HomeMy WebLinkAboutCouncil Information Memorandum 02-28-2019CITY OF PLYMOUTH
COUNCIL INFO MEMO
February 28, 2019
EVENTS / MEETINGS
Official City Meeting Calendars .................................................................... Page 2
Tentative List of Agenda Items ..................................................................... Page 5
CORRESPONDENCE
Minor Variance for 17025 12th Avenue North (2019005) ........................................ Page 7
REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Minnetonka Police See Sharp Drop in Mental Health Crisis Calls
After Taking New Training Program, Star Tribune ........................................... Page 10
Manufacturing Advocates Warn of Looming Labor Crisis at
Twin Cities Event, Star Tribune ................................................................ Page 13
Senior Housing Plan Promises Affordable Units in Plymouth, Finance & Commerce ..... Page 16
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7:30 AM State of the City Productivity 15150 25th Ave. N.
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5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Discuss design of Plymouth Creek Center with Architect Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Interview Architects for Plymouth Creek Center renovation Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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Economic Development Discussion Medicine Lake Room
9:00 AM-11:00 AM City Sampler
Maintenance Facility 14900 23rd Ave. N.
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3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060
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5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Fire Station Space Needs Assess-ment/Design Recommendations Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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Tentative Schedule for
City Council Agenda Items
March 12, Board and Commission Recognition, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
March 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
• Recognize Board and Commission members
• Approve submission of FY2019 Annual Action Plan to the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (Community Development Block Grant)
• Order and accept preliminary engineering report, order and accept plans and specifications,
call for a public hearing, order advertisement for bids, declare costs to be assessed, and set a
public improvement and assessment hearing for the Candlelight Terrace street reconstruction
project (ST199001)
• Award Contract for the 2019 Sanitary Sewer Lining Project (SS199001)
• Approve replacement of dump truck
• Approve Joint Powers Agreement for ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children)
• Adopt Ordinance amending Section 1305.02 of the City Code concerning definition of traffic
officers
• Declare vacancy in Ward 1 Councilmember position and establish process to fill vacancy
• Consider Rezoning, Preliminary Plat, PUD, and General Plan for Westin Ridge Subdivision
(West Plymouth Dev. Inc. – 2018078)
• Consider use of pooled housing funds from Tax Increment Finance District 7-7 for Beacon
Interfaith
• Presentation on draft body-worn camera policy and comments received
• Quarterly City Manager’s update following meeting
March 26, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
• Approve resolution for 2020 US Census
• Approve amended Expense Reimbursement and Travel Policy
• Public Hearing on the Wine and On-Sale 3.2 Percent Malt Liquor License applications of
Srisainavram Inc. d/b/a Bawarchi Indian Cuisine, 187 Cheshire Lane North, Suite 100
April 9, Special, 5:00 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
• Interview architects for Plymouth Creek Center renovation project
April 9, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
April 23, Special, 5:00 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
• Discuss design of Plymouth Creek Center with architect and construction manager
April 23, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
April 30, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
• Economic development discussion
May 14, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
• Discuss BRT option for Highway 55
May 14, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
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May 28, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
•Fire Station space needs assessment and design recommendations
May 28, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
June 11, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room (Was March 26)
•Boards and Commissions discussion
June 11, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
•Accept musical instrument donation from the Plymouth Rotary Club for the Zachary
Playground renovation
June 25, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
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WEST METRO
Minnetonka police see sharp
drop in mental health crisis
calls after taking new
training program
Minnetonka department saw big change after its entire staff participated in
program.
By Katy Read Star Tribune FEBRUARY 22, 2019 — 9:20PM
ANTHONY SOUFFLE - STAR TRIBUNE FILE
Prof. Jillian Peterson, one of the creators of the new pilot program, met with Minnetonka Police Chief Scott Boerboom in 2017.
Mental health crisis calls reported by Minnetonka police fell by almost a quarter in 2018, after
officers took part in a crisis intervention program developed by two Twin Cities criminal justice
professors.
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The decline in crisis calls contrasts dramatically with statistics from comparable metro-area
cities, said Jillian Peterson, a professor at Hamline University in St. Paul who developed the
training program with James Densley of Metropolitan State University.
“We were thrilled, honestly, and kind of shocked,” she said.
Elsewhere, last year’s crisis calls — which typically involve depression, suicide threats, psychosis
or erratic behavior under the influence of drugs or alcohol — either increased from the previous
year or declined only slightly.
Peterson and Densley are seeking grants to provide other police departments with similar
training, which could be tailored to the needs and circumstances of each area.
“Our goal is to train five more police departments within the next couple of years,” Peterson said.
In Minnetonka, everyone on the police department staff — civilians as well as the 57 sworn
officers — was required to take the training in February 2018. Last year’s calls totaled 302, which
was 23 percent fewer than the previous year.
“These are good numbers,” said Minnetonka Police Chief Scott Boerboom. “The training gave the
officers some tools to use when somebody is in crisis.”
Minnetonka officers responding to crisis calls now spend more time at the scene, he said. They
also often follow up in the next day or two to see how the subjects are doing.
Crisis calls have shot up dramatically in recent years in many jurisdictions, more than doubling
in Minnetonka alone from 2013 to 2017. That’s partly because people with mental illness are
becoming more willing to reach out for help, Boerboom said. Also, police departments have
become more careful about distinguishing mental health crises from other emergency calls.
The daylong training, called the R-Model (for Research-Respond-Refer), stresses linking police
with agencies that specialize in treating mental health crises. In Minnetonka, those include
Relate Counseling Center, a local mental health treatment center, and COPE, Hennepin County’s
crisis line.
Typical police responses to mental health crises include sending subjects to a hospital. But
Boerboom said R-Model participants learned that “just sending somebody down to the hospital
for an evaluation is not always the best route.” Research by Peterson and Densley showed that 80
percent of people sent by police for hospitalization were not admitted.
Now Minnetonka officers provide subjects with a card listing local mental health agencies and
encourage them to make contact. Those referrals help reduce repeat calls to police, Boerboom
said.
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The one-day training session included a talk by a former police officer with mental illness who
described what his own crises felt like. The speaker said he did not always remember events that
occurred during a manic episode, helping officers understand that those actions may not be
deliberate.
Surveys taken by participants before and after the training, with questions such as whether they
would hire someone with mental illness, showed some changes in perspectives about mental
health.
Peterson and Densley devised the one-day training as an alternative to a standard weeklong
crisis intervention team (CIT) program that many departments use. CIT, which takes officers
away from their regular duties for a week and can cost up to $800 per participant, burdens small
departments, Peterson said. Many departments send only some of their officers to CIT training,
often those already skilled in responding to crisis calls.
“What you really need is to train the people who aren’t good at it,” she said.
Minnetonka police are planning further improvements in their strategies for handling crisis calls,
Boerboom said. For example, officials are working on a plan with the Plymouth Police
Department to partner with a social worker who would provide follow-up counseling.
“It’s one of several things we’re going to be doing to reduce repeat calls for service and produce a
better outcome for those in need of it,” Boerboom said.
Katy Read is a reporter covering Carver County and western Hennepin County. She has also
covered aging, workplace issues and other topics for the Star Tribune. She was previously a reporter at
the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La., and the Duluth News-Tribune.
katy.read@startribune.com 612-673-4583
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BUSINESS 506346182
Manufacturing advocates warn of
looming labor crisis at Twin Cities
event
A group spearheaded by the National Association of Manufacturers is traveling the
country trying to spread the word that an industrial career path is not what it used to be
By Dee DePass Star Tribune FEBRUARY 25, 2019 — 7:35PM
LEILA NAVIDI – STAR TRIBUNE
Carolyn Lee, from left, executive director of the Manufacturing Institute, tours the Protolabs manufacturing facility with Protolabs
president and CEO Vicki Holt, and Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.
The number of unfilled U.S. manufacturing jobs will swell to 2.4 million in a decade unless aggressive
recruiting and training begin now.
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That was the message Monday from industry leaders who stopped at Protolabs' factories in Plymouth and
Brooklyn Park and Graco in Minneapolis as part of a 25-city State of Manufacturing Tour spearheaded by
the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
"We are kind of on a recruiting mission," Jay Timmons, CEO of NAM, told forum guests at the new
Protolabs factory in Brooklyn Park. "Today we have about 428,000 open jobs in this country. That's a lot
of openings [and] we can't find enough people to fill those jobs."
The numbers will worsen if nothing is done to interest more young people in skilled manufacturing jobs,
said officials. NAM represents 14,000 manufacturing operations.
"Manufacturing is obviously a huge part of the economy in the U.S.," said Carolyn Lee, executive director
of the Washington-based Manufacturing Institute and a panel member. "But there is no place we go where
we don't hear that companies are desperate for skilled workers. A baby boomer retires every 10 seconds."
Timmons and the rest of the traveling group are trying to highlight "the next frontier" of manufacturing
as they travel the country.
At top, Protolabs CEO Vicki Holt, center, led a tour of the company’s Brooklyn Park manufacturing plant on Monday for
Carolyn Lee of the Manufacturing Institute, left, and Jay Timmons of the National Association of Manufacturers. Above, CNC
mill operator Anthony Robinson worked inside the Protolabs manufacturing facility.
Factories today offer great pay, training, career advancement and the chance to work with technology,
robots and sophisticated machine programs that produce quality goods efficiently, Timmons said.
"Protolabs deploys the type of advanced technologies that define modern manufacturing," he said.
But getting that message across to the public will take more work, he said. It will require factories to
educate younger students about job opportunities and working conditions. And they will need to offer
more internships and apprenticeships like Protolabs does.
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And the industry still has work to educate the public on the type of jobs offered in today's factories. Many
parents and young people still view factories as the grimy jobshops of decades ago, panelists said.
That misperception, Lee said, has parents pushing college-age students away from technical-college
degrees that can give graduates multiple job offerings and salaries spanning $50,000 to $75,000 a year.
To showcase that reality, Protolabs CEO Vicki Holt, who also is NAM's regional vice chairwoman, gave a
tour of the new Brooklyn Park facility to congressional aides and politicians, Dunwoody College of
Technology students and Chamber of Commerce officials.
"We're excited to be part of this event to provide an up-close view of what manufacturing looks like today,
how this digital evolution benefits product developers and how this tech-enabled manufacturing landscape
is creating new opportunities for workers," Holt said.
She led the group, which included Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, through the pristine operation with 270
CNC (computer numeric control) milling machines grinding steel, aluminum or plastic into parts for
customers around the globe. Each of the machines, she said, cost about $100,000 and is tended to by 225
employees.
"Protolabs is a pioneer in digital manufacturing," and is growing dramatically, Holt said. "Five years ago,
we had 750 employees. Today we have 2,700."
The company will add another 650 workers in 2019, she said.
The group of national manufacturing officials last week toured Protolabs' 3-D printing plant in Raleigh,
N.C. In coming weeks, the group will be in Arizona, California, Iowa and Ohio.
"We are excited to tell [the industry's] story and the positive impact" it has on communities, Timmons said.
That message is needed, said E.J. Daigle, robotics and manufacturing dean at Dunwoody College. More
firms must reach out to young people and let them know about the training, paid internships and tuition
assistance that is available, he said.
"I'd prefer seeing these young folks working in apprenticeships and internships at Protolabs [and Graco]
than at McDonald's and other retail and fast-food places," Daigle said.
Dee DePass is a business reporter for the Star Tribune. She spent the last four years covering Minnesota's manufacturing and
mining industries. She previously covered the economy, workplace issues and banking. dee.depass@startribune.com 612-673-7725
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Senior housing plan promises affordable
units in Plymouth
By: Matt M. Johnson February 26, 2019 4:07 pm
The senior living building Augusta Development wants to build in Plymouth would be built on the vacant
land and a disused parking lot of the 45,641-square-foot Plymouth Office Center. (Submitted photo:
CoStar)
A Bloomington developer is dangling affordable units in a proposed senior housing project as
incentive for the city of Plymouth to approve the concept.
Augusta Development wants to build a four-story, 102-unit senior housing building on vacant
land and little-used parking space that is part of an older office building property at 3025 Harbor
Lane in Plymouth. The developer is exploring the concept for the building with city staff and in
non-binding reviews with the city’s Planning Commission and City Council. The City Council
was scheduled to give feedback on the proposal on Tuesday evening.
If built, the L-shaped building would sit next to the four-story, 45,641-square-foot Plymouth
Office Center, and adjacent to an apartment building, more offices and a single-family
neighborhood, according to a city staff report. The proposed development site is in the northwest
quadrant of Highway 55 and Interstate 494.
The project would include independent senior units, assisted living units and memory care units.
Augusta Managing Partner Bo Nickoloff declined on Tuesday to comment on the project. But at
a Feb. 6 meeting of the Plymouth Planning Commission, project architect Eric Reiners with
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Bloomington-based Sperides Reiners Architects told commissioners that the building would be a
desirable addition to the neighborhood.
“In a maturing community, infill sites like this are very important,” he said. “There is a demand
for this age group and this product type in Plymouth.”
Nickoloff is also a managing partner of Edina-based Mesaba Capital Partners, which co-
developed an 88-unit senior housing building with Long Lake-based Roers Cos. that opened last
June in Richfield.
The Plymouth project, which Augusta hopes to start building next summer, will require a
planned unit development designation to go forward. The project as proposed exceeds the
maximum allowable building height for the area and will be 84 parking stalls short of city
requirements, said Kip Berglund, a city planner, during the Feb. 6 meeting.
Commission members asked what the city will get from the project if it grants the PUD. Both
Berglund and Reiners referenced the affordable housing component as an inducement.
The building will include 15 units of affordable housing, Reiners said, a number that could
expand in the future. Demand for additional subsidized or affordable senior housing in the city is
estimated to reach 634 units by 2030, according to a housing study Golden Valley-
based Maxfield Research completed for the city in 2018.
Berglund told commission members that having a developer volunteer to include affordable units
is of value because cities “don’t always get that component with other projects.”
Augusta has already made changes to an initial project design it submitted to the city by reducing
the height of the west side of the building, where it faces single-family homes. Renderings
submitted to the city show the building stepping down to a single story on that side.
The completed building would sit on a 2.33-acre portion of office property. Augusta would
subdivide the property and would own the senior housing property outright, Berglund said. The
property is currently owned by an entity related to Plymouth-based Stern Real Estate Services,
according to records on file with Hennepin County and the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office.
The property last sold in 2002 for $6.95 million.
The office building is currently about 88 percent occupied, Reiners said.
Plymouth has seen some recent activity in its senior housing market. Minneapolis-based United
Properties pitched a proposal for an 80-unit Applewood Pointe senior cooperative building
before the Planning Commission in November. The developer plans to build the project at 11015
Old County Road 15 and 418 Zachary Lane.
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