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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
MAY 29, 2018
Mayor Laufenburger called the meeting to order at 7:10 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, Katie Matthews, and Roger Knutson
Mayor Laufenburger: I want to welcome everybody in the council chambers. Welcome to this
meeting as well as those of you that are watching online, either on Mediacom cable channel or
on livestream from our website. Nice to have you with us tonight. And just for the record
got about 15 people in the council chambers. Just a reminder council, people in the chambers, if
right underneath the map there. And for the record let it be reflect that all council members are
present this evening. Thank you. First item on our agenda is the agenda itself. Council members
are there any modifications to the agenda this evening? There being none we will proceed with
the agenda as printed.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATE OF
APPRECIATION TO LAUREN DALE, PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSIONER.
step forward for this. Now this is a Certificate of Appreciation presented to Lauren Dale.
Lauren are you here? Lauren Dale, this is actually a Park and Recreation Commission
Certificate of Appreciation. Lauren Dale served as a youth member of the Park and Recreation
Commission for 3 consecutive one year terms from 2015 through 2018. Lauren was extremely
active during her years on the commission assembling an impressive resume of
accomplishments. Investing 85 hours of volunteer labor Lauren completed a Chanhassen Trail
Wayfinding project as a Girl Scout Gold Award and Senior Capstone Project. The resulting
signage was installed at Lake Ann Park, Lake Susan Park, and the Chanhassen Nature Preserve.
Lauren also volunteered at Daddy Daughter Date Night and Halloween parties helping to insure
the success of these programs for local families. Through her employment with the department
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4 of July celebration. Lauren was inquisitive during her time on the commission and she
provided very thoughtful input. The community of Chanhassen is a better place as a result of
with you on the Park and Rec Commission and to see the wayfinding trail signage that you had,
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remarkable and I have no doubt in my mind that wherever you go, and by the way where are you
going after school?
Lauren Dale: Duluth.
Mayor Laufenburger: University of Minnesota Duluth.
Lauren Dale: Yep.
Lauren Dale: Yep.
these 18 years so Lauren congratulations.
Lauren Dale: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Proud mom and dad.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilman Campion seconded to
recommendations:
1. Approval of City Council Minutes dated May 14, 2018
2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated April 24, 2018
3. Resolution #2018-35: Accept Donation from KleinBank Chanhassen for the Summer
Concert Series
4. Approve Private Fireworks Display on Lake Minnewashta, July 4, 2018
5. Approve Fireworks Display7 at Lake Ann Park, July 4, 2018
6. Approve Specialized Services Agreement with Carver County for Watercraft Inspections
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: KLEINBANK CHANHASSEN: DONATION TO
CHANHASSEN SUMMER CONCERT SERIES.
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Mayor Laufenburger: We have one scheduled visitor presentation. Katie are you managing this
one tonight? Is that right?
oing to present the City
Council and the Mayor a check.
Mayor Laufenburger: Oh we love checks. Is this something you want me to come forward
with?
Katie Matthews: Yes.
Mayor Laufenburger: Nice to see you here again. Alright what do we have here Gretchen
Holmgren or Tyler?
Gretchen Holmgren: We are presenting a check to the City of Chanhassen for the Concert in the
Park for the Summer.
Mayor Laufenburger: Oh my. And how many years in a row have you been doing this?
ing like 14.
Gretchen Holmgren
Gretchen Holmgren: Yeah.
Mayor Laufenburger: Well the City is very grateful to KleinBank for your continuing support of
this program. I know Park and Rec loves bringing people out to City Center Park and these are
most often, what are the nights that these happen?
Katie Matthews: Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m.
Mayor Laufenburger: And I noticed the little refrigerator magnet.
Katie Matthews: There
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on June 14.
Katie Matthews: Right.
Mayor Laufenburger: So can citizens get these at City Hall, do you know?
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concerts.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, well on behalf of the City and all of the people who enjoy these
or KleinBank.
Gretchen Holmgren: It was good to see you again. Thank you.
would like to address the council on any matter this evening? Just a reminder to all citizens, this
is a, this visitor presentations portion is available at every regularly scheduled council meeting.
We encourage citizens to come forward and talk about anything that they would like and the
FIRE DEPARTMENT/LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE.
Mayor Laufenburger: Chief did you draw the short straw here?
Chief Don Johnson: I did.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alrighty. This is Chief Don Johnson for the monthly fire
department update. Go ahead Chief.
April and then up to our point as far as activities of the fire department through this month. Our
ized at 45. That would bring us to 44. The remaining 5 are still in a process where
at least 5 out of it. With that I also have a 12 year veteran returning. Their family had been, had
Mayor Laufenburger: Is this Mr. January? No.
Chief Don Johnson: This is Mr. January.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. January huh?
Chief Don Johnson: Mr. Foote is back.
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town.
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Chief Don Johnson: So Doug will start June 18
hiring pool we also have 2 legacy young male firefighters coming on. A former firefighters and
dad up at Station 2 if he completes the process. And we also have William Siems coming on.
Assistant Chief Jeff Siems wa
to have a couple legacy recruits coming in this year so tentative start date for the new group is
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June 18. That also coincides with our Black Hat Evening which hopefully all of you have your,
in your invite box for that evening.
Mayor Laufenburger: Is that public works again?
make sure that everyone that attends is well fed as part of the fire
swear in 5 of our probationary folks that have successfully completed 2 years of probation. So
out there but we are exceptionally
last month we were up 13.6 percent ahead of last year. Duty crew responded to 9 of those calls
in April and 40 overall for the year. Medicals appears to be our largest increase right now.
bably about a 27
percent increase in medicals.
fire department started and then before
entering a code so I can kind of keep an eye on things that are going on. A lot of times it means
arriving before we are, which Ridgeview does 20 hours in town. It makes a big different where
of those other cancelled
running about 50 percent so whatever our call load is. We had 4 fire responses. Two of those
minor cooking fires. One a car fire and then we did have a substantial grass and brush fire at
Minnewashta Park. had spent some
sure things were out so a lot of work for that day. Training for the month has been fire officer
training on response to large commercial buildings and fire ground incident command tactics.
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EMR training and the entire department went recently down to the Scale Facility for live burn
training.
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visit Washington D.C. and the Korean War Memorial. Our fire relief association gave a very
generous donation to that cause. For that we were asked to be in the parade that welcomed them
home so we had the ladder truck out there with about 4 other departments and were part of that
experience. It was a lot of fun and very rewarding for those that attended. They had over 200
veterans on those buses so I think it meant quite a bit, and I estimated the crowd in Waconia at
over 1,000 that night and it was probably 10:30 at night so it was pretty, it was a pretty good
showing. We assisted with a Pinky Swear Foundation event at ABC Toys. We assisted the
Legion, as we have for many years. We had about 17 honor guard members that we transport
around for the cemetery visits of the memorial, on Memorial Day. And then also stood a
medical crew up to the annual, our annual Memorial Day Cemetery which luckily even with the
e anybody succumb to the heat out there so. Fire Marshal Nutter also assisted
Chaska with a hiring panel for their selection process. A couple of upcoming events for us. June
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Klingelhutz Pavilion. That will be 5:30 to about 8:30 and then our June 18 is our Annual Black
with burning. Some have been called in by
rural residents decided to burn mattresses in their area behind their home so just a reminder for
permitted would require myself or the Fire Marshal to go out and approve. Citizens
allow people to burn leaves and rubbish and things like that on their yards because people get
concerned about fire. Up until again this last week we base our permit burns on the DNR. The
to burn. Some of the bigger burns
are obviously problematic and with
for unnecessary things but just to remind the general public that just because you own a home
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that I can stand for questions.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright thank you Chief. Council members any questions for Chief
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Johnson? Just a remind, June 18 is the Black Hat, correct?
Chief Don Johnson: Correct.
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Chief Don Johnson: That will start about 6:00 p.m. with dinner. Program will start around 6:45
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Mayor Laufenburger: And the fire department picnic on June 11
department members and families?
and say hi.
gelhutz Pavilion, is that right?
Chief Don Johnson: Correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, perfect. Alright, thank you Chief. Good luck with your new
recruits.
Chief Don Johnson: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alrighty. Next we have standing in for Lieutenant Eric Kittelson,
Sergeant Dustin Bones or is it Bones?
Mayor Laufenburger: Bones.
Sergeant Dustin Bones: Like the TV show.
Mayor Laufenburger: Like the TV show.
Sergeant Dustin Bones: No royalties yet.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, Sergeant nice to have you with us tonight. Is this part of the
normal regime that Lieutenant Kittelson submits all of the Sergeants and Deputies do?
Sergeant Dustin Bones: It seems to be.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, alright.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, well nice to have you with us tonight. Go ahead.
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Sergeant Dustin Bones: Good evening Mr. Mayor and council members. I have the monthly law
enforcement update for or stats from March. So in the month of March we handled Group A
offenses. 11 Group B offenses. 377 miscellaneous non-criminal calls. There were 427 total
traffic incidents. 94 administrative calls for service with a total of 949 calls for service handled.
Arrest, citations and verbal warnings summary. There were 424 individuals arrested and charged
with 43 crimes in 21 separate incidents. 12 for DUI. 7 for drug violations and 5 for disorderly
conduct. A total of 105 citations were issued. 30 for speed, 11 for no proof of insurance in a
motor vehicle, and 11 for driving after suspension. A total of 169 verbal warnings were issued.
143 of those related to traffic stops. Training updates. The following staff have completed
Minnesota Crisis Intervention Team Training or CIT training. The whole department is going
through that. So far Lieutenant Kittelson, Sergeant Breunig, Deputy Zydowsky, Deputy Possard,
Deputy Burt, Deputy Amberg, Deputy Horvath, and Deputy Heitz have all completed the
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training. Remaining staff will complete it either July 4 through the 8 or a little later in the
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year. September 24 through 28 so everyone should be done by the end of September. This
month all staff attended an in service firearms training. Community relations update. Deputy
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Burt and Deputy Groenhagen attended the Arbor Day celebration on May 5 and they brought
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their own shovels. Helped plant a few trees. The public safety plan for the 4 of July
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celebration is nearly complete with the 4 of July just over a month away. Staffing update.
Deputy Mike Hanson will continue to be out injured for at least another couple of weeks.
Deputy Burt would go to the evening power shift. Deputy Bob Zydowsky wrapped up the 2017
throughout the summer assisting with juvenile issues and investigations until school resumes in
the fall. The Memorial weekend was relatively uneventful and quiet. Everyone was well
pedestrian safety initiatives now that the warm weather is here. Yesterday Deputy Amberg did a
crosswalk detail at the intersection of Highway 101 and Pleasant View Road which is a marked
crosswalk with a flashing lights and one of the very obvious ones. In 45 minutes they sent the
decoy walker across 18 times and there were 6 violators so over 30 percent violation rate so we
Mayor Laufenburger: Sergeant Bones the violators were the cars that failed to stop, is that
correct?
right.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
Sergeant Dustin Bones: We set a cone up down the road 291 feet approximately and they need
to react to the walker once they step off the curb and begin slowing so there were fail to yields.
They did not slow down. The walker needed to retreat or rush across the road.
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Is that a citation? Is that a warning?
Sergeant Dustin Bones: We stopped and talked to 6, all 6 violators. One received a citation
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
Sergeant Dustin Bones: One citation was issue and 5 verbal warnings.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, thank you Sergeant. Council members any questions for the
Sergeant? Okay. Thank you Sergeant. Mr. Gerhardt please report to Mr. Kittelson that Sergeant
Bones did an exemplary job this evening.
Sergeant Dustin Bones: Thank you Mayor.
PUBLIC HEARING: APPROVE ON-SALE INTOXICATING LIQUOR LICENSE FOR
Chelsea Petersen: Thank you Mr. Mayor. We have an on-sale liquor license update application
for Bonfire
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78 Street. There is a change in ownership which is the purpose for the public hearing here
operations. Just
background check on the 2 new owners as well as the general manager. No negative findings
were produced on any of them. We have not received any comments into staff either so with that
I can stand for questions and the applicant is present if there are any questions of them.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. First of all, council is there any questions for staff? Okay.
ight? What applicant? Is it Michael, Eric or Dean?
Chelsea Petersen: Dean Marsh.
Mayor Laufenburger: Dean would you like to address the council for any reason?
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community for many years.
the public hearing. This does require a public hearing. If anybody is present in the council
chambers that would like to speak regarding this particular, the issuing of this intoxicating liquor
license, please do so at this time. There being none I will close the public hearing and bring it
back to the council for consideration and action. Council any comments or action?
Councilwoman Ryan: Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Laufenburger: Councilmember Ryan, yes.
Mayor Laufenburger: Please do.
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located at 560 West 78 Street.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright we have a valid motion. Is there a second?
Councilman Campion: Second.
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Mr. Campion. We have a motion and a second. Any
comments from council? Just before we vote on this, I have heard some questions, people say
is a change in ownership and management, is that correct Mr. Marsh? Right. So the citizens of
that you
continue to be successful. There being no further discussion.
Councilwoman Ryan moved, Councilman Campion seconded that the City Council
approves an on-sale intoxicating liquor license for Bonfire Restaurant Company, LLC
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doing business as Street. All voted in favor and the motion
carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
Mayor Laufenburger: That concludes our business this evening. Thank you Mr. Marsh and we
wish your entire team over there the best of luck. That concludes our formal business.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
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Mayor Laufenburger: Any council presentations this evening? Oh Mr. McDonald, sure. Go
ahead.
Councilman McDonald: I just wanted to make note of the fact that you know yesterday was
Memorial Day and I thought we had an excellent turnout and your speech was very uplifting and
least the rain. It got hot but at least the rain held off.
Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah it was hot, hot, hot, no doubt about it. Just to elaborate on that. Mr.
Hoffman you need to just convey our thanks to the park and recreation staff that did a wonderful
job in preparing for that and this is to the Legion. Every year
commitment that the American Legion makes to this Memorial Day celebration. They do
each of those cemeteries they are reverent. They are filled with pomp and circumstance and I
he has provided. And also, anyway it was, so Mr. Hoffman make sure that your park and rec
staff hears those generally good comments too. Alright, anything else? Any other council
presentations?
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: Administrative presentations Mr. Gerhardt.
waiting for their move.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Anything else Mr. Gerhardt?
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION.
Mayor Laufenburger: Council any comments on the correspondence package? Alright I just
have one. Item number 2 Mr. Gerhardt and maybe this is to you Kate. This is the letter
indicating to us the population estimate from the Met Council. Population estimate for
Chanhassen is 25,955 people. 9,346 households. So my question is, does this estimated
population, is this used by the City for any calculations of property tax or anything like that or
how is this number utilized? Kate can you answer that?
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Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah.
have business people, or people who are interested in moving to the city who want to know a
little bit about the characteristics. As you see on this as of April 1, 2017 the City does track
to, a little over 26,2
looking for how big the community is. Making decisions on whether or not to move here. Also
as we talked about earlier in our discussion table about household is one of the concerns that we
Mayor Laufenburger: Do we use this information in talking about size of the city with the
school districts that are in the city?
And actually we use it more towards vacant land and looking at
single family home and assisting in those projections.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. What about the signs at the entrance points to Chanhassen? Right
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
Mayor Laufenburger: Can we go out with a Magic Marker and change them?
Kate Aanenson: We could try.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. Thank you. Alright thank you very much. There being no
Councilman McDonald 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 7:40 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt, City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim
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