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CC 2018 08 27CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 27, 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, Paul Oehme, Todd Hoffman, Katie Matthews, and Roger Knutson PUBLIC PRESENT: Greg Hawks 1806 Colonial Lane #1 Bob Haak 770 Pioneer Trail Renee & Marc Schubbe 6550 Shadow Lane Mack Titus 2747 Century Trail Caleb Blong 6491 Devonshire Drive Hope Durenberger 6321 Steller Circle Bill Chappell 8736 Stonefield Lane Dan Vasatka 9120 Degler Circle Keith Butcher 1770 Pheasant Circle Kristin Fulkerson 6989 Country Oaks Road Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you and welcome to this council meeting. Those of you that are in the council chambers as well as those of you that may be watching on Mediacom cable channel at home or via the world wide web through the Chanhassen website agendas. We’re pleased to have you with us. Just as a note all council members are present tonight with the exception of Dan Campion who is on an excused absence. Our first action is on the agenda. Council members we have a printed agenda in front of us this evening. Is there any modifications to the agenda that you’d like to see made? If not then we’ll proceed with the agenda as printed. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Laufenburger: Our first item on the agenda is public announcements and we have some people that we’re going to recognize. You need me out front is that right? Okay. We have Sofia Thompson with us. She was one of our recreation supervisors this summer and glad you came back all the way from up north to be here tonight. I just want to read a little bit. On behalf of the City Council and the Park and Recreation Commission I want to recognize the 2018 Teen Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 2 Volunteers. These 13 to 16 year olds wee selected to serve as volunteers for city sponsored recreation programs from June through August. The programs consisted of the KleinBank Summer Concert Series, Lake Ann Adventure Camp, youth sports at the Rec Center, and Discovery Playground program. The City wants to thank these teens, this year’s teen volunteers for their service. Together they compiled over 490 hours of service to the City of Chanhassen. Before I recognize these individually I just want to ask a couple questions. How many of you have volunteered more than just this year? How many have volunteered 2 years? Anybody 2 years? So these are all new? A new crop every year is that right? Katie Matthews: We have one girl in her second year, but Holley is her name and she actually lives in Kansas so she wasn’t able to make it tonight. Mayor Laufenburger: What she couldn’t commute up from Kansas? I don’t understand that. Katie Matthews: No. They started school already. Mayor Laufenburger: But here’s the thing that is so cool. The things that you do in interacting with the young people in our community, you set a pattern of service early in their, not only in your life but also in their life so I say personally thank you to all of you who assisted with that. So we have some certificates that Sofia’s going to help us give out. I guess I can do from these right? Sofia Thompson: Yes. Mayor Laufenburger: One at a time. I’m going to ask that you come up and we’ll get a picture of you and then you can go back and get seated. Katie Matthews: You’ll stay up and we’ll get a group shot. Mayor Laufenburger: Oh yeah she knows. Is it Alena Nugent? Is she here this evening? Alena. So first of all congratulations and you can stand right between us and we’ll get a picture here. Okay. Now if you don’t mind just queueing up here alright. Next we have Ben Schubbe. Ben? Congratulations Ben. You’ve got to stand between us. You know the drill now. Okay. Next we have Bridget McNaney. Bridget do you have an older sister? Bridget McNaney: Yes. Mayor Laufenburger: There you go. Bridget McNaney: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Next we have Caleb Blong. Caleb are you here? Sporting a Chanhassen maple leaf too. Congratulations Caleb. Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 3 Caleb Blong: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Stand right here. Hope Durenberger. Hope. Congratulations. My oh my you’re tall. Taking after your brother I can tell. Josh Boevers. Josh are you here tonight? No Josh. We’ll just set that right here. How about Lolly Walsh. Lolly? Congratulations Lolly. Who’s next? Madi Hamilton. Congratulations Madi. Madi Hamilton: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: You’ve got to stand here for a couple people want to get your picture. Okay. Did we miss anybody? Oh goodie. Alright now let’s, Sofia you stand on that side and we’ll have everybody in the middle here. I was going to say by height but I don’t care. Alena, you have the distinguish of being able to stand in front okay. Is that alright? Let’s hear it for them. Our future is in good hands. Public service starts very early in Chanhassen. Give them just a chance to exit here. CONSENT AGENDA: Mayor Laufenburger: Tonight we have items D(1) through (7) and consent agenda items are considered to be routine and will be considered in a single motion based on staff recommendation unless anyone on the council or visitors present would like to have a discussion. If discussion is desired we’ll simply move that item to be considered separately. Council members is there any item that you’d like to see taken off the consent agenda? Councilman McDonald: Mr. Mayor I’d make a motion to accept items D(1) through D(7). Mayor Laufenburger: Okay before you do that I would like to take one of those items off the consent agenda. I’d like to have a discussion around item D(4) so there’s just some comments I’d like to make about that and I think it’s important that we have that so now I will accept your. Councilman McDonald: Then I would amend my motion to accept items D(1) through (3) and D(5) through (7). Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, do we have a second? Councilwoman Ryan: Second. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Elise. Councilmember Ryan. Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ryan seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 4 1. Approve City Council Minutes dated August 13, 2018 2. Receive Planning Commission Minutes dated August 7, 2018 3. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated July 24, 2018 4. Pulled from the consent agenda for further discussion. 5. Resolution #2018-41: Authorize the City of Chanhassen to Participate in the GreenStep Cities Program 6. Resolution #2018-42: Accept Ads for Bid; Award Contract for the Lake Susan Trail Rehabilitation Project 7. Award of Bid: Audit Services Contract for Fiscal Years 2018-2020 All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. Mayor Laufenburger: That motion carries 4-0 and I’d like to address item D(4) immediately after visitor presentations okay? Okay. That brings us to visitor presentations. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS. Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, council members, the Garden by the Woods asked that that item come back at another meeting. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay that was originally scheduled but they asked to have it removed is that correct? Todd Gerhardt: Yeah they couldn’t make it this evening. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. Very well. Let’s see, at this time I’ll close visitor presentations reminding everybody that visitor presentation is a time for open public comment about any item that’s not to be discussed on the agenda at any meeting and we do this at every regularly scheduled council meeting so if you’d like to address the council on anything please come here and we’re happy to hear whatever your presentation is about. FIRE DEPARTMENT/LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE. Mayor Laufenburger: Let’s do fire department first. We have our Fire Marshal with us here. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Good evening Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I’m not Chief Don Johnson in case you’re confused. We look a lot alike but he couldn’t be here tonight. He’s Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 5 out of town teaching fire command classes in South Dakota I believe so he asked me to do the update and I haven’t met some of you so I apologize for that. Hopefully I just didn’t drive those people out of here but. Mayor Laufenburger: No they were happy that one of their items on the consent agenda passed. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Okay. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay because the Fire Marshal comes a lot of people just go the other way a lot of times so you never know. Todd Gerhardt: You’re the good Don though. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Well I try to be. I’ll quickly run through some of our key points in our update. Right now looks like our staffing is at 43 out of 45 paid on call firefighters. That was at the end of July. We do have one firefighter currently on medical leave. Our rookie class has started their Southwest Fire Academy and they’ll be training through Firefighter I which then after that they can start getting on our trucks and responding to calls. That should be right around November and then school for them wraps up in May. Response has been up. We responded to 76 calls in June and 66 in July. That’s about a 12 percent increase over 2017 and we’re not looking at that trend ending any time soon with some of the stuff going up in our city so many of our calls, significant calls anyway were rescue and medicals. We did have 3 structure fires but not in the city. We went to Long Lake, Excelsior and Eden Prairie to assist them. Some of our other activities that were very successful were 4th of July went off without a hitch this year. We did a lot of assisting to Park and Rec and Camp Tanadoona. Went out and sprayed water on the kids. Nicely. Lobbed it nicely. We did spray them in the face or anything. National Night Out went very, very well. We had 5 apparatus and 2 command vehicles visiting over 40 parties and I myself was on one of the vehicles. I really enjoyed it so. We just had our annual physical, firefighter physical exams also was successful as far as I know. We also assisted Carver County with their fair. Chief Johnson assisted Mdewakanton Fire as an instructor for tactical medical course with a lot of hands on. You get a lot of bruises on his arms teaching that. And then the truck committee just went out to Appleton, Wisconsin. It looks like our new ladder truck should be here hopefully in September in time for the open house and I’m going to push that in a minute. And then we both have new command vehicles. If you saw the nice shiny new white SUV’s out there with Fire Chief and Fire Marshal on there and I’m very appreciative of that coming from the red old Fire Marshal car so thank you to the City for that. Council update for Fire Marshal. We have a lot of construction going on. Obviously you’ve noticed in town. West Park townhomes are popping up pretty fast out there at 212 and 101. As you see across the street we’ve got a lot of construction going on over there and that’s going up pretty fast. Everything’s building fast in the city. The new water treatment plant went online. We finished up everything out there. That all went well at the end and just a lot of DHS inspections for the upcoming school year. Assisted St. Hubert’s and Methodist Church and some other places with their DHS licensing. As far as fire prevention we’ve done a lot of kind of Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 6 going out in the community and being proactive. We’re trying to push that even more. Getting into the schools. We did a couple of elementary school tours but right now we’re ramping up for fire prevention week and right now we have 8 schools scheduled with about 10 more visits that we’re going to be going out and doing and coming to the station this year so it’s going to be a little bit different. We’ve been doing CPR training in the community and AD training and the Bernard Group we’ve done over 12 classes I believe for them. Training almost all their employees. And I went out with the Minnetonka Aquatics Safety Group and did a safety camp with them. I think we hit over 100 children on that day for fire safety and water safety. As far as fire investigations this month, the only thing we really had this summer was the bus fire out at Bluff Creek which everybody probably saw on the news so that was just ended up being an accident. A mechanical in nature fire so. Anything else I really want to talk about too is our open house coming up and my apologies as I found out as we have a meeting that night so, but it’s Monday, September 24th and I promised Chief next year I’ll plan that better. I did not know but from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at our Fire Station I we’re doing a whole new thing this year. We have a lot of the community businesses are coming in so Cub and Lunds and Target. Chick-fil-A are all going to be there giving out food, water, cookies. We’re doing live fire demonstrations. We’re doing the fire truck rides. We’re doing fire safety. Escape trailers for kids so we have a lot of new things this year that we’re doing and really like to see the community there. Mayor Laufenburger: This is for the entire community. Free to attend right? Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Correct. It’s free to attend. Yep. Show up. There’s no cost for food. There’s no cost for fun. Mayor Laufenburger: What time does it start? Fire Marshal Don Nutter: 6:00 p.m. Monday, September 24th. Mayor Laufenburger: 6:00 to 8:30 I think is what I heard you say. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Correct. Yep, yep and. Mayor Laufenburger: So you don’t want the council members there obviously. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: I wanted the council members there. It was my fault though. I didn’t look on the City website for what else is going on and we changed it. When I started last year it was the first night, the first day I started was actually our open house and they had changed it to a Monday from a weekend and Chief thought that was very successful. He wanted to keep it and that was the only opening in our training calendar and unfortunately I scheduled it for that so. Mayor Laufenburger: You know everybody’s allowed one strike Don. Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 7 Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Yeah so, but it goes til 8:30 so if everybody gets over there. Run across the street. The bouncy house… Mayor Laufenburger: If we operate efficiently we can come over and kind of pick up some of the leftover food is that correct? Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Correct. Yeah fire truck ride maybe and some other stuff so, and we’re going to end of the night we’re actually building a room and contents and we’re going to light that on fire and show people how the fire grows with today’s furniture and then we’re going to have the fire truck come in and pull a hose and put it out and the kids can see that and so we’re ramping it up this year. Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: That’s all I have. If you have anything for me. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay let’s see. Council any questions of Fire Marshal Mr. Nutter? You’re good to go. Fire Marshal Don Nutter: Thank you for your attention. Appreciate it. Mayor Laufenburger: And actually I had, I mistakenly skipped over item D(4) but we’re going to do the law enforcement update first and then we’ll come back to that item D(4) which relates to flood reduction grant agreement for acquisition of property so law enforcement update. Sergeant Jason Breunig: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council members. I have the monthly law enforcement update for you this evening. Monthly calls for service July summary. We had 44 Group A crimes. 33 Group B. 432 miscellaneous non-criminal. 438 total traffic. 33 administrative for a total of 960. 24 individuals were arrested and charged with 41 crimes in 23 separate incidents. To note 4 of those were DWI’s, 3 drug violations, 3 for disorderly conduct, 77 citations were issued. Mostly for speed. No proof of insurance and driving after suspension. 206 verbal warnings were issued. 178 of those were on traffic stops. Training update. In the last month staff attended range on duty where they demonstrated proficiency with their firearms. Our final week of Minnesota Crisis Intervention training will take place September 24th through the 28th. At that time all licensed sheriff office staff will have completed the training. Community relations. Deputies worked the Chanhassen 4th of July celebration. July 2nd through July 4 th. All of the events were very well attended and no incidents to speak of. Deputy Zydowsky worked Night on the Town. That event was on July 26th. The event was extremely well attended this year with no incidents. Deputies were scheduled to assist with Tour de Tonka on August 4th. However that event was cancelled due to the possibility of severe weather. Deputies in the sheriff’s office mounted posse attended almost 40 National Night Out neighborhood parties. There were over 80 gatherings registered with the City this year. This is a record for this event. Lieutenant Kittelson conducted interviews for deputy candidates the week Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 8 of August 13th through the 17th. Staffing update. Detective Joe DeRosier began his assignment as the Chanhassen Investigator on July 23rd. We’re glad to have Joe with us. He previously worked as a patrol deputy in Chanhassen. Deputy Mike Hanson is still out on medical leave and his next medical appointment is on September 7th. And with school starting next week I’d like to talk about some back to school reminders. With school bus safety. School children need to be alert when getting off of a bus. Look to be sure no cars are passing on the shoulder. Before crossing the street they should take 5 giant steps out from the front of the bus or until the driver’s face can be seen. Wait for the driver to signal that it’s safe to cross. Look left, right and then left when coming to the edge of the bus to make sure that traffic is stopped. Keep watching traffic when crossing. Keeping children safe. School buses are the safest mode of transportation for children. The mass of the bus is designed to take the bulk of the crash force. They’re also less likely to roll over. The inside of the bus is designed as an egg carton with strong closely spaced seats, energy absorbing seat backs and padded seats. The biggest safety concern is for children outside of the bus. That’s why motorists need to stop and stay back from buses when red lights are flashing. This means kids are entering or exiting the bus and likely trying to cross the street in front of the bus where they’re not easily seen. Parents also play a vital role in teaching their children what to do around buses. This includes how to cross safely. The importance to stay back from the road while waiting for the bus and the importance of making eye contact with the driver before crossing the street to ensure that the driver sees them. Lastly I would like to conclude with a prepared statement from Sheriff’s administration. This is in response to the visitor presentation by Mr. Amorosi recently. I want to provide information on the following process. We, the sheriff’s office are not involved in the investigation at all and do not get updates from the Minnesota BCA on timelines. Their investigation is independent from us. The BCA communicates directly with the County Attorney, Mr. Mark Metz. When the BCA has concluded their investigation they present it to the County Attorney. The investigation does not become public until one of two things occur. The County Attorney determines that criminal charges against the two officers are not applicable or if he determines the officers should be criminally charged after the trial is complete. That concludes my report. I’ll stand for questions. Mayor Laufenburger: Alright thank you Sergeant. Any questions or comments from council? Okay, thank you Jason. Sergeant Jason Breunig: Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: That concludes our fire and law enforcement update. Now let’s move to item D(4) on the consent agenda. CONSENT AGENDA: APPROVE FLOOD REDUCTION GRANT AGREEMENT FOR ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY AT 770 PIONEER TRAIL. Mayor Laufenburger: This is to approve a flood reduction grant agreement for acquisition of property at 770 Pioneer Trail. Mr. Oehme is this your’s? Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 9 Paul Oehme: It is. Thank you. Mayor Laufenburger: Would you just give us a staff report on this so we can see what this is all about please. Paul Oehme: Sure, thank you Mayor. City Council members. So just a little background on this project. Back in March 12th of this year the City Council authorized submitting to the DNR a grant application for 3 properties to be considered for acquisition at 730, 750 and 770 Pioneer Trail. These houses were built in the 60’s and 70’s and they’ve been prone to flooding ever since. We have historical records of flooding on these properties and potentially impacting the properties way back even rain events, inch and a half or so can actually flood close to the property as well. We’ve been, staff has been working with these properties over the years and try to come up with remedies and mitigation to help the situation but unfortunately their back yard is, it’s considered a wetland so there are, there’s rules in place where we can’t, or we’re kind of restricted to make some modifications in that area to relieve some of the flooding. However the, staff has talked to the DNR State and there are some flood reduction grant funds that are available and application that was made back in March was approved by the DNR for one house at 770 Pioneer Trail. These funds would be allocated for acquisition and removal of the structure as well and the City would be responsible for 50 percent of the rest of the cost. The DNR matches the 50, the other 50 percent. So if this application moves forward we’d be working with the property owner on appraisal and going through the appraisal process and the purchase of that property. This is a volunteer program so we’d have to, the property owner would have to agree to whatever settlement is established. There is, the City staff has talked to the watershed district and watershed districts actually, Carver County as well and there is, there are some funds out there for the other 50 percent matching grant dollars that we can use towards the acquisition of this property as well. Plus there is a potential development out there that we could use some other stormwater mitigation money that this development is required to send to the city so we could use that money for also acquisition of the property or future wetland mitigation work on these sites so with that it’s a brief background on the importance of the project. The need for the acquisition so I believe the property owner is here in presence tonight so if you have questions for him as well. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Well council any questions? Okay. Mr. Oehme just a couple things I want to clarify. So the DNR says they will pay up to 50 percent of the costs that are incurred, not to exceed $180,000. Paul Oehme: That’s correct. Mayor Laufenburger: And they’re saying that the City of Chanhassen would be responsible for the other half. Let’s assume it’s $180,000 and did I read you correctly that you said the watershed district could come up or could potentially support half of the City’s responsibilities so that would be roughly, it would be $90,000. Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 10 Paul Oehme: It could be or actually could be more than that as well. Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. Now does the watershed support his program? Paul Oehme: Yes they have. The City staff has talked to the watershed district staff and also their board and they are very interested in partnering with the City on this. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. So this is one of three properties down along Pioneer Trail in this area. Has this area been impacted at all by other development activity in that area? You mentioned that as part of a watershed that extends from the east and how about Highway 101? Isn’t there a stormwater pond there? Paul Oehme: There is yep. So the water that runs off of Highway 101 is treated in those stormwater ponds and then is discharged into that wetland. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Paul Oehme: So the volume has increased but the rate of the runoff has more or less stayed similar over the years so. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay so what’s the big advantage for Chanhassen in removing this property as a resident and turning it into a, essentially returning it to a floodplain is that correct? Paul Oehme: That’s correct. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. So what do we get? Paul Oehme: Yeah so I think the benefits for the City are, well these 3 houses aren’t in our current comp plan. They’re kind of removed from any sewer and water in this area currently and into the future. Mayor Laufenburger: So all 3 of them have septic? Paul Oehme: Correct. They all have septic and wells so it’d be, if their septic fails it’d be very difficult for them to I think find a location acceptable to replace that septic system so from the homeowners perspective that’s important. Also from a wetland perspective as well, if we treat the water and hold back the water in this area better than it currently is and re-establish wetlands we’re going to increase the water quality and this water eventually runs into Bluff Creek which is an impaired water body so, and then we also have erosion and sediment issues farther downstream that this project would help mitigate. Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 11 Mayor Laufenburger: So do I read that right that right now we’re trying to get water off of that property. There are impediments to an increased water flow from this property so by returning to a floodplain it will mean we don’t have to hurry to get that water off the property. Paul Oehme: That’s correct. We’d like to retain that water as much as we can and then also treat it through a natural process before it ends up in Bluff Creek. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. The next is a difficult question. There’s 3 properties down there and this is 770 which is the western most of those 3. Why is this one being selected as the property that we move? Paul Oehme: So this property I think is the lowest open floor elevation so this is the property that is most prone to flooding. The first one to flood so this is the one that was chosen to be the first one in line to receive the DNR funds. Mayor Laufenburger: So when you say first in line it sounds like as funds become available or as grants become available your plan would be to acquire all 3 properties and make the entire thing, the entire area a wetland floodplain? Paul Oehme: Absolutely. That’s the goal. Mayor Laufenburger: Does that also have support from the watershed? Paul Oehme: It does yeah. It has from the watershed and has so far from the DNR so the plan would be for this council approves and make another application early next year for more DNR flood mitigation grant dollars for the next two properties and then see if we are eligible or receive those funds next year. Mayor Laufenburger: Were we to approve this are we creating any animosity between those 3 neighbors? Paul Oehme: I don’t believe so. I’ve been in contact with the other two property owners and they’re willing to, they’re willing to work with us on the acquisitions as well too. We’re already talking about you know estimating their costs for the future grant applications as well so. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. I know that the property owner is with us tonight and, do you have any interest in addressing the council Bob? Bob Haak: I don’t think so. They covered it pretty well. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. His answer was not on microphone but he sounded like the staff covered it pretty well. Alright. Council then, Mr. Gerhardt do you want to make any comments about this? Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 12 Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, City Council members. During the Avienda development there were concerns expressed both by Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed District and some council members that the group or individuals would like to see improvement of wetlands in and around the Avienda development and this was one of the projects that were highlighted that they wanted to see improved and removing some of the impervious surfaces. Retaining more of that water in that wetland. Getting it back to a wetland state was the goals of both the watershed district staff and the Avienda group. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Alright. Well with that I, my questions are answered and Paul thank you for taking time to explain this to us because this is a, obviously this is a significant investment on the part of the City in cooperation with the watershed district and the DNR for this purpose so I know that Mr. Haak at 770 and the other two residents, I know they’ve been dealing with this for a long time and I’m pleased to see that this is now at the point that we’re ready to, sounds like we’re ready to move forward on this so I thank you for that. Is there anybody would like further discussion or to make a motion on this? Councilman McDonald: Mr. Mayor I’ll do a motion. Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. McDonald go ahead. Councilman McDonald: I would make the motion that the City Council approves a DNR flood mitigation grant agreement for acquisition of flood prone property at 770 Pioneer Trail. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, we have a valid motion. Is there a second? Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second. Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you Councilmember Tjornhom. Any further discussion? Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded that the City Council approves a DNR Flood Mitigation Grant Agreement for Acquisition of Flood Prone Property at 770 Pioneer Trail. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. Mayor Laufenburger: That motion carries 4 to 0. Thank you Mr. Oehme. Thank you Mr. Haak for your patience. Bob Haak: Thank you. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 13 Mayor Laufenburger: Any council presentations this evening? Mr. McDonald did you have something you wanted to say? Councilman McDonald: Well I was just going to say that it’s kind of déjà vu all over again with the Chanhassen Red Birds. It’s a replay of last year’s I think Class B World Series and I’m hoping for a different outcome this year but we’re going to go back up in the, I think winner’s bracket and we’re going to face Miesville again. The loser will go down to the loser’s bracket. Then will face the winner of the loser’s bracket and hopefully we’ll put an end to it at that game and won’t have to go to the second game but it’s just interesting that it’s playing out the same as it did last year. Mayor Laufenburger: Just another comment about that. You know Chanhassen Red Birds is a town team and it’s made up of young ball players who love the game and they’re, they may be playing in college but obviously they’re not playing in college during the summer but they’re not semi pro. They’re not minor leaguers. These are just guys that really love this game and Chanhassen is a little bit unique in that, of the 20 plus members that we have on the squad 10 of them are from the Chanhassen area which includes not only our community but also the Eastern Carver County School District so this really is a local team supplemented by some very, very good players from around the area so the next game is Saturday at 7:30 at Jordan and assuming, as Mr. McDonald has predicted that they will, they win that game then they will play again on Monday, Labor Day at Shakopee so if you’re a baseball fan, and even if you’re not, come out and cheer the local team so. Anything else? Councilman McDonald: Wings up. Mayor Laufenburger: Wings up. Wings up for the Red Birds, exactly. Any other council presentations? ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Gerhardt any administrative presentations? Todd Gerhardt: I do have one. It’s unfortunate but Kate Aanenson our Community Development Director asked me to extend her appreciation to the Mayor, City Council members, all the department heads and staff for their support for her unlikely passing of her husband this past week and she said you can’t appreciate enough support that she’s gotten from everybody here at City Hall and I’ve talked to her a couple of times. She’s doing very well. She’s got a lot of family support with her right now and I just told her to take her time and whatever she needs we’re here for and so both the wake and funeral were well attended and a lot of Minnetonka pride support was there. Both Kate and her husband Dave were Minnetonka Skipper graduates and I don’t know but once you graduate from Minnetonka that’s something that is instilled in your for life so, but they had a lot of support from family and friends there and she did want to Chanhassen City Council – August 27, 2018 14 extend her appreciation to everybody here so thank you and we’ll continue to support Kate as she comes back and starts back to work in the future. Mayor Laufenburger: Very well. Anything else Mr. Gerhardt? Todd Gerhardt: That’s it. Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. There being no other presentations is there a motion to adjourn? 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