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CC Minutes 07-11-2011Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 PROPOSED WATER TOWER CONSTRUCTION LOCATED ON MINNETONKA SCHOOL DISTRICT 276 PROPERTY, 6421 HAZELTINE BOULEVARD: A. SITE PLAN REVIEW. B. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, AUTHORIZE ADVERTISING FOR BID. C. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE AND EASEMENT AGREEMENTS WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT 276. Paul Oehme: Thank you Mayor, City Council members again. I’ll just give a brief background again on the need for the water tower and some of the again the background associated with the project itself so. The water tower proposed is in the high zone area which is kind of shown here in the pink colored area. It’s approximately about 12% of the water service area within the community itself right now. It’s a smaller area based upon the topography of the ground in this area. Basically higher in elevation than the rest, the majority of the rest of the community to obtain a balance pressure within the water system. This area is segregated from the rest of the water distribution area to achieve a constant water pressure in this area so. The high zone storage area, the high zone area in this area, there’s one tower that was built in 1971. It’s a 2,000 gallon tower. It’s on Melody Hills Road. Back then in 1970 the population was 4,800. Approximately 4,800 in population. Today the city of Chanhassen is almost 23,000 in population. Demand in this high zone area has been as high as 1.8 million gallons per day, which is during our summer month periods where we see that high usage. Based upon that they, you know talking with the Fire Marshal for the City, he likes to see a 2 hour fire flow for residential areas in this area. There are also some commercial and some other businesses and school up in this area but based upon his recommendation the fire flow of 2 hours is recommended for this area. Based upon that information, the tank currently as it is today, trying to meet those peak demand periods and also potentially using that same distribution system for fire flows, it’s currently not adequate. It’s, the tank right now is too small for that capacity and that need. Other incidences or other issues surrounding having a smaller storage tanks in the distribution system is that when you hit those high demand periods your pumps and your motors are always kicking off and on and cycling constantly and we can see upwards of 8-10 cycles per day. From that standpoint it would be, the system becomes very inefficient. It’s hard on the pumps and the motors to keep up with that type of demand and creates basically premature wear on your pumps and your motors and also the tank because of the condensation that can be attributed to the high cycling of the tank as well and the coatings of that tank. So another aspect of needing additional storage up in this area is that for power outages, the City utility department has to generate power to these wells and since there is very little storage in this area, the time it takes to get a generator out to a well and have a standby generator up and running is quite small timeframe before you know water pressure is significantly reduced so. Those are the type of challenges that are associated with having a smaller water storage facility in this area. Based upon the analysis that we’ve completed, both looking at what the current demand is, the fire flow demands and then future demands of this area, future growth, we are estimating that the need of a tank is about 750,000 gallons. So the staff has looked at you know several locations in order to potentially site a new tower. Obviously we’d like to site it as close to or you know the existing tower as we can. You know it basically comes down to land availability a lot of times too. Over the last 2 years staff has looked at numerous sites. In the report that was brought before you several months ago there were 6 sites that we specifically looked at. We also looked at Minnewashta Regional Park as a potential site for a new tower and then also Herman Field Park. 22 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 None of these sites, both of those park facilities did not achieve or we could not get land for siting a tower on, especially on Minnewashta Regional Park property and the Herman Field Park was just, the elevation was, is just too low and it’d be very expensive to build a tower at that site. So we did concentrate our efforts on the Minnetonka Middle School West property. We did specifically look at 4 locations specifically and working with the school district on these 4 sites, Site number 5 seemed to be the best location for several reasons. As shown on here it’s in the southwest corner of the property and shown also on this slide as well. It’s kind of out in back of the school. The school district really doesn’t use this particular piece of their campus for recreational or other activities. There’s currently a storm water treatment pond on this location so it seemed to be the best location to utilize in terms of less impacts to the school district. We also looked at shadow potential impacts if a tower were to be built on this site. This drawing kind of shows where the maximum shadow would be during different time periods during the year. This is kind of an extreme case. Typically there’s, you need to look at well trees and other buildings and other obstructions that would create additional shadows here so what this is really it comes down to basically showing that most of the, if not all of the shadow impacts are going to be more on the school property and not on, and on park property and not on more residential type properties. We also looked at you know impacts to residential properties in terms of sight distances and visual impacts. Again the southwest site is shown here. The nearest structure, residential property, house per se is about 230 feet away from where the tower will be constructed. The next nearest one is 395 feet away from that tower. The other locations that we looked at are substantially closer to existing residential properties. So based upon you know that study and what we’ve looked at in working with the school district representatives, that southwest corner of the site seems to be least overall visual impacts to residents in this area, least disruptive to the school operations and potentially future campus improvements as well and it also allows for the City, a good hydraulic connection to our existing watermain. Trunk watermain which is on 41 which would be easily tapped into. So based upon that information we wanted to detail and looked at how the tower could be constructed on this site. Shown here is where the existing pond is currently built. What staff has come up with in working with the school district is to move that storm water treatment pond to the north into the hillside here a little bit. Using that material to raise up the ground elevation in this location so the tower doesn’t have to be built as high as well. There would be some 4 foot high retaining walls to facilitate that grading work as well. These ponds are more dry ponds, which currently exists today for better infiltration and storm water quality benefits as well. The storm water would be routed the same location it is today into the Trunk Highway 41 ditch system here and then continue the pond to the south. Again the watermain, trunk watermain, 18 inch watermain from the new tower would be extended to the trunk watermain which is currently in the Highway 41 right-of- way as well. The bituminous drive would connect from the school property driveway, existing to the tower as well and the storm water again would be routed more or less to the same location that it is today. And the water service to the school property would be connected into the new watermain that is planned for the tower as well so it’s a little bit shorter route than it is today. Landscaping, there are a few trees that would have to be removed in conjunction with the project. We are planning to revegetate this area as well with spruce trees and maple trees for screening purposes and for revegetation. And than again like I said, the pond itself would be more or less a dry pond so it’d be able to be mowed in the future if necessary. Couple different types of towers that staff has looked at and discussed. The preferred tower is the composite tower which is concrete column with a steel bowl up on top. This seems to be very competitive tower nowadays. A lot of these type of towers are being built in the metro area right now, and it’s somewhat dependent on steel prices at the time of bidding. What the composite tower allows 23 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 you is a more cost effective or cheaper maintenance program down the road because you don’t have to paint or maintain the concrete as much as you do the steel for a steel tank as we’re showing here. The 41, on Trunk Highway 41 tank south of Highway 5 here. This is our second choice in terms of tank type that we prefer to see out here. A little bit, probably more expensive to build, construct and there’s probably some additional future maintenance costs down the road again for the painting all the steel between you know 10 and 15 years out so. If the composite tank was selected, this is the façade or the aesthetic treatment that we are proposing to put on the tank. The column piece, it’s basically a form that goes around the tank. The concrete sets again and then come back with a stain, a stained look after the concrete is set and the tower is constructed. This is showing the cross section of the composite tank. Again the concrete walls here would be potentially stained and then there would be a collar up on top here where potentially antenna equipment would be connected to. Currently the Melody Hills tower does have some cellular providers that utilize the throat or the column of the tank. Trying to anticipate where that equipment would go. We’d like to try to have it all in one location and try to hide it in terms of if it has to go on the column that’s, this is the location that we would provide that. Also another benefit for these type of tanks is that you can include or store the cellular equipment within the column itself so staff has made provisions to have the tank, cellular equipment is stored inside on a more or less a mezzanine level. First floor and then there’s provisions made to construct a second level if necessary. Right now there’s 3 providers at the Melody Hills tower, tank. That equipment can easily stored and operated at this first level here and then any future providers could move up to the second level. By including this cellular, putting this cellular equipment inside a column or the tank itself, it eliminates the cellular building, exterior buildings that you would have to have which is currently at the Melody Hills tower, and then it also provides a quieter environment for the neighborhood on the, they probably can be somewhat noisy. The air conditioning units can go in and off a lot of times and with this type of design it’ll allow us again to put the equipment inside. It’s actually cooler so those air conditioner units aren’t going off as often as well so there would be a separate access door location for the cellular providers to access and so they can’t access the equipment or the city equipment or access the tower. They’d have to go through a separate location to do that so. Just wanted to show you a couple views of the tower itself. This is just again conceptual drawings of what the location and the height of the tower would look like. Not per se the aesthetics of it but this is an exhibit showing a rendering of what the tower would look like from Trunk Highway 41 facing south right at the school entrance. Giving the perspective of how high the tower will be and it’s situation on the campus. Here’s a view from Lake Lucy Road at Highover Drive. Basically south of the school campus site. Again size and height is what we’re trying to show you here. What it potentially would look like and then also from Highway 41 on the south side of, or Highway 41 looking north, basically south of the school campus area. And again from the school campus looking south, southwest at their parking lot location. So with that the school, proposed schedule if this were to move forward. The bids opening is tentatively th scheduled for August 12. If we move forward from that City Council considers awarding a nd contract for the tower itself on August 22. Soil corrections and utility work would potentially take place this fall with the construction of the actual tank and additional foundations and improvements taking place, the majority of the improvements taking place the summer of 2012. Painting again, hopefully we can get the painting in 2012. If not, 2013 and then the removal, potential of Melody Hills tower would be thereafter. After the cellular tower equipment is removed so the State shutdown does impact this project too. There is a couple permits that are needed. One is the right to work in MnDOT right-of-way. We still would have to acquire that and then the Department of Health permits as well for review of the tank is still needed as well 24 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 but we feel confident, or comfortable moving forward at this time, that we can get those permits you know during or sometime around the bid opening process timeframe. Those permits are somewhat easy to get so we’re looking at moving forward with this project if we could. With that, the Planning Commission has reviewed the package and they have recommended moving forward with the project as well. Mayor Furlong: Alright. Very good, thank you. Ms. Aanenson, anything from a staff report? Kate Aanenson: I was just going to add that but Paul caught it so. Did a great job. We kind of wove it together. It’s obviously very technical and Paul knows the project very well so we kind of blended the two presentations and I just wanted to make sure that he did note that, which he th did. That the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the 24 of June and unanimously approved it so, they just looked at the site plan portion so that’d be one of your actions would be to approve the site plan with the conditions in there and then the other two would be the approve the plans and specs and then the purchase of the easement and the school district. Paul Oehme: Maybe I should just touch on the easement acquisition that’s necessary too. The staff has worked with the school district on location again of the tower itself and the need for additional easements, both permanent and then temporary construction easements as well, and then egress easements occurring down the road as well so we can get our equipment in and out and cellular providers through the school property since there is no access off of 41 directly, so school district is working with us on that and they are anticipating to see the easement agreement th on August 4 for consideration. The purchase price for the easement acquisition’s $150,000. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions for staff at this point. Councilman Laufenburger: I have a couple Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Councilman Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: Mr. Oehme, you talk about the cell tower. We are leasing the Melody Hill tower to carriers, is that correct? Paul Oehme: That’s correct. Councilman Laufenburger: So we get monthly revenue or annual revenue from them. Do we have commitments or do we know that they will move their lease arrangements to the proposed new site? Paul Oehme: The lease agreements that we’ve looked at, it’s stipulated in that, if the City can provide an alternate site, which we think this is an alternate site, that they would have to remove their equipment and move it to the new site based upon you know our maintenance of the tower. Our aspect. If we want to take it down, I mean that’s something that’s our prerogative so. Councilman Laufenburger: So and does, do they move that equipment, the antennas at their own expense? Paul Oehme: That’s correct. 25 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Councilman Laufenburger: Did I hear. Laurie Hokkanen: Two of the three carrier’s conversation they have indicated that they would definitely move. This isn’t an issue for them. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Laurie Hokkanen: So and I just haven’t talked to the third. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay, thank you Laurie. Also what is the vertical height above ground of the Melody Hill tower right now? Paul Oehme: It’s approximately 130 feet above ground. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. And I think it’s in here but just for the public, what’s the vertical height of the proposed tower? Paul Oehme: It’s 170 feet. Councilman Laufenburger: 170 feet above ground. Paul Oehme: Above ground, right. Councilman Laufenburger: And that will put the level, the production level of the water at about the same height, is that correct? Paul Oehme: Yeah. It will be exactly the same. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Alright. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other questions for Mr. Oehme at this time? Mr. Oehme, a couple questions. If you could put the slide back up where you focused on the needs of the, or the various listings. One of the things in this area, and then I’m probably going to have you also look at the high zone slide. One of the things that we’re looking at is the population, Melody Hill was built in 1971 as 200,000 gallons. If you can go to the high zone slide Ms. Aanenson. Probably your comments here too. It would seem to me that a significant portion of the high zone has developed since 1970. Just looking at these neighborhoods. You’ve got the Longacres neighborhood in there and you’ve got the new ones by Westwood and Highover and. Kate Aanenson: Pinehurst and. Mayor Furlong: Even the properties to the east there, I would guess some of those have also developed since, in the 80’s and 90’s since this. Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. 26 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Mayor Furlong: Okay so Mr. Oehme, when we go back to the previous slide and you’re talking about the current and future growth, a lot of that, it would seem to me that if in this high zone much of it’s already been developed since the first tank was put in, that at some point that 200,000 gallon size reservoir was appropriately sized. We passed that some time ago, is that a fair statement? Paul Oehme: Absolutely. Mayor Furlong: If we need 750 now. Paul Oehme: Right. Absolutely. Yeah I mean currently really we’re not making our fire flow demands and it’s hard on our equipment right now. Mayor Furlong: Okay so, and I guess maybe going back to the high zone chart there. While much of the development has occurred since this reservoir was put in, there isn’t as much to go as already has been developed… Kate Aanenson: I think that’s a true statement. I think what’s different about this, some of the older parts that were built there probably didn’t put sprinkling systems and the like. You have a different product type. A different expectation that’s out there and I think that reflects on the peak demand that the City Engineer put up so those lots, some of those have swimming pools and sprinkling systems so it’s a different type of product that’s out there than was probably built in the 70’s so the demand. Mayor Furlong: Okay, and I’m not questioning the decision of the prior council. Kate Aanenson: No, no. Mayor Furlong: I’m just saying in terms of the capacity of this. Kate Aanenson: Exceed demand because of the desired housing type and uses was different. Mayor Furlong: Have evolved as well as development. Kate Aanenson: That’s my point, yeah. Mayor Furlong: Yeah, and that’s very fair and thank you for sharing that because it seems to me that the vast majority of the need for this tower is based upon current residents. Current construction. Paul Oehme: Absolutely. Mayor Furlong: Even though any future discretion would just add to the lack of capacity of the current tower. Paul Oehme: Exactly. 27 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Mayor Furlong: Is there any, when you talked about installing the cellular equipment inside the tower structure itself, one of the things we talked about at our earlier work session was looking at construction materials and looking at bid alternates for the different construction materials is something that we just naturally will go out and do, even if we think it might be a certain type. We’re going to look for the different types. Is there any change in the design if we went with different types of construction materials or would it, would it still be constructed in a similar manner with having all that cellular equipment internally of the structure? Paul Oehme: No, we looked at both. Both the composite tank and the fluted column concrete, or steel tank. Actually we visited the City of Minnetonka a couple weeks ago and they have the same set-up that we’re looking at in terms of putting the cellular equipment in and they have a fluted column tank. That steel tank that they put their equipment in so based, and you know for a certain amount of structural standpoint, Doug Klamerus is here to talk, if you’d like to talk to him about, from SEH about any structural designs related to that but we’re looking at again, bidding out both types. Mayor Furlong: I’m going to keep it at the high level. I don’t want to get into the design but my question is, I like the concept of including that equipment inside the structure itself for the reasons that you mentioned. And what I’m hearing is, regardless of construction materials we can include that aspect. Paul Oehme: Yeah, either type of tank that we’re looking at we can incorporate that cellular equipment inside the tank. Mayor Furlong: Okay, alright. Very good. And then Ms. Aanenson, on the site plan approval process. We went through the Planning Commission. I always like to confirm this. Since the City was the applicant, I assume we followed our own rules that we would expect a private party to follow both in terms of the process and the reviews and. Kate Aanenson: Correct. Notified everyone within 500 feet, plus there was residents there that were, you know the closest neighbor obviously has some concerns about visual impacts. There’s people on the other side that were more excited to see it potentially move to a different location. Paul Oehme: And Mr. Mayor, we did have a neighborhood meeting prior to the Planning Commission meeting too and we invited more people than we were invited to the Planning Commission meeting too so, so we try to get the notice out as best as we could. Mayor Furlong: And this is a permitted use within the zone. Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. Mayor Furlong: So there wasn’t any changes, okay. If there are no other questions, I bring it to council for comments. Thoughts. Observations. Oh, Mr. Gerhardt. You want to say something? Todd Gerhardt: Paul could you talk about, is there another water tower in the high zone that we could utilize? 28 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Paul Oehme: Currently there’s only one tower within the high zone. That Melody Hills tower that we’re referring to. That 200,000 gallon tank in the high zone. Todd Gerhardt: And that’s the one that’s under capacity. Paul Oehme: That’s the one that’s under capacity, correct. Todd Gerhardt: We have other water towers in the community. Can we utilize any of those or make those larger that could work in this area? Paul Oehme: Not in this area. Our key financial, looking for it in our CIP has another tower in the low zone as well for future demand. When basically area south of 5 develop. We don’t have the ability right now to pump water from the low zone up into the high zone because this area is segregated. It’s such, it’s so much higher in elevation than the other parts of town so that’s the dilemma that we have. We just really can’t utilize the water from the low zone area into the high zone because basically if we open the valve from the high zone down to the low zone, all the water’s going to run to the low zone so we’re kind of stuck with what we have right now. Mayor Furlong: And the high zone is as much a, it’s a function of topography. Paul Oehme: It is, absolutely. Mayor Furlong: It’s elevation. Paul Oehme: It’s elevation. Mayor Furlong: It’s the glacier’s fault. Paul Oehme: We just can’t have one… Councilman Laufenburger: Blame Mother Nature. Councilman McDonald: Excuse me Mr. Mayor, if I could just add. I thought at one time one of the reasons for putting in the second water treatment plant was that would then give us the cross connect. Paul Oehme: It would. Yeah, it would definitely give us a cross connect but again it’s that storage capacity need and then when we get the future water treatment plant then we’ll have a little bit, a lot better ability to utilize. Councilman McDonald: Yeah to go between zones but for right now we don’t have that ability at all. Paul Oehme: Exactly. Councilman McDonald: Okay. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Councilman Laufenburger. 29 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Councilman Laufenburger: Two follow-up questions. Can you talk a little bit about the safety of these water towers? For example I think back to my childhood growing up in Waconia and there was a water tower, obviously. I mean it was conspicuously built no more than 50 feet away from a house right below it and the water tower exploded in the winter and water fell down on this home. What’s to prevent that from happening with these? Paul Oehme: Well. Councilman Laufenburger: First of all there’s no house immediately below it at this location, right? Paul Oehme: Exactly. It’s like I showed on the different slide, the nearest house is 230 feet away. There is a storm water conveyance system that we designed. I can show you that too here for any overflow of the water in the tank, if we have a spillage or anything else. The water does end up in the storm sewer system as well, and then it ends up in the pond here. Councilman Laufenburger: Into the 41. Paul Oehme: Exactly. So there’s some safety mechanisms there as well. In the wintertime, you know in the past we’ve had some freezing problems but it’s the operators, utility operators objective during the winter months to bounce those tanks as much as you can. Once the water gets stayed. Councilman Laufenburger: Bound the tanks. Paul Oehme: Bound the tanks. Councilman Laufenburger: What does that mean? Mayor Furlong: The water level. Paul Oehme: Bounce the water level, yeah. Move the water level up and down the column. Councilman Laufenburger: I’m not a water engineer so. Paul Oehme: As much as you can. Councilman Laufenburger: I mean I drink water but I just don’t know that much about the engineering. Paul Oehme: Yeah so we try to move that water up and down as much as we can so we don’t have that stagnant water that has the ability then to freeze. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Second question. I’m reading that this water tower is going to cost 2 million dollars roughly. What’s the immediate impact on the citizens of Chanhassen or the high zone specifically related to their water bill as a result of this? 30 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Paul Oehme: There is no immediate impact. This facility improvement project has been planned for several years. It’s, a lot of, the majority of the cost for the tank is built into those connection fees for new houses, new developments. There’s some cost associated with current water usage but it’s built in. It’s been budgeted for and. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Alright, thank you Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Alright, thank you. Other questions. Discussion then. Thoughts. Comments on the proposal in front of us. Councilwoman Tjornhom: I think the best comment was made probably by the Planning Commission that said that you know they were doing this for a reason of public safety and a provision to keep water capacity for the northwest part of the city that I think pretty much says it all. That that’s why they’re doing it for public safety and it’s been in the works for a while and it’s a part of, we just had a work session about disasters and being prepared and I think this is part of that also. Being prepared for whatever happens to our citizens and making sure that we as a council and as a city make sure that everyone is protected and can adequately be protected and this water tower helps at least our fire department do that. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Others thoughts, comments. The one request that we received, we did receive a request from Mr. Clark. He spoke I know at the Planning Commission. He had sent a request that’s included in the packet. I guess I’d be interested in council members comments or thoughts. I know the City has had discussions with Mr. Clark and has been working with him to try to mitigate some of his concerns, is that correct Mr. Oehme? Paul Oehme: Right, and we’re still planning to work with him to try to address his concerns the best we can. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any thoughts or, I’m sorry. Any thoughts or comments from the members of the council for direction to staff in that regard. Councilwoman Tjornhom: I think I feel comfortable letting staff still continue to talk to him and negotiate, and then it will come to us I’m sure if they can’t work it out. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Alright. That sounds fine. Thank you. If there are no other comments we have three items before us this evening. I assume Mr. Knutson we can take all three of those in a single motion. Roger Knutson: That is correct. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Todd Gerhardt: To get the most flexibility in the resolution, instead of putting a specific date award of bid, if we can say basically a future City Council meeting. That would be nice. I think nd we have August 22. With the State shutdown we need the health department approval on the design of this so whatever flexibility we can have in waiting for that approval. 31 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Mayor Furlong: I don’t want to go backwards but do we have some people here that might want to provide some public comment on this issue or not? Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, we have representatives from the Minnetonka School District here. Mayor Furlong: Good evening. Please come forward. And I apologize for skipping by that part. Paul Bourgeois: That’s okay. Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I’m Paul Bourgeois. I’m the Executive Director of Finance and Operators for Minnetonka Public Schools. Mayor Furlong: Welcome. Paul Bourgeois: Thank you. Just want to say that we’ve been actually very pleased to be working with Paul and Todd and the city staff on this project. I think it’s a good solution. It’s going to help all the people in the area and we serve all the citizens together so we appreciate. We think it’s going to be a nice improvement to the public safety aspects of the area and then as far as the dollars that we’re going to be using, we’re actually applying those, it’s kind of twofer for the community. We’re applying those to help pay for the tennis courts that we have under construction up at the middle school. We have over 100 girls typically going out in the spring and almost 100 boys in the fall playing tennis and so we’re replacing 2 broken down courts and basically then adding 5 for a total of 7 so they can have middle school meets that are the equivalent of a Minnesota State High School League meet as the program grows. So it’s going to be available for the students but it’s also going to be available then for the public so we hope everybody gets up there and grabs a racket and goes knock a ball around a little bit. Mayor Furlong: Excellent. Very good, thank you. Paul Bourgeois: Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Thank you for being here and those comments. We appreciate it. Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, council. I’d just like to thank School District 276 for their support in this. What an excellent collaboration. Mike and Paul have been great to work with. Dr. Peterson. We went to the school board and presented our plan. They were very supportive and thank you guys for all your support in this and what a perfect collaboration. I mean really this is the only location we can have this and they didn’t use that against us in appreciation for the land so, you know I make that comment. Mayor Furlong: Well it’s not over yet so. Todd Gerhardt: So we really appreciate our partnership with the school district and it’s great when you get two government agencies working together. Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you. Appreciate those comments and we echo those statements of gratitude as well so thank you. Any other comments or thoughts on this? If not, getting back to where I was a few minutes ago. We do have 3 motions in front of us that can be considered in a single motion if members of the council are in agreement. Would somebody like to make a motion please? 32 Chanhassen City Council - July 11, 2011 Councilman Laufenburger: I’ll try it Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Councilman Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: I would, I move that the Chanhassen City Council approve the site plan for water tower located at Minnetonka Middle School West, plans prepared by SEH dated July 11, 2011 subject to the conditions of the staff report and adoption of the Findings of Fact. And move that the City Council approve the plans and specifications and authorizes advertising for bids for a new water tower located on Minnetonka School District 276 property, 6421 Hazeltine Boulevard in accordance with the resolution as modified by Mr. Gerhardt removing the specific date. And third, move that the City Council approve an agreement for purchase of the easements for a water tower with School District 276 on the Middle School West property contingent upon the school district approving the agreement and the City Council approving a contract for construction of the water tower. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Motion’s been made. Is there a second? Councilman McDonald: I’ll second. Mayor Furlong: Councilman McDonald seconds the motion. Any discussion on the motion? Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, I have one comment for the attorney. Will that easement agreement give us the flexibility for some reason we don’t award bid that that contingency’s in there? Roger Knutson: Yes. We’re only approving it contingent upon us using that piece. Todd Gerhardt: Okay, good. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other discussion on the motion? Hearing none we’ll proceed with the vote. Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilman McDonald seconded that the City Council approve the site plan subject to the conditions of the staff report and adoption of the attached findings of fact and recommendation. The recommended conditions of approval are as follows: 1.The pedestal shall be painted sky blue if a steel shell, or if constructed of a composite concrete material shall be stamped with architectural patterns to mimic block or brick. 2.The light fixture shall have a 90-degree cut-off angle and be shielded from off-site view. 3.Haul routes must be established for the trucking of material off the site. 4.A building permit is required for the retaining walls since they will be at least four feet high. 5.The retaining walls must be designed by an engineer registered in the State of Minnesota. 33