CC Minutes 11-24-2014Chanhassen City Council – November 24, 2014
Claus. It’s a fun event. Great family activity. It’s free. No registration is required and we’ll
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look forward to seeing everybody there out at City Center Park Saturday, December 6 at 5:00.
If you have any questions feel free to contact City Hall. With that I’d like to move onto the next
items on our agenda.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded to
approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s
recommendations:
1. Approval of City Council Minutes dated November 10, 2014
2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated October 28, 2014
3. Approval of Final Development Plans for the Chanhassen Pioneer Cemetery
Resolution #2014-77:
4. Approval of Resolution Certifying Hookup Charges to Property
Taxes.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
None.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE.
Mayor Furlong: Good evening Lieutenant.
Lt. Jeff Enevold: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council. A few slides for you tonight. Okay.
Thanks Vanna. Just a reminder for the folks watching at home and here in the audience, we have
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our holiday DWI enforcement wave that’s beginning November 26 through December 21 and
you may be asking why do we do this over the holidays? Are the cops a bunch of Scrooges and
don’t like holiday cheer. Anyone to have any fun. That’s not true but what is true is persons are
more likely to die in an alcohol related crash during the holidays than any other time of the year
and 40 percent of the traffic deaths during the holidays involve an impaired driver so cops
support holiday cheer but remember the simple rules. If you’re drinking don’t drive. If you’re
driving don’t drink and you shouldn’t meet us on the roads at all. The next thing I want to do is
just talk a little bit about the city work plan goals and some successes that were related to them
this year. First one is under our resource management and the goal is to provide public safety
services in an efficient, cost effective manner and one of the bullets says that we’ll be good
stewards of the taxpayers money without compromising public safety. If you can go to the next
slide please Kate. So what I did is I did a, I made a chart of our overtime since 2007 to 2014 as
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of November 26 and you can see that this year we’re 31 percent under last year’s hours as of
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November 26 and if you take the current rate of pay there’s about 1,100 hours that would be
allocated to overtime so we’re doing a really great job this year and I’ve got to give credit to the
sergeant’s management of the schedule and they’ve done it without compromising officer safety
or public safety so kudos to them. The second work plan goal I’d like to talk about is the
community oriented policing and it talks about empowering the businesses, schools and citizens
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