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CC 2006 06 26 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING JUNE 26, 2006 Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m.. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the Flag. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Furlong, Councilwoman Tjornhom, and Councilman Peterson COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Councilman Lundquist and Councilman Labatt STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Kate Aanenson, Paul Oehme, and Todd Hoffman PUBLIC PRESENT: Jerry & Jan Paulsen 7305 Laredo Drive Jason Miller 1851 Lake Drive West Jeff Fox 5270 Howards Point Road Rick Dorsey 1551 Lyman Boulevard Brian Sullivan 5715 York Avenue So, Edina Dan Cook 7697 Anagram Drive, Eden Prairie Mark Undestad Planning Commission David Jansen Chanhassen Villager TH PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: INVITATION TO THE 4 OF JULY CELEBRATION. Mayor Furlong: Thank you and good evening to everyone. For those joining us here in the council chambers, as well as those watching at home. We’re glad that you joined us. At this time I would like to add one item to our agenda and also offer the opportunity for any additional modifications or changes, and that would be an item under new business. Consider of an appointment to an individual to the Environmental Commission. If there’s no objection we’ll take that up under new business. Is there any other changes to the agenda? If not, without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as distributed. This evening I’d like to open the meeting th with a public invitation for everyone for our upcoming 4 of July festivities. The City of Chanhassen, in cooperation with the local businesses, the Chamber of Commerce, the Chanhassen Rotary Club are pleased to announce the third event in our year round special event series that the City sponsors in conjunction with our partners. This year’s event will be on rdth Monday, will begin on Monday, July 3 and continue through Tuesday, July 4. I would like to invite all residents and their families and friends, in town or out of town, to join us for the events rd and as many events as possible. The events begin at 3:30 p.m. on July 3 with the Chanhassen Chamber of Commerce Business Fair in City Center Park. Followed by scheduled events throughout that evening, including the ever popular street dance featuring Casablanca Orchestra th again this year. On July 4 the events start at 7:30 a.m. with the fishing contest. I assume Mr. Hoffman will be there for that, as he usually is. And continue throughout the day, including the parade that begins at 2:30. We’ll hear more about that this evening with the presentation, as well City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 as the fireworks in the evening to conclude a great celebration. It’s a fun event and I would invite everyone to join me and my family for as many of the activities as they can. It’s really a good reason to stay in town and celebrate our Independence Day with the City of Chanhassen. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Peterson moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: a. Approval of Minutes: -City Council Work Session Minutes dated June 12, 2006 -City Council Verbatim & Summary Minutes dated June 12, 2006 Receive Commission Minutes: -Planning Commission Verbatim & Summary Minutes dated June 6, 2006 -Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim & Summary Minutes dated May 23, 2006 Resolution #2006-45: b. Infiltration/Inflow, PW254B: Approve Plans & Specifications; Authorize Ad for Bids. st c. The Preserve at Bluff Creek 1 Addition: 1) Final Plat Approval 2) Approve Plans & Specifications and Development Contract d. TH 212/Project 03-09: Approve Agreement with Zumbro River Constructors for Grading and Restoration in City Right-of-way. f. Stonefield, Project 06-07: Approve Revision to Grading Plan. g. Stonefield, Project 06-07: Amendment to Development Contract for Storm Sewer Oversizing Reimbursement. j. Accept Donation of Statue for City Center Park, Friends of the Chanhassen Library. k. Approval of Ordinance Amendments to Chapter 18, Subdivisions and Chapter 20, Zoning Ordinance. Resolution #2006-46: l. Tractor, PW016LLL: Authorization to Order Tractor for 2007 Capital Improvement Program. m. Approval of Ordinance Amending Chapter 10, Licenses, Permits, Business Regulations (Fireworks). All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 3 to 0. 1(i). CITY’S PURCHASING POLICY: APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT AS RECOMMENDED BY CITY AUDITORS. 2 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 Mayor Furlong: My only recommendation for the council there, this is, and we really don’t need a staff report. It’s an item that changes or amends, tweaks if you will our purchasing policy and it would be my recommendation that for purchases between $5,000 and $15,000, rather than currently requiring both the City Manager and the Finance Manager to sign, that we change that to the City Manager only. I wouldn’t expect this, and I talked to Mr. Gerhardt, I wouldn’t expect it to change the current policy and our Director of Finance will probably be involved reviewing all of them anyway but it wouldn’t be a required signature on the part of the Finance Director. So I would move item number (i) with the change that it would be the City Manager’s approval required between $5,000 and $15,000 and ask for a second. Councilman Peterson: Second. Mayor Furlong: Made and seconded. Any discussion on that? If not we’ll proceed. Mayor Furlong moved, Councilman Peterson seconded to approve the amendment to the City’s Purchasing Policy as recommended by the City Auditors with one change, that only the City Manager’s approval would be required for purchases between $5,000 and $15,000. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 3 to 0. TH VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: OVERVIEW OF JULY 4 PARADE, JEFF ANDERSON, CHANHASSEN ROTARY CLUB. Mayor Furlong: We do have this evening a representative from the Chanhassen Rotary Club, Jeff Anderson. The Rotary Club for the last 2 years I believe and now this will be the third year. th His been the lead sponsor organization with regard to the Chanhassen 4 of July parade so I invite Mr. Anderson to come up and give his presentation on this year’s events. Jeff Anderson: Well thank you. On behalf of the Chanhassen Rotary and the Chanhassen Rotary Foundation I appreciate your time and we are looking forward to a fabulous parade this year. It’s going to be a lot of fun. Todd, if you could hit me off to the next one. The theme this year is going to be a Salute to Service. What does that mean? Any kind of service organization. Volunteers. Churches. Youth Groups. Veterans. Government officials. City officials. County officials. Businesses as well as their employees. Special recognition this year to Bob Meuwissen as the Rotary Club Chanhassen Distinguished Service Award Honoree. Again parade day festivities that we’re having, we’re going to have the Taste of Chanhassen again. We’re excited. We have 15 local restaurants and vendors. Of course the Rotary Beer Garden will be there. Got the Classic Antique Auto Show. The purpose for these shows and events are to give people something to do as they’re waiting for the parade to start. Come on down to the parade. Get your spot along the parade route. Where you want to be, excuse me. And come on down. Enjoy some fun. Bring some, bring your family. Bring the kids and have a good time. Give you something to do before the parade starts at 2:30. Again here’s the list of this year’s Taste of Chanhassen. A lot of local vendors. Opening ceremonies going to be at 2:30 right in front of the Judge’s stand with a Color Guard and Grand Marshals. We’ll stop the parade there and have the National Anthem. And of course the T-6 fly over is going to be back. I don’t know if we can time that but timing’s always an issue with the National Anthem and the Color Guard, 3 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 but we get it pretty close so people know what’s going on. We’re excited to have them again. th That’s going to be a fun time. 87 parade entries so far, and a June 10 deadline. We’ve still got some more coming so, we’re probably going to be cutting it off after Thursday. We’ve got 14 paid entertainment groups, which includes 9 bands. We’re got some clowns. Live horses. Motorcycles. Classic trucks. Cars. Tractors, as well as representatives of 30 local businesses, plus political, religious groups and all that sort of fun. Community groups and neighborhood groups. Some of the highlights to those, again we’re going to have the Gopher State Railway, which is a replica steam train. The Minnesota Equestrian Drill Team, and again I’ve touched on the T-6 planes. They’ll be sponsored by Exler Corporation, Quantum Control. The Gopher State Railway will be sponsored by Travel Advisors and American Express. And we just want to give as Rotary Foundation, we want to give a special thank you to the sponsors. The City of Chanhassen. Carver County. Volunteers. The donors to the Chanhassen Rotary. Especially the City of Chanhassen with the Parks and Rec Department. The Public Works Department and the Sheriff’s, the Carver County Sheriff’s Office. Helping us close the streets and we couldn’t plan this without the help of those organizations. A list of the sponsors. Special thank you to those people as well. Those will be a special thank you coming out in the Villager on that as well. And again, and to wrap up, looking for planes, trains and automobiles. It’s going to be a lot of fun. Taste of Chanhassen starts at 11:00 a.m.. Goes to 2:00 and then here comes the parade. We’re having one whether we want one or not. So it’s going to be a good time. We’re really excited to have this. And for more information on sponsorship, maps and directions, volunteer opportunities, parade line up, you can go to the web site at Chanhassenrotary.com. Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Good, thank you. Appreciate all your efforts and that of the Rotary Club and as you mentioned Mr. Anderson, all the other organizations that volunteer their time and effort because it’s not one group or one individual that makes something like this happen. Thousands of people come and enjoy the parade every year and all the other festivities and it’s really a great event, and I know it takes a lot of time and effort by a lot of people so thank you. th Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, I’d just like to add and thank the Rotary for their participation in the 4 of July activities. Todd constantly preaches this to organizations. What really makes this a special community is when you have outside organizations that put on events like this, not just the City and that brings their family members to participate in it and help out and I know that the Rotary is, has quite an investment in the parade. Probably not to the level that the City would th ever do so we really appreciate their time and effort and monetary contributions to make the 4 of July really special in Chanhassen. I’ve been here a while and I remember you know to get people to come to this we used to give free hot dogs away and now people are paying to come here so it’s nice to see the Rotary’s involvement in this and making it a great two day event. So thank you. Jeff Anderson: Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Anyone else that would like to address the council during visitor presentations this evening? If not, we’ll move on. LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE. 4 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 Sgt. Jim Olson: Good evening, thank you. This evening for the council I have the Sheriff’s Office Area Report for the month of May. The Area Citation List for the month of May. The Community Service Officer Report and a couple miscellaneous items that I will go over also. Monthly numbers for last month, we had 106 criminal calls, which consisted of 33 Part I crimes and 73 Part II crimes, and that’s compared to 122 calls for last year for the month of May. There wasn’t a whole lot in the way of change from last year, or excuse me, last month compared to this month. We did have 29 thefts last month, which compared to 39 for last year, and there were 21 property damage reports which compared to 37 for last year. So both of those were down. In the non-criminal category we had 1,129 non-criminal calls, and that compares to 1,123 last year. And the biggest change in that category was traffic stops, which was 421 last month compared to 354 last year. And then total calls for service so far this year is 5,717 which compares to 4,732 for last year, and again the biggest change has been traffic stops, and that was 2,046 for this year compared to 1,172 for last year. And then for citations we had 284 last month and that compares to 230 for last year for the month of May. Any questions at all for the monthly numbers? Mayor Furlong: Questions for the Sergeant? th Sgt. Jim Olson: Going in line with what Jeff talked about, 4 of July. One thing that the Sheriff’s office, I actually just found out about this a little bit ago. Mike Felts, the Chanhassen Deputy that is serving over in Iraq, his wife Lori and children will be in the parade this year honoring them and so Lori will certainly be looking forward to that and her children so. So with th the 4 of July right around the corner and we normally start getting calls for firework complaints right around this time. A good rule of thumb is if it goes boom or flies in the air, it’s illegal. There are some legal fireworks that you can get, that you can buy at retail establishments. A legal ones include sparkler, ground spinners, snakes, glow worms, party poppers, things like that. th But even with the legal ones you cannot use them in any of the parks. Even during the 4 of July so you cannot use those at Lake Ann Park for that day. As some of you may have heard, the area had a Vice Presidential visit today, which came through the city of Chanhassen and we used a number of volunteers to assist us with traffic control. It was kind of a busy day. And those volunteers include Chanhassen Fire Department, Victoria Fire Department, Carver County Posse and they were on foot, and not on their horses. The Carver County Reserve and also Carver County Explorers so I just want to say thank you from the sheriff’s office as well as the City of Chanhassen for assisting us with that. I wanted to clarify a little bit about scooters tonight as well. I’ve had some calls about scooters recently. Motorized scooters. People 12 and over can ride a motorized scooter on the street, and the definition of what a motorized scooter are is it has to have handle bars. They can either be stood on or sat on by the operator. They’re powered by electric motor or internal combustion or some sort. Some of those are electric operated. And the wheels are no more than 10 inches in diameter and their engine cannot be capable of going over 15 miles per hour on a flat surface. And again they can be operated by kids 12 and over on the streets and highways in the city. There are some operating rules that cover that. One is kids 18 and under must wear a helmet and other…on the street. If they are ridden at night, and I’m not recommending that, but if they are ridden at night, they need to have lights on them and the operator must ride as close as practical to the right hand side of the road. And they are not allowed on bicycle paths, in the parks, bicycle lanes, bicycle trails, park trails, those kinds of things so. And these are the rules but I’d encourage parents to talk to their kids about where they 5 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 can ride these scooters. I certainly would recommend that you not allow your children to ride on busy streets in the city. You know you can but you need to be so careful. There have been a couple accidents county wide you know regarding motor scooters. You need to be very, very careful with that. Tonight is my last council meeting, or last report that I’ll be doing to the council and I would like to say thank you to the council, and also to the city staff for allowing me the opportunity to serve the City of Chanhassen. The staff here is wonderful. I’ve learned a ton from them and they really serve the City of Chanhassen very well. I’ve been very impressed and I’d like to say thank you for the opportunity to be here. So with that I would like to invite up Sheriff Bud Olson and he’ll do the change over so to speak… Sheriff Bud Olson: It feels like it’s a relay and… Yeah, we should have some formal practice. Well Mayor and council and members of the public and staff that are here, I appreciate this opportunity to be here in front of you. A couple of comments before I really do the introductions, if I might. First of all, you know Mike Felts, Deputy Mike Felts is assigned through the Sheriff’s contract to the City of Chanhassen and we had a gala with the Rotary here not long ago and the Mayor made some comments, public comments and those comments have made it all the way to Baghdad. They made it all the way to Mike. We got a copy of the night and the program and Mayor, you did such a eloquent job of saying thank you to Deputy Felts and I know from his family, they were just very personally touched by your comments so I want to thank you for that. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Sheriff Bud Olson: Second thing is, this is a big deal what’s going on tonight and I didn’t want to shed just a little light on it. I wanted to shed a lot of light on it. We have been good partners with the City of Chanhassen for so many years with how we police your community and we’re very proud of that at the sheriff’s office, and I think that the experience that we’ve had, and it shows to me the vote of confidence that you mayor and council have shown for this model of policing that we have. I just returned from a National Sheriff’s Symposium and we talked about this contracting issue all over the country and I have to say that I take away such pride for how we do it in Carver County and I share my story all the time with my colleagues at the national level so it’s very good. I also want to take a minute if I might Mayor and just thank Todd Gerhardt and Justin Miller, who has moved on to greener pastures. Their participation in this process over the last 8 years and their trust in our assignments and who we send to this city and work with us when this contract has been very well received by the office and I want to publicly recognize you Todd and also, I missed the opportunity with Justin but have done a great job. So we’re moving ahead and the office is in transition. I have 3 new lieutenants that I’m in the process of promoting right now, because of promotions and the retirements in the sheriff’s office so I have a gap to fill in my leadership team and I want to introduce Commander Jeff Enevold. If you’d stand Jeff and maybe come on up. I think you should stand up here while we move the baton but Jeff is our newest commander in the sheriff’s office. He was a lieutenant and we promoted him to the rank of Commander which gives him the great duty of managing the police contracts in Carver County. He has a dutiful job. He has a big job to do. There’s a little…on here and we have to look at where we are today and where we’ll be tomorrow in our policing all over, and especially Chanhassen. So Jeff is here tonight to carry on with this recognition as well. 6 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 So what I need to say is that Jim Olson and before Jim Olson, Dave Potts have done a marvelous job. And Dave Potts us to a great place. Sergeant Potts and Jim Olson has taken us and moved us even further, and I think you all agree, what we’ve done in Chanhassen under Jim’s leadership has been just outstanding. And so my opportunity to praise him in public and in front of you Mayor and council, to give my heart felt thanks to Jim for his time and his dedication to the City. Jim, on behalf of the office and the citizens of Chanhassen, we thank you for all you’ve done. Sgt. Jim Olson: Thank you. Sheriff Bud Olson: Like he said, he’s done such a good job Mayor and council that he’ll be a rd lieutenant on July 3, and so we’ll be making that promotion within the office. And so we’re going to replace him with just a great, great person. He’s not long in Carver County as far as the sheriff’s office but he has already distinguished himself in his career of 12 years in law enforcement. So Ross Gullickson is our choice and your choice and you selected him. He has got a very big challenge on his hands Mayor and council because not only is he going to get rd promoted on July 3. He’s now going to come run the largest contract the sheriff’s office has, so the weight of the shoulders are getting broader and I think we’ve put them onto just a fantastic young man that’s going to come serve you. With that I’d like to introduce Ross Gullickson. And congratulations Ross. So with that I will allow him a little opportunity to introduce himself to you and to the rest of the public here and say a few words. Ross. Ross Gullickson: Mr. Mayor, members of the council, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening. From what Sheriff Olson just said, my name is Ross Gullickson. To give you a little bit of th background about myself, this is my 12 year in law enforcement. I started out working part time for the City of Mankato, and then was hired full time by the Ottertail County Sheriff’s Department, which is my home area. The Fergus Falls, Bernum, Pelican Rapids area. And I relocated to the Carver County Sheriff’s Office in October of 2003. Served a brief time here in Chanhassen as a patrol deputy and then was assigned as the liaison deputy to the City of Norwood-Young America where I’ve been assigned every since. It is my pleasure to come back to the City of Chanhassen. I’m looking forward to working with each and every one of you as we take this contracting model to the next level and making sure that the citizens of Chanhassen get the police coverage that they so richly deserve. So with that, thank you for your selection and I will do the best I can for you. I’m sure there’ll be a lot of questions upcoming but I’m very excited about this opportunity so it’s a pleasure to meet you. Mayor Furlong: Very good. Sheriff Bud Olson: …comments, if I might. As you all know, I’ve invited you to many issues over the past several years talking about our police contracting model, and we really re-wrote the book on it. And part of that process is other cities looked at their local policing needs and how best they could serve their needs and the City of Norwood-Young America, Watertown, Waconia, everyone looked at that during this period of time. The City of Norwood-Young America came back and said you know, this will work for us into the future as well and we asked some of the deputies to step up and move into this new local model of policing and Ross was one of those that stepped up and did that. And I tell you sincerely the Mayor and council and city administration out in Norwood are not so happy about this change but again as you know, we’re 7 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 moving up and moving our finest in their career goals too, and so Ross has got a wonderful background coming out of that Norwood-Young America. He’s done a tremendous job. He got on their local fire department and has just melded into the community and that’s the kind of person you’re going to get. He’s very dedicated to his community. He’s very dedicated to the people that he serves so we look forward to this opportunity and I thank you for your time. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. And I won’t try to add to what the sheriff said because he said it much better than I’ll be able to but for Sergeant Olson, from the council, thank you very much for your service over these last few years and as the Sheriff said, he continues to take the contract policing model in Chanhassen, which has served our city very, very well. We are a safe city and it’s because of the Carver County Sheriff’s Department we continue to be a safe city so we thank you for all you did and to Deputy or soon to Sergeant Gullickson, we look forward to working with you as well and congratulations in your promotion. Ross Gullickson: Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Very good. Thank you. Councilman Peterson: Jim, didn’t we ask you to do your high school fight song when you… Sgt. Jim Olson: Fergus Falls is kind of close to Minot. Todd Gerhardt: I want to personally thank Jim too. It’s kind of a bittersweet day for all the department heads and myself because Jim was a big part of our loop and he is definitely going to be missed. I did try everything in my means to try to keep him here and, but I wanted to see Jim move on too and that’s part of life. Everybody wants to kind of move up the chain and we put the city is going to be in good hands with Ross, but we’re definitely going to miss Jim. He followed through on everything that I ever asked him to do, and definitely did all the research and followed up on phone calls with residents and concerns of safety issues and Jim thank you for your great service. We really appreciate it. Sgt. Jim Olson: Thank you. Mayor Furlong: And a single representative from the Fire Department. Chief Gregg Geske: I think we’ve got to change that up so I go first. I can’t match four people over there and their presentation there but, kind of short tonight. Of course we’re missing a few council members tonight anyways but, it was busy here in the last month for us. We were up in call numbers a little bit for the month. Call out quite a few times for mutual aid to other neighboring cities, and we did have the house fire that was noted in the council update there. We were lucky enough that the newspaper delivery guy comes at 3:00 in the morning on that day because he, the house fire did start from a lightning strike in a tree and started on the outside, so even though they had some smoke detectors inside the house, there was no smoke at all in the house and the roof was on fire completely when we arrived there so pretty lucky that the, there are people out there at 3:00 in the morning delivering the paper so we were able to wake them up th and get them outside. We also will be involved in 4 of July celebration. We’re scheduling that. 8 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 We’re involved with the Kiddie Parade and blocking off the streets and leading the Kiddie Parade. We also get involved in the parade itself by decorating up our trucks and getting people out there for that. And then following that night we have the stand-by crew for the fireworks at th Lake Ann and also at Lake Minnewashta so, we’re busy with the 4 of July celebration schedule. Last month here we had, went out to bid for engine replacement that will becoming up here when the future council meets, we’ll have our recommendation so proceeding with that and our truck committee going through the bid specifications on that. We have a group of six probationary members that completed their year of probation so they’re coming off probation and very luck to have another 6 members and those are the ones that Jim mentioned that we had some people sign up today for the volunteering to block off the roads and stuff and we always get a lot of real good membership participation from the new rookies so it’s good to see the new life brought into that one there. Appreciative for that so, that’s all I have to report tonight. Any questions? Mayor Furlong: Questions? People that are interested, you say you’ve got a new class here. Are you still recruiting or do you have a recruitment class you’re expecting to open? Chief Gregg Geske: Yeah, we’ll probably be taking on a class later on this fall, and we’re always open for applications. We can’t always take them on when they do apply but we do keep the applications on file and when we do add new members in the future, we generally call them back and see if they’re still interested so, if anybody is interested. We did have, last month we also did, in the last month we did participate in the Women in the Fire Service Expo and we had a couple people from our area that we’ll probably get applications from so, or anybody who’s interested, feel free to fill out an application with Mark Litfin with City Hall. Mayor Furlong: It was good to see the publicity associated with that event and not only Chanhassen being well represented but working together with the other local fire departments for that so. Chief Gregg Geske: Yeah, very well attended. All the meetings, Metro Chiefs Meetings and stuff, it was real good reports about it and we got real good feedback from the women who did attend. Mayor Furlong: Great. Okay. Chief Gregg Geske: Okay, have a nice night. APPOINTMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION. Mayor Furlong: The only item then under new business this evening was the other matter which is consideration of appointment to Environmental Commission. There’s a single opening on the Environmental Commission. Mr. Bill Fouks, William Fouks has applied. He was interviewed by the Environmental Commission and recommended his appointment and earlier this evening in a work session the council interviewed him as well, and we’d like to go ahead and appoint Mr. Fouks at this evening’s council meeting to fill that unexpired commission through I believe it’s March 31, ’09 based on the staff report so I will make that motion. Is there a second to appoint Mr. Fouks? 9 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second. Mayor Furlong: Made and seconded. Any discussion on that? Seeing none, before we go on I was very impressed with Mr. Fouks and his, in the interview this evening I think he’ll be a good asset to that commission so with that I’d like to ask for the ayes and nays. Mayor Furlong moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to appoint William Fouks to the Environmental Commission. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 3 to 0. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS: None. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS: Todd Gerhardt: The only thing we’re working on this week is interviewing for Assistant to the City Manager, and probably received 40 applications. We’ll probably going to interview 6 or 7 individuals here Wednesday and Thursday. Hope to offer them a position on Friday and have them start on Monday. Councilman Peterson: It’s good to have goals. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, but realistically we’ll probably do interviews this week. Do background checks. Narrow it down to 2 or 3 after that. Do background checks on those individuals. Check references. Bring them back for second interviews. Hoping to get something done before July th 10. Making an offer and then somebody starting by the end of the month, depending on their employment situation so. But I believe the 6 applicants that we have, there are some definitely qualified individuals in that so I’m excited to start the interviews on Wednesday and Thursday and introduce the new assistant probably in our second meeting in July. With that, still dealing with, at our last council meeting we had a couple individuals on the trail on Lyman. Waiting for a final design on that trail segment from MnDot and then we’ll sit down with those individuals. I met with the Longacres individuals, if you remember there was a large packet that came out on that. I met with them. I think we’ve got our issues resolved. Haven’t heard back from them but working with the developer to kind of lessen the impact of that wall, and some of the drainage patterns that come off the wall and into the storm water pond so. With that you got feedback on the individual that wanted to potentially close Del Rio or lessen the impact of some thru traffic there. Right now it’s kind of 50-50 so we’re probably just going to leave things the way they are and get back to Mr. Dino, or I left him a message telling him that’s what we’re working on. And I think those are the current issues that we’re working on right now. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt? Or for staff. Okay. Thank you. CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None. 10 City Council Meeting – June 26, 2006 Councilman Peterson moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried. The City Council meeting was adjourned at 7:45 p.m.. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 11