Loading...
CC 2016 05 23 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MAY 23, 2016 Mayor Laufenburger: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight is a special night. We are going to incorporate the recent Mayor for a Day writing contest into our council meeting. We have invited 4 of the participants in the writing contest to sit at the council chamber and you’ll meet them in just a little bit but in just a moment I will ask the Mayor for a Day who is Sophia Grancarich. She will open the meeting. There you go, good job. Good job. She will open the meeting. She will invite all of us to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and then she will do a roll call of the other members of the council for a day and I would encourage you to speak slowly and clearly into the microphone when that happens. And then once the entire roll call has been called then they will join me in front of the council chambers for a brief presentation and then a chance to have photos taken with us. Mayor for a Day Sophia Grancarich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Laufenburger, Councilman McDonald, Councilwoman Ryan, and Councilman Campion COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Councilwoman Tjornhom STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Chelsea Petersen, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, Todd Hoffman, Jill Sinclair, and Roger Knutson PUBLIC PRESENT: Saralyn Nielsen 9390 Partridge Road Shea Thompson 6245 Mallory Lane th Claire Zupan 15220 38 Street th Tyler Miller 600 West 78 Street Olivia Russo 8746 Prescott Kevin Screpes 568 West Wood Lane PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor for a Day Sophia Grancarich: Now may we have a roll call of the council. Please state your name, your grade and your school. Luke Williams: My name is Luke Williams and I’m in fifth grade from Eagle Ridge Academy. J.T. Rathbun: My name is J.T. Rathbun. I’m in fourth grade and I go to Bluff Creek Elementary. Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Will Gebauer: My name is Will Gebauer and I am in fourth grade and I go to Chanhassen Elementary. Mayor for a Day Sophia Grancarich: My name is Sophia and I’m in fourth grade and I go to Chanhassen Elementary. At this time I’d like all the members for a day to step in front of the table for a presentation and photo with the full time Mayor of Chanhassen. Mayor Laufenburger: So let me tell you just a little bit about how it is that we are standing with these 4 young citizens from Chanhassen. Several months ago Assistant City Manager Chelsea Petersen and I talked about having a Mayor for a Day contest and the purpose of this was to ask this question. If you were Mayor of Chanhassen for a day what would you do to encourage residents to become more involved in city’s government and each of these young people wrote an essay and one of them was a little bit better than all of the others but they were all very, very good and they all had ideas such as let’s get people excited about being in the city and let’s raise funds, which of course is a great idea for anybody in public government right? Anyway I think that what they did is what they demonstrated is an interest in city government and a willingness to be bold and step forward so I want to congratulate each of them. First of all this is Councilmember for a Day Will Gebauer. Congratulations Will. This is for you and I also congratulate… Next I’m going to have J.T. come over here. This is a congratulations to Councilmember J.T. Rathbun. You getyour own nameplate and you also get a pin. Congratulations. You’re next. This is Councilman Luke Williams. Congratulations Luke. You also get a pin. And then Mayor for a Day, this is Sophia Grancarich. Congratulations Sophia. You did a wonderful job and before you go we’re going to have one with everybody. I just want to say that what these young people are demonstrating to you parents and to other people in the community, this is where citizenship begins. Civic pride begins right here so congratulations young people. Thank you very much. We’re done. Well good evening everybody and welcome to the City Council meeting. Those of you watching at home as well as in council chambers. Our first item on the agenda is to review the agenda. Is there any changes to the agenda this evening? There being none we’ll follow the agenda as printed. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilman Campion seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: 1. Approve City Council Minutes dated May 9, 2016 Resolution #2016-40: 2. Approve Resolution Accepting Donation from KleinBank for Summer Concert Series. 3. Approval of Temporary Liquor License, Chanhassen Rotary Club, July 3-4, 2016 All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. 2 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: PRESENTATION OF $2,500 DONATION FROM KLEINBANK FOR SUMMER CONCERT SERIES. Mayor Laufenburger: We do have a wonderful presentation this evening from Tyler Miller. Is Tyler Miller with us tonight? This is a presentation of a $2,500 donation from KleinBank for the summer concert series. Mr. Miller, you want to step forward? Receiving money. Hello Tyler. Nice to have you with us. I know KleinBank has been sponsoring concert series for how long Todd? Do you know? Todd Hoffman: Long time. Mayor Laufenburger: Long time. Todd Hoffman: Probably the whole time. Half a dozen years or more. Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah and these are concerts that occur at City Center Park and we’re very pleased with the donation that KleinBank has given us so thank you very much. Tyler Miller: You’re welcome. We’re happy to do it. Mayor Laufenburger: Good. This is a big check. Thank you very much. Well we thank KleinBank has been doing that for a number of years and I know it’s a delightful occurrence on Thursday evenings at City Center Park so thank you very much. Is there anyone else that would like to address the council at this time? Alright, very well. LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE. Mayor Laufenburger: This is the second meeting of the month and we traditionally have our monthly law enforcement and fire department update so let’s do law enforcement first. Lieutenant Kittelson, good evening. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council members. I have the law enforcement report and the information from the stats in the month of April. So in April we had 166 citations, 144 of those were for traffic and 22 were for parking. We had 370 total warnings for violations. We had 17 Part I crimes. 52 Part II crimes and 1,120 miscellaneous and non-criminal incidents. Sergeant Moline is here with me tonight. He’s also our Towards Zero Death grant coordination for the entire county so I’ve asked him to come and observe this evening. He will be filling in for me for at least one month this year. I know that I will be gone in April so he’s observing and also our grant coordinator so he coordinates the entire efforts of the TZ program for us and all the other grant agencies which for us is Chaska’s a partner with us as well as Minnesota State th Patrol. So starting today through June 5 is enhanced education enforcement for seat belt and child restraints and just as a reminder 91 people died last year in Minnesota that were not 3 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 buckled up and it takes less than 3 seconds to put your seat belt on and it’s 3 seconds that could save your life so we just want to remind everyone to please buckle up. Statewide I believe we’re at about 97 percent still compliance rate so kind of has been hovering around that percentage for the last few years so we are still trying to encourage that last small percentage of people to go ahead and make the decision to buckle themselves up and stay safe. Kind of along those same efforts, this is something that we’re doing as a reaction to, so when I came up to the City last April one of the things that I noticed was that we have a lot, we have a very active community. Lots of parks and trails. Lots of runners. Lots of bikers. Lots of pedestrians. Motorists are increasing and so part of the City work plan for policing this year, I wanted to take some proactive measure to address that and first and foremost greater tolerance on everyone’s part would go a long way from both the pedestrians, cyclists, runners and everyone that’s trying to utilize all the assets of the city but so what I did is we had all of our officers have been through National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Training for pedestrian enforcement and for cycling. And so we came up with this last fall when we did the City work plan. All the officers st went through 8 hours of training between January 1 when our new team in Chanhassen was st formed and then they completed that by April 1. I consulted with the city attorney’s office and had a meeting with them out at their office in Eagan and we went over kind of what we want to do. What we want to accomplish. What we don’t want to accomplish and if we do take enforcement action, how do we have successful resolution in court so what we came up with is st that we are going to do 10 events between now and October 1 of this year and they’re all going to be targeted at pedestrian and cycling safety. We are only doing marked intersections with signage, painted crosswalks. I went out and personally inspected all these. They have good view and low grade and minimal obstructions so in other words we’re trying to make this as easy as possible. It’s mostly an education campaign. We will also before each event we will put up posting on social media and if time allows, and Sergeant Moline, Sergeant Bruenig and Sergeant Beck will be the ones actually implementing this plan. They will also Tweet or put something on Facebook while it’s going on. We’re actually replicating a program that St. Paul PD has done successfully for the last year or two. There’s actually quite a bit of video on that if anyone wants to look at that. They’re going to be short in duration. One to two hours and like I said our primary goal is education and awareness. I anticipate very few citations for the primary violation. We’re looking to, this is a, we’re trying to take a small step forward towards educating everybody but that’s not to say that there wouldn’t be any or that our primary goal will be education and if there’s secondary offenses such as you get stopped for this and you have a suspended license you will, we’ll address that so. Mayor Laufenburger: So Lieutenant Kittelson you described 10 events. So these events will be public safety officials. Your officers will be present at that intersection or at that location. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Yep. Mayor Laufenburger: Again creating education. You’ll alert the citizens about it so that they won’t be surprised or hopefully won’t be surprised when they see you there. 4 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Lt. Eric Kittelson: Correct. Mayor Laufenburger: And the primary purpose is to educate proper use of sidewalks, trails, intersections by pedestrians and bicyclists, is that correct? Lt. Eric Kittelson: Correct. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Lt. Eric Kittelson: And you know like I said when I met with the city attorney’s office we talked about some events that other communities have done that weren’t quite so successful and they involved the uses of baby carriages and things of that nature. We are going to be as visible as possible. Even wearing our safety vests while we are crossing the street so we’re not, we’re not looking to trick anyone. It’s, the goal is to raise awareness and I’ll just read to you the statute that we’re operating under. So basically where a traffic control signals are not in place or in operation the driver of the vehicle shall stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk. The driver must remain stopped until the pedestrian has passed the lane in which the vehicle is stopped and no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield so like I said we’re trying to educate pedestrians as much as we are the motorists and I would say this is the number one phone call I receive on a weekly basis in the last year is from one of those 3 parties. Either a cyclist or a pedestrian or a motorist and like I said I think if we can raise awareness for all and if everyone can just be just a little bit more tolerant of the others sharing the roads and what not and the trails and most of these are trail crossings a lot of them and so that’s where we’re just trying to raise awareness for everyone so that we can make sure that we don’t have any of those accidents that the TZD program is designed to prohibit. And this will be done while officers are working and it will just be an additional duty that they’re doing for the day and so if they set up and a primary call takes them away from it then they’ll just set up again later the next day so. Mayor Laufenburger: Well there’s a number of events, you said 10 events between now and October, is that correct? Lt. Eric Kittelson: Yes and I’m letting the Sergeants dictate what, each team is going to do 3 and then I’ll come out for 1 myself so. Mayor Laufenburger: Good. Well there are certainly a number of activities that will be happening in Chanhassen during the summer that will bring a number of people both citizens of Chanhassen out of their homes into the trails area as well as visitors to Chanhassen so I commend you and look forward to hearing the results in October. Thank you very much Sergeant Moline too for doing this. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Thank you. That concludes my report. I stand for questions. 5 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Mayor Laufenburger: Questions for Mr. Kittelson? Thank you Lieutenant. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Oh before you go. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Yes. Mayor Laufenburger: I know that you’ve been busy over the last month, especially around Audubon Road. We had an incident at Paisley Park and also the Cars and Coffee. What’s your perception of how things were handled by both the citizens and visitors during that time? Lt. Eric Kittelson: You know it was pretty phenomenal. Like you have mentioned we have had, I assume you’re talking about the entirety of the event. Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah the entirety of that experience. Lt. Eric Kittelson: You know our goal was to create a safe environment both. The collaboration and cooperation with all the city divisions, parks and city engineering and MnDOT, we really couldn’t have I don’t think done it any better and I think we had talked a little bit kind of during th the event is that we basically did 4 of July. Mayor Laufenburger: Early. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Instantly with no planning and I think the skill of the other city divisions of doing those types of planning and activities throughout the year, it was just kind of like okay th we’re just doing that but 4 of July is about 75,000 people in 3 days and we know every year when it’s coming and I think we had probably about 5,000 people at any given time for numerous days. At least probably the first 7 to 10 days so I don’t know the final numbers on that or if we’ll ever know that but I want to thank everyone that’s visited over that time. Mayor Laufenburger: But really no incidents of any consequence. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Not of any consequence. I think we had maybe 2 or 3 that we shared with local media that were the officers utilized their discretion and solved the problem and it didn’t result in citations so yeah, thanks to the public that have come to visit the city and to the citizens that do live here for being tolerant of that and I think everyone, like you’ve mentioned before recognized the importance of that on a global spectrum and I think we were pretty good hosts and we certainly had good people to… Mayor Laufenburger: Well thank you to you and to your officers that contributed to making that as uneventful as we could. 6 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Lt. Eric Kittelson: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Lieutenant. Chief Johnson. Chief Don Johnson: Mayor, council, good evening. This is the fire department report for April. Staffing sits at 38 fire fighters. We have 2 fire fighters on medical leave. I’m excited to say that th May 14 was our annual, our hiring push so we took 18 applicants. We condensed that down to 14. 12 actually showed up for the interviews and the physical agility test which was pretty rigorous. I know in the report here we made 9 offers. I had one back out today so we did make th 8 conditional offers. The tentative start date will be June 20 and they’ll be, to get to that date they’re going to have a few other things that they’re going to have to do. A medical physical. A psychological assessment and then a finger print background check so as long as the 3, those 3 th items are met we’ll have 8 new candidates starting as Chanhassen fire fighters on June 20 and they’ll go right into medical training so we hope to have them at least starting to go on medicals by the end of the summer so. In April we went on 53 calls. Duty crew responded to 9 of those calls during scheduled shifts. Year to date the duty crews have responded to 34 calls total. We had one mutual aid building fire in Waconia and 2 small grass fires in Chanhassen during the month. There was 29 EMS calls including 2 motor vehicles with accidents with injuries. The monthly training since we’ve met last, I would like to commend the sheriff’s office. I believe the Sheriff will probably be putting something out on this but between myself and quite a few of the sheriff office instructors and Ridgeview EMS I believe we’ve probably trained over 600 first responders in Carver County with the active shooter and mass casualty incident training so my hats off to the sheriff’s office. It was a large endeavor. There was quite a few instructors that had to go through that and to get that done logistically over about a 6 week period was pretty incredible so, and I’m not trying to take the sheriff’s thunder. I think we’ll be hearing something on that but in Chanhassen that means a lot. We’ve had 40 of our fire fighters that went through that that some have been through it before but some had never been exposed to that so hopefully we don’t have to exercise what we’ve trained in but we’re better prepared than we were before the training so. We had officers participated in a quarterly incident commander refresher training. We’ve had live burn training at the Edina training facility and tonight we’re doing EMS. Coincidentally I assisted or was asked and assisted with Minnetonka PD and Fire as an st evaluator on May 1 at the Ridgedale Mall. They did an active shooter training there which I served as an evaluator so again regionally we’re, this is kind of one of our focus points for th training in the emergency services. The fire department held their annual banquet on May 7 th and then we finished up with May 9 with the ground breaking so thank you to those that were able to attend those events with us. We did finally receive a request from Chaska Fire on our support of the Ryder Cup. Being that the number of resources that are needed for that, they’ve actually assigned each fire department with tasks so for the Chanhassen Fire Department we’ve got 2 on course shifts and we’ve got one shift of covering Chaska. What we’ve done is put up a th lottery for those that want to be considered for this. That will close I want to say June 13. We’ll draw names from a hat because it’s a 4 person crew for each of those events so hopefully we’ll have some happy folks that get to serve in a once in a lifetime event so we’ve got a lot 7 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 more names than we’ve got spots for so that’s a good place to be. Along with that I can only say that there’s about 260,000 people headed our way. It is a very large event. Any given time a PGA event has about 40 tents. 30 to 40 tents. This has 80. They’re going to start putting tents up 2 weeks prior to the event and Mark Littfin and I, the Fire Marshal are probably going to be tasked with assisting with inspecting a lot of those so we’re going to be busy coming into the last part of September. Beginning of October. Recently I know that the City Manager sent you updates. We’ve had 2 fires in the last week here that have resulted from smoking materials being discarded in the yard. Landing in the mulch and then subsequently lighting the house on fire. Cooking fires are our number one fire, both nationally and here in Minnesota and Chanhassen. Second to smoking fires. Smoking related fires. The bad thing about smoking related fires is they are the number one cause of death in fires so we really would like people to be careful this time of year smoking outside and throwing cigarette butts into your lawn or leaving ashtrays on your deck and they, those butts roll back into that little crevice between the deck and the house tends to smolder and causes problems so I’d encourage anybody to make sure that their, if they do smoke to dispose of that stuff responsibly. In both cases luckily neighbors had noticed that something was going wrong and made that call to 911 and we were lucky to hold the damage to minimal and no injuries but at any point one of that chain breaks down and we could have a catastrophic event here so encourage the public to really be careful with that so that’s my report Mayor. Mayor Laufenburger: Any questions for Chief Johnson? Nice job Chief. Chief Don Johnson: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you. TH WEST 78 STREET WATER MAIN EXTENSION PROJECT: APPROVE RESOLUTION ACCEPTING BIDS AND AWARDING CONTRACT. Mayor Laufenburger: I bet we have a staff report Mr. Oehme. Paul Oehme: We do Mayor and City Council members. I’d like to just give you a brief th background on the proposed project. The project includes extension of watermain along 78 Street basically from the east side of Highway 41 to the east edge of Arbor Development. In total there’s approximately 2,100 feet of watermain that we’d like to put in and we’re looking at directional boring that project. That watermain so the purpose and need for the project. The th watermain in this area along Tanadoona and Dogwood here and then 78 Street, it’s about 5,900 feet long. 5,900 feet of dead end watermain. Typically you like to loop that watermain for several reasons. The city staff when the utilities, when they flush the hydrants here they have to be very careful because when they let a lot of water and turn the gate valves down quickly it can cause a water hammer which can actually, and has caused hot water heaters to rupture or the release valves on the hot water heaters to open up so causing damage in people’s basements. And then we also, another reason why we’re proposing this project is to provide a redundant 8 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 water service to the area. So example if the watermain on Tanadoona were to have a watermain break, not all these people would be out of water. It would be isolated areas where we can fix the watermain without having to disrupt service to adjacent property owners. And then also to improve the circulation of the water in this area, when you have a long dead end like this typically this is in the high zone. The water is not treated or removed for iron manganese here. We have a tendency to build up iron and manganese in these long dead ends which causes rusty water calls and we have to get out there and flush so by looping the watermain down here we were anticipating to solve all those problems. Staff did design this project in-house and we have designed it for directional boring. The benefits for directional boring, the project, there’s no th trenching involved right now. 78 Street is fully developed. Curb and gutters. Trail on the north side and we don’t want to rip up that street. The trail, have to replace it. It’s more costly so if we directional bore underneath the road it’s going to save a lot on restoration. Less traffic th disruption to cross open cut and put the watermain in. We’d have to shut down 78 Street and then Highway 41 which would be significant impacts to the traveling public. And then also this directional boring is faster and in most instances actually more cost effective, especially in developed areas. And we have used directional boring techniques on other projects in the city and they have been successful in this area. So this is just a quick example of what a directional bore machine looks like so we have directional bore rods that come down into the ground and there’s actually a gentleman here that’s sitting on the machine can guide those directional rods up, down, left, right and to certain elevations and grades to make sure that watermain’s placed where it was designed to place. Once the rod’s in the ground there’s some bentonite or some very fine clay material that’s, and with water it’s put in the ground to make it more smooth and then we introduce the watermain that’s over here. We attach the rods to the watermain and actually pull the watermain back so with this project there’s about 2,100 feet of watermain that has to be put in. We’re anticipating maybe 1 or 2, or probably 2 bore pits but most they can pull watermain if it’s 1,500 feet long if it’s in a straight location they can easily pull that amount of watermain no problem with some of these bigger machines. With that we did take bids on th Wednesday, May 4 at 2:00. We did receive 5 bids for the project. Engineer estimate was $233,679. The lowest responsible bidder after tabulation was GM Contracting and GM has worked in the city before and their work has been acceptable. So with that if the project were to move forward I did talk to the GM Contracting today. They’d like to get going as quickly as we can so they would actually like to start right after Memorial Day sometime and the contract states that the project should be completed within 5 working weeks. Five weeks so sometime middle of July we anticipate the project to be completed. With that if there’s any questions I’d be more than happy to answer them. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Mr. Oehme. Any questions from council to Mr. Oehme? Councilwoman Ryan. Councilwoman Ryan: So is there any down time for any of the residents on this watermain with shutting off the water for them? 9 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Paul Oehme: Yep so the watermain will go in and we’re going to test it and get it all serviceable. When we make the connection to the existing watermain there will be a portion of time, there’ll be some down time so it’s going to be a couple hours maybe at the most but we’ll try to do that during the day. Not in the morning or late in the afternoon so we’ll try to make sure we minimize the disruption as much as we can. Councilwoman Ryan: And is it ever communicated to the residents or do they just know that maybe in this week it’s going to happen? Paul Oehme: Well we always try to give them at least a 12 hour notice if we’re going to have any significant shut downs so actually we’re sending out a notice, if this project goes forward tonight, let them know about the project. A little bit more and we’ll give them a schedule on it as well too but we’ll let them know if there’s going to be any interruptions. Councilwoman Ryan: Okay, thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Any other questions? Mr. Oehme are there any other situations like this in the city that we need to pay attention to where we have significant dead ending of watermain anywhere else? Paul Oehme: I’m trying to think. We don’t have anything in the 5 year CIP right now for something like this. We are looking if, as we move south on Powers Boulevard or 101, there’s potentially bigger development areas that will be serviced. We definitely want to try to loop those projects in and in the future so we’re not stuck with a large project like this in the future so we’re looking at more of those type of projects when development takes place in the south. Mayor Laufenburger: And how many users are there on this loop from Tanadoona that way? How many users are there? Paul Oehme: Oh well the Arbors I think it was about 19 units there and Dogwood is probably another 20 or so. Mayor Laufenburger: Maybe 50? Paul Oehme: 50 or 60 probably. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, very well. Let’s bring it back to the council for either comment or motion. Councilwoman Ryan: Mr. Mayor I’ll make a motion. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Councilwoman Ryan. 10 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Councilwoman Ryan: The City Council approves a construction contract in the amount of $220,596.06 to GM Contracting for work to be performed on the above referenced project. Mayor Laufenburger: Perfect. Is there a second? Councilman Campion: Second. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Mr. Campion. Any discussion? Resolution #2016-41: Councilwoman Ryan moved, Councilman Campion seconded that the Chanhassen City Council approves a construction contract in the amount of th $220,596.06 to GM Contracting, Inc. for work to be performed on West 78 Street Water Main Extension Project No. 14-07. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you very much Mr. Oehme. Paul Oehme: Thank you. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Gerhardt, anything to report? Todd Gerhardt: We celebrated Doug Hoese’s 21 years of service with the City last, what was it? Thursday and Doug has worked for us for 21 years and has decided to retire so he was an exceptional employee for us and going to be missed greatly as one of our building inspectors. Mayor Laufenburger: In the building department right? Todd Gerhardt: Correct. Mayor Laufenburger: Wow, 21 years. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah and we already hired his replacement. A gentleman from St. Louis Park and look forward to getting him onboard as soon as possible. Mayor Laufenburger: Wonderful. Anything else? Todd Gerhardt: That’s it. Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. 11 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 Councilman McDonald: Yes Mr. Mayor. I wanted to just report that yesterday the Chanhassen Beyond the Yellow Ribbon held their annual awards presentations and what this is for is for all high school seniors who are going into the military as their next step forward in life so we held that at the American Legion who donated the food and the space and we really appreciate that. That really works out to be a great space to have this and we had the place completely filled in their banquet room up there where the ribbons and so it turned out to be a very good event. We had 2 very good speakers who basically focused on what to expect over the next 6 to 8 weeks as first time enlistees in the armed forces. Bob Ayotte ran this for the Yellow Ribbon. He was in charge of the sub-committee. It went off very well with no big hitches. I think everybody was quite pleased. Also our own Chelsea Petersen was very much involved and I really appreciate her assistance and help so everything worked just fine and the City’s doing a good job with the Yellow Ribbon. Mayor Laufenburger: Wonderful, thank you Councilman McDonald. Did you say how many students entering the military? How many of them? Councilman McDonald: Well we had 9 there and I think the total that we had identified from all the schools around the area was like 17 or 18 I believe and the reason a lot of those weren’t there is because they’ve gone into what’s kind of an early entry program so they were up to Camp Ripley. Mayor Laufenburger: Already taking their training. Councilman McDonald: Already taking training and everything. Mayor Laufenburger: Wonderful. And this is not the first year that you’ve done this recognition for the, those entering the military. Councilman McDonald: No it’s not. Like I said it’s kind of an annual thing and it goes back. Mayor Laufenburger: 5 years? Councilman McDonald: Five years, yeah. We’ve been doing it for 5 years. Mayor Laufenburger: Very good. Well congratulations and kudos to the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon committee for making this an important annual event. Councilman McDonald: Thank you Mr. Mayor, I’ll pass that on to everybody. Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, thank you. Anybody else, any other council presentations? Well the only other thing I have to report is the Chanhassen Red Birds opened their season last night with a 13 to 6 win over the Belle Plain Tigers. They were clearly outmanned and a rousing 12 Chanhassen City Council – May 23, 2016 crowd was on hand to kick off the season and Adrian Turner hit a 349 foot home run over the rd right field fence in the 3 inning so Red Birds are off and running. CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None. Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ryan seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. The City Council meeting was adjourned at 7:40 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 13