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MEMORANDUM
CITY OF
CHANHASSEN
TO:
Mayor and City Council
7700 Market Boulevard
PO Box 147
Chanhassen, MN 55317
FROM:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
DA TE:
January 9, 2006
Administration
Phone 952.2271100
Fax 952.2271110
SUBJ:
Organizational Items
Building Inspections
Phone 952.2271180
Fax 952.2271190
The following items require Council action as a part of our first meeting
of 2006:
Engineering
Phone 952.2271160
Fax 952.227.1170
a.
Official Newspaper: Attached please find letters from the Chanhassen
Villager and Lake Shore Weekly News requesting designation as the city's
official newspaper. This office recommends that the Chanhassen Villager
be appointed as the city's official newspaper because it is the only
newspaper that meets designation guidelines established by state statute (see
attached).
Finance
Phone 952.227.1140
Fax: 952.2271110
Park & Recreation
Phone 952.227.1120
Fax: 9522271110
b.
Acting Mayor: The Council should select one of its members to serve as
Acting Mayor. This person will run Council meetings, stand in at
ceremonies, and execute official city documents in the absence of the
Mayor.
Recreation Center
2310 Coulter Boulevard
Phone 952.227.1400
Fax 952.227.1404
Planning &
Natural Resources
Phone 952.2271130
Fax 952.2271110
c.
Fire Chief: The Fire Department elected Gregg Geske to another two-year
term as Fire Chief in December of 2005. Staff recommends that the Council
reaffirm Mr. Geske's appointment as Fire Chief.
Public Works
1591 Park Road
Phone 952.227.1300
Fax: 952.2271310
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Senior Center
Phone 952.2271125
Fax 952.2271110
Web Site
www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us
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December 15,2005
RECEIVED
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CITY OF CHANHASSEN
Mr. Todd Gerhardt
City of Chanhassen
7700 Market Boulevard
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Dear Mr. Gerhardt,
Please consider our request for appointment of the Chanhassen Villager as the official newspaper for the City of
Chanhassen in 2006.
We recognize that financial challenges are being faced by most government branches, and feel very strongly that
the publishing of legal notices in the newspaper is of vital importance to local residents who wish to stay in-
formed about the decisions being made by your elected body. Consequently, a per-inch rate of $7.27 is submitted
for the coming year and remains unchanged from 2005. We would stipulate that the city follows its normal
procedure of submitting legal notices in generic text format or as a Microsoft Word document via e-mail.
Legal notices requiring special handling will be billed at the rate of $11.18 per column inch for the first insertion
and $8.50 per column inch for subsequent insertions.
Notices submitted by the City of Chanhassen will continue to be posted on our newspaper website,
www.chanvillager.com. free of charge.
Our legal notice deadline is at 4 p.m. on Thursday, preceding the following week's publication date; during
holiday weeks the deadline may be advanced.
Thank you for the opportunity to be of service to you in the past. We hope that relationship can be continued in
the coming year.
Respectfully,
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10011Welve Oaks Center Dr. Suite 1017 .Wayzata, MN 55391
Phone: 952-473-0890 Fax: 952-473-0895
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November 28,2005
City of Chanhassen
7700 Market Blvd
PO Box 147
Chanhassen MN 55317
Dear CilY Council Members:
We at Lakeshore Weekly News look forward to the opportunity to serve as your city's legal newspaper for 2006. First, let me briefly
describe the Lakeshore Weekly News newspaper. Each Tuesday, we publish one edition that serves the entire Lake Minnetonka com-
munity. We distribute 25,000 papers to 19 communities surrounding the lake.
We strive to provide in-depth coverage of city and school district events. We also endeavor to inform residents about upcoming
issues of interest. We welcome press releases from cities that alert the community about upcoming public hearings or commission
vacancies, as well as events such as brush and leaf drop-off programs. We will publish these press releases before the event, and, in
the case of important issues coming before the council, we will try to ensure that a staff writer writes an article explaining why the
issue is of concern.
Our rates for publishing legal notices for 2006 are:
$ 1.10 per line for the first insertion
$ 0.85 per line for the second insertion
These rates are based on a one-column width. The deadline for submitting legal notices is noon Friday for the following Tuesday's
newspaper. Notices can be submitted via e-mail, fax or U.S. mail. Notices can be e-mailed to legals@weeklynews.com, or faxed to
(952) 473-0895.
Invoices are sent on a monthly basis, and two notarized affidavits of each notice of publication will accompany the invoice.
We appreciate your consideration of our bid for legal notices, and we look forward to serving as your legal newspaper for 2006. If
you have any questions, do not hesitate to give me a call.
Sincerely,
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Mark Beckstrom
Publisher
Phone: (952) 843-4612
Free Every Tuesday With a 930/0 Pick-up Rate
At Over 700 Locations In These Communities
In The Greater Lake Minnetonka Area
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. Navarre. Orono. Plymouth. Ridgedale Area. Shorewood . Spring Park. SI. Bonifacius . Tonka Bay. Victoria. Wayzata
Minnesota Statutes 2005, 331A.04
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Minnesota Statutes 2005. Table of Chapters
Table of contents for Chapter 331 A
331A.04 Designation of a newspaper for official
publications.
Subdivision 1. Priority. The governing body of a
political subdivision, when authorized or required by statute or
charter to designate a newspaper for publication of its public
notices, shall designate a qualified newspaper in the following
priority.
Subd. 2. Known office in locality. If there are one
or more qualified newspapers, the known office of issue of which
are located within the political subdivision, one of them shall
be designated.
Subd. 3. Secondary office in locality. When no
qualified newspaper has a known office of issue located in the
political subdivision, but one or more qualified newspapers
maintain a secondary office there, one of them shall be
designated.
Subd. 4. General circulation in locality. When no
qualified newspaper has its known office of issue or a secondary
office located within the political subdivision, then a
qualified newspaper of general .circulation there shall be
designated.
Subd. 5. Other situations. If a political
subdivision is without an official newspaper, or if the
publisher refuses to publish a particular public notice, matters
required to be published shall be published in a newspaper
designated as provided in subdivision 4. The governing body of
a political subdivision with territory in two or more counties
may, if deemed in the public interest, designate a separate
qualified newspaper for each county.
Subd. 6. Exception to designation priority. (a)
Notwithstanding subdivisions 1 to 3, the governing body of a
political subdivision may designate any newspaper for
publication of its official proceedings and public notices, if
the following conditions are met:
(1) the newspaper is a qualified medium of official and
legal publication;
(2) the publisher of the newspaper furnishes a sworn
statement, verified by a recognized independent circulation
auditing agency, covering a period of at least one year ending
no earlier than 60 days before designation of the newspaper,
stating that the newspaper's circulation reaches not fewer than
75 percent of the households within the political subdivision;
(3) the newspaper has provided regular coverage of the
proceedings of the governing body of the political subdivision
and will continue to do so; and
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(4) the governing body votes unanimously to designate the
newspaper.
(b) If the circulation of a newspaper designated under this
subdivision falls below 75 percent of the households within the
political subdivision at any time within the term of its
designation as official newspaper, its qualification to publish
public notices for the political subdivision terminates.
Subd. 7. Joint bidding. A bid submitted jointly by
two or more newspapers for the publication of public notices
must not be considered anticompetitive or otherwise unlawful if
the following conditions are met:
(1) all of the qualified newspapers in the political
subdivision participate in the joint bid;
(2) the existence of the joint bid arrangement is disclosed
to the governing body of the political subdivision before or at
the time of submission of the joint bid; and
(3) the board is free to reject the joint bid and, if it
does, individual qualified newspapers do not refuse to submit
separate bids owing to the rejection of the joint bid.
HIST: 1984 c 543 s 23; 2003 c 59 s 1; 2004 c 182 s 14
Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.
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