our agenda.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Thank you. In your packet I have included the Sheriff s Office Area
Report for the month of October. The citation list for the month of October, Community
Service Officer report and also copies of crime alerts that was put out by Crime
Prevention Specialist, Beth Hoiseth. I'll just briefly go over the monthly numbers. Total
calls for service were up 106 for the month of October compared to last year, and for the
year they're by 480. Criminal calls were up by 21 for the month, but they are down by
35 for the year. Thefts were down by 2 for the month of October. Compared to last year,
which I was happy with, with all the campaign signs, report of campaign sign thefts that
we had. And then for the year they're up by 6. So that's a, we've done well with that.
Damage to property was down by 45 for the month of October this year. Compared to 49
last year, and that is down by 50 for the year. Alarms were down by 21 for the month.
Another interesting statistic that I saw. Personal injury accidents. We only had one of
them last month and that compares to 13 for last year, for the same month, and they're
down by 13 for the year but our property damage accidents were up by 18 for the month,
and they're up by 31 for the year. Special traffic details were up by 31 for the month, and
they're up by 83 for the year. And traffic stops were up by 24 for the month compared to
last year, and then we had 211 citations for the month of October that were written in the
city. Any questions about the monthly numbers themselves at all? Okay. There's some
changes at the sheriff s office that are occurring. That are happening internally for next
year, and these changes include a new schedule, which we'll be starting on December
2ih. Re-districting and call sign changes that are happening internally, and also
assignment of personnel to contract cities next year instead of bidding by seniority. And
I have seen a good group of officers. Todd and I have went over and there was a couple
of changes that we recommended that have occurred, or that will be occurring, and I look
forward to working with them next year and I can have names if you're interested for the
next meeting in December. Some of the officers have not been informed of where
they're working as of yet so I don't want to put it out yet. We had some, any questions
on that at all? Any of those changes.
Mayor Furlong: Just to understand, the effect of that is, there's going to be more
supervisory decision making in terms of selection of who?
Sgt. Jim Olson: Yes, yes. In the past we have... solely by seniority. That personnel have
bid with us, and now it's more of a selection process. And what happened is I received a
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list of deputies that were, that wanted to work in the City of Chanhassen. And Todd and I
sat down and looked at some of those and recommended a couple of changes from what
was initially proposed to us, and those changes have occurred with deputies that will be
working here, and I'm excited for next year. I think it will be a good year. I want to talk
about vehicle break-in's briefly. We've had a number ofbreak-in's to vehicles recently,
and a lot of these have come from underground parking garages at apartment complexes.
And even if you park your car inside of an underground parking garage, I just want to
inform people, make sure that you remove all of your valuables, even though it is inside
and don't leave any personal information inside of it. And that has been happening, not
only in Chanhassen but around the metro area with that so that's something we're
certainly looking into. We have some video, one of them here in Chan so we're looking
into it. Metro wide businesses have been getting counterfeit money as well, including
some Chanhassen retailers. A great number of these occurred end of October, but they're
still occasionally one coming around. As a retailer, if you have concerns about any of the
currency that you're getting, don't be afraid to call 911. An officer can come out and
assist you with that, and we also have a brochure that we have available that talks about
currency and money and things to look for and if a retailer's interested in that, they can
certainly call my cell phone. Crime Prevention Specialist, Beth Hoiseth will work on
giving them a copy of that. We've had some business burglaries in the city. Not in the
past month but probably a couple months ago where this occurred. Where checks have
been stolen from drawers inside of the businesses, and they've taken checks from out
from, you know in the middle so people did not necessarily know these checks were
stolen. The perpetrators then take the checks to the banks where they're drawn from, or
where the account is from and attempt to cash those. We've got some real good leads
that we're working on and we hope to have some closure just shortly. Then Detective
Bromwell and Beth Hoiseth went to all the area banks and talked to them about what was
occurring and gave them a few tips on what they can do to help prevent that and some
different things to look for and that was good. I want to talk about an excellent job that
Deputy Jim Gamble did on a stolen credit card that happen. The suspects stole a vehicle
and then there was personal credit cards inside of it. The person has since been arrested,
then took one of the credit cards to one of the area retailers and charged close to $800
worth of merchandise at that retailer. Through follow-up, Deputy Gamble was able to
determine who the individual was and he's currently in our jail awaiting court
proceedings. The American Legion burglary has finally come to a close. The party has,
Timothy Keld has plead guilty and will be receiving a substantial amount of prison time
from that. There was also a few other burglaries as a result of this that he was also
convicted of, and the Legion also received reimbursement for their loss so that was good.
Winter driving. I wanted to briefly touch on winter driving. At some point, and I'm
hoping maybe not until March or so but at some point the roads are going to get slippery
and this seems to be especially tough on people the first couple of snowfalls that we get,
and you know we talk about this each year but it seems like we always have a lot of
accidents those first couple of snowfalls. So slow down a little bit. Leave for work.
Take some extra time. Leave for work early. And again, just take your time. And clean
your windshields. That's, you know sometimes you'll see people that are driving down
the roads with a little peep hole out of their windshield or through their back window.
Clean your windshield and your back window so you have good visibility. And just one
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other thing, Deputy Eric Kittleson solved a burglary, one of our residential burglaries that
we had. Identified 4 juveniles that were involved and that case is currently at court
services so Eric did a real nice job with that. Any questions for myself on law
enforcement?
Councilman Peterson: It was a good month.
Sgt. Jim Olson: It was. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you Sergeant.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Happy Thanksgiving for everybody.
Mayor Furlong: Yep, thank you. Chief Geske, good evening.
Chief Gregg Geske: Good evening. Don't have a whole lot to report. We had another
slow month, which is good for us. We did, our probationary members are just finishing
up or completing the hazmat operational level, and they'll be starting up the hazmat tech
level. Just want to pass on that this training actually was paid for by a grant that, through
the, for hazmat and stuff so it's nice that we could take advantage of that. The
probationary members, their probationary year will be up at the end of December here so
we'll be putting them on full time at that time. Got all the stuff ready now for ice and
cold water rescue. Basically this time of year of train a little bit more for it. Get our
suits ready and stuff and our ice water stuff out so we're all ready for that. Maybe we
won't have ice I guess but, and I just wanted to report we had 3 members that participated
in the juvenile fire setters program which is in Carver County here. Chanhassen hadn't
participated a whole lot in the past but we had 3 fire fighters go down for it and it's a
county program that they have for juveniles that were found starting fires. It's a program
that they put on to try to keep them from doing it and the fire fighter sits with the juvenile
and the family during the presentation or the class to get more out of it and stuff so I
thought that was a beneficial program. We'll probably be participating in that more in
the future here so, like I say, in the past we hadn't participated but it is a county wide
program so that's about all I have to report.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Questions for the chief?
Councilman Labatt: Just one quick one. Chief, under investigations here, you talk about
a couple of illegal burns. Can you, people are allowed to have recreational burns. Where
does it become illegal? When they're burning leaves?
Chief Gregg Geske: Burning leaves, yeah. The recreational fire is defined as a 3 by 3
foot area wherein you have rocks or stone and you're using it for recreational purposes.
You cannot burn trash, leaves and everything else in there so we have had some fires
where, I know we had one incident where they were burning 9 piles of leaves in the yard
and stuff so, that is illegal and they will be tagged for that but the recreational fires is
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considered when you're sitting around a weenie roast or marshmallow with your family
or whatever.
Councilman Labatt: Good, okay.
Mayor Furlong: In terms of.
Councilman Labatt: Saves me...
Mayor Furlong: That was for the public's benefit right Councilman Labatt?
Councilman Labatt: Right.
Mayor Furlong: The probationary fire fighters. You said they're coming off in
December. Generally good recruiting class?
Chief Gregg Geske: Yeah, we did have. We started out with 9. We're down to 8 now
and I think the majority of involved will get on here so it's been a real good. It's
surprising how much they take on and the extra mile. You know we're required that they
do take hazmat operational and all of them are going on and taking the hazmat tech now
so that's another level above what they're required so it's been a real good class.
Mayor Furlong: Good. I know they do a lot of training. For those who might be
interested, are you going to be recruiting more fire fighters in 2005?
Chief Gregg Geske: Yeah, we'll probably be looking at the level oflosses due to
retirement that we have. We may have a small class here sometime in 2005.
Mayor Furlong: And if people are interested, when would that be posted?
Chief Gregg Geske: At any time they can contact Mark Littfin, our Fire Marshal up at
City Hall and put in an application and we keep that on file and ask if they're interested
in the future when we put on a class so that's one way to do it. Or we do post it when we
take applications and stuff. We'll put it on the marquee out in front of the fire station and
post it in the papers.
Mayor Furlong: Great, thank you.
Chief Gregg Geske: Thanks.
APPROVAL OF 2005 PROSECUTION CONTRACT WITH CAMPBELL
KNUTSON. P.A.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, City Council members. We have Elliott here this evening to
make a presentation on the year to date statistics for 2004 prosecution. At this time I'd
pass it over to Elliott to answer any questions that you may have on the statistics.
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Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Elliott Knetsch: Thanks Todd. Mayor and council. The back page of the staff report
was just a summary of cases we've handled this year. I think the numbers are generally
comparable to the prior year. These are not necessarily directly comparable to the
numbers that Jim's talking about when he says traffic citations are up or down. That
doesn't necessarily result in a change in cases handled by us. We only log cases that we
actually open a file and those are cases where they appear in court and their case is not
resolved so that we either have to have another court appearance or a trial. So the file's
opened of285 which was through January 1 through November 1ih is fairly comparable
with last year. And you can see the breakdown of gross misdemeanors, misdemeanors.
We've given you some disposition information on DWI's and domestic's. We've also
given you the number of court trials, which is 32. So on the bottom there is disposition
on '03 files. Those are cases we inherited from the County Attorney's office, so those
would be in addition to the numbers you see above. We're very happy to be prosecuting
for you. I think things are going well in Carver County. The interaction between Jim's
office and our office is going just fine. Everybody's on the same page. I haven't
detected any issues or anything that's of concern to me in providing you those services.
So with that I would be happy to answer any questions.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, I'd just like to add, I've been happy with the prosecution
contract. Elliott has made himself available to Jim Olson, our Chief Law Enforcement
Officer and myself on several occasions to talk about some cases or any problems that
have occurred, and I'd say there's probably been some minor ones but we've handled
them in house with no issues. I think Elliott's record here stands for itself. He's batting
999 almost on most of these so I think he's doing a great job.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Are there any questions?
Councilman Ayotte: Yeah, not so much with the statistics but with the passing of
information from our Carver County Sheriff s Department, and the quality or lack of
quality of those reports and your ability to take those reports and react to them. I get the
sense that things have been improving, of the work that the deputies are doing. What's
your sense, (a). And (b), if we have seen an improvement, what's caused that
improvement and what can we do to get that improvement to continue? Or am I wrong
with that assessment?
Elliott Knetsch: Well I would say, as a general matter the quality of the reports from the
sheriff s office is very good. Having not worked with them as closely as we are now
prior to this year, it would be hard for me to say if there's really a change in that from
prior years to this year. We did, you know I had contact with them in the past like on
code enforcement matters that they might have handled, where they ended up in code
violations which we have always handled for Chanhassen. But just turning to the reports
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for this year, again I would say they are very good. There are times when I have received
reports where I've needed additional information and I've gotten back to them and said I
need this or I need that. I think that's very common. You know they're coming at it
from a gathering of facts, of what's being presented to them by the people they're dealing
with. A lot of times the prosecutor has a little different angle on it, not just necessarily
what happened but maybe there's something else out there that we might want to have for
court. So I ask them to get that for me and they always respond quickly and thoroughly
so again, I don't really feel like I'm able to necessarily make a comparison if things are
getting better or not but I would say that I don't have any issues with their reports and
they're generally very good.
Councilman Ayotte: Well I'm a lame duck. I've only got a few meetings to go but it
seems to me it may be worthwhile to see, to substantiate that there has been marked
improvement from before and why so we can build on that. I'd just offer that up and
again, two more meetings it won't make much difference but I think it's important.
Secondly, there was a schedule issue where your, not you specifically but your firm's
presence at the court, they were working out that schedule issue. How's that coming
along?
Elliott Knetsch: Well I think that is something that's still in progress but I think that
we've, the schedule is better than when we started and I think that's just something where
this particular county, Carver, just through you know history, has had only one prosecutor
and that's the County Attorney's office. And that's unique in the metro area. It's unique
in the state and so everybody there is just used to dealing with one prosecutor's office so
they never really thought about the schedule much. We came in, you know because of
your volume of cases, it's not really necessary for us to be there every day, but they were
used to being able to set things every day because the County Attorney's office was there
every day anyways. So there were a few bumps earlier on. Say early January through
spring perhaps, but we're just trying to accommodate the things so we're there, the
people are there, the cases can get handled in one court appearance if possible, and I think
that we've made a lot of progress there.
Councilman Ayotte: Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other questions? Comments. I think overall by the
numbers, not only is the, are the numbers good from the standpoint of success in terms of
guilty pleas, verdicts, but also what's interesting is the number of calls that were
transferred that were open at the time that you took over. One of the concerns that this
council raised a year ago was transition and whether or not things would get dropped or
how smoothly that would go and just looking at this information here, I understand we
just talked about the scheduling but in terms of the cases themselves, 21 for 21. I think
you deserve credit, as does the County Attorney's office deserve credit for making that
transition in terms of the cases as well so, just wanted to make that point. Any other
questions for Mr. Knetsch? Ifnot, we're being asked tonight to approve the attached
agreement for professional services with Campbell-Knutson firm for 2005 I believe. If
there's no, are there any questions on that agreement for staff? If not, is there a motion?
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Councilman Peterson: Motion to approve.
Councilman Labatt: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion? Hearing none,
we'll proceed with the vote.
Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Labatt seconded that the City Council
approve the 2005 Legal and Prosecution Services Contract with Campbell Knutson,
P.A.. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to O.
Mayor Furlong: Motion prevails. Thank you.
Elliott Knetsch: Thank you.
Councilman Lundquist: Change that last 10 minutes, you're going to charge that to your
marketing account and not to our other.
Mayor Furlong: I think they work that into their fee estimate, yeah.
Elliott Knetsch: Can I get the transcript too so I can have the direct quotes in there.
Councilman Labatt: Absolutely.
Todd Gerhardt: I had to make sure they didn't double bill us so he comes out as a
prosecutor and as the city attorney so, that's why Roger's not here.
l(B). FINAL PLA T APPROVAL. PAWS. CLAWS AND HOOVES.
Mayor Furlong: I guess the question I have for staff was with regard to the issue raised
by Mr. Griffith with regard to that one condition. Do you want to address that at all?
That was, I don't know that that was addressed when we talked about this in July of, what
was it, 2003.
Kate Aanenson: Regarding the monthly reports. That's fine if they want to submit an
annual report. So if you just strike that last sentence.
Councilman Peterson: Residential's we do every other year. Commercial is a different
standard?
Kate Aanenson: Correct.
Mayor Furlong: So staff is comfortable, striking the last sentence because it does talk
about an annual system monitoring plan required and that's part of our ordinance
anyway?
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Kate Aanenson: Correct.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Alright. Any other questions for staff or for discussion on the
matter? Okay. If not, is there a motion?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to approve as amended with condition 5. Striking out
the last sentence.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilman Ayotte: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion on the motion?
Resolution #2004-80: Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Ayotte seconded
that the City Council approve the final plat for Paws, Claws and Hooves, amending
condition number 5 to strike the last sentence in the condition. All voted in favor
and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to O.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS:
Councilman Peterson: Mr. Mayor, just a matter of general point of interest. Over the last
week and a half Southwest Metro has been challenged by MnDot to come up with an
additional few million dollars. In a matter of a week we were down about 5 and then we
were down about 4. Down about 6 and I think right now we're down in a few hundred
thousand after we escalated it to the appropriate people within the State government but it
was a, been an interesting challenge to originally get a commitment to, for X amount of
dollars and then we move ahead as a transit commission to acquire approvals and
everything else and then come up with a few million dollar short and we don't have a lot
of revenues that we can tax people on so I think people finally realized that the Southwest
Metro Transit just can't come up with a few million dollars. It was a point where we
were in jeopardy of being able to do the 212 transit station last week and now this week
we've kind of come full circle and we're back full steam ahead again so and thank a lot
of people with the State Capitol for realizing that so. So anyway, Southwest Metro is
forging ahead.
Mayor Furlong: Good. Thank you. Any questions on that or other presentations? No?
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS:
Todd Gerhardt: My big news is our Finance Director, Bruce DeJong has resigned and
will be taking a position with Ehlers and Associates. Staff has started the search and
would hope to have somebody in place by February of2005. Bruce has done a great job
for us. We saw another example of it tonight in some of his big picture thinking and
forecasting down the line for budget and debt and I wish Bruce the best and we've got a
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lot of benefit out of Bruce this past 5 years and lucky to have him here. And wish him
the best.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. I would reiterate the compliments there. There's been a
number of times where his creativity and looking for ways to get things done has made a
big difference to our financial picture so we appreciate all his efforts and wish him the
best as well. Anything else this evening?
Todd Gerhardt: No. Just I included in the correspondence packet some of the web
activity during President Bush's visit and it kind of went off the chart there if you notice
the daily checks. Thought that was interesting. Guys are gearing up for snowplow
season and finishing up our budgets. Starting our annual staff reviews and getting ready
for Thanksgiving.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Councilman Lundquist: Todd, what are the hours for the City Hall and city offices
around the Thanksgiving holiday.
Todd Gerhardt: We'll be closed Thursday and Friday. Open all day Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday of this week and back open again on next Monday. So we'll be closed
Thursday and Friday.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions, other questions for Mr. Gerhardt or staff?
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None.
Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson seconded to adjourn the
meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at
7:37 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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