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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
MAY 14, 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, and Councilwoman Ryan
COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Councilman Campion
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Chelsea Petersen, Kate Aanenson, Paul Oehme, Todd
Hoffman, and Greg Sticha
Mayor Laufenburger:
are in the chambers as well as those of you that may be watching on Mediacom cable TV at
home or watching via our livestream which is available to people anywhere in the world. Just
for the record make note that all members of the council are here this evening with the exception
of Councilmember Campion who is on an excused absence. First thing on the council agenda
tonight is the agenda itself. Council members are there any modifications to the printed agenda
you have in front of you tonight? There being none we will proceed with the agenda as printed.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mayor Laufenburger: I have a couple of public announcements to make tonight. First of all I
want t
start first of all with Barbara Chadwick. Barbara Chadwick was a member of the Senior
member of the commission and her accomplishments include volunteered and was an active
member of the Act on Alzheimers Advisory Council. She also volunteered at numerous city
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functions such as the 4 of July celebration events and clearly the seniors in Chanhassen are very
fortunate and honored to have had Barbara Chadwick on their team. Thank you Barbara.
g to make sure that Sharmeen gets that. Okay. Next
appointed to the Environmental Commission in 2015 and served a full term on the commission.
He was a dedicated member who volunteered his time on behalf of the commission at events
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such as Arbor Day, the Fall Community Service events and the July 3 Business Expo. During
his tenure the commission accomplished many tasks including an annual sustainability report and
an Arbor Day Photo Contest. I wish to congratulate Dave. Dave is also not with us tonight so
Also Charlotte Chappell is being recognized tonight. Charlotte
was also appointed to the Environmental Commission. She was appointed in 2016. She served
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as Chair of the commission for the second half of her term and brought passion, dedication and
creativity to the commission. During her term the commission accomplished a number of
projects which included the planning of natural resources presentations at the library, the annual
Arbor Day Poster Contest and the Sustainability Report. She also volunteered her time at the
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annual City Arbor Day event, the July 3 Business Expo and provided input for the revision of
the Cit
Jennifer. Do you want to stand next to your mommy? This is Haley. Haley, excuse me. This is
Haley. This is Logan and this is Jennifer. Jennifer Hougham from the Park and Recreation
Commission. Jennifer served as a member of the Park and Recreation Commission from 2015 to
2018. She was a tremendous asset to the commission and served residents with enthusiasm and
pride. And now I know where her kids get it. She provided insightful comments and
recommendations during meetings and was always eager to hear from residents. When Jennifer
joined the commission she signed up her entire family including husband Brandon. Brady?
Brandon. Together they attended many community events and programs sponsored by the City.
Jennifer was a steady voice when developing the annual park and trail capital improvement plan,
CIP and famously advocated for more real bathrooms in our parks. Can you hear a loud cheer
coming from the masses that are watching this? Our recreation programming team appreciated
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difference. Jennifer I want to congratulate you and I present you with this Certificate of
Appreciation. I have one for Camille Swanson. Nice to see you.
Camille Swanson: Nice to see you again.
Mayor Laufenburger: And welcome back.
Camille Swanson: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Now Camille you get a 5 year award called the Maple Leaf Award for
serving 5 years. Let me just read a little bit about Camille. Camille Swanson was appointed to
the Senior Commission in 2012 and has been an instrumental members of the commission. Her
accomplishments include the monthly articles to the Chanhassen Villager newspaper. She
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volunteered on the 4 of July bingo event sponsored by the commission. She volunteered and
became a certified technician for CarFit, a very successful program in Chanhassen to assist the
elderly in making their cars fit their needs. The seniors in Chanhassen are very fortunate and
honored to have had you on their team. For over 5 years of service to the community Camille I
congratulate you.
Camille Swanson: Thank you.
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any of those folks who are not present are watching tonight your certificates can be picked up at
City Hall.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. Thank you very much Todd. That concludes our public
announcements.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom
recommendations:
1. Approval of City Council Minutes dated April 23, 2018
2. Approve Temporary On-Sale Liquor License, July 3 and 4, The Rotary Club of
Chanhassen
3. Approve a Massage Therapy Business License for Spalon Montage
4. Resolution #2018-34: Approve Resolution No. 2018-34 Approving a Limited Use
Permit Amendment for Panera Bread
5. Approval of Consent of Mortgage Holder to Reciprocal Easement and Maintenance
Agreement between Pulte Homes of Minnesota, LLC and Chanhassen Gateway Place,
LLC
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: And though nobody is present this evening let me just say this to those of
you that are watching at home. Visitor presentations are part of every regularly scheduled
council meeting and we encourage members of the community to come forward and express
your views or your comments to the council. The council is not obligated to take any action on
that item during the visitor presentation but we listen very attentively so in the future if anybody
would like to make a presentation to the council, visitor presentation is a great way to do that.
WEST WATER TREATMENT PLANT UPDATE.
Paul Oehme: It is.
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Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, nice to have you here tonight.
Paul Oehme: Thank you Mayor, City Council members. Just staff wanted to give a brief update
construction project. I think the last update that we, staff gave the council was about 6 months
the iron manganese that are naturally occurring in the water in the west water field. The plant is
treatmen-treatment
for this plant just to make the process a little more efficient. The chemistry on the west side of
town, or the water is a little different than the east side so we added that. The plant will pump
designed for the full buildout we talked about in the 2040 comp plan. This plant will address the
down the road. So again work has steadily progressed. We originally broke ground in January
of 2017. Council did approve the initial project in 2016 at the end of the year and we are getting
eginning that process right now. Just updates.
Security system there on site today. That goes in this
putting in windows. A lot of things, little things that are taking place this week and
type of things. All staff members have to be trained up on that. People on call that would be
monitoring the plant would also be trained up on those type of things. And site work, happy to
The water. The raw water that goes to the plant and the clean water, the treated water that comes
ins
pipe work left on Manchester Park. The cul-de-sac up on top of the site. That still has to be put
in. That is anticipated to be put in here in the next week or so. And then staff has been updating
of the local residents. Giving them an update on a monthly basis on progress and status of the
been engaged on this process here in the last few months. So just a
couple photos of, took these last week on the progress. This is the filter cells. Again media that
e pumped in
finalizing electrical components. The SCADA system IO units still have to be installed here and
, should be done in the next week here as the plant
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Ziegler has been out here the last couple weeks getting that, the generator, it operational order.
staff has been trained on the operations and maintenance of the generator as well now.
here so the pink area, this is encapsulated our detention area. That
into the plant. This will be all underground so all the pink area will be underground and
area as well so that will back up to the park area. The east elevation area, this is just showing
you where the backwash tank is. This is the backwash tank here and the view from basically
Galpin Road. The wall here is poured in place and that area will be stained the same color as the
cultured stone on the edges of the building so to try to match the colors as best as we can.
to try to break up the building a little bit more than is shown here. And then the south area, this
is off of Lake Harrison Road. This is where you come into the plant so this is the front entryway.
This door really was not going to be used mainly for exiting. Entering and exiting. The office
area is on the west side so that door will be used but we wanted to just have a nice entryway to
the south here for the plant. Aesthetics exactly. Yep thank you. So and then one other thing too
is the windows are going in this week too. I was out there this morning and the window
contractor did finally show up there about a week and a half late though but they said in another
still has to take place here. This is basically where you see the concrete meets the brick ledge.
covered up with material. With soil and landscape as well. And then again after we get the site
restored the
CIP for this year and Todd Hoffman will take the site and create that park in the future. So with
onal per contract in June
here. We are looking at getting Manchester cul-de-sac and the restoration up on top, you know
up in June as well. So I know the neighbors would be happy to have that road re-opened again
little items to be completed in July as well. So with that we are pretty much on schedule.
Budget wis
pretty good right now.
Mayor Laufenburger: Well any comments or questions from council? Anybody?
Paul Oehme: One other thing I was going to point out too. If the council wanted to take a tour
after we get a parking lot I think, paved that would probably be the opportune time to take a look
at the plant and maybe before a work session or during a work session and we were looking at
having an open house after the plant
take a look at the inside of the plant.
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Paul Oehme: Okay.
Todd Gerhardt: End of June.
Mayor Laufenburger: End of June, is that right? Okay. I just had a couple questions. Are you
going to have to do some road repair on Harrison?
to
remove a bunch of the sidewalk. I know some of the curb has been chipped out. The contractor
like I said curb repair and maybe an overlay of the whole area. Lake Harrison when all the
Mayor Laufenburger: But you will do that repair before you reo
Paul Oehme: Absolutely, yeah we want to get everything completed before we open the road up
again.
Paul Oehme: Right.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. And does your landscaping include sod or seed?
Todd Gerhardt: Do you have irrigation?
Paul Oehme
along Lake Harrison and some of the plant itself on the south side and what we have in the
contract is a re-right next to the t
going to be using that pond water. The runoff water for irrigation along the boulevard in the
plant area.
Mayor Laufenburger: Very good. Well in your monthly or your updates with the neighbors are
you hearing anything from the neighbors that represents a concern of anything?
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along Lake Harrison that were damaged by the contractor. We know they were damaged
-evaluate some of those trees and if they have to
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. Anything you want to add Mr. Gerhardt?
Todd Gerhardt: No. I think some of the other questions from the neighborhood was kind of the
see today is much more exposure than what they saw in the concepts and I think Paul did a good
job of showing you where those lines were going to be. Where the back fill is going to occur yet
and so there still needs to be a lot of restoration around the building.
Paul Oehme: Yep.
n were removed from the project.
Mayor Laufenburger: You I think Mr. Gerhardt said end of June for an open house or a tour.
Are you going to offer an open house to the neighborhood to see it as well?
Paul Oehme: Yep that was part of the plan. It was to have a neighborhood open house and show
curiosity will get the better of it. Alright, thank you Mr. Oehme.
Paul Oehme: Okay, thank you.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: That concludes our business portion of our agenda this evening. Next is
council presentations. Anybody want to make a council presentation this evening?
Councilwoman Ryan: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Please.
Councilwoman Ryan: I just have a question before Mr. Oehme leaves.
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Councilwoman Ryan: Could you just provide an update. I know we approved at the last
meeting the Lake Lucy Lane resolution. Wha
just keeps rising.
a contract with Minger Construction for the improvements. When we went to contract we found
looking at construction start the first week in June or so.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay.
pipework takes place on the south side of
Lake Harrison Road so most of the equipment, equipment and materials will be on the shoulder
re going to set the bore pit on the south side and we should, we
down there pumping?
Paul
pump out there again and keep pumping it down to keep the road open.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay, perfect.
n June too so.
Councilwoman Ryan: Right.
graduation for parking as well.
Councilwoman Ryan: Oh great. Okay, perfect. Thank you.
Paul Oehme: Thank you.
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Councilwoman Ryan: Thank you Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Anything else?
Councilwoman Ryan: Nope, thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, anybody else? Well I had two things that I wanted to talk about.
First of all just a reminder to the council that I think two meetings ago we passed a resolution in
support of local control. This is League of Minnesota Cities advised us that that would be
members. He said thanks for your thoughts on local control issues. As you know I sat in a chair
plastic bag bill but I do support pre-emption on labor laws because this impacts businesses in
cities outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul. He says local control is important to me so we have an
advocate in our court relative to local control. Secondly I wanted to point out that 3 weeks ago
n town, Celebration 2018 the City of Chanhassen
was gifted with a painting. Dan Lacey is known as the Pancake Painter and Dan painted this
who has painted sin
wants to present it to the City of Chanhassen. He did so on April 22, 2018 and I told him that,
and I discussed this with Mr. Gerhardt, that this painting would likely sit in City Hall for a week
or two and then I suggested one alternative would be to turn it over to the library and let the
library make a decision on how it might be presented. This depicts one of our most famous
citizens riding a bike, as he often did through the trails of either Lake Ann or elsewhere in the
city of Chanhassen and one of the most recent videos was of Prince riding a bike in the Office
Max, Hair District, Caribou Coffee area so Dan has pictured this so on behalf of the City of
Chanhassen Mr. Lacey, the Pancake Artist, or the Pancake Painter, we say thank you and we
hope that we can present it in such a way that people can enjoy it for time to come. Yep, there
Todd Gerhardt: Great, thank you.
Todd Gerhardt: Beautiful.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Gerhardt, do you have any administrative presentations?
Todd Gerhardt: Well other celebrations occurred here the past couple weeks. Chelsea Petersen
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Mayor Laufenburger: Is that Outstanding Assistant in Chanhassen?
Todd Gerhardt: Throughout the state of Minnesota.
Mayor Laufenburger: No way.
very difficult so she thought I was mad at her because I would avoid her and not walk down the
secret but I did on this one I think and unfortunately as much as a hard worker Chelsea is, she
volunteered to go through the applicants for Assistant of the Year and they had to tell her no you
Chelsea Petersen: I think when through reading the applications is when I went wait a minute,
that sounds kind of familiar.
Chelsea Petersen: Yeah.
restaurant and bar so they were well served and had a meal and relaxed before they came up and
somebody from the Association of Public Management Professionals telling me that you had
won and I have the great technology of forwarding that voicemail to the entire Mayor and
council so they knew when I knew so.
Chelsea Petersen: It seems like I was the last person to know.
Mayor Laufenburger: Well as it should be, right?
Chelsea Petersen: Yes.
Mayor Laufenburger: Congratulations Chelsea. Well deserved. You represent yourself and the
Chelsea Petersen: Thank you very much.
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Chelsea Petersen: You guys are going to build me a case for that right?
mother was very proud of
her and her husband and so it was a great event.
Mayor Laufenburger: Anything else?
People are asking me about the Frontier
ur. When is the Venue going to start construction?
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June 1 is the demolition date for the Frontier Building and looking for completion around
August of 2019 so it will be just roughly a little over a year for construction. And Life Time
Fitness, their corporate headquarters is here in Chanhassen and their fitness facility is here and
that site was always designed for a mirror image of their corporate offices one to the east and
they already have the basement put in and they capped that and used that for storage for the past
several years and today they made application for a building permit for 100,000 square foot of
office space here in Chanhassen.
Mayor Laufenburger: Sweet.
Todd Gerhardt: And have a market value of around $17 million dollars so a great addition to our
expand here and be successful and we wish them great success in their construction and
development so excited about that. And I think the council was also invited to Mission Hills
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Senior complex ground breaking which is on Monday, May 21 at 12:30 and we will post that as
a public meeting and so we will have some of the department heads there also and excited about
adding the Mission Hills Senior
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Mayor Laufenburger: You mentioned the 21. That reminded me that on the evening of the
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20, which is a week from yesterday, the Lake Susan ballfield lights will be dedicated and that
will be, occur is that 6:30 Mr. Hoffman? Is that about right?
Todd Hoffman: Expect a 6:30 ceremony.
some 3 inning games or something like that so residents that live in the Lake Susan area, Lake
exciting to hear the CAA organization just so pumped about having more utilization of that field
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how concentrated that light will be onto the field without spilling over into the residential
neighborhood.
Mayor Laufenburger: Very good. Anything else from anyone? Mr. Knutson any comment this
evening?
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION: None.
Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom 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
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