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CC VER 2019 02 25CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING FEBRUARY 25, 2019 Mayor Ryan called the City Council meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the Flag. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Ryan, Councilwoman Tjornhom, Councilman McDonald, Councilman Campion, and Councilwoman Coleman STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Kate Aanenson, Andrew Brotzler, Todd Hoffman and Roger Knutson PUBLIC PRESENT: Roger & Shannon Burks 2401 Highway 7 Carrie Barclay 6545 Gray Fox Curve Laurie Susla 7008 Dakota Avenue Rodney Colson 6440 Pipewood Curve Jerry Cone 6320 Minnewashta Woods Drive Mayor Ryan: Thank you and welcome to this evening’s meeting. To those of you that are watching at home, either on Mediacom’s city cable channel or those who are livestreaming from Chanhassen website, we’re glad you can join us. For the record we have all of our members present tonight so our first action is our agenda approval. Council members are there any modifications to the agenda as printed? If not we will proceed with the published agenda. With no public announcements tonight we have consent agenda items 1 through 6. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: None. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman seconded that the City Council approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: 1. Approve City Council Minutes dated February 11, 2019 2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated January 22, 2019 3. Resolution #2019-11: Approval of a Two Lot Subdivision with a Variance for Reducing Lot Frontage at 3800 Red Cedar Point Road 4. Approve Joint Powers Agreement with Carver County for Arboretum Area (Highway 5) Transportation Plan 5. Approve Joint Powers Agreement with Carver County and City of Chaska for Lyman Boulevard Improvements (TH 41 to Galpin) and Adopt Resolution #2019-12: for Advancement of State Aid Funds Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 2 6. Resolution #2019-13: Approve Bid for Water Tower No. 3 Rehabilitation Project All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Ryan: As many of you know as we’ve done in the last few meetings this year we have implemented a new way to go about managing requests as they come before council during this portion of the meeting. If you come forward and your request includes an action item from staff or City Council we would like you to complete a Citizen Action Request Form. There are hard copies here in the chambers or there is, if you do it in advance there is a link online. To clarify you are simply making a comment, or let me clarify. If you’re making a comment or a presentation where there is no action required a form does not need to be completed. You have 5 minutes to present the action item you are requesting so please be respectful of that time when you come forward and then we will follow up, staff will follow up with you following the meeting so I just wanted to clarify the visitor presentation. With that do we have any visitor presentations this evening? Okay moving on. FIRE DEPARTMENT/LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE. Mayor Ryan: Next we have the Fire Department and Law Enforcement update. Assistant Fire Chief John Murphy: Mayor, council. So fire department staffing currently we’re at 42 of 45 paid on call firefighters. We have one firefighter currently on leave and conditional offers were extended to 6 candidates for the 2019 rookie group. To date 2 candidates decided to decline and one additional candidate was not able to successfully complete the steps required to begin employment. Three candidates will begin their service on February 25th, tonight and their academy for the Southwest Academy starts on March 7th where they will begin their emergency medical technician certification training. Fire response, the fire department responded in 94 calls for service in the month of January. Significant calls for December included the following. We had 54 rescue EMS calls with 11 motor vehicle accidents mostly related to poor weather conditions. We had 2 fire related responses. The mutual aid response to Eden Prairie and our major loss structure fire which is just the garage on Stone Creek Drive. Monthly training, training that occurred since the last update. We’re doing fire ground tactics for apartment building fires, basic fire skill stations and tonight we’re doing our employee assistance presentation. Other activities that we did, we assisted with Feb Fest and with the weather we had several standby crews created during our many nights of the bad weather we’ve had recently. For our Fire Marshal update, traditionally fire inspections taper off for the colder months of the year but this year we’ve been quite busy. Some of the notable fire inspections for new construction in the month of January are Mission Hills townhomes took occupancy of 10 more units. The Venue Apartments, they met with the contractor on site to approve locations of fire department connections and standpipes for our fire department operations. And Riley Crossing, formerly Mission Hills, met with contractors on the site to approve attic system. The New Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 3 Tobacco Shop on 79th Street occupancy inspection were given. New Café Thyme Restaurant in Market Square, occupancy inspection was done. Ameriprise Financial occupancy. The New Mattress Value Store. That occupancy inspection was completed. Then for fire prevention notable activities have been, we presented a basic fire investigation class for all of our Chanhassen Fire Officers. Met with new business owner for Agnatron Building to discuss fore code and safety issues and we’ve conducted a safety meeting for residents of Powers Ridge Senior Living to talk about fire safety, fire alarm response and other safety items related to the building. And we’re working on setting up CPR and fire extinguisher training for the same group next month. Annual fire inspections at existing buildings and businesses, Olive Branch Assisted Living. Beehive Assisted Living. Gas stations, Holiday and Kwik Trip. And Powers Ridge Senior Living. For fire investigations, the large structure fire at 8080 Stone Creek Drive, the garage was a total loss. The fire door from the garage to the house, along with an aggressive fire department tactical response saved the main structure of the home from further damage. Cause of the fire was determined to be unattended cooking in the garage and classified as accidental. Any questions for me? Mayor Ryan: Council any questions? Thank you. I know you guys have been, you all have been very busy with this weather so appreciate your hard work. Assistant Fire Chief John Murphy: Yeah, yep thank you very much. Mayor Ryan: Thank you. Thanks for the report. Lieutenant Kittelson. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Good evening Madam Mayor, council members. I have the monthly law enforcement update for you this evening. Monthly calls for service, January sorry. We had 36 Group A crimes, 9 Group B crimes, 395 miscellaneous and non-criminal calls for service, 405 total traffic incidents and 26 administrative issues so we had a total of 871 calls for service in the month of January. Arrests, citations and verbal warning summary. We had 28 individuals were arrested and charged with 51 crimes in 24 separate incidents. Some of the highest offenses were DUI and liquor law. We had 6 and drug violations we had 10. We had 63 traffic citations with 16 of those being for speed, 8 for no proof of insurance and 6 for inattentive driving and some of the more, some of the higher numbers and then for warnings deputies issued 229 verbal warnings and 207 of those were on traffic stops. Training update. All staff attended use of force training in January and went through various scenario based decision making simulations as well as intermediate weapons that would involve our Asp or expandable baton, our AIP, aerosol air tip projector, our Taser and handcuffing. Community relations. Deputies and the sheriff’s office reserves assisted with February Fest on February 2nd. I understand it was one of the, Mr. Hoffman it was one of the better attended events I believe in recent memory so that went very well. And Sergeant Bruenig and I met with Summerwood of Chanhassen with their administrative team on February 13th to review security procedures and go over some different response issues with them to ensure that we’re continue to collaborate. And for staffing update we remain at full staff. That concludes my report. I’ll stand for questions. Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 4 Mayor Ryan: Did you want to make an introduction as well? Lt. Eric Kittelson: I thought, I was going to do that. Mayor Ryan: Oh okay, alright. Lt. Eric Kittelson: Or I can do it now. Mayor Ryan: Well first okay, any questions from council? Pardon me? Lt. Eric Kittelson: I said let’s give him the questions. He can go right away. Mayor Ryan: We’ll put him under a test right away, perfect. Any questions council? No? Lt. Eric Kittelson: Okay and with that I would like to announce that on Monday, March 4th I will be moving to our Chaska Sheriff’s Office to be the Lieutenant of Investigations and Professional Responsibility and so with that I’d like to introduce your new liaison to the City of Chanhassen Lieutenant Lance Pearce. So Lieutenant Pearce began his career in law enforcement in 1991 as a reserve deputy for Carver County. He moved on to become a part time and full time deputy in 1993 and 1995. He worked a variety of shifts while working as a deputy sheriff until promotion to Sergeant in 2006. During his time as deputy sheriff he experienced many aspects of law enforcement including many years on the SWAT team, field training officer, weights and scales enforcement, water patrol, snowmobile patrol, and a short time as a crime scene technician. As a Sergeant Lieutenant Pearce worked both day and night shifts as a supervisor and most recently as a support services sergeant where he was in charge of training, civil process, recreation services and off duty contracts. He also has experience supervising the field training program, SWAT team and the reserve unit. Lieutenant Pearce has an Associate Degree from Normandale Community College and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Metropolitan State University. He resides in western Carver County with his wife and teenage son and when he is not working he’s an avid outdoorsman enjoying all of the hunting seasons and Muskie fishing. And a little bit off script I’ve spent the majority of my patrol deputy years, Lance and I worked together as patrol deputies on the night shift and we were on SWAT for a majority of both of our careers. About 8 to 10 years on SWAT together so I know first hand from being involved in numerous critical incidents with Lance and then just spending down time at night that he is going to be an excellent replacement and you’re in good hands with Lance as your new liaison so with that I’ll let him say a few words if he’d like. Lt. Lance Pearce: Well just a few words. I’m happy to be here. I look forward to working and meeting every one of these guys. I worked obviously my entire career has been with Carver County so this is where I’m going to be so I look forward to working for the city. I know I have big shoes to fill and Eric’s done a wonderful job since he’s been up here so. Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 5 Mayor Ryan: Well welcome Lieutenant and we look forward to having a successful relationship going forward and Lieutenant Kittelson I want to thank you for your, I think you said earlier today your 14 years of service with Chanhassen and you’ll be missed. We really appreciate your community outreach and advocacy. Your attention to detail in the reports that you provide and just a great relationship that I know you have with not only city staff and council but with the community at large in Chanhassen. You’ve been a real asset and great to work with so best of luck in your next endeavor. I know you’ll be of great success and I look forward to continue to work with you as we move forward so again thank you for your service and we’re excited to be working with you Lieutenant Pearce. Lt. Lance Pearce: Thank you very much. Mayor Ryan: Great, thank you. PUBLIC HEARING: APPROVE ON-SALE INTOXICATING LIQUOR LICENSE FOR NORTH COOP, LLC DBA NORTH COOP. Mayor Ryan: We have the approval of on-sale intoxicating liquor license for North Coop LLC doing business as North Coop. Ms. Aanenson is this you or Todd? Todd. Todd Gerhardt: I’ll take this one. Mayor, City Council members as the Mayor has stated North Coop is asking for an intoxicating liquor license including Sunday sales at the 7 and 41 Center up at State Highway 7 and 41. It’s kind of a real catchy name for that strip mall up there. Included, I’m not going to take any thunder from the owners who are here this evening about the flair that they’re going to be providing the residents in Chanhassen but we did do a background check and criminal history check and both the owners, managers have come back with a clean record and no negative comments were found in those investigations. At this time staff would ask that you open up the public hearing and then close the public hearing and then ask the owners if they would come up and give you a little background on their restaurant. Mayor Ryan: Perfect. Before I open council any questions at this time? Okay I hereby open the public hearing. Please step forward and state your name and address for the record. Shannon Burks: Hi, how are you? Mayor Ryan: Great, how are you? Welcome. Shannon Burks: Thank you. My name’s Shannon Burkes. Address is 6115 Club Valley Road, Excelsior, 55331. Roger Burks: I’m Roger Burkes at the same address if that’s enough. Mayor Ryan: That works. Welcome. Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 6 Shannon Burks: Thank you. Roger Burks: Well thank you, we’re excited to be here. Mayor Ryan: Well we’d love to hear about what you’re doing. Roger Burks: We’ll give you a little bit. Mayor Ryan: Alright. Roger Burks: Yeah it’s a, you know a lot of my roots were back in Kentucky. My family’s from Kentucky and so southern cooking was always part of what we’re doing and so there’ll be a lot of southern influence in the restaurant. We created and opened Lago Tacos in Excelsior and then we opened another one in Uptown and then we put together a Charlie’s on Prior on Prior Lake and we have sold those out to our other partners and now this is just us doing this and we’re really excited about it because we live in the community. Less than a mile from the restaurant. We have been in Chanhassen for a long, long time. Now we’re in Shorewood or Excelsior so apologize. Mayor Ryan: You’re doing business in Chanhassen so that’s okay. Roger Burks: Yeah we’ve been working on this project for almost 2 years with Pasture Realty about trying to get the space the right size and trying to bring life to that site. The Center which is kind of, it needs it. It needs a little CPR over there so we put this together. This restaurant that seats about 108 inside and another 36 outside on the east side of the building. We’ll be knocking out windows and adding a patio which includes expanding the parking lot out so cars can get through so it’s just going to be a very light space. We moved Grizzly’s Pizza over a space so now it’s the right size for us. We’ve got a chef and a sous chef and I don’t know if they’ve all given their notices so I’m not going to tell you who they are yet. We’re working on some key staff members right now. Real southern influence to the menu. You know with fried chicken and some southern cooking but it will be well rounded so it’s kind of a southern fare with a northern flair. We’ll have much more things on the menu. We’ll have a smoker and pulled fried chicken and a whole bunch of other items so full service bar and some unique cocktails and very family oriented. We’re very proud about that. We did a very nice job of that with Lago Tacos. It’s a little small and some people have to wait a long time to get in there but yeah we’re very, very excited about opening this space so. Mayor Ryan: Well we’re excited. Roger Burks: I’ll field any questions you have so she can answer them. Mayor Ryan: What are your hours and your timing? Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 7 Roger Burks: Hours will be Monday through Thursday from 11:00 to 11:00. Mayor Ryan: Okay. Roger Burks: Friday will be from 11:00 to midnight and Saturday and Sunday we’ll open at 9:00. We’ll do brunch on those two days. We’re really looking forward to that because it’s something that’s really needed in that area and we’ll close at midnight on Saturday and we’ll probably close at 10:00 on Sunday. Things kind of shut down in the area so we’re happy with that. Mayor Ryan: Well great and your projected opening is May or? Roger Burks: We are really trying hard to open the day after Mother’s Day which is the Monday after Mother’s Day. Mayor Ryan: Okay. Roger Burks: We’ll take over the space somewhere in April 24th or 25th and we have a couple weeks of training with mock services and parties and things like that so that’s kind of when we’ll slide the doors open sometime, hopefully right during that week and yeah. Mayor Ryan: Great. Roger Burks: Yeah there’s a lot of work to do outside so we’re really hoping these huge snow piles will go away. We have, you know there’s just to dig out on that patios and all that kind of stuff so it’s all heading that… Mayor Ryan: So is the hill on the east side, will you cut into that? I know that’s more of a staff question but. Kate Aanenson: No actually that’s, that has a permit for another restaurant so it cuts out. Mayor Ryan: Oh okay. Kate Aanenson: It cuts out. I think that was one of the struggles was trying to find an outdoor space that we could work with you but they do have a building permit so they are under construction right now. Mayor Ryan: Oh great, okay. Roger Burks: Yeah the parking lot that is on the east side actually is, it will just be moved back I think 6 feet. Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 8 Mayor Ryan: Oh great. Roger Burks: We have a short little wall that we need to put in because it does slope up and so just then enough room to back cars out and. Kate Aanenson: We had to keep the driveway for the access to some of the services in the back so that was one of the things that we worked on. Mayor Ryan: Oh great. Great. Roger Burks: Yeah we’re real happy with it. Mayor Ryan: Well there’s already a lot of buzz on next door and social media so people are very excited about having you in Chanhassen so we’re excited as well and wanted to, want to welcome you so. Roger Burks: We’re excited to have parking. I mean Excelsior, this is exciting so. Mayor Ryan: Well great. Well thank you for choosing Chanhassen. Roger Burks: We’re very excited so thank you. Shannon Burks: Thanks for having us. Appreciate it. Mayor Ryan: Thank you. Anybody else in the chambers would like to come forward? If not I will close the public hearing. Public hearing is now closed and I will bring it back to council for questions, comments or action. Any questions, comments or action by anybody? Todd Gerhardt: Mayor and council we’re just excited to have North Coop here and it’s another family run restaurant in the community. That’s something our residents have been asking for and having a brother and a sister-in-law that run a restaurant bar, there’s a lot of time and effort and personal energy that they put in there than most of the, some of the franchises and they can, they make it fun and can do a lot of specials and things like that so it’s going to be fun to have the North Coop up in the 7 and 41 area. Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion. Councilman Campion: I would like to make a motion. Mayor Ryan: Yes. Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 9 Councilman Campion: I propose that the City Council approves an on-sale intoxicating liquor license including Sunday sales for North Coop, LLC doing business as North Coop located at 2401 Highway 7. Mayor Ryan: We have a valid motion. Is there a second? Councilwoman Coleman: I’ll second that. Mayor Ryan: With a valid motion and a second. Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman seconded that the City Council approves an on-sale intoxicating liquor license including Sunday sales for North Coop, LLC doing business as North Coop located at 2401 Highway 7. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. Mayor Ryan: That motion carries 5-0. Congratulations. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. None. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS. Todd Gerhardt: Just a reminder, more for the public. Tomorrow night the council is going to meet as a whole to do interviews so something new. We’re interviewing all our commission members tomorrow night and typically we take almost a month and a half to do interviews and we’re going to start tonight. We’ve got I think 5 interviews for tonight and then several for tomorrow night and get them knocked out in 2 days so thank you for being flexible council and giving me your 2 additional meetings. Mayor Ryan: Great, look forward to 29 applications. Applicants which is great. Which is fantastic. CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. Mayor Ryan: Next is the correspondence discussion. I would like to make a comment just on number 3 about the response to a gentleman who was here at our last meeting that filled out a Citizen Action Request form and did his presentation and staff has followed up and that is closed and so just so you know once the form is filled out and staff and council work through it we will put the final, the final response in the packet so the community can review it so thank you for handling that so quickly. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah just probably another follow up. We’re still working with the no wake boat individual. We’re finding out some details on DNR rules and regulations and thanks to Chanhassen City Council – February 25, 2019 10 Todd Hoffman for making a few calls and you’ll see some closure on that before our next meeting. Mayor Ryan: Perfect, thank you. With that I would look for a motion to adjourn. Councilwoman Coleman moved, Councilman Campion 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 7:30 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim