CC VER 2020 08 10CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
AUGUST 10, 2020
Mayor Ryan called the meeting to order at 7:20 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: Heather Johnston, Jake Foster, Kate Aanenson, Charlie Howley, Greg
Sticha, Jerry Ruegemer, Richard Rice, Matt Kerr, and Roger Knutson
Mayor Ryan: Good evening again everyone. Thank you for joining us for the meeting tonight.
For the record we have all of our council members present tonight with two attending via Zoom.
Since we are operating with council members both here in the chambers as well as online I will
be taking roll call votes this evening. Our first action is our agenda approval. Council members
are there any modifications to the agenda as printed? Councilman McDonald? Any
modifications?
Councilman McDonald: No Mayor there’s not on my part.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you. Councilwoman Tjornhom?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: No.
Mayor Ryan: Councilwoman Coleman?
Councilwoman Coleman: None for me.
Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion?
Councilman Campion: None.
Mayor Ryan: And I do not have any either so we will proceed with the published agenda.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mayor Ryan: We have, I’ve asked for public comments. We have had an email up on our
website for people to submit public. Oh no I’m sorry. I’m in the wrong section. I have so much
paperwork up here. No public announcements. I’ll read those during visitor presentations so the
next item on our agenda is the consent agenda.
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CONSENT AGENDA: 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 July 27, 2020
2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated May 27, 2020
3. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated June 23, 2020
4. Approve Contract for Annual Sanitary Sewer Televising (I/I)
5. Award Consultant Contract for Lyman Boulevard Sewer/Water Extension Project 20-11
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
Mayor Ryan: We do have one scheduled presentation tonight. Sheriff Kamerud will join us
shortly. Before we get to Sheriff Kamerud we did receive, we also have as I was starting to say
earlier, we have a link on our website for residents to submit public comments. During this
pandemic we opened that line of communication for those that were not comfortable coming to
the meeting to be able to submit comments during visitor presentations so I will read these into
the public record. So let me begin, the first one is by Robert Kahlmeyer. Last name spelled K-a-
h-l-m-e-y-e-r and he resides at 921 Lake Lucy Road in Chanhassen and the question was that if
the Lake Lucy Road project has been cancelled there will be no resident assessment due until
that project is back on track and that is correct. I will answer this right now for you. That is
correct and on August 10th, today the street or public works department is going to send or did
send out letters to all residents that received assessments to let them know that because the City
Council voted at our last meeting to not move forward with the different street rehabilitation
projects that there is no assessment to be paid to the City of Chanhassen so all residents that were
mailed an assessment letter will be receiving that letter in the mail, and yes it’s confirmed. It
was mailed out today so thank you for that question. And this is the similar question. This is
from Deb Roberts. I do not have an address and the clarification was that they received a notice
of a street assessment that was due for the Trappers Pass area and is that still due so my answer
to the question before applies to this. That they are not due and you will receive a letter to
confirm that. This was a letter from Todd G-r-i-v-n-a and wanted to know if the City Council
meetings are open to the public and yes all of our City Council meetings are open to the public.
We do ask that you wear obviously a mask inside which is mandated and they’re also available
to watch on our local cable channel. So those were some of the comments sent in and then this is
a good segue. A few others were feedback for the sheriff’s office tonight and once I read those
and then I will welcome the sheriff to come and speak but I wanted to read these into the record
as well. The subject is I love our County Sheriff so I thought would make you smile. And that
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is from Brad Abbott, A-b-b-o-t-t. He said please maintain our great relationship with the
sheriff’s department and let them know how much I appreciate all the work, support and safety
they provide. This email was from the Kulik family spelled K-u-l-i-k. Mayor Ryan and City
Council thank you for your recent communications. My family and I strongly endorse your
message in support of our sheriff’s office and local law enforcement contract. It is extremely
important that the City of Chanhassen continues to maintain public safety and support as a
priority in regards to the Carver County Sheriff’s Office. Thank you for standing up for the men
and women of law enforcement. It’s more important now than at any time in our modern
history. The next one is from Jeff Commander. C-o-m-m-a-n-d-e-r. I don’t know of anyone in
Chanhassen who supports defunding the Carver Sheriff’s Department. Thank you for addressing
this directly in your newsletter. If there is a decision to be made in this area we should let the
residents vote on this topic. And one question from Mr. Mark Frisbie, F-r-i-s-b-i-e. Can you
please tell me how I can learn more about the Police Accountability Act that Mayor Elise Ryan
mentioned in the email and I had forwarded that to Ms. Johnston and Ms. Johnston followed up
directly with a link to the Police Accountability Act. And then last from Mr. Joseph Alvarez, A-
l-v-a-r-e-z. My family and I support the police. Please do not defund the police department or
cancel the contract with the Carver County Sheriff’s Office so thank you for those that took the
time to submit your letters via the link so we could read them into the record and I’d also like to
say thank you to the many individuals that reached out to me and I’m sure council received them
as well with phone calls and emails either with questions or comments as it relates to the next
presenter tonight which is Sheriff Kamerud so Sheriff I welcome you to the podium. Thank you
for being here tonight.
Sheriff Kamerud: Thank you for having me. Well thank you Madam Mayor, members of the
council. I appreciate the opportunity to come in and talk with you tonight. If you recall we
talked briefly about mid-June, shortly after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and I just
touched briefly on some of the things that we had going in the sheriff’s office. Things that I
thought were important for the council and for the citizenry to know and I have a little bit more
comprehensive information available for all of you today and I think because of this policing
relationship that we have it’s important for the council and for the citizens to know these sorts of
details. If you had your own police department you would have these types of conversations
with your police chief and I know that Lieutenant Pearce gets up here and talks about some of
the activities and you know the things that we’re going but as we’ve had a change in sheriff’s
office administration, we haven’t had a substantive change in policies but of course you wouldn’t
know that because we haven’t really been out talking about it as much as perhaps we could or
should. And I was and thank you so much.
Councilman McDonald: Excuse Mayor, Sheriff, can somebody turn up the sheriff’s microphone
because it’s not coming across.
Sheriff Kamerud: Okay?
Mayor Ryan: Maybe just pull up the microphone, yeah. Perfect.
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Sheriff Kamerud: Yeah is that a little bit helpful.
Councilman McDonald: That’s good, thank you.
Sheriff Kamerud: Okay I can do that. So I want to thank you for reading those letters because
it’s, I’m glad to hear that the citizenry values the service that we’re providing and we think we’re
bringing some value as well and so it’s working both ways but, so a couple of things here that I
think we, I popped this little slide up here because it’s important to just kind of look at data and
his isn’t really all inclusive. It’s just a small snapshot of what we have going. The top line is
what the crime rates are per 100,000 in, on the national scale. The middle line is in Minnesota
and then that bottom line which is significantly lower than both the national and the state
numbers is where Carver County is at and that excludes Chaska. And the numbers themselves
really aren’t all that significant for this particular conversation but the point here is, our crime
rate is low. The violent crimes include you know murder, rape and robbery and your assaults
and what not and then the property crimes are more of your big ticket crimes. Property variety
arson, burglaries, maybe auto thefts and you know we just don’t have a lot of those kinds of calls
and what that means is, policing in Carver County is going to look different than it is somewhere
else where they have different data driving their activities. So I want to circle back to the
organizational core values and all of our decisions related to policies, practices, training, hiring,
employee retention, all of it come back on these core values in the organization of respect,
dignity, honor, integrity and pride. If you ever get an opportunity to get into the sheriff’s portion
of the building here you’ll probably see plaques with our mission statement on there and each of
those values are clearly stated in there and that is the standard by which we operate and move
things in our organization. When we talk about training right, we’re going to evaluate the
training related to the organizational core values. Now we provide training for our employees
both in-house and through third party vendor and we want to make sure that our employees are
prepared to do the job that they’re doing today but it’s also a part of our succession development
plan and preparing our employees for promotion and for lateral movements as well. And they
also cover all of the post requirements. We exceed all of the POST is the licensing authority in
Minnesota Peace Officers Standards and Training board governs the license and they require us
to take like 48 credits in a 3 year period and all of our employees exceed that threshold. Most of
the POST required training is done in-house wherein we select an employee. Train them to be a
trainer and then they provide the training to their peer group and that training curriculum and the
core comes in so and such gets vetted at the POST board to meet their continuing ed credit. For
third party vendors, when an employee asks to go to those trainings it has to be approved by a
supervisor who evaluates it in terms of is it an organizational need. Does it meet a specific
employee need? Is it part of their succession plan? If it’s a Chanhassen employee one of the
things we might ask is it germane to policing in Chanhassen? Does it matter here and then if
they’re approved they go to the training and they come back and they complete an eval at the
training which is for the instructor’s benefit but we have an evaluation, course evaluation piece
that they fill out that kind of tells us as the supervisory and management team whether or not the
training was worthwhile and if additional employees want to go would we send them. And you
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know if we get a couple of employees who go to third party vendor training and they say ah it
was horrible and it didn’t address the issues that we thought it would, well then we don’t go to
that anymore. We continue to shop and find something else. So then of course for a legal update
training Campbell Knutson provides us with a more of a booklet kind of summarizing changes in
legislation and how it will impact operations between their office and our’s and then the County
Attorney provides in-house training for things like search and seizure law. Changes to domestic
assault. All of those sorts of things and so the idea here is to make sure that the cops are
engaging and doing the job in a manner that’s going to work when it gets into the prosecuting
authority’s office. And I mention the training because you will see in the, a lot of this proposed
legislation and some of it, I think it actually might have come out in the Peace Officers
Accountability Act. We’ll talk about that a little bit more later but they want to get out of
warrior style training and the history behind that to my recollection was you know back in the,
when I went to skills and they taught the whole warrior thing. Now this was back in the 1900’s
as my daughter would point out that, but when I went to skills they talked about the warrior and
the idea was to have a never give up attitude. To don’t quit the fight. To you know if you are
involved in a physical altercation and being assaulted don’t quit. You’ve got to stay after it and,
and somewhere along the line that transferred into this hyper vigilance of view everybody as a
threat and that has been detrimental to the policing and the relationship with the citizenry and so
the trend lately, and by lately I mean over the last several years is to kind of adopt more of a
guardian philosophy than a warrior philosophy and that is really about trying to use time and
communication and other tactics, distance and you know non-verbal communication. All those
sorts of things to kind of de-escalate and bring things down. It’s about policing with the
community, not policing the community right? And that is really where I think our office has
been over the last several years and I don’t think that’s universal in all of law enforcement
throughout the nation but that’s where we’re at here in Carver County and I think that matters.
Shortly after George Floyd’s death there was a lot of conversation of people asking to, for an
agency to adopt these 8 policies and it’s commonly called 8 can’t wait and that comes from
studies that an organization called Campaign Zero has done that basically their studies show that
agencies that have these 8 policy concepts have lower incidents of deadly force encounters and
they’re, you know they’re nothing really earth shattering here in Minnesota. You know de-
escalate through verbalization. Provide a confrontational continuum. Banning choke holds.
Require a warning before shooting and you know you can read the list yourself. The point I
want to make here is that all of these concepts have been in the sheriff’s office policies for quite
some time. Many years since dating back to certainly when Bud Olson was sheriff and probably
starting to be incorporated when Al Wallin was sheriff which would have been late 90’s.
Somewhere in that window. So of course as any organization we’re going to shape and adjust
our policies to meet current demands and expectations and so I’ll talk about banning choke
holds. We don’t have a policy per se that says choke holds are outlawed and they’re prohibited
but we have a defacto policy that prohibits it because you’re not allowed to use techniques that
we didn’t train you to do and we don’t train in any neck restraint sorts of holds. So we’ll shape
that language to be reflective of what the people want to make it more clear that neck restraints
are prohibited but it’s not going to change anything for us operationally because we don’t train
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on it and we don’t do it now. And so when I talk about the policy language being incorporated
to sharpen our focus that’s what I’m driving at.
Mayor Ryan: Sheriff is Campaign Zero, whose campaign is that?
Sheriff Kamerud: That’s the name of the organization near as I can tell. If you were to Google
search Campaign Zero or 8 Can’t Wait it would take you to their website and they have a
tremendous amount of material. News articles. Scholarly studies. Data related to police
encounters with people of color in particular but tremendous amount of good information to sort
through. Rules of conduct. You know we’ve had a lot of conversation since, again since George
Floyd and since his death and it’s important to know for this council that we have rules of
conduct policies governing on duty and off duty behaviors. We have defined policies that would
be of the misconduct sorts of things where they’re clearly doing something wrong. Illegal,
immoral, or unethical. And then we have the neglected duty sorts of things where they’re just
not doing their job and, or doing it the way they are supposed to but not in a misconduct sort of
way. The short version is that employees have to behave lawfully, impartially, honestly,
respectfully and objectively. And there are 25 specific things, give or take, behaviors outlined in
the policy but if we were to summarize it those are the core requirements. We also have been
working with the County Attorney over the last 3 or 4 years to get after how we can address
employees who might have been involved in acts of dishonesty, racial profiling or things that
might impact their credibility because if they are unable to provide courtroom testimony, well
that would be a core function of the job and if they are not able to give credible testimony we
have to sort of what we might do with them. You will see in some larger agencies they have
employees, they have to retain because they discharged them. They went through arbitration.
Got their jobs back and now what? Well Carver County’s big enough but we’re not big enough
to accommodate that. We don’t have jobs for people who can’t do the full scope of the job and
so we’ve been working with the County Attorney to sort out what that might look like. The idea
is to get that work done on the front end. We’re not in that position today. We don’t have any,
we call them Brady/Giglio impaired employees and your attorney will correct me if I’m wrong
please but the way I understand Brady is the prosecutor has an obligation to report credibility
issues to the defense in the discovery process and then that creates potential problems for the
prosecution. Well we don’t have any employees that we have to disclose yet but I’d like to have
a mechanism in place before we get there and we think we have that now mostly. So we’re
watching arbitration hearings right now because that’s really driving it as well. You know we
can have all these great things in place but if the arbitrators are giving the cops their jobs back
well then we’ll have to sort something else out so getting a little off topic there for you but our
duty, off duty behaviors are regulated in the rules of conduct policy. Interestingly it ebbs and
flows but there was a while where we were seeing more off duty violations than we were on duty
violations and now we’re not seeing much of either and I’m very happy for that. Of course we
have policies related to impartial policing. Racial profiling. The policy is there to provide a
foundation and guide our staff in, ensuring that we’re delivering the laws in a fair and equitable
manner or enforcing the laws in a fair and equitable manner. The idea is to make sure that we
have specific articulable behaviors that are leading us to our decision making, not factors that are
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irrelevant such as race or gender or religion or any of those other sorts of things that don’t really
matter in terms of case development or trying to determine if you have suspicious behavior or
not. We’re investing additional training into this. I talked in June about some of the work we
did related to building our knowledge base internally related to implicit bias and we’re doing
some training and we are continuing down that path because equal protection under the law
matters and it’s our obligation as the gateway to the criminal justice system to make sure that
we’re starting off on the right foot. I want to be clear that when I started this endeavor upon
election it wasn’t because I think we have an internal problem with any of these things. It’s
really about recognizing that we need to constantly be learning and building and growing and
becoming better in how we go about doing our jobs and when we look on a national scale and we
look at the data we can tell that, that it’s not necessarily happening on an event scale for people
of color and so we’re going to try to address that to the extent that we can do it in Carver County
so. We’re also gathering and evaluating 2016 through 2019 arrest data to examine arrests versus
use of force and comparing it with race. The Southwest Publishing has made a request for this
data as well. The timing is pretty good because we’re having these conversations internally
about it and what we’re finding is it’s really difficult to make any meaningful interpretation of
the data when you look at what our crime rate is on the very first slide. We have very low crime
rate so the occasions where use of force might be used is very low. When you look at the
demographics of Carver County and comparing race involved the numbers are very low. When I
looked at Chanhassen for example just related to arrests involving use of force, and to be clear
use of force is anything above a routine escort hold and an escort hold would be if I just kind of
grabbed you by the elbow and said come with me and I escorted you somewhere. Anything that
is more violent than that is considered use of force in our organization. In Carver County we had
5 occasions with black people and when you look at each, because there’s only 5 you can look at
all 5 cases pretty quickly and read through the reports. It’s really tough to make any pattern
assessment on 5 incidents, right? But nevertheless we’re going to take a look at the data and see
what we can learn if anything. Citizen complaints. We have a pretty comprehensive policy
related to the complaint investigation process and then you couple that with the rules of conduct,
we have a good mechanism in place to get after these. We have a fairly informal process in
terms of how we receive complaints and the short version is that we will receive complaints
verbally, in writing. We have an actual form for it because in government you have a form for
all things right. And but we accept them really informally but one of the things that we are going
to try to do is tighten up the verbiage and make it more clear to citizens how they could go about
lodging a complaint related to employee performance or employee behavior. I would like to see
that on the website. We’re getting a lot of people who are looking for these more technology
driven sorts of things. I think we could put that, you know it’d be pretty easy to convert to
Spanish and have that available for our Spanish speaking citizens and so I think we’ll head down
that road but complaint investigation policy covers everything from real basis concerns. Deputy
demeanor. You know the deputy was rude or the tactics. Another one is some people will say
well you know your deputy shined his light in my eye. Why did he shine his light in my eye and
we can talk that through and kind of educate people about how and why those things happen like
that. Then it gets into minor violations from we have reports tardiness. Low level, more
neglected duties sorts of things into straight up misconduct activities which would include
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criminal acts and other inappropriate on duty conduct. Or even off duty conduct for that matter.
And then there are tiers of which supervisory or managerial level can be involved. So if we have
a low level demeanor complaint, first level supervisor can take care of that that night with the
citizen and likely with the officer. If not that night certainly or day, you know certainly within a
couple of days. Some of the more complicated ones would require a more thorough investigation
and those take a little bit more time and then that rises up to more of an administrative level.
And sometimes those things might go to an outside agency so for example if we had an officer or
a deputy who was accused of criminal conduct, well we don’t investigate ourselves when it
comes to crimes. We bring in another agency to investigate that allegation. And we do that for
other agencies as well if they have an employee who is alleged to have engaged in criminal
activity they’ll conflict it over to us and then we’ll conduct the investigation. Employment
investigations where the only allegation is of a policy violation well then we handle those
internally and you’ve seen it on TV. The IA. The Internal Affairs investigation and we have
employees who are trained in doing those types of personnel investigations. Once in a while
though we’ll bump into cases where it’s kind of mixed right so perhaps it an excessive force
complaint. Well that might be criminal or it might just be a policy violation and in those
instances we sort those out pretty thoroughly to make sure that they get routed to the appropriate
channel for investigation. That doesn’t happen very often but it does from time to time and
sometimes it’s not really clear which is the best avenue for the investigation but we kind of sort it
out. I talk it through with the County Attorney and with other sheriffs and police chiefs and try
to make sure we’re assigning it appropriately. You know one of the things that leads to
complaints is employees who are not mentally or physically healthy and what not and so Carver
County has done a pretty nice job in my estimation of offering a variety of alternative health
insurance programs for employees to kind of meet their individual needs. They have continual
physical health incentives that are packed into that insurance plan. Not all of the employees take
advantage of it but it’s there. We have a really robust EAP. Here again I’m not sure that a lot of
employees take advantage of it but it’s there. We have really flexible and alternative scheduling
practices and that’s kind of good news, bad news on this partnership sort of thing because part of
the reason we see employee movement on an annual basis is because we’re making these
scheduling adjustments and employees get to have input on where they’re assigned and the shift
they work and so we might see some movement when we didn’t really want to but in some
instances it probably is better fro the employee. And then just this year Lieutenant Pearce
spearheaded an initiative to create a peer counseling program where trained peers are available to
communicate about stressors related to the job. We have critical incident stress management in
place and we have a chaplain program so we have a lot of programs in place to try to keep the
employees mentally and physically healthy and we’ve had varied levels of success just like every
organization who’s trying to do these things. Some of the things we have going in the future that
I think matter are you know body worn cameras. You know we in 2019, we’ve been looking at
these for the last couple years and we’ve been kind of watching what the data laws have done.
Now we think the data laws are okay in terms of providing reasonable privacy for victims of
crime and witnesses and people who are probably would have an interest in maintaining some
privacy right. And we reviewed it with my Citizen Advisory Board in 2019 and the board
concluded that it’s an inevitable technology that the sheriff’s office is going to have to include at
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some point but when we started talking about the money and like you guys were talking over the
last couple of meetings it’s well we’ve got a finite amount of money. It’s this or it’s that. It
can’t be both and so we made some decisions and deferred the body worn cams. I did ask for
funding in the 2021 budget and whether or not that gets approved by the County board is a
separate issue. We also would have to have public hearings and there’s a process that we have to
go through before we can do it but I had to ask for the money now and then if the money’s
available then we can have the rest of the process and I suspect at the end of that we would likely
have cameras. Now of course that has an added cost for each of our contract cities because the
intention is, as most agencies are doing is they’re storing the data in the cloud through a third
party vendor and the vendors are charging on a per user basis. Not on a per data basis. It’s they
know about how much data each cop contributes and then they bump that into the mix. Well
more than half of the sheriff’s deputies exist because of contract policing and so the data that’s
generated policing a contract community is going to have to be offset by that city’s in their
policing contract. We’re having some discussions with the city managers right now to kind of
sort out where that might be. When it kicks in. You know all of those sorts of things but we’re
not, I would not anticipate any substantive charges or costs to the cities until into 2022. Maybe
the back half of 2021 but that’s, the back half of 2021 would be pretty optimistic. Let’s see I’m
trying to evaluate the development of an early warning system and it’s an idea where you can
track citizen complaints against employees, tardiness, sick use, all of these sorts of things and it
might give you some indicators of an employee who is on the front end of being in trouble and
so we’re kind of looking at that. When we get to the part on the police accountability act you’ll
see that the POST board has been directed to do this and so maybe we forego and we use that
tool. We’ll have to see how that shakes out but we’re on the very front end of having crucial
conversations is what I called the group is just a working title until we kind of figured out what
the group really was but the idea is to find a way to hear from the people in our communities
whose voices have not been heard. We’re talking about people of color and try to figure out how
to, what’s the best way for me to get that information in-house so that I can shape our
organizational policies and shape our training to fit those needs. I’m finding that it’s a little bit
challenging when there’s a lack of trust to get into some pretty candid discussion but so far so
good. We’ve had some very good conversation in my opinion. The Mayor has been to the
meetings and I think we’re making progress. We’re building some repoire. It’s all optimistic
that in the coming months, hopefully later this year but certainly first quarter 2021 hopefully we
can have some community based sorts of conversations on that. I think I talked in June and
before that we would try to leverage our co-responder and PCEP programs with Health and
Human Services. Our co-responder started today so once she gets through with her training we
will have a crisis therapist available to mental health calls in the field with our deputies Monday
through Friday. Her core hours are 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Somewhere in there. She
works an 8 hour day but those are the hours we absolutely want her here because that’s what the
data shows is when we need it. Whether she comes in earlier than that or later than that is kind
of between her and her supervisor. You know I’m not much of a clock watcher so they’ll sort
that out. And then of course we still have crisis call takers in our 911 center which the idea was
to get them on the phone during mental health calls and potentially allow them to start de-
escalating and providing some telephonic crisis counseling things of that nature and it turns out
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that yeah they do that on the mental health calls but they also do it in other situations. Domestic
assault cases where they’ll talk to the caller who is really quite emotional about having been
assaulted and they work it there and it’s, we didn’t expect that but we found that they do that
work on other calls and it’s working out very well. And then of course you know we want to
make sure that we’re sharing information with our city and township partners because that’s
really the only way these things work is if we remain communicative about expectations and
what’s going on and how things are actually starting to happen. So for the, Mr. Frisbie I think is
the one who asked about the Police Accountability Act, is that sound about right? Yeah well we
can, here’s the Readers Digest version of it. Those are the highlights of the things that are
included in the act for us. We’re not really significantly impacted by this because our use of
force policies already include the idea of the sanctity of human life. That concept is already
included. The part that is going to impact us is the use of force reporting which is monthly along
with complaint reporting in real time. Now we don’t get a lot of complaints but when we get
them, as I understand the legislation, the idea is that we pump that information into a statewide
database and then as we get to final disposition and any administrative action then we feed that
information in at that point. The technology exists. The website has not yet been developed so
what that’s going to look like and how we’re going to pull data out of it I’m not really sure but,
and then notably is the grievance arbitration as well. That’s pretty significant in terms of
changes to the arbitration process in that arbitrators will be assigned by the Bureau of Mediation
Services versus the way it happens prior to August 1st I think is they would give the grievant and
the employer 5 or 7 names and then they would each alternatively strike one until you had one
name left and then that was the arbitrator. That’s a pretty significant change in my estimation.
Mayor Ryan: Sheriff before you leave this slide because these actually are some of the questions
that I had just based on the email that we got. So if I’m understanding this slide correctly the
ones that you have asterisks behind, those are the ones that would be new to your policy and
practice. All the other ones that are listed are already policies or practices that you have in
existence. Is that correct?
Sheriff Kamerud: Yeah that’s correct. We have some form or the concept of it is included in all
of those but for the ones with the asterisk or like I didn’t put the use of force investigative unit by
BCA because that doesn’t impact us but what they did was they said the Minnesota BCA is
going to have a unit that is exclusively assigned to law enforcement use of force and officer
involved shooting cases.
Mayor Ryan: And so, sorry you probably can’t even hear me. Sorry Nann. You probably can’t
hear me with my mask on. And when you say some form of it you’re saying that just for
clarification that your policies are more stringent or, I know you shared the explanation of a
choke hold and so that’s specific and you’re doing any kind of neck restraints so I just wanted to,
you know these are the questions that I get and one of the reasons why we invited you here is just
so there is that clarity amongst council for these questions that come forward. So if the ones that
are already on there are part of your policy in some fashion or another?
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Sheriff Kamerud: Or a part of our practice.
Mayor Ryan: Practice okay.
Sheriff Kamerud: Yep and let me just run through and make sure I’m being perfectly clear and
transparent on all of those. You know I think we’ll have to tweak some of the language in so, our
current policies are more restrictive than the previous POST board policies. These topics here
are currently, that’s what made our’s more restrictive right because we had these concepts in
there and now our policies are in alignment with these changes.
Mayor Ryan: Okay, thank you.
Sheriff Kamerud: Does that make sense?
Mayor Ryan: Yes thank you.
Sheriff Kamerud: Okay. And that’s it. Any other questions? Comments. Things I can clarify
for the group.
Mayor Ryan: I will turn it over to council for questions or comments. Councilwoman Coleman
any questions or comments for the sheriff?
Councilwoman Coleman: No questions. I just wanted to say thank you for that very thorough
run through and for all that you’re doing for our community and if there’s anything that this
council can do to better support the members of our community who are hurting, and that’s the
feedback you get as well as supporting you our sheriff’s and the deputies please let us know.
Sheriff Kamerud: Thank you.
Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion?
Councilman Campion: None at this time, thank you Sheriff. Appreciate your service.
Mayor Ryan: Councilwoman Tjornhom?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Yes thank you Sheriff for your presentation tonight. I think it’s
important to stress that when we hear a siren going or you see a police officer, your job isn’t
necessarily chasing a bad guy. I think a lot of the time it’s really you’re trying to help
somebody. Whether it could be in a medical issue or I think most recently you know we’ve
heard a lot about the fact that people in the law enforcement arena deal a lot with mental illness
and a lot of those calls are having to be managed and you’re not necessarily a mental illness
specialist and so I’m glad to hear your program has now started where you do have some support
and your deputies also will have that support moving forward so your presentation was really
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informative and I really do thank you for the times that you do come and you help residents and
the times that you’re serving in right now so thank you so much for all of that.
Sheriff Kamerud: Thank you.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Councilwoman. Councilman McDonald?
Councilman McDonald: Well Sheriff I want to thank you for coming to us and kind of
explaining all of this. I think it’s really interesting to look at police work and the jobs you do. I
think that police have kind of become a hammer and every problems a nail and as we all know
that’s not the case so I’m glad to see that there’s recognition on your part that these problems can
be multi faceted and it does take someone with a little bit more I think insight into human nature
and how to address a problem and to think it through before just reacting so I’m glad to see
you’re starting to put those kind of policies and training in place. The accountability is excellent
I think. It will only get better as we’re able to use it more but I’ve always been very pleased with
the service that the Carver County Sheriff’s Office has offered to the city of Chanhassen. I think
you all have done an excellent job of providing policing and keeping the peace for the residents
and our city so for that my hat’s off to you and a hearty thank you for all your work in the past
and I’m sure you’ll continue doing the same type of work in the future. Again I would like to
reiterate what Councilwoman Coleman said. If there’s anything we can do as the City to help
you I hope that you’ll not hesitate to come forward and to talk to us about any assistance that we
could lend to you. Again I just want to say thank you and to all of your deputies, you know
please express our thanks and support to them also so thank you.
Sheriff Kamerud: Thank you Councilmember and I’ll be sure to pass that along to the deputies.
Mayor Ryan: And Sheriff I’ll just close by sharing those same sentiments. First thank you for
coming tonight. I really appreciate it. We really appreciate you take the time to go through your
practices and policies so extensively. And I had a great conversation with a resident a while
back and you know he said to me he’s like, make sure you tell the Sheriff and let the public
know as well that we appreciate you all because you are our family. Our friends. Our neighbors
and you put your lives on the line every single day when you walk out the door and I thought that
was really well said and a sentiment that I share. I’d also like to commend you, obviously
tonight we heard from not only the council members but in terms of the residents that took the
time to submit a comment and support and wanting to share their support and appreciation for
the service that you provide our city but I want to commend you on putting yourself out there for
these crucial conversations because while there is you know definitely the support in our
community for the sheriff’s office, as we’ve come to learn that there’s also concerns and so I
think you have recognized that and acknowledged that and by putting this group of people
together where you truly sit and listen to the comments and the feedback, to those that might not
feel so comfortable with you know the sheriff’s office and different things that may or may
happen to them or experiences that they have, you know you’re putting yourself in a position
where it’s not as comfortable and you’re willing to listen and you’re willing to make those
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changes to make sure as you stated earlier everybody feels that they’re treated equally under the
law and so while obviously you have the support from us I just want you to know how much I
appreciate and value that you’re taking the time to listen to those that might have a different
opinion and might not feel as welcomed in the community and I think that is going to go a long
way for the strength of Chanhassen and Carver County as a whole so I just want to acknowledge
that I really very much appreciate you taking the time to do that and sit and listen to community
members and figure out a way forward so thank you for coming tonight. Lieutenant Pearce
thank you for being here tonight and leading the team here in Chanhassen. We very much
appreciate all of your service and sacrifice that you do every single day so thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Sheriff Kamerud: Thank you for having me tonight.
Mayor Ryan: And that was our scheduled presentation. If there are any other visitors that would
like to come forward this would be the time. I don’t see anyone.
APPROVE SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH SGR FOR EXECUTIVE RECRUITMENT
SERVICES FOR CITY MANAGER POSITION.
Mayor Ryan: Next item is old business which we don’t have any nor public hearings. So the
next item is our new business and that is, let me pull it up here and that’s the approval of a
service agreement with SGR for executive recruitment services and I believe Mr. Foster is
joining us via Zoom.
Jake Foster: Yeah thank you Madam Mayor, members of council. As the Mayor said the item I
have before you tonight is approval of a service agreement with Strategic Government Resources
or SGR for executive recruitment services. So as we’re all well aware of Todd Gerhardt retired
after 34 years of service back at the end of June. We issued an RFP for executive search firms
on June 10th of this year prior to his departure. That RFP closed on July 20th and we received 5
proposals from executive search firms. From there we put together a panel to review each of
those that consisted of myself, department heads, Charlie Howley, our Public Works Director
and City Engineer and Chief Johnson our Fire Chief along with Councilman Campion and
Mayor Ryan. The 5 of us reviewed each of the proposals and selected 3 for interviews and then
from that process SGR was unanimously selected for recommendation to the rest of council.
Their service agreement has a cost of $22,000 or not to exceed that with the exception of some
potential supplemental costs. Some could be like pass through costs if we want to post on job
boards or if there are any sort of additional resources we want along the way. If you want to
include another person in. Video interview services or other such measures like that. So with
that I will stand for any questions.
Mayor Ryan: Mr. Foster before I turn it over to further questions could you go through the
timeline for when they would start up if this gets approved. And what their timeline is.
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Jake Foster: Yeah, yeah I’d be happy to. So in their proposal they laid out that timeline so after
they have approval tonight they’ll essentially I’ll let them know if they were to be approved and
they’ll get started right away and then starting essentially tomorrow is a 15 week timeline so they
have the expectation that that would then run through roughly the end of November to have a
candidates in place and start that, or have that negotiation process wrapped up so they would
help sort of set terms and then the actual negotiation would happen here between council and the
candidate that’s determined so with that wrapping up the 15 week process we’d hopefully be
able to have our new city manager then start a date targeting roughly January 4th of 2021.
Mayor R yan: Great, thank you Mr. Foster. Councilman McDonald any questions?
Councilman McDonald: Not at this time. I think you’ve laid it out quite well so thank you very
much for that Mr. Foster.
Mayor Ryan: Councilwoman Tjornhom any questions?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Not at this time.
Mayor Ryan: Councilwoman Coleman?
Councilwoman Coleman: None from me.
Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion?
Councilman Campion: No questions.
Mayor Ryan: Alright. I don’t have any questions either. I would also like to extend my
appreciation to Mr. Foster for taking the lead on this and getting it all organized as well as thanks
to Mr. Howley and Chief Johnson for your participation and of course Councilman Campion so
thank you all for your participation and interview process for this executive search firm. Is there
a motion?
Councilwoman Coleman: I’ll make a motion. The City Council approves a Service Agreement
with Strategic Government Resources (SGR) for Executive Recruitment Services.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Councilwoman Coleman. Is there a second?
Councilman Campion: Second.
Councilman McDonald: I’ll second.
Mayor Ryan: I’ll give that to Councilman Campion. The Zoom got you there Councilman
McDonald.
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Councilwoman Coleman moved, Councilman Campion seconded that the City Council
approves a Service Agreement with Strategic Government Resources (SGR) for Executive
Recruitment Services. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote
of 5 to 0.
Mayor Ryan: That motion carries 5-0. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Foster.
Jake Foster: Thank you.
APPROVAL OF FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS CONTRACTS.
Mayor Ryan: Next we have the approval of the facilities improvements contracts. Thank you
for staying around. Mr. Sticha.
Greg Sticha: Good evening Mayor and council. Earlier this evening staff reviewed a executive
summary prepared by Leo A. Daly for the assessment of COVID safetyness for our facilities
here at the City of Chanhassen. As the council is aware but some of the audience and listening
tonight might not be aware the City of Chanhassen is the recipient of roughly $1,978,000 in
CARES dollars. One of the eligible expenses for those CARES dollars is building our safety
improvements to your buildings for COVID related safety improvements. 3 or 4 weeks ago staff
along with the direction of the City Council asked Leo A. Daly to perform an assessment of our
buildings for that particular reason. This evening they’re going to share some of their
information in regards to that assessment and break down some of the costs, potential costs that
they are recommending to the City Council for approval of using CARES funds to a variety of
our facilities. With that I will let Kimberly and I try not to butcher your last name.
Kimberly Sambolt: Sambolt.
Greg Sticha: Sambolt. This evening she will go over her presentation and answer any questions
the City Council might have.
Mayor Ryan: Great thank you.
Kimberly Sambolt: Mayor and council. I’ve given some detail already. You have information
in your packet so I’m going to go over this pretty quickly just for those who haven’t heard it yet.
A couple weeks ago we came and did the study as Greg mentioned. Myself, architect with Leo
A. Daly and also a mechanical engineer with our firm at Leo A. Daly walked through a number
of the facilities and looked for potential areas to improve the facilities to reduce the spread of
COVID in response to the COVID CARES Act funds and that they can be used for facility
improvements so we were looking for ways to do that. When we were looking we prioritized by
different levels and one of the things that we really prioritized is the HVAC. The air quality
inside the buildings is a priority because the COVID virus spreads primarily through airborne
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particles and so one of the best ways we can make improvements to facilities to prevent the
spread of that is via the air quality and by improving air quality so that’s going to be one of the
top items that we recommend. The next is physical distancing. CDC also recommends that
proximity enables that airborne spread so they have some pretty good guidelines about the 6 foot
distance and trying to maintain that distance. This becomes kind of an issue in many of our
facilities because facility space is at a premium and to really enlarge to meet that CDC
recommendation in facilities at all times would mean a significant increase in square footage of
space which just is not available and the CARES Act funding that you have available would not
support in all instances really accommodating that CDC recommendation so we do take this into
account but it is a little harder to achieve with the funding and timeline we have available. And
then the third level of priority is the frequently touched surfaces. This is also a common method
for germ spread. It’s not the primary for COVID but that being said there are ways that COVID
can spread via commonly touched surfaces. Again this is one that is hard from a built
environment. We can’t reduce all, we can’t eliminate all of the touch points that people have in
their work places that other people touch throughout the day but we can reduce some of them,
especially in really high traffic and potentially contaminated areas like bathrooms, public entry
doors, those types of things. So this is just kind of how we prioritize the work and how we made
recommendations for the facilities. Things we’re looking for. As I mentioned indoor air quality
is one of the highest because that is the primary way of spreading. And you can see here the
ASHRAE recommendations for COVID-19 are to dilute, exhaust, contain and then clean kind of
in that priority level so that’s within. And increasing outdoor air coming in through the systems,
through the HVAC systems is increasing the ventilation and that increases that dilute exhaust.
So one of the things that we do is we recommend that the air handler systems bring in a higher
percentage of outdoor air. Next is filtration. Filtration is one of the things that contains. The
level of filtration that is necessary to actually remove the COVID droplets is a very high level
and those filters are pretty expensive which gets to kind of one of the technologies we’ll talk
about in a second. This is the bi-polar ionization. So this is a technology that actually ionizes
the particles in the air and makes that kind of clump together so that they’re more easily filtered
out by less expensive filters. So this is one of the technologies that is fairly new but is proven to
be pretty effective in treating the air. Not only for COVID-19 but for some of the other airborne
particulates and infections. So with all of those kind of priorities and explaining kind of what
we’re looking at we came up with a full list and there’s a much extensive list. This is kind of a
high level summary of the recommendations that we made. Prioritizing the air quality in each of
the facilities and also the touchless so reducing those touch points. This is primarily plumbing
fixtures and sinks and soap dispensers and paper towel dispensers in bathrooms but there are
some other things included in those touchless categories. Thinks like doors. Meaning public
entry doors that would be either ADA operators or like electronic sliders so those fall into those
categories. What you’ll see here is that there’s a wide variety of differences in the amount
recommended for each facility and one of the big impacts of that is just the age of the HVAC
systems that exist on those facilities. The public works facility is fairly new and it has a fairly
new HVAC system and so that system is capable of bringing in more outdoor air than some of
the other facilities in this list and so that’s one of the reasons that that one is a little bit lower than
for instance city hall. So city hall the air handlers on this building are particularly outdated.
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They’re probably within 5 years of the end of their serviceable life so here at the city hall and
senior center building we’re actually recommending for all new rooftop units to feed this
building and that gives you a few things. That would give you a higher percentage of outdoor
air. Be able to bring in more air like we talked about and then also to control the humidity which
is also an important part of helping prevent the spread of that COVID virus. Keeping an indoor
humidity between the 40 to 60 percent relative humidity is kind of key for reducing that spread.
And then also implementing that bi-polar ionization technology and that would help us with
being able to filter out particles that do get into the air. So that’s the city hall and senior center.
That’s why that cost is a little bit higher. The library and the, the library already has newer units
that can accommodate both the outside air and I think the humidity. So that facility already has
upgraded mechanicals that can accommodate and achieve some of the CDC recommendations.
The Rec Center has another HVAC project in the works so in conjunction with that project we’re
only suggesting an additional $30,000 at that facility because what they’ll be implementing will
be able to achieve some of these recommendations and we’re just suggesting that the bi-polar
ionization be added to that system. And then the fire department, you can see that that’s a little
bit lower and that’s a little bit lower despite the fact that that facility is a little bit older mostly
because since there are fewer people in that building there’s not as much need for the air
turnover. Also since it’s very limited right now they’re not allowing any public or anybody
outside of the fire department staff to come into that building so because there’s less of a concern
there with the air quality we’re recommending less interventions be made. Obviously these
recommendations there’s a long list of all the bits and pieces. We tried as best we could to
prioritize because limited funding is available and we wanted to make sure that you’re getting
what the best impact of the money you have available to protect both your staff and the public
that use these buildings. The library. The City Hall and public works, there are all public
components to all those facilities so really want to implement those. To explain kind of the
bottom line on this there’s also included in this the design fees which Greg will probably talk
about. The only thing we’re asking for approval for tonight is the design fees to take all of this
work into the next stage so we’ve identified opportunities of things that could be improved with
this funding. The next step is really for us to sit down with city staff and understand which of
these makes sense to implement and exactly the details of how they get implemented that’s best
for city staff. We have a few options for rooftop units. For humidity control for this bi-polar
ionization. Even for the touchless devices that get installed, there’s a number of options
available and we want to make sure that we’re picking something that’s maintainable over the
long term so that would be part of the next step. Also getting all the documentation together so
that we can get building permits because this will need to be permitted work and that would
happen over the course of the next 3 weeks. That’s part of that design fee category. The other
thing that’s in there is contingency. Anytime we’re working on a construction project, especially
on existing buildings you aren’t necessarily sure what you’re going to find when you start
opening up walls and when you’re making changes so with any construction project we
recommend a 10 percent contingency and that’s included in that number as well. So that gets us
to a bottom line of $1.47 million dollars and that gets to kind of where the City was hoping that
we would be because there’s some other things that are earmarked for that CARES funding so
this is very tailored to the funding that you have available. Timeline, just to go through this. It is
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a pretty aggressive timeline. We’re asking for City Council approval tonight so that we can
move into design which would go over the next 3 weeks and then we would go into moving with
staff review so that they would be able to review those plans. Make sure that we made all the
correct assumptions and decisions and we got them all in to the documentation the way that the
City anticipated. And then RJM, the contractor would be able to start working on procurement.
With the CARES Act funding we are not required to go out to public bid. This would be direct
negotiations so that helps move the timeline along because we are funding deadline. Everything
must be completed or paid for, there’s some gray area there by November 15th so to get all of
that in place we’re hoping to follow this pretty aggressive timeline but that’s why we’re asking
for City Council approval of the design funding for tonight. I’m here to answer any questions. I
know that was pretty quick.
Mayor Ryan: No thank you very much. I appreciate it. I know we, thank you for sticking
around. You were at 5:00 to begin sharing this information with us and I know council had a
robust conversation at our work session where we did ask a lot of questions about, you know
about the process. About some of the costs associated with it. Some of the technology so thank
you for the kind of the Q and A and conversation in our work session and then again staying
around tonight for a meeting and just again for clarification, this is all money that is coming from
the federal government through the CARES Act and as Mr. Sticha said we received about $1.9
million in funding and it is to be used for you know for upgrades to the system to help spread, or
help reduce the spread of COVID-19. I think you put it really well when you talked about the
protection of other employees as well as visitors to city hall, to the library, to our public works
building and from what we know now that’s how this virus is spreading is through the air and of
course a little bit on with the touching of the surfaces so thank you for sharing this. Council I
will of course ask if you have any further questions but I know most of the question and answer
was done in our work session but of course if you have further questions please do ask. I will go
around. Councilman McDonald do you have any questions? Or comments.
Councilman McDonald: Well at this point we spent over an hour earlier this morning or this
evening and I think all the questions I had were answered. I feel very confident moving forward
with this as proposed so at this point I’m perfectly comfortable with voting yes and I have no
further questions.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Councilman McDonald. Councilwoman Tjornhom any questions?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: No I share what Councilman McDonald said. I’m sorry my cat is
done with this meeting and I pushed her down like 3 times. Sorry. Yes I thank you so much for
the presentation and I think it’s important that we do this and so I agree with what Councilman
McDonald said.
Mayor Ryan: Alright thank you. Councilwoman Coleman?
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Councilwoman Coleman: In agreement. We had all our questions answered previously so
appreciate you going through that again for everybody else.
Mayor Ryan: Councilman Campion any questions?
Councilman Campion: I do have one additional question that either I forgot to ask earlier or I
missed in the content we discussed. If the work isn’t completed by the deadline, November 15th
was the deadline to complete all the work right? What happens if it isn’t all done?
Kimberly Sambolt: Correct. I believe it’s that all of the work has to be under contract and paid
by the date which is kind of a very fine line clarification and there’s also potential that federal is
going to extend that deadline. All of that said right now we are working with RJM as best we
can to have all of the work that we are prescribing happen by November 15th. It’s understood
that that needs to happen and we’re going to do our best to make it happen.
Roger Knutson: Although there is certainly ambiguity. The current reading of the requirement
is that the work must be completed by November 15th period. Now there is hope that that will
change but when you’re entering into a contract hopefully you don’t base it on hope.
Councilman Campion: Well and that’s my concern with all this is you know I do want to see it
done quickly to protect city staff and visitors but at the same time you want to see that this
money is spent wisely and the work’s done right and it is effective. You know so that’s one
thing that I trust that will be watched closely that the work is done and it’s done right and that
our taxpayer money is spent wisely because that’s what it is.
Kimberly Sambolt: And RJM has also made it clear that they’ll make it part of their contract
with their subcontractors that the work needs to be done by such and such a date and also
offering incentives for it to be completed early if at all possible. So part of the big schedule
concern will just be procurement of some of the devices and things that we’re looking at and one
of the great things about working directly with RJM and not having kind of that traditional
design bid is that we can work with them to specify things that are available that we can get on
our timeline.
Mayor Ryan: Do you have any further questions?
Councilman Campion: I guess my additional comment to that is, that’s a concern as well right is
because obviously this is going to create a bit of peak in demand for these items and you know I
fear overpaying for items as a result of that and I don’t want to settle with substandard equipment
because of that fact and the rush to get it done either so it’s something that has be balanced and I
trust that RJM will do a good job managing that.
Kimberly Sambolt: Right and our design end will be there to help make sure the quality is what
we need.
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Mayor Ryan: So to further on that question. Tonight we’re approving the design contract and
then before we move forward with the contract for actually doing the work that comes back to
council correct?
Councilman Campion: Correct.
Mayor Ryan: And is there any way in that contract that I don’t know if it’s phased in or you
rank the buildings that need to get done or you know in the meantime the construction team has
identified yes we can get 6 units and so therefore those 6 units will go to city hall because we’ve
ranked the buildings that are of utmost importance or however we want to do that, I think there
should be some you know to Councilman Campion’s point I think we should put some of those
maybe levers in place to evaluate before this contract comes back for when you know based on
what they know they can get is what then we go through the stages of approving different
amounts at that time versus saying yes we approve the $1.4 and hope we get a million out of it.
Is that something that we can work into a contract?
Kimberly Sambolt: Yes.
Mayor Ryan: Okay. Mr. Knutson?
Roger Knutson: Yes.
Mayor Ryan: Yes okay. So let’s maybe approach it that way to make sure that, I mean I think
Councilman Campion brought up a great point. We want to make sure that we protect ourselves
and see how we can formulate that contract and you know work together.
Greg Sticha: I think staff’s looking at multiple ways to protect ourselves.
Mayor Ryan: Okay.
Greg Sticha: With this. The first priority would be within the contract itself.
Mayor Ryan: Okay.
Greg Sticha: Protecting ourselves and then in the event that we have to find a different way to
handle some of our CARES funding I think we’re looking at back up plans to make sure we
ascertain those funds for these improvements.
Mayor Ryan: Okay. And so we’ll just get an update at a future meeting but for tonight we’re
just approving or not just because it’s a lot but we’re approving the $146,000 for it to begin the
design process and then let’s work together to figure out what the future contract.
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Kimberly Sambolt: How to structure it.
Mayor Ryan: How to structure it perfect. That would be great. Thank you for bringing that up
Councilman Campion. If there’s no further questions I would stand for a motion.
Greg Sticha: And I think I included one with an email earlier today so if you want me to re-read
that email I could.
Mayor Ryan: We no, I mean sure. You can re-read it. I mean I did, anyone not read the email?
Greg Sticha: Roger drafted the motion so. If you’d like me to read it I can. Otherwise if you
have it in front of you.
Mayor Ryan: Sure, you can read it into the record. That’d be great.
Greg Sticha: Okay the motion is to approve the contract modification to the professional
services agreement with Leo A. Daly and Company for the amount of $146,000 and to table the
agreement with RJM Construction.
Roger Knutson: It’s $145,000.
Greg Sticha: $145,000.
Councilman McDonald: Madam Mayor I would move to approve the motion as read.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Councilman McDonald. Do we have a second?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Councilwoman Tjornhom.
Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded that the Chanhassen
City Council approve the contract modification to the professional services agreement with
Leo A. Daly and Company for the amount of $145,000 and to table the agreement with
RJM Construction. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5
to 0.
Mayor Ryan: That motion carries 5-0. Thank you.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. None.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
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Mayor Ryan: Any administrative presentations?
Heather Johnston: Madam Mayor, members of the council. This is on our website and we’ve
pushed it out through social media but due to the storms last night Lotus Lake has reached the
elevation where it is now no wake and so I just want to tell our cable viewers here. No wake on
Lotus Lake until it’s safe for that to proceed and we do have more in formation on our website,
thank you.
Mayor Ryan: Thank you Ms. Johnston.
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None.
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 8:45 p.m.
Submitted by Heather Johnston
Interim City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim