CC VER 2019 04 22CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
APRIL 22, 2019
Mayor Ryan called the meeting to order at 7:00 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, Jason Wedel, Todd Hoffman, Jill Sinclair,
Kim Meuwissen, and Roger Knutson
PUBLIC PRESENT:
Mack Titus 2747 Century Trail
Sen Ramamoorthy 406 West 78th Street
Greg Hawks 1806 Colonial Lane #1
Greg Boe 114200 Hundertmark Road, Chaska
Keith, Amber, and Simon Butcher 1770 Pleasant Circle
Don Vasatka 9120 Degler Circle
Liz. Cheryl and Bob Ayotte 6213 Cascade Pass
Connie Kurtz 8554 Powers Place
Gary Carlson 3891 West 62nd Street
Abbie Marusich Chanhassen
M. Halama 670 Creekwood
Molly Bremhorst 8091 Current Place
Barbara Scharfenberg Chanhassen
Mayor Ryan: Thank you everybody. Welcome to this evening’s meeting. We have a very
crowded council chambers. We have a lot of awards and certificates and things to hand out so
it’s a packed chamber so welcome everybody. To those watching at home or on the cable
channel again thank you and glad you can join us. For the record we have all members present
tonight so the first action on our agenda is our agenda approval. Council members are there any
modifications to the agenda as printed? If not we will proceed with the published agenda.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.
INVITATION TO ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION, MAY 4.
Mayor Ryan: First we have public announcements and we have a lot of them but I’d like to
begin with inviting you to the Arbor Day celebration on May 4th. I’d like to give you a little
history lesson here. In 1876 Minnesota became the fourth state to adopt Arbor Day as an annual
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celebration. Today Chanhassen celebrates Arbor Day each year in order to set aside a time to
consider what trees do for us and for our community. Planting trees adds beauty and character to
our neighborhoods, reduces energy costs, increases property values, reduces pollution and
replaces trees we’ve lost in our community. Perhaps Elton Trueblood said it best when he wrote
a man has finally begun to discover the meaning of human life when he plants a tree under which
he knows full well he will never sit. So let us plant today the trees of tomorrow. All area
residents, their families and friends are invited to Arbor Day event on Saturday, May 4th at Rice
Marsh Lake Park. We will gather at 9:00 a.m., rain or shine, at the parking lot for a welcome
from myself and our city commissioners. Volunteers will plant 19 trees around the park.
Refreshments and tree related information will be available before and after the plantings. I’m
sure we’ll still have those seedlings there as well to hand out which I always love getting. The
event like I said will be held rain or shine and everybody is asked to please bring a shovel if
possible. So please everyone is encouraged to attend for a free event and help plant a tree on
Arbor Day and I think this is pretty, or relevant right now to say that it’s Earth Day so we’re very
excited about that.
PRESENTATION OF ARBOR DAY POSTER CONTEST WINNERS.
Mayor Ryan: As part of Arbor Day we’ve always had a Arbor Day poster contest so I would
like to announce the winners but before I announce the winners I’ll hold everybody in suspense,
even though you’re obviously here because you know you’re being recognized but on behalf of
the Chanhassen City Council and the Environmental Commission I would like to congratulate all
the winners of this year’s Arbor Day poster contest. The City has been sponsoring this contest
for 19 years in order to express our commitment to trees in our community and to help educate
students on the importance of trees. Every year local fifth graders are invited to submit their
drawings based on an annual theme and the theme for this year, 2019 was Trees are Terrific and
Save Energy. So the City would like to thank all of the students from Bluff Creek Elementary
and St. Hubert School for their wonderful drawings. The framed winning picture will hang in
City Hall along with past winners. The City would also like to thank The Garden for their
generous donation of a gift card for the grand prize winner so please visit our local business The
Garden by the Woods this summer. They’re a great partner in this community and we appreciate
all that they do for us. Now I’m going to come around forward and when I say your name if you
could please, please come up. And two members of our Environmental Commission. Three.
Oh three. Would you like to introduce yourselves as well. These are members of our
Environmental Commission.
Don Vasatka: I’m Don Vasatka. I’m Vice Chair.
Keith Butcher: Keith Butcher. I’m the Chair of the commission.
Greg Hawk: I’m Greg Hawk. I’m a commission member.
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Mayor Ryan: Perfect, thank you for being here. Again please come forward when your name is
called. These are the runners-up in this year’s poster contest. I’ll start with St. Hubert School.
First up is Lauren Schmitz. Please come forward. The next person is Oliver Charbonneau.
Molly Bremhorst. Molly. And last from St Hubert School, Josh Dueck. And next from Bluff
Creek Elementary Taysia Ploen. Fiachra Curley. And Brynn Jonswold. Congratulations
everybody. I now invite the grand prize winner Abbie Marusich from St. Hubert School to come
forward. Congratulations Abbie. For your talented drawing I am pleased to present you with a
gift card from The Garden. I think you might have in your hand. And then if you want to hold
this amazing drawing. Beautiful. Congratulations. If everybody could give them a round of
applause. In a moment we’re going to have a photo here.
Todd Gerhardt: Any parents that want to come up and take pictures can too.
Mayor Ryan: You can come up from the back. Don’t be shy. Your kids love this… We
especially like when the moms come right up behind here.
Audience: Is everybody able to hold your poster up so we can see them?
Mayor Ryan: They are so great. Nice job everybody. Thanks for participating. Thank you.
Congratulations.
PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION.
Mayor Ryan: Alright next we have the presentation of Certificates of Appreciation. We will
present these to 4 members that served on our commission so I will read a little summary of each
of you. I’ll have you come up and then I’ll read about you and hand your certificate. So these
are for members that served on our various commissions. And before I bring everybody up, you
know for those of you who might not be as familiar with what commissions do or the
commissioners you know it’s a volunteer position that they interview with current
commissioners and the council and then they get appointed by council and as council we really
find commissioners an invaluable part of the process at City Hall. So they review different plans
and things that come before the city and then they are our recommending body for the City
Council and so they’re giving their time. They talk to the community and then as a group make
recommendations that the City Council reviews and then that’s how we form, help formulate our
opinion to make decisions on how we vote so they are a wonderful assets to the community and
we really, really value their hard work and effort that they put forward so let me begin by the
presentation of certificate for Nancy Madsen who was a planning commissioner. Is Nancy here?
So Nancy was appointed to the Planning Commission on April 1, 2015 and served until March of
2019. Nancy brought a unique perspective to the Planning Commission and her passion for the
city was evident in the decisions that she made. During her tenure on the Planning Commission
a number of projects that were accomplished included the Highway 61 corridor land use
amendment, the Children’s Learning Adventure, Paisley Park Museum, Chick-fil-A, Mission
Hills Senior Housing, now the Riley Crossing Senior Living, the Venue, Panera, Tweet Dental,
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2040 Comprehensive Plan, Avienda, and Holasek Business Park. Congratulations and thank you
for your service. Grant Schaeferle. Our youth member. We value our youth members because
they look at us like all those old people don’t really know what we’re talking about so they bring
great ideas and really have enjoyed having youth members as part of our commission so thank
you for being a part of that. Grant served as a youth member of the Park and Recreation
Commission for two consecutive one year terms from 2017 to 2019. Grant volunteered at
February Festival, and is active in school activities, local clubs and with his church. Recently
Grant played the lead in his church’s production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Grant was
inquisitive during his time on the commission and he provided thoughtful input. The community
of Chanhassen is a better place as a result of Grant’s desire to serve and make a difference.
Thank you so much. Wayne Benbow. Wayne Benbow was appointed to the Environmental
Commission in 2016 and served his term until the end of this year. He offered a creative and
knowledgeable voice to the commission. During his tenure the commission accomplished many
tasks including the Arbor Day annual celebration, July 3rd trade fair booth and bringing attention
to the GreenStep Cities Program. Wayne’s contributions to the commission were very much
appreciated and he will be missed. And Cheryl Ayotte. Cheryl was appointed to the Senior
Commission in 2016 and has been an instrumental member of the commission. Some of the
many roles she played included mentoring students through the Strive program, facilitating
meetings with the Rotary Club to raise funds for WeCab. Volunteering her time at numerous
city events to serve as a greeter, a server or any way she felt needed. Served and promoted
services for our senior veterans. Educated herself on products to better serve seniors by
attending workshops such as Older Adult Mental Health First Aid. Cheryl’s support to the senior
center is evident. On behalf of the Senior Commission she attended events on a regular basis.
She looked at the senior center’s wish list and got them the Keurig Coffee Maker. Well done.
That machine is very much appreciated and enjoyed by the senior center attendees so thank you
so much for your service. Congratulations.
PRESENTATION OF MAPLE LEAF AWARDS.
Mayor Ryan: Next up we have the Maple Leaf Awards and this award is given to
commissioners that have served over 5 years on a commission. First up we have Andrew Aller.
Andrew was appointed to the Planning Commission in 2010. He was elected Vice Chairman in
September, 2010 and elected Chairman in April of 2011. The commission elects the Chair at the
first organizational meeting in April. Because of the respect Andrew garnered from the
commission and in the way he managed meetings they continued to elect him as Chairman.
Andrew fostered an openness to the meetings that produced an opportunity for greater
participation and discussion. During his tenure the commission accomplished a number of long
range projects including the update of the 61 corridor and the subsequent land use amendments
and the review and recommendation of the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. Projects that were
accomplished during Andrew’s tenure include Pioneer Pass subdivision, Reflections at Lake
Riley, Beehive Assisted Living, you ready for this? But this is true for so many years of your
service. Primrose Daycare, Camden Ridge subdivision, Southwest Village Townhomes, Boulder
Cove subdivision, Business Impact Group, Dakota Retail, Children’s Learning Adventure,
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Paisley Park Museum, Chick-fil-A, Riley Crossings Senior Living, Venue, Panera, Tweet
Dental, the 2040 Comprehensive Plan, Avienda and Holasek Business. Andrew we can’t thank
you enough for your incredible service. Congratulations. Rick Echternacht. Rick Echternacht
served as a Park and Recreation Commission member from 2013 to 2019. Rick is a special
person. His kindness and joy filled personality make him uniquely qualified to represent the
community’s interest. Rick was diligent about learning all sides of an issue and eagerly listened
to others before speaking himself. When volunteers were needed for a community event, special
committee or a project field trip Rick was the first to sign up. Rick maintained an exemplary
attendance record even throughout his numerous joint reconstruction procedures. I just had to
throw that in there. For which we nicknamed him our Bionic Man. Here is just a partial list of
his volunteer roles. Perennial election judge, 4th of July celebration, Luminary Walk, Barnyard
Boogie, Rice Marsh Lake trail loop dedication, Feb Fest weigh in judge 2014 through 2019, Park
and Rec System Plan Advisory Committee in 2017 and 2019. Rick participated in the planning
and construction of dozens of park and trail projects that will provide immeasurable benefits to
the community and it’s citizens for years into the future. These include the acquisition and
construction of Riley Ridge Park, Pioneer Pass Park, Manchester Park, the Rice Marsh Lake trail
loop, neighborhood picnic shelter program, tennis court refurbishment, Bandimere Park hockey
rink, parking expansion, Roundhouse Park tennis and pickleball courts, and I know the pickleball
people are really happy about that, and Lake Susan Park baseball field LED lighting project. The
community of Chanhassen is a better place as a result of Rick’s passion to serve and his genuine
enthusiasm to improve people’s lives through parks and recreation services. Congratulations and
thank you. Mr. Cole Kelly. Cole Kelly served as a Park and Recreation Commissioner member
from 2010 to 2019 serving as the Chair in 2012 to 2017. Cole’s dedication to the commission,
the citizens of Chanhassen and his duties as commissioner have been extraordinary. A natural
leader on the commission Cole applied his intellect, budgeting prowess and passion in order to
get things done. Commissioner Kelly walked the talk in a community he had adopted as a young
adult through marriage and the desire to settle down and start a family. Cole was a gregarious
commissioner volunteering hundreds of hours to benefit the community. Here is just a partial list
of his volunteer roles. Pioneer Pass playground construction, disc golf course construction and
dedication, skate park renovation and grand re-opening. Rice Marsh trail loop dedication. The
February Festival volunteer serving roles as event emcee, fish weigh in judge and door prize
coordinator. Lake Susan Park baseball field lighting dedication ceremony. Park and Rec System
Plan advisory committee in 2017 and 2018. Most notably hundreds of Chanhassen families will
fondly remember Cole as none other than Mr. Incredible at the annual Halloween party. A role
he served proudly along with his wife Teri who most often dressed as a good witch for the 9
years he was on the commission. Cole participated in the planning and construction of dozens of
park and trail projects in the community taking great care and making certain that the
commission’s capital budgets were in order and well balanced. These projects include the
acquisition and construction of multiple neighborhood park playgrounds, picnic shelters, the
Rice Marsh Lake trail loop, Bandimere Park connecting trail and Highway 101 pedestrian
underpass, Bandimere Park hockey rink and parking expansion, Roundhouse Park tennis and
pickleball courts and Lake Susan Park baseball field LED lighting project. The community of
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Chanhassen is a better place as a result of Cole’s unending passion to serve and make a
difference. You will be missed.
Todd Hoffman: Something with a joint reconstruction.
Cole Kelly: No, no. There was no reconstruction. Just decompressing and cleaning.
Mayor Ryan: Steve Scharfenberg. Steve Scharfenberg served as a Park and Recreation
Commissioner member from 2004 to 2019. He was elected Chair in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and
Vice Chair in 2007, 8, 2010 and 2011. Steve is among an elite group of city commissioners that
have served the community in an advisory position for 16 years or more. A true leader among
his peers. Steve was an excellent listener and facilitator that encouraged participation by all the
meetings and work shops. Steve was an active commissioner during, active commissioner
volunteering hundreds of hours to benefit the community. Here is just a partial list of his role.
Red Birds Baseball team board, 4th of July celebration, disc golf course construction and
dedication, Arbor Day, skate park renovation and grant re-opening, Feb Fest volunteering both as
event emcee and door prize coordinator and Park and Rec System Plan advisory committee in
2017 and 18. Steve participated in the planning and construction of dozens of park and trail
projects that will reap personal, social, environmental, and economic benefits for the community
and it’s citizens for years into the future. These include the acquisition and construction of Riley
Ridge Park, Pioneer Pass Park, Manchester Park, the Rice Marsh Lake trail loop, Bandimere
Park connecting trail and Highway 101 pedestrian underpass, Bandimere Park hockey rink and
parking expansion, Roundhouse Park tennis and pickleball courts, and Lake Susan Park baseball
field LED lighting project. The community of Chanhassen is a better place as a result of Steve’s
passion to serve and his enthusiasm to make a difference. Congratulations. Jackie Engel. Jackie
Engel joined the Senior Commission in 2013 and has been an instrumental member of the
commission. One of the many roles Jackie played was representative to WeCab which is a
network of volunteers whose mission is to provide safe, affordable and flexible transportation to
medical appointments, shopping local businesses, community service and errands. Jackie also
recruited several volunteers for WeCab. Jackie didn’t just stop at recruiting volunteers.
However she did a lot of volunteering herself. Driving to people’s homes to register and assist
them in becoming a client of WeCab. The seniors of Chanhassen as well as the seniors within
Carver County are very fortunate and very honored to have had Jackie on their team. On behalf
of the entire City Council it is my honor to present you with a Maple Leaf Award.
Congratulations. Well done everybody. Alright, well that was fun. I really appreciate
everybody’s service and commitment to serve in the community so always fun to recognize our
commissioners.
CONSENT AGENDA:
Mayor Ryan: Are there any items that council would like to consider separately?
Councilman Campion: Madam Mayor?
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Mayor Ryan: Yes.
Councilman Campion: I’d like to see item number 8, D(8) taken off and discussed separately.
Mayor Ryan: Okay.
Councilman Campion: It’s about the infiltration and inflow study.
Mayor Ryan: Okay D(8). Todd will you be able, okay. We’ll move that under new business.
So under I, New Business. Okay. With that is there a motion to approve consent agenda items 1
through 7 and 9 through 13?
Councilman Campion: So moved,
Mayor Ryan: Is there a second?
Councilwoman Coleman: Second.
Mayor Ryan: We have a valid motion and a second.
Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman seconded to approve the following
consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations:
1. Approve City Council Minutes dated April 8, 2019
2. Receive Planning Commission Minutes dated March 5, 2019 and April 2, 2019
3. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated February 26, 2019 and March
26, 2019
4. Receive Environmental Commission Minutes dated March 13, 2019
5. Receive Senior Commission Minutes dated March 15, 2019
6. Resolution #2019-19: Lake Drive East Improvement Project – Order Assessment
Hearing
7. Resolution #2019-20: Proclaiming May 4 as Arbor Day
8. Pulled off by Councilman Campion for separate discussion.
9. Resolution #2019-21: Approve Quote for Equipment for Lift Station 18 Rehabilitation
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10. Approval of Temporary On-Sale Liquor License, Chanhassen Evening Rotary Club, Corn
Hole Tournament – May 19, 2019
11. Award Construction Contract for Corporate Place and Century Boulevard Intersection
Improvement
12. Approve Private Fireworks Display on Lake Minnewashta, July 4, 2019
13. Approve Fireworks Display at Lake Ann Park, July 4, 2019
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Ryan: Next we have visitor presentations. Visitor presentations are included with each
of our regular scheduled council meetings. Anyone wishing to address the council on a matter
that is not specifically on the agenda may step to the podium. Please provide your name and
address for the record and then please address the council. You will have 5 minutes to present
your item. If your request includes an action item for staff or council please complete a citizen
action request form so that we are clear on what you are asking and we may appropriately follow
up with your request. However if you’re simply here to make a comment with no action required
by staff or council a form does not need to be completed. We have a scheduled visitor
presentation which we will begin with. Representative Greg Boe. Welcome.
Rep. Greg Boe: Thank you. Thank you Mayor Ryan and council members. First of all wow,
what a community. You know you’ve got people stepping forward to serve the community and a
lot of talented kids too so this was fun to watch all that. And then the room empties out when I
speak. I don’t know what that says but nonetheless it’s a pleasure to be here so I appreciate the
opportunity. I’m Greg Boe. I live at 114200 Hundertmark Road in Chaska but I’m here tonight
as the Representative in the State House of Representatives for Chanhassen and Chaska and
Victoria so it’s a pleasure to be here.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you for coming.
Rep. Greg Boe: I wanted to just introduce myself and maybe share a couple of quick updates and
then see if you have any questions that I can answer while I’m here tonight so.
Mayor Ryan: Sounds great, thank you.
Rep. Greg Boe: The big item I think that we’re dealing with at the State Capitol so far is
transportation so I’ll just give a couple of quick updates on that. Last year of course was a
bonding year and so a lot of things were done. I know we, $11 million plus came in for Highway
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101 and that project moves forward I think what starting next year but you’re already purchasing
right-of-way and things like that so things are moving forward and I hear a lot of people looking
forward to that project so that will be nice. And this year I know Representative Nash and I
worked to put forth a Bill seeking $38 million for phase 2 of Highway 212 and that’s from
western, from the western edge of Cologne through Norwood-Young America and it didn’t,
pardon the pun, get any traction this year but we’re going to have that sitting ready for next year
again yet. Phase 1 on that project which is from Carver to the eastern edge of Cologne is nearly
completely funded now. I think maybe just a couple of million at best. It may even be
completely funded so that’s going to be ready to start rolling forward soon. The goal would be
ideally to have both phases fully funded so we can do both at the same time and realize some
savings by having all the equipment out there and ready to go and take care of both phases at
once. We’ll see if we get that done or not but we’re continuing to work on that. Next year is
scheduled to be a bonding year and so it’s much more likely to get that kind of funding next year
but it never hurts to ask ahead of time and have it all queued up and ready to go as well so. We
did have some progress this year on a Bill seeking $728,000 funding for City of Chanhassen to
help close the final bit of funding gap for Lyman Boulevard improvements from Peavey Road I
think over to Galpin and we made it to a hearing on the, in the committee and it has been
included in the bonding omnibus Bill so hope is that will be moved forward and will be signed.
There’s a lot of stuff in that Bill and it’s going to be a big one so there’ll be a lot of discussion
and we’ll see how that goes but the good news is that’s in there and so hopefully that will be
approved. And I want to thank City Manager Gerhardt for coming and putting a really good
presentation forward which had the committee in stitches laughing, sharing their love for
roundabouts and things like that because there’s a couple of roundabouts in that particular project
and so the Chair in particular I think was delighted by the project and the roundabouts and she
shared her disdain for roundabouts but in a friendly sort of way and so it was a lot of fun that
evening so. Yeah absolutely. The key to that is that it caused them to remember our project and
our request I think in a very positive way and so that was a very good thing so that continues.
And Highway 5 I know we’re continuing to work to find funding for Highway 5. Highway 5’s
been a problem for a lot of years for many miles and it’s going to be an expensive project and a
lot of work and I think we’ll end up taking that a few miles at a time as well but working now I
think on some, the first mile or two which includes possibly a new entrance into the Arboretum
and maybe being able to address some issues with Minnewashta Parkway at the same time so
stay tuned. I think more news coming on that project as we move forward. The budget surplus,
$1.5 billion. Shrinking as we speak and many, many people with plans for that $1.5 billion
which you know A, will be less than $1.5 billion and B, will be hoped to serve in 6 or 7 different
ways so obviously those aren’t all going to work so stay tuned but there’s a lot of talk about how
we’re going to fund things. There’s a lot of talk about new taxes. New fees. Things like that so
stay tuned. There’s a lot of discussion coming over the next month or so and you know I’ll be
glad to come back and give you more details as we know what we have but for now it’s going to
be a very interesting next 30 days and we’ll leave it at that for now. I am pleased to be serving
Chanhassen, or a majority of Chanhassen in St. Paul and so glad to be your voice in the Capitol
and I’m here to answer any questions if you have any.
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Mayor Ryan: Wonderful thank you. Council any questions? Well I would like to thank you
again. I know when you were first I think maybe still even finding your way around down there
the request came to help find that gap for funding for Lyman Boulevard and you really just took
that under your wing and ran with it and we really appreciate your help and support in bringing
Mr. Gerhardt down to the Capitol to testify but you just were really on top of it and made the
introductions with Representative Morrison and really moved it around while you were finding
your way around. We just appreciate your efforts on behalf of the city and you’ve just done a
great job with that so really appreciate it.
Rep. Greg Boe: Well thank you very much. It’s a pleasure.
Mayor Ryan: Well thank you. Best ways to get in touch with you? Your constituents to get in
touch with you.
Rep. Greg Boe: Absolutely. There’s a couple of different ways. You can use my cell phone
which is always available for folks to call on and that number is 612-751-4291. So 612-751-
4291. You can also call my office in St. Paul and that’s 651-296-5099 so once again 651-296-
5099. That’s a nice option as well and if I don’t answer it someone, some of the staff in the
office will. Email as well is a good one and that’s rep.greg.boe@house.mn so
rep.greg.boe@house.mn. That’s probably the best way in that it’s there and one of us will get
ahold of it and schedule a time. Certainly if you want to schedule at the Capitol they can pull me
out of a committee meeting. They can pull me out of the House session, things like that to meet
in the hallway for discussion. It’s often more convenient to meet in our communities here and
Friday’s tend to be a good day for that as well as Saturday’s and so we can meet at a coffee shop
in town here and sit down and have a conversation. As an individual or if there’s a group of
people that would like to get together and talk about the same subject that’s always an option and
it’s, to be honest that’s probably the most enjoyable part of the week is meeting with people in
the district rather than sitting in St. Paul and talking to folks all day long. Meeting locally in the
community is just a pleasant experience and I really look forward to that opportunity.
Mayor Ryan: Wonderful. Well thank you for providing all the ways that folks can contact you
and options for getting together so again thank you for being tonight and thank you for your
service.
Rep. Greg Boe: Thank you. My pleasure. Have a good evening.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you, you too. Anyone else with visitor presentations.
Gary Carlson: Good evening. Gary Carlson, 3891 West 62nd Street up in the northwest corner
of the city. I’m here to sincerely thank the City and the staff for a job well done. We started with
a visitor presentation last spring on a drainage, park drainage, residential drainage problem and
the City took on the problem with the manager’s and all the council’s guidance. Got the project
underway. Got the both, because it involved Shorewood’s park department too because the
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property was a park. The drainage was done by the engineering department took it under their
wing and solved it. Let the contract and it was completed before winter of last year so a 6 month
window can be done. And so I’m here to thank you very much for a job well done. So thanking
everyone tonight so here’s a citizen that gets to thank you and again from the bottom of my heart
thank you very much. And the project’s in. It’s done and it looks really good and it’s solving
the problem. Thank you.
Mayor Ryan: We appreciate it Mr. Carlson.
Gary Carlson: Yeah I don’t think you need that?
Mayor Ryan: No you don’t. Thank you. Thank you for coming. I appreciate it.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor I just want to also thank Mr. Carlson for coming in and telling us that we
did a good job. I saw you sitting there and I go oh now what’d we do and for you to stand up
there and say thank you.
Gary Carlson: Doing things in 6 months and it was wonderful… It looks good. It drains itself.
Todd Gerhardt: I’m glad.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you again. Appreciate it. Next up we have the fire department and law
enforcement. Oh I’m sorry. I apologize. I did not see you. Welcome.
Don Halla: Thank you. Mayor and council, I’m Don Halla. I’ve been of course in the nursery
business since 1962 in Chanhassen. Golf course business since 2004 I guess it opened. We
have approximately 60 acres down there that at some point in time needs to be developed and
there’s several other people in that area that are looking to develop their land also. Of course we
need sewer and water. I understand the present plans are for sewer to be extended down to
Pioneer Trail. Down to that point. Water to go all the way to the bottom of the hill. I would like
to ask if there’s any way that we can include in this project to get it extended up to the 96th Street
which has been already evaluated. Our property as far as thought patterns for development
would be to put in about 5 or 6 apartment buildings. Five story. Keeping 50 to 60, well 40 to 60
percent of the property open green acres including keeping the driving range on the golf course
as it is today. That development should take place probably in the next 5 to 10 years.
Somewhere in that neighborhood. People have already let’s say divided or at least brought to the
council or laid out or whatever 20 lots to the 10 acre property to the south and east of 101 and
Creekwood I guess we’d call it. So there’s people on the west side also that are looking to
develop if it’s possible. Of course it’s very difficult to spend as much money as it takes to get
that included in the extra distance that it needs to run the 4 blocks up to 96th Street. That has
been evaluated by the City as to the costs and so forth for doing so. Just trying to get that
moving forward to some degree. I know we’re going to be struggling with the golf course
because we will be out of business for 3 years with the development that’s going to happen to the
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golf and taking off one hole of the golf course and having to move everything to the east to be
able to compensate for that so that’s going to be major financial loss in that case anyway. Thank
you very much.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you. Mr. Halla is there, I know you shared some of the things that you
would like to see. Is there specific action that you want immediate follow up on or just to share
your thoughts and concerns as we’re moving through this process?
Don Halla: Is there any way of getting the sewer connected to 96th Street? That would probably
be the main question. Everything else is moot if that does not happen so.
Mayor Ryan: Okay understood.
Don Halla: And I do have some plans, I think they were presented in December of ’16 as far as
to lay out the.
Mayor Ryan: Yeah those were the ones that we saw.
Don Halla: So I think you have that all on file.
Mayor Ryan: Okay perfect. Thank you Mr. Halla.
Don Halla: Should I give this to you?
Kate Aanenson: Yeah.
Don Halla: Thank you.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you. Alright. Anyone else?
FIRE DEPARTMENT/LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE.
Mayor Ryan: Now we will have the fire department and law enforcement update. Chief.
Chief Don Johnson: Thank you. Good evening Mayor and council. This will be my report for
the activities of March. We’ve got 41 of our 45 positions filled. We actually had a retirement of
Barry Steckling with 20 years on. Hope to bring him to council here in the near future to honor
his service as we do with 20 year retirees. We have two rookie groups currently going to school
at the same time so we’re a little bit challenged right now and I’m happy to say that we’ll have 4
of our firefighters done with training and in service by the end of May. Weekend duty crews
have started with some Saturdays both in March and April. That will continue into May with
potentially full weekend coverage in June. We’re working through that with both our scheduling
software as we start to adjust to expansion of that duty crew for this year. In March we
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responded to 76 calls for service. 40 rescue calls. EMS with 3 motor vehicle accidents. We had
one minor cooking fire. Since it’s been 2 months or so since I’ve been here this is going to seem
kind of long. Training has been pretty busy. We’ve had emergency vehicle operations training
and our annual CPR refresher. The officers did a walk through of the new Venue building which
is very helpful for us to see that in construction for hopefully not a major incident later on but to
see how that building is being put up and how it’s constructed is real helpful for our folks.
We’ve had two cycles of auto vehicle extrication training that’s going on at public works right
now tonight in the rain but again important training for what we have to do. A few of the
highlights from my report, we’ve got, we’ve rolled out that new scheduling software which has
really helped us with setting up some work rules and having a more automated system and less
administration in how to get folks signed up for what they’re doing. I was privileged to assist
Savage, the City of Savage with their fire chief interviews. They were replacing a fire chief
that’s retiring and was quite honorable to be asked to sit in on those panels. I think it was
payback for when I was hired 5 years ago and Chief McColl helped us. We also assisted
Excelsior fire with a stand by. They used the Chanhassen Dinner Theater for their annual
banquet so we covered the city of Excelsior while they were there and obviously we had our
Lions Pancake Breakfast this year again. That was a very big turnout for us. We assisted with
the egg drop on Saturday and then this week with the Celebration at Paisley we’ve got a
firefighter EMT on site for all 4 days of the events which helps both medicals and trying to limit
our full need or full response to that if something’s going on in the building so we’re happy to
work with them on that. Riley Hills and the Venue have been taking a lot of time with
inspections. We did finish up most of our liquor license inspections for this year and the fire
marshal’s been working diligently on CPR, AED and choking training for a lot of our businesses.
That’s become very popular in training the businesses here in town and the employees. I’m to
report that we’re kind of at a little bit of a lull in calls which is pretty nice to have for right now
so hopefully it stays manageable but things are going well so with that I can stand for questions.
Mayor Ryan: I just have one question in terms of the CPR training. Do you just get calls from
businesses that ask you to come in, is that how that works?
Chief Don Johnson: Yes. We’ve been talking a little bit about that with businesses as we do
inspections but for the past 3 to 4 years it’s been a constant ask of the fire department to go into
the business environments and especially some of our bigger ones. Emerson, General Mills, the
Dinner Theater has asked for it and work with their employees which results sometimes in them
either purchasing or updating their AED’s. It’s just a reality today that people want to be
prepared for that type of emergency in their community so it’s staff intensive for us but it in
trying to support the business community if we can help in any way to do that it’s a privilege.
Mayor Ryan: That’s wonderful. Thank you for doing that. Council any questions or comments?
Alright thank you.
Chief Don Johnson: Thank you. Have a good evening.
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Mayor Ryan: Lieutenant welcome.
Lt. Lance Pearce: Madam Mayor, council. I have the activities for law enforcement for
February and March and then I’ll combine them at the ends and so what does this mean. You all
have the description of the Group A and Group B offenses and I know it’s kind of confusing but
in February we had 40 Group A, 15 Group B. The Group A are more higher level offenses.
Felony level. They included drug offenses into that as well. 245 traffic stops resulting in 6 DUI
arrests. Because of the weather we had 40 property damage and 2 personal injury crashes. 50
citations were issued and a total of 819 calls for service. March we had 43 Group A, 10 Group
B, 162 traffic stops resulting in 3 DUI arrests. 51 property damage accidents and 7 personal
injury crashes. We issued 41 citations and 868 ICR’s. Group B offenses again primarily
resulted from theft, fraud and drug offenses. So a combined total we had 93 of those Group A
offenses, 25 Group B, 407 traffic stops resulting in 9 DUI arrests, 91 citations and 91 property
damage crashes and 9 personal injury crashes. For our training update, deputies trained on use of
force topics and rifle familiarization in February. In March we did some diversity training. We
had our local Hindu culture come in and do some training with us. We did some building
searches and our annual firearms qualification in March. For community relations we did a
career day with the Mayor and the Fire Chief at Minnetonka Middle School West. Had a
presentation at a career day at the Chaska High School. Participated in a virtual ride along via
Twitter and did a presentation at St. Hubert’s Church and a question and answer session at the
Senior Center. Staffing update. Our police contract in Chanhassen is fully staffed. The sheriff’s
office has hired two deputies that started April 1st and we also have 2 cadets who will be done
with their college and skills in May. They graduate May 6th I believe. The deputies will start in
April. Should be done with their training in August and the cadets should be done at the end of
September so I stand for questions.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you. Council any questions? I’d like to thank you again for going to the
MMW career day.
Lt. Lance Pearce: That was fun.
Mayor Ryan: So I appreciate it. I appreciate all the community outreach that you do, that your
officers do so.
Lt. Lance Pearce: Absolutely. We’re going to build on that. I’ve built community policing
districts for all of them and they have all been implemented so we’re going to see how and
evaluate that after the summer.
Mayor Ryan: Great, thank you very much. Really appreciate it.
Lt. Lance Pearce: Thank you very much.
Mayor Ryan: Thanks.
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PUBLIC HEARING: APPROVE OFF-SALE 3.2 PERCENT MALT LIQUOR LICENSE
FOR IDLY DOSAI INTERNATIONAL MARKET & FOOD SERVICES.
Mayor Ryan: Kate or?
Todd Gerhardt: I’ll take it.
Mayor Ryan: Do you want to take it? Okay Todd. Mr. Gerhardt.
Todd Gerhardt: Before you is a request for an off-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor license for Manjal
Traders known as Idly Dosai International Market located at 406 West 78th Street. The owner is
present tonight. Sen is here and so if the council has any questions before opening the public
hearing he can do that or you can wait until after the public hearing. Background check will be
completed if the council decides to give the liquor license tonight and that would be contingent
on successful approval of that background check.
Mayor Ryan: Perfect. Questions from council for Mr. Gerhardt? If not would you like to step
forward and make a few comments. You don’t have to but you’re welcome to.
Sen Ramamoorthy: We just started this business 18 months ago. We would like to increase
more traffic for our business so we have kind of applied for to buy for a liquor license…
Mayor Ryan: Perfect thank you. Appreciate it. With that I will open the public hearing. I
hereby open the public hearing. Please step forward and state your name and address for the
record. With nobody I think having any comments I will close the public hearing and return it to
council for any further questions, comments or motion.
Councilman Campion: I will make a motion.
Mayor Ryan: Mr., Councilman Campion.
Councilman Campion: The City Council, I propose a motion that the City Council approves the
request for an off-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor license from Manjal Traders LLC doing business
as Idly Dosai International Market located at 406 West 78th Street. Approval of the license
would be contingent upon satisfactory background investigation results and certificate of liquor
liability insurance.
Mayor Ryan: We have a motion. Is there a second?
Councilwoman Coleman: I’ll second the motion.
Mayor Ryan: Alright with a motion and a second.
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Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman seconded that the City Council
approves the request for an off-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor license from Manjal Traders
LLC doing business as Idly Dosai International Market located at 406 West 78th Street.
Approval of the license would be contingent upon satisfactory background investigation
results and certificate of liquor liability insurance. All voted in favor and the motion
carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
Councilman Campion: Congratulations.
Mayor Ryan: Congratulations.
Sen Ramamoorthy: Thank you.
CONSENT AGENDA: APPROVE CONSULTANT AGREEMENT FOR PRIVATE
PROPERTY INFILTRATION AND INFLOW STUDY.
Mayor Ryan: Next we have new business. Councilman Campion pulled off consent agenda item
8 and that is the approval of a consultant agreement for private property infiltration and inflow
study. Mr. Gerhardt.
Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, City Council members. This study is a part of our key financial
strategies and the study is to give you an outline of options available to you for I and I infiltration
into our sanitary sewer areas and having the consultant come in and identify these areas of
concern is prioritizing where we can get the biggest bang for our buck and have the biggest
impact of reducing I and I into the community. So that’s what our expectations from the
consultant would be.
Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion do you have questions as it relates to that?
Councilman Campion: I was just curious about summarizing again the benefits and just for the
public to state you know just how much we spend each year. How much we spent last year on I
and I and what the potential gains are.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. Met Council, for some people that don’t understand or know that our
sanitary sewer is treated at the sanitary sewer plant that’s across from Valley Fair and as a part of
that we have infiltration of raw water from wetlands. You know some of the lakes in the area
and we get charged for that water and what I and I study is is to find where those locations are
and what is the best method to reduce that I and I infiltration. So with this study we can
prioritize and get credit for managing the I and I in the community back to Met Council that runs
the sewer treatment facility and so what we’ve spent I’d have to go back and get you that
information but we get credit for those when we have large I and I inflow. Usually large rain
events. The last one was I want to say 2 to 3 years ago that we got a surcharge of about
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$200,000 for an I and I issue when we had 6 to 8 inches of rain in 4 hours. So I don’t know if
that answered your question or not.
Councilman Campion: So the annual spend is obviously in excess of $200,000?
Todd Gerhardt: Of what we spend for I and I?
Councilman Campion: Yes.
Todd Gerhardt: No. What this study will do is identify how much we’re going to be spending.
Right now we don’t have anything short of maintenance to our sanitary sewer system if we find a
potential I and I issues. I think the last one that we did was in our street reconstruction areas on
the north side of Minnewashta. We have some of the older sanitary sewer pipes that have cracks
and infiltration there. Replacing those lines with new lines helps with our I and I issues.
Councilman Campion: I was trying to put the study.
Todd Gerhardt: Cost benefit?
Councilman Campion: Cost, yeah in the terms of what is the potential benefit if we’re spending
$57,000. Up to how much might we hope to save per year?
Todd Gerhardt: That’s what this study will tell us and Jason anything else you want to add to
that?
Jason Wedel: Mayor, members of the council, I just was going to add what we spend annually
with the Met Council on just treating our sanitary sewer is hundreds and hundreds of thousand of
dollars. How much of that is actual sewage and how much of that is I and I we don’t have a
good handle on because we need to do this study to identify how much of that is coming in that
shouldn’t be treated at a waste water treatment plant. It’s ground water in essence.
Councilman Campion: And that was what I was looking to inform the public about is you know
how much do we spend on that sanitary sewage that we.
Todd Gerhardt: Oh.
Jason Wedel: Our annual budget. I think it’s over a million.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah.
Jason Wedel: I could double check.
Todd Gerhardt: Our bill for the year is way over a million dollars and.
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Councilman Campion: That’s what I wanted to put into context is the $57,000 is to save some
fraction of that million dollars.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. What Met Council is trying to do is they don’t want to treat storm water
runoff and/or sump pump basins that, where a resident may take their sump pump hose and put it
into their wash basin. You know that’s non metered so anything that deals with rain water or
lake water that gets into our sanitary sewer that isn’t metered so, so we determine what your
sanitary sewer usage is based on the water usage during the winter months and because we’re not
sprinkling lawns and so we use that as our basis for determining sewer costs and so what’s up
and above that is infiltration and the one year where you see a spike in our sewer cost is when
you get big rain events so that means we have infiltration into our sewer system and this study
will identify certain areas where we will get the most bang for our buck to help reduce that I and
I infiltration and the one bill, the surcharge because Met Council is pushing cities to try to stop
this I and I infiltration is, they are giving out these surcharges of $200,000 and once we make an
improvement then they give us credit for replacing those sanitary sewer lines and subtract that
out of the surcharges when we get the big rain events where we’ll see a spike in our I and I.
Councilman Campion: So ahead of time you could speculate you know based on one surcharge
of $200,000 that there could potentially be up to $200,000 if we were to address all the issues
savings per year.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. And you know the less water that is non metered that we send down
saves residents money and we’re talking probably hundreds of thousands of dollars per year that
it would save.
Councilman Campion: Okay. That’s what I was looking for thanks.
Mayo r Ryan: Perfect. Council any further questions? Thank you Mr. Gerhardt. With that is
there a motion?
Councilman Campion: Since I took it off I’ll make the motion.
Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion.
Councilman Campion: I propose that the City Council approves a consultant contract with Short
Elliot Hendrickson, Inc. (SEH) in the amount of $57,640 for the private property infiltration and
inflow study, Project No. 2019-06.
Mayor Ryan: We have a valid motion. Is there a second?
Councilwoman Coleman: I second the motion.
Mayor Ryan: With a valid motion and a second.
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Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman seconded that the City Council
approves a consultant contract with Short Elliot Hendrickson, Inc. (SEH) in the amount of
$57,640 for the private property infiltration and inflow study, Project No. 2019-06. All
voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
Mayor Ryan: That motion carries 5-0.
Todd Gerhardt: Thank you.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Mr. Gerhardt.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. None.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Ryan: Administrative presentations.
Todd Gerhardt: Our office manager Kim Meuwissen sent out notices from our last City Council
meeting. I think you got an update on your packet on the visitor presentations that occurred at
the last council meeting.
Mayor Ryan: Yes they’re a part of our correspondence discussion.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah we’re trying to gear up to get those out sooner. We usually make contact
with property owners or businesses that come forward and so there’s been personal contact with
them and then the letters in the packet will be mailed out tomorrow.
Mayor Ryan: Perfect.
Todd Gerhardt: That’s all I have. Thank you. And thank you for including in the packet as we
had stated with the visitor presentations when those forms are filled out. You know obviously
we as council and staff want to make sure that things are being addressed with the residents that
are coming forward and so it’s our goal to have that included at the next meeting to at least
provide an update on where it’s at and then you know conversations are warranted to continue
then that will be stated in the packet so thank you for including those. We appreciate it.
Anything else on the correspondence discussion? Alright I will take a motion to adjourn.
Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman 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 8:05 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt, City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim