CC 2018 03 12CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
MARCH 12, 2018
Mayor Laufenburger called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. The meeting was opened
with the Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Laufenburger, Councilwoman Tjornhom,
Councilman McDonald, Councilwoman Ryan, and Councilman Campion
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Chelsea Petersen, Kate Aanenson, Paul Oehme, Todd
Hoffman and Roger Knutson
PUBLIC PRESENT:
Jon Gilbert 1641 Jeurissen Lane
Liz & Bob Haak 770 Pioneer Trail
Bob & Betty Wold 730 Pioneer Trail
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you and welcome to those, welcome to this council meeting.
Those of you that are present in the chamber. There’s about 10 folks in the chamber with us this
evening and also those of you that are watching on Mediacom cable TV at home or via the
website livestream. Nice to have you with us and for the record let it be known that all members
of the council are present this evening and we’re ready to move on. First action is the agenda.
Council members are there any modifications to the agenda as printed? And if not then we will
proceed with 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 February 26, 2018
2. Receive Planning Commission Minutes dated February 20, 2018
3. Approve Chanhassen Farmers’ Market Agreement
4. Resolution #2018-22: Approve Quote for Roof Replacement at Lift Station 24
5. Resolution #2018-23: Accept Quotes for West Water Treatment Plant Chemical Feed
Equipment.
6. Resolution #2018-24: Approve Park Road/Park Place Project 16-04 Change Order #2
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7. Resolution #2018-25: Accept Quote for the 2018 Well Rehabilitation Project
8. Award Low Quote: Installation of MUSCO LED Lighting at Lake Susan Park Baseball
Field
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS. None.
Mayor Laufenburger: For those of you that are watching at home or via livestream we have
visitor presentation at every regularly scheduled council meeting. This is a great opportunity for
you to speak to the council about any matter concerning the city. Any encouragement or any
problems you’d like to address. We can’t always address the problem right away but we
certainly can direct staff to investigate the problem. There being no visitor presentations at this
time I will close visitor presentation.
APPROVE A DNR FLOOD DAMAGE REDUCTION GRANT ASSISTANCE
PROGRAMN APPLICATION FOR PROPERTIES ALONG PIONEER TRAIL.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Oehme is this your’s?
Paul Oehme: That’s correct Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alrighty.
Paul Oehme: Good evening City Council members as well. Again this is to consider staff
putting an application out for DNR flood mitigation for properties along Pioneer Trail so the
properties in question are 730, 750, and 770 Pioneer Trail. These properties are located just west
of 101 and along Pioneer Trail and north of Bluff Creek Golf Course as shown here. So these
problems have been historically had flood problems. Flooding of these properties have been
reported back since the 70’s. City staff has records of that. The City did model this area and it’s
apparent that rain events over 2 ½ inches in a 24 hour period can flood out the back yards and
then rain events over 3 ½ inches can potentially, over a 24 hour period can flood out some of the
structures on the property as well. And just for reference a 100 year storm event is right around
7 inches of rain so the watershed area, or the water that contributes to this area or is collected is
about 11.4 acres and mainly comes from the north and then also from the east of this area. So
the properties, these 3 properties were built in the 60’s and 70’s when the city was very small at
that time. The properties do have well and septic on them right now and there is no city services
in this area so if say the septic systems were to fail or the well were to fail it’d be very difficult
and expensive for these properties to hook up now and into the future as well. So I just, some of
the property owners have given the City some pictures over the years about the flooding
problems in this area so this is a flooding event that took place in the 70’s. Family going out for
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a canoe ride. In the 80’s we also we were seeing a lot of flooding as well too. This is the Haak’s
property out their back porch and then a picture from Pioneer Trail, just south of Pioneer Trail
showing some of the flooding in the back yards here as well. In the 90’s there was some bigger
storm events flooding some of the garages in the area in the back yards and impacting some of
the structures in the, on these properties. And again in the 2010’s I think 2014 is these photos
were taken. Again flooding out some of the garages and some of the basements as well at this
time. So staff did survey this area and then we also did complete a storm water modeling of the
watershed. Properties areas primarily drain by an old field tile that follows the ditch line along
Pioneer Trail. That water takes most of the small rain events from this area. When those larger
rain events happen there are a few culverts along Pioneer Trail again that take some of that water
as well. The drainage system we looked at. We modeled it. Can be replaced and to reduce the
flooding in this area but would potentially create flooding downstream as well if we were to take
a lot of the flood water from this location and move it downstream so there’s a barn downstream
of here. There are Powers Boulevard potentially would be impacted and this water flows down
into Bluff Creek which is impaired water already and then down the bluff as well so we’re
concerned about having more water discharging at this point downstream and more erosion
down the bluff as well so we want to try to avoid that. So we looked at trying to balance out
what we can do for flooding in the back yards. The back yards are considered wetland areas as
well so in terms of an engineering solution just, if we just look at the back yards and try to
capture some of that water. Pond it or to do something else there’s some limited options we can
do there just because of the wetland rules that we have today. So this is a model of our hydro
cad showing the area of drainage. So this is a 100 year event so the properties, 770, 750 and 730
are shown right here. This is Pioneer Trail and 101 is on the right hand side here so the red line
shows what the current 100 year water elevation would potentially be today as modeled and then
we looked at what a potential solution would be to improve the drainage in this area but not flood
out you know downstream, or have downstream impacts because of more water going
downstream so based upon our modeling and we were looking at the drain tile I talked about
earlier, that’s about an 8 inch pipe. We think we can upsize that to about a 12 inch pipe. With
that however we’re not gaining much flood relief so the green line here is showing what
potentially the new high water elevation would be with that improved system so we’re saving a
little bit on the high water event but not much. We’re still looking at potentially flooding out the
garages and some other structures on the property as well. So in summary what we are finding is
there doesn’t seem to be a good engineering solution to significantly reduce the flooding
problems on these properties and then just looking if there were to be a flood you know solution
out here, you know even extending city services to this properties will be cost prohibitive since
there is really no sewer and water in this area right now or plan to be in the near future as well.
So what staff’s recommendation is to seek out funding to potentially purchase these properties
and re-establish wetlands in this area. We have talked to Carver County and the watershed
district and the DNR and some other folks too and trying to get some sense of what we can do to
look at a project like that. As the council may remember the Avienda wetland alteration permit
that was approved recently did, we did talk about what this project as potentially an improvement
project for the funding that the developer would give to the city in lieu of wetland mitigation on
site or within the watershed district. As you may recall there were some wetlands that were
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going to be impacted by the development and there was no alternate site on, alternative site on
the development or within the watershed district to mitigate those wetlands so in lieu of that the
developer is planning to give the City some funds for wetland alteration project or storm water
improvement project so this may be a good fit for those funds. So like I mentioned before there
is a DNR grant that’s available right now for flood mitigation. We did have a conversation with
the DNR about this and what the grant allows for up to 50 percent of the improvement to be
funded by this DNR grant so that, in this case it would fund up to 50 percent of the property
acquisitions and it will also contribute to the funding of the demolition of the structures on site.
Capping the wells, septic systems, those type of things. The City staff has talked to Riley-
Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed District as well and they’re very interested in partnering with
the City on this project. They think it’s a good project and then trying to restore the wetlands in
this area. And then we also have talked to Carver County and some other folks and there might
be some other potential grants out there for acquisitions and wetland improvements down the
road as well. So with that if there’s any questions for me I’d be more than happy to try to answer
them. We do have some of the residents here as well if you’d like to visit with them as well.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, thank you Mr. Oehme. First let’s begin with council. Are there
any questions you have of Mr. Oehme at this time? Go ahead Elise.
Councilwoman Ryan: More of a general question. I don’t know if you...or not but could you
just explain this process. This is new to me so the flood reduction grant assistance and if you
could just explain that.
Todd Gerhardt: Yep, Paul could you go back to the wetland picture. That one right there. What
you have here is a situation where when you have historic events of rains and it seems as though
we have more of them recently where the water does go outside of the green or the red lines and
in some cases they have gone into basements I’ve been told and so the DNR, the watershed
district is always looking at ways to try to improve our wetlands and one way of improving the
wetland here is to expand on it. And the key thing that our wetlands do is they act as bowls.
They hold the water and then once the bowl is full it slowly leaks out the edge and we want it to
slowly release into the system. Paul says there’s really not an engineering way of fixing this
problem but an engineer can figure out anything. You could put a big pipe and just drain the
whole wetland and put it down into the Bluff Creek corridor but then what you would do is
create erosion along the Bluff Creek corridor and we’ve seen situations downstream where we do
have erosion just from the current runoff of you know filling in the silt and sand into the
Minnesota River as one of our candidates talked earlier tonight about being one of the most
polluted rivers in Minnesota. So slowly releasing the water is the goal of our storm water
management system. That’s why we have storm water ponds to capture runoff. To slow the
water down and we really have not taken advantage of this program because Chanhassen is fairly
new we’ve had most of our homes built above the high water mark but occasionally there are
homes that are close to wetlands or into the, into or close to the floodplain area.
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Councilwoman Ryan: So I guess to clarify that question almost. Your information was helpful
but you will apply for the grant and then if the grant is approved and they provide up to 50
percent of the cost of the acquisition.
Todd Gerhardt: Yes.
Councilwoman Ryan: And then other.
Todd Gerhardt: We’re expecting.
Councilwoman Ryan: Other fund sources come in or.
Paul Oehme: Right.
Todd Gerhardt: Yep. We’re expecting funding from the watershed district and potentially from
the county and the city, those 3 agencies.
Councilwoman Ryan: And do we have a number that we’re trying to achieve?
Paul Oehme: Well so we have estimates for what the appraised values are right now.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay.
Paul Oehme: And we have other ancillary costs associated with that so we have a ballpark
number what we think it would take to purchase these properties and yeah, we’re pretty close I
think on getting the amount of money necessary for the purchase of these properties.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay.
Paul Oehme: But if the Avienda money would come through that would really help offset our
costs and then the watershed district already has allocated some money actually for this project
already so.
Councilwoman Ryan: And then once the structures are removed then it just becomes a wetland
and then when, I mean I know Todd in the past one of the long term goals is to have a trail along
Pioneer Trail. Is that part of these costs then as well or is that completely separate?
Paul Oehme: No.
Todd Gerhardt: No.
Paul Oehme: That’s completely separate. We do have to look at those future improvements as
well down the road and so if we do capture the money for allocation of these properties we
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probably would like to take a trail easement or road easement first before we dedicate it as a
wetland.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay, so that’s then and that’s part of the process.
Paul Oehme: That’s part of the process, exactly. Yep. And the DNR said they, you know they
don’t have all the funds available right now if we were successful in getting money for these, for
this grant so it might be a year or 2 years, 3 years, 4 years out before we potentially could have
enough funds for acquiring any of these properties so it’s going to be a long process. It’s just not
acquiring the properties. There would have to be again a wetland improvement project out here
so there’s some trees out here that probably would be removed and then some grading work and
some vegetation improvements that would also take place after the acquisitions are completed so
that would, we would seek funding for, another grant for the wetland improvements after the
properties have been acquired.
Councilwoman Ryan: Oh, okay. Okay, great.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah it’s a multi-step process and it is a public taking of the 3 properties so
relocation costs are included in that acquisition price and which, and then the building
demolition would also be a part of the overall project as Paul stated for the, that would fall more
into the wetland improvement area.
Paul Oehme: Well the DNR would be, DNR funds are eligible for the demolition.
Todd Gerhardt: Oh that is?
Paul Oehme: And the septic and the wells too so.
Todd Gerhardt: Okay.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay. Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Campion go ahead.
Councilman Campion: Yeah one question. So the property just to the west of those other 3
properties would not be affected by this?
Paul Oehme: No. I mean so the goal would be to not raise the water you know where it is today
so we’d try to keep it at the same 100 year elevations so basically the neighbor does have
wetlands on his property so where you see the red and the green line, that’s approximately where
the high water line would still take place. His structures are far enough away from that high
water mark where it wouldn’t be impacted.
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Todd Gerhardt: If you see the black, it’s the build, I think that’s the barn.
Paul Oehme: This is the house here.
Todd Gerhardt: A house and then the barn is farther back.
Paul Oehme: To the west, yep.
Mayor Laufenburger: Is that the only property on Pioneer Trail west of 730, 750 and 770?
Paul Oehme: That’s correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Does that answer your question Mr. Campion.
Councilman Campion: It does.
Kate Aanenson: I would just add too when we look at the redevelopment of that area sometime
when there’s sewer and water to that property that’s immediately to the west and the one to the
north, those could be subdivided in the future but again as the City Engineer stated that could be
down the road. They could get sewer and water as Mr. Erhart’s property developed, it could be a
street that came, you know a cul-de-sac or something coming that way. We had looked at that
before in the comp plan so.
Mayor Laufenburger: Anybody else? Mr. McDonald go ahead.
Councilman McDonald: You mentioned a number of years. Can you give me an estimate of
what kind of timeframe we’re looking at to get this accomplished?
Paul Oehme: Well staff would like to try to make these acquisitions as soon as we can so if the
money comes together, I mean it would be a one or two year process. The DNR doesn’t know
exactly where their funds are yet for fiscal year ’19 so they say we could potentially one or two
properties this year and then one maybe next year but they don’t know for sure. The funding
right now, I think we have a pretty good shot of getting the funding. When we talked to the
DNR they said most of the funding for this program has gone out of metro the last 5-6 years so
it’d be nice to have a metro project in the near future so.
Councilman McDonald: Okay, thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: So Mr. Oehme can you just clarify, we are not funding anything tonight.
The only thing we’re doing is we’re following a procedural process that requires the City
Council pass a resolution in support of this project, is that correct?
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Paul Oehme: That’s correct. All the staff is asking for tonight is to pass a resolution supporting
the application to move forward. We do not have any money secured at this time. There’s no
projects that have been approved at this time. It’s just a resolution of support of submitting an
application for the DNR.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. One more question if I may. If we pass this, at what point in the
future will this project come back to the council for approval or are we giving our approval to
this right now?
Paul Oehme: No it would still have to come back and so the City Council would have to accept
the funds and then we’d have to go through the acquisition process so there’d be another, a
bunch of steps along the way to that the council would have to approve for the expenditure of
DNR funds and some of these other grant funds that we’re talking about.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Mr. Oehme I know this has been, and I know the Haak’s are with
us tonight and maybe their neighbors are here as well. We, this is not a new problem. This has
been going on, as you pointed out from these pictures for a long, long time. What makes this
sort of thing possible at this time?
Paul Oehme: I think some of the, you know the funding that we have been talking about through
the Avienda project and just the problem’s not getting, is not going away so we’ve been looking
at alternatives to try to improve this over the years and nothing really has come through fruition.
I think there’s been a desire on some of the property owners that have lived here since the 60’s
and 70’s to maybe move on so in terms of salability of their property with you know the known
flood problems that they have in their yard I think it’s going to be difficult for them to sell so I
think all those things have kind of worked to this point in time where I think it’s time we actually
consider purchasing the properties and restoring this area to what it originally was.
Mayor Laufenburger: So this is one of those times where owning property on the waterfront is
not such a good thing right?
Paul Oehme: That’s correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor?
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Gerhardt.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor and council, as a part of the Avienda project you know the developer
looked for opportunities to improve wetlands in and around the Chanhassen area and there really
wasn’t anything standing out and then Paul and his team came up with the idea of well this is an
opportunity where we would improve a wetland situation. You know the septic systems when
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they do flood are in that high water area and that’s not improving the water quality at all so, and I
think we’ve got 3 willing sellers in this situation if all the appraisals are agreed upon and so this
would be a project that could be improved in Chanhassen for a wetland instead of Nicollet
County or Martin County or you know somewhere outstate so I know that was an issue with the
watershed district and some council members and so, so Paul came up with this idea and it’s
been something that’s been on the back burner for a while and with the Avienda development it
got moved up to the front burner.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, thank you Mr. Gerhardt. I know that, I visited this, I have visited
this site personally over the last 8 months and I’ve seen the impact of 2 ½ and a 3 inch rain and I
know Mr. Oehme you’ve been exploring ways of dissipating that water faster and there are, there
just as Mr. Gerhardt has pointed out there’s just problems associated with that too. And this is
not a public hearing but if any of the neighbors would like to speak to the council at this time just
to share your personal experiences I would welcome an opportunity for that. Bob if you’d like to
come, anybody. I just ask that you lift up that microphone to your mouth and state your name
and address if you wouldn’t mind.
Bob Haak: Bob Haak, 770 Pioneer Trail, Chanhassen. We’ve lived, Liz and I have lived here
since 1971 or since ’73 on the property. Ever since we came it started or it’s been flooding.
Maybe not to the extent it does now. The problem that I, there’s two problems that I see. The
first one is the, I don’t believe the home should have been built there in the first place. It was a
fairly reasonably priced home when I purchased it. The owners were not, did not have to
disclose the water issues that we had with it. We’ve lived with them for a long, long time. What
probably broke the camel’s back is when, I believe it was 2014 or ’10, I don’t remember exactly
off hand.
Mayor Laufenburger: June, 2014.
Bob Haak: June, 2014 the drain tile that the farmer put in well before we moved there plugged.
Tree roots grew through the tile. The tile is 10 inches in diameter. It’s concrete. It’s very thin
and it, I found broken pieces of it all over the place.
Mayor Laufenburger: And Bob just to clarify, this is the drain tile that you’re referring to on the
property just to your west, is that correct?
Bob Haak: That is correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah so this is part of the tile that takes the water from your property
adjacent and delivers it west towards Bluff Creek.
Bob Haak: Right.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
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Bob Haak: The 24 inch tile or culvert that goes under my neighbor’s driveway normally, I mean
we have flooding water, we would have flooding water if it weren’t for this little drain tile. And
when it rains substantially the overflow that is not held by the, is not handled by the drain tile
goes over the surface. But the remainder of the water takes 2 or 3 days for the water to dissipate
through this 10 inch drain tile. Well it plugged. We are really at the mercy of this drain tile so if
it happens this year, every rain I’m thinking oh am I going to have to bail water out of my
basement again. I mean that’s basically what it comes to so my hope is that we can do this
project one way or the other. And the sooner the better as far as we are concerned and I
appreciate your time and I appreciate the staff’s time on this project. Paul has done a lot and the
mayor was out and visited us on a rainy night and we appreciate all the help but we really would
like to get this taken care of and thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Thanks Bob. Is there anybody else who would like to speak at this time?
Welcome, just state your name and address please.
Bob Wold: My name is Bob Wold and my wife Betty and I live at 730 Pioneer Trail.
Mayor Laufenburger: So your’s is the first house closest to.
Bob Wold: We’re the first one. We’re upstream.
Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah you’re upstream.
Bob Wold: And this problem, this land when we moved into it we actually, my wife actually
raised 32 sheep in the back yard and so it wasn’t when we were here we checked on it and when
we first moved in in ’75 it wasn’t considered wetland at that time but of course we had a lot
different environmental standards then. But the land across 101 to the east.
Mayor Laufenburger: Foxford.
Bob Wold: Were all farm fields.
Mayor Laufenburger: Yep.
Bob Wold: And that’s been developed where it either runs into Lake Riley or a good portion of
it, which is a lot more hard surfaces now, comes back and goes through culverts into this area.
Where the miniature golf course is, Halla Golf Course that was a tree farm and they didn’t drain
the water off from that so it was another area that the water sunk into. Well when they did 101
they put a 36 inch culvert draining that area into our back yard too as they made a golf course out
of it. There was a drainage area, a pond across 101 from our property which was a pond that
right out they put a bike path in and put more culverts coming into our area. The culverts that
come into it, I think they’re about 36 inch culverts and they’re about 12 inches lower than the 14
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inch culvert that goes out of the land so we’re really kind of up against it. When the drain tile
was functioning it would lower our water level about 41 inches from the surface back there.
Now the water level is almost at the surface in my back yard. We built a pole barn last year and
we had to spend an extra $14,000 to put in concrete pilings and go down deep enough because
the water level was too high. With septic systems and basements, with the water level that high
the freezing of the ground now is cracking foundations and basements and I know the drain
fields, if we had to replace our septic system now we’d have to put in a, raise it above ground
and it really, it’s not an area that we should have and especially with the other water that we’ve
got coming into that area. So but I do appreciate the work the City’s done on putting this plan
together and the sooner we can get it the, it will sure help us out. Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, well thank you for your comments Mr. Wold. Is there anyone
else who would like to speak? Alright. Well Mr. Oehme I think you’ve answered all of our
questions and you’re looking, the action you’re looking for tonight is simply a resolution or
supporting a resolution. Approving a resolution of support for this, proceeding with this grant, is
that correct?
Paul Oehme: That’s correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. Any other council questions, comments, or actions?
Councilman McDonald: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. McDonald go ahead.
Councilman McDonald: First of all you know I’d like to thank Paul and the City for working on
this and finding a way to again keep the money from the Avienda project here in the city and I’m
glad you found a good use for it. Everything that everybody has said it just doesn’t seem that
this is a good engineering project to take on because it sounds as though over the years that’s
what’s happened and every time they’ve engineered it it’s only made it worst downstream so I
would fully support this project and again kudo’s to Paul and city staff for coming up with this.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright thank you Mr. McDonald. Anybody else?
Councilman McDonald: Looking for a motion Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Laufenburger: Whatever the council would like to do Mr. McDonald.
Councilman McDonald: Then I would make a motion that the City Council approves a
resolution of support for a DNR Flood Reduction Grant application to acquire properties located
at 730, 750 and 770 Pioneer Trail.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, we have a valid motion. Is there a second to that motion?
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Councilwoman Ryan: Second.
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Councilmember Ryan. Any further discussion? Just to clarify
Mr. Oehme, this is for the council’s benefit, this merely sets in motion the process by which a
grant will be applied for, potentially awarded, supplemented by other funding the source of
which you’ve identified county, the watershed the WAC project and that it will come back to the
council for eventual discussion and approval, is that correct?
Paul Oehme: That’s correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright.
Resolution #2018-26: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ryan seconded that
the City Council approves a resolution of support for a DNR Flood Reduction Grant
Assistance grant application to acquire properties located at 730, 750, and 770 Pioneer
Trail. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
Mayor Laufenburger: That motion carries 5-0. Thank you very much.
Paul Oehme: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: And to the Haak’s and the Wold’s and your neighbor I just, I hope we can
do this very, very soon. I’ve seen the consequences of that new water coming in there and you
have our support.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: Are there any council presentations this evening? Councilmember Ryan,
yes.
Councilwoman Ryan: Well Mr. Mayor I appreciate you making the suggestion earlier tonight
and normally you talk about the Red Birds and baseball and I’m usually the one asking Mr.
Hoffman when will the rinks open and when, how long can we keep the rinks open. This past
weekend was a big weekend for hockey fans in Minnesota. I was actually reading an article
today on the State of Minnesota Hockey News. It was written by the JV coach of the girls
hockey team and he was saying what a unique state we live in when it comes to hockey and that
it’s, there’s such a sense of pride that you get to play for your own community and your own
school. A lot of other communities across the country play for AAA organizations that might
have sponsorships outside of just their community and their school so as a very proud mother of
two girls that play in the Minnetonka Hockey Association and my husband coaches, I’d like to
congratulate the Minnetonka Skippers for winning their first state high school hockey
tournament this weekend. It was a great win against Duluth East, 5-2. We were there. I was so
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proud and excited for all those young men but equally as excited for the whole student body and
Minnetonka School District and this area. It’s just a great community and the parents and the
grandparents that were there and all the students in the student section handled themselves very
well and were really positive and supportive so I thought the whole environment was awesome
and it was a little bittersweet in our family because my husband played for Duluth East so it was
a house divided but the girls, we were all cheering for Minnetonka and were very proud so
congratulations to the Minnetonka boys high school hockey team on your first victory of State.
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Councilmember Ryan. Just a reminder to those that may not
be aware of it. Chanhassen is a community of almost 26,000 people and the norther third of our
community is part of the Minnetonka school district so it’s appropriate that we celebrate victories
in Easter Carver County School, at Chanhassen High School and Minnetonka High School.
Thank you. Any other council presentation at this time? I just have one that I want to speak to.
Next Monday evening, March 19th I’ll have an opportunity to address the entire community at a,
what I call the Chan-happenings 2018 update. There are a number of projects and priorities that
the Chanhassen City Council and city staff will be working on during the next year and into the
future and I think it’s very appropriate that the community have an opportunity to hear about all
of those at one time so this is next Monday, March 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the Chan Rec Center. It’s
free. Light refreshments will be served and I’ll have about probably 35 minutes of presentation
on the various projects and there will be a question and answer time after that. Many members
of staff will be present so if you’re interested in hearing about what’s happening in Chan-
happening come on out next Monday night, March 19th at 7:00 p.m. so thanks.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Gerhardt, any administrative presentations?
Todd Gerhardt: Well Councilmember Ryan reminded me that I should extend a great
appreciation to all our crews that flood our rinks, plow our roads and, our street department does
a wonderful job so people can get to their different sporting events on the weekends and get to
work during the weekdays and it was a tough year. There were some, a lot of snowfalls and they
get up early to make sure that the roads are open and the rinks are flooded for those that enjoy
the outside ice skating weather that we had this year and you know it’s a difficult job but we
have some very skilled employees that do a wonderful job in maintaining our streets and trails so
big thanks to those crews in the street department, utilities, park and rec maintenance crews do a
wonderful job so I just wanted to extend my appreciation for them.
Mayor Laufenburger: Good. Anything else?
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None.
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Mayor Laufenburger: Just a reminder council that immediately following this council meeting
we’ll reconvene in the Fountain Conference Room for a brief discussion and continue our work
session topic. With that is there a motion to adjourn?
Councilwoman Ryan moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to adjourn the meeting.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. The City
Council meeting was adjourned at 7:50 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim