CC Minutes 2-28-05
City Council Meeting – February 28, 2005
Resolution#2005-21:
h. Accept Bids & Award Contract for 2005 Sealcoat Project 05-02.
i. Approval of Lyman Boulevard Agreement with Carver County.
j. Approval of Wetland Alteration Permit to Fill .11 Acres of Type 3 and .01 Acres of Type 2
Wetland for Intersection Improvements Located at Highway 101 and Pioneer Trail,
Planning Case 05-07.
k. Approval of NPDES, Phase II, MS4 Permit Approval.
l. Approval of Private Kennel License, 8561 Flamingo Drive, Lindy & Denise Hollingsworth
m. Approval of 2005 Strategic Plan.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
None.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Good evening and thank you. This month in the council packet I included the
sheriff’s office area report for January, the area citation list again for January, the Community
Service Officer report and also copies of crime alerts that were put out by Crime Prevention
Specialist Beth Hoiseth. With monthly numbers, I’d like to start off with that. Our total calls
for service were up by 70 for the month of January over last year and the criminal calls were
down by 8 for the year. Just a couple of things I wanted to highlight. Burglary was up 2 to 5.
We have had recently 5 business burglaries in the city and 3 of them seem to be related. There
have been a couple others relating to other cities in the area also to that. Just a crime prevention
tip for some of the businesses in town. It’s very important for businesses to do nightly deposits
of their cash and checks, and also when they take their checks in to stamp them right away for
deposit only so they cannot be cashed. And have a locksmith or Crime Prevention Specialist
Beth Hoiseth come out and take a look and evaluate your locks that you have on your doors.
Beth is more than happy to come out, free of charge of course to take a look at that and do a
overall scene survey of your business. Theft was down from 28 last year to 22 this year. Traffic
stops up for January this year was up by 63, and I wanted to point out traffic details. It does look
like it’s down quite a bit. That was supposed to be pulled out of the packet. Or out of that crime
report. They are not getting, we are not getting numbers for those any more. They’re doing
sheets for us. Now the deputies are but that should not be on there anymore so that’s why that is
down. Deputies no longer giving numbers for those. Any questions on the monthly numbers?
Okay. Councilman Lundquist asked me to do a comparison with other communities for some of
our stats that we had. I was not able to get those for 2004 for some of the other communities but
I was for 2002 and 2003 and compare those against Chanhassen. The other communities that I
compared them to are the ones that Ehlers and Associates have also compared Chanhassen to,
and those cities are Chaska, Champlin, Shakopee and Savage. Population was up about 9% in
Chanhassen from 2002 to 2003. And was about approximately a 1% in the other cities that were
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