HomeMy WebLinkAboutCouncil Information Memorandum 03-21-2019CITY OF PLYMOUTH
COUNCIL INFO MEMO
March 21, 2019
EVENTS / MEETINGS
Official City Meeting Calendars .................................................................... Page 2
Tentative List of Agenda Items ..................................................................... Page 5
CORRESPONDENCE
Farewell Reception for Council Member Judy Johnson Set for March 26 .................... Page 6
Learn CPR at No Cost Through Heart Safe Plymouth ........................................... Page 8
New Senior Formal Set for April 5 ................................................................. Page 9
Free ‘Pop-Up Movie in the Dome’ Set for April 6 .............................................. Page 10
Rezoning PUD General Plan and Preliminary Plat for Timbers Edge PUD (2018044) ...... Page 11
Site Plan Amendment and Conditional Use Permit for
10700 State Highway 55 (2018090) ........................................................... Page 13
Conditional Use Permit for 35 Queensland Lane North (2019014) .......................... Page 14
REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Future of Smiths Medical to be Disclosed this Week, StarTribune .......................... Page 15
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3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060
7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Medicine Lake Room
5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Board and Commission Recognition Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
7:30 AM State of the City Productivity 15150 25th Ave. N.
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3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060
7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
4:30 PM to 7:00 PM Hennepin County Open Book Meeting Parkers Lake Room
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Council Chambers
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CHANGES ARE
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
7:00 PM HOUSING AND
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Parkers Lake Room
5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Review/Select Ward 1 applicants to interview Parkers Lake Room 7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
Economic Development Discussion (Part 1) 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
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM HOUSING AND
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5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Economic Development Discussion (Part 2) Medicine Lake Room
5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
Discuss BRT option for Highway 55 Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUCIL MEETING
Council Chambers
5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Fire Station Space Needs Assessment & Design Recommendations Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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Tentative Schedule for
City Council Agenda Items
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
•Announcement of Primavera on April 12-13
•Approve purchase of cable television character generator
•Public Hearing on the Wine and On-Sale 3.2 Percent Malt Liquor License applications of Eezy
Experience, LLC d/b/a Urban Air Plymouth, 3580 Holly Lane North
April 11, Special, 5:30 p.m. Parkers Lake Room
•Review Ward 1 applications and select applicants to interview
April 16, Special, 5:30 p.m. Parkers Lake Room
•Interview Ward 1 Council candidates
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
•Appoint Ward 1 Councilmember and oath of office
April 30, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
•Economic development discussion (Part 1)
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
May 21, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room
•Economic development discussion (Part 2)
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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City of Plymouth
News Release
For Immediate Release
March 13, 2019
Contact: Dave Callister
City Manager
City of Plymouth
763-509-5000
dcallister@plymouthmn.gov
Farewell reception for Council Member Judy Johnson
set for Tuesday, March 26
Plymouth, Minn. – Plymouth residents and community members are invited to say farewell to former
Mayor and Council Member Judy Johnson at a reception 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 at Plymouth
City Hall, 3400 Plymouth Blvd.
Johnson has dedicated more than 20 years of public service to the City of Plymouth. The reception will
provide an opportunity for residents to congratulate her and say farewell.
Cake and coffee will be served. The event is free and open to the public. There is no need to RSVP.
Johnson was appointed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to serve on the Metropolitan Council – a
regional policy-making and planning agency that oversees infrastructure, transportation, wastewater
treatment services, regional parks, affordable housing and other essential services in the metro area.
She submitted her resignation to the Plymouth City Council and was sworn into office at the Met Council
Wednesday, March 6.
In her resignation letter to the Plymouth City Council, Johnson wrote, “My heart is so full of gratitude
and it makes my departure from the city council a little bit easier. In my new role, I am eager to work
with you to continue serving our great city.”
As District 1 Metropolitan Council Member, Johnson represents the Hennepin County cities of Corcoran,
Dayton, Greenfield, Independence, Loretto, Maple Grove, Maple Plain, Medicine Lake, Medina,
Plymouth and Rodgers.
Johnson was first elected to the Plymouth City Council in 1997 as an at large council member. She
served as mayor from 2003-2006. She was elected as Ward 1 council member in 2008, where she served
until her appointment to the Met Council.
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In addition to her municipal service, Johnson has been a board member and president of the League of
Minnesota Cities, earning the league’s highest award for elected officials in 2015. She is also a former
board member of Metro Cities, the Municipal Legislative Commission, and a former member of the
Regional Council of Mayors.
Johnson is the senior director of investor relations at GREATER MSP, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Regional Economic Development Partnership. She also serves as the Government Relations Committee
vice chair of the Economic Development Association of Minnesota.
For more than six years, Johnson served as the director of government affairs for the TwinWest
Chamber of Commerce and also as its director of community relations.
Cutline: After more than two decades of public service, former Plymouth mayor and council member Judy
Johnson was appointed to serve on the Metropolitan Council. The community is invited to say farewell
and congratulate her at a reception set for March 26.
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City of Plymouth
News Release
For Immediate Release
March 14, 2019
Contact: Mike Goldstein
Public Safety Director
City of Plymouth
763-509-5129
Learn CPR at no cost through Heart Safe Plymouth
Plymouth, Minn. – Members of the Plymouth community are invited to take a free CPR/AED training
course through Heart Safe Plymouth.
The one-hour training sessions are open to teenagers and adults who are interested in learning to help
save lives. Participants learn hands-only CPR – chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breaths –
and how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
The course is free, but registration is required.
Wednesday Evening Training Sessions
Training sessions are set for 7-8 p.m. the following Wednesdays on the second floor of the Plymouth
Public Safety Building, 3400 Plymouth Blvd., adjacent to City Hall. To register, visit
heartsafeplymouth.eventbrite.com.
• April 3
• May 8
Saturday Morning Training Sessions
Training sessions are set for 9-10 a.m. the following Saturdays at Plymouth Fire Station III, 3300 Dunkirk
Lane N. To register, visit heartsafeplymouthsat.eventbrite.com.
• March 16
• April 20
• May 18
Heart Safe Plymouth Background
Heart Safe Plymouth training courses are available through a partnership between the Plymouth Public
Safety Department and Rotary Club of Plymouth. More than 5,600 participants have been trained.
Plymouth was designated a Heart Safe Community in 2013 by the American Heart Association. The
program recognizes efforts to improve systems for preventing deaths caused by sudden cardiac arrest.
To schedule a free training session for a group or business, call CPR/AED Instructor Norm Okerstrom at
763-238-8443 or email heartsafeplymouth@gmail.com.
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City of Plymouth
News Release
For Immediate Release
March 14, 2019
Contact: Paul Pearson
Recreation Supervisor
City of Plymouth
763-509-5228
ppearson@plymouthmn.gov
New Senior Formal set for April 5
Plymouth, Minn. – Adults ages 55 and older are invited to enjoy an evening of dinner and dancing.
Plymouth’s new Senior Formal is set for 4-7 p.m. Friday, April 5 at the Plymouth Creek Center, 14800
34th Ave. N.
The evening’s featured musical guest is Jim Sings Swing, performing songs by Frank Sinatra, Tony
Bennet, Nat King Cole, Michael Buble and more.
Dinner will include oven roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, glazed baby carrots and dinner rolls. A
vegetarian option is available upon request.
Cost for singles is $15 if pre-registered by April 1, or $18 at the door. Cost per couple is $25 if pre-
registered by April 1, or $30 at the door.
For more information or to register, call the Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department at 763-509-
5200.
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City of Plymouth
News Release
For Immediate Release
March 20, 2019
Contact: Alyssa Fram
Recreation Supervisor
City of Plymouth
763-509-5225
afram@plymouthmn.gov
Free ‘Pop-Up Movie in the Dome’ set for April 6
Plymouth, Minn. – The City of Plymouth will hold a free “Pop-Up Movie in the Dome” at 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 6 at the Plymouth Creek Center Fieldhouse dome, 14800 34th Ave. N.
The indoor event will feature a showing of the movie Coco, rated PG. In this animated family-friendly
film, a boy journeys into the Land of the Dead to seek forgiveness from his ancestors and lift a curse.
Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets to watch the movie on the big screen.
To prevent turf damage to the field, lawn chairs, as well as foods and beverages, are not permitted.
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Future of Smiths Medical to be
disclosed this week
Joe Carlson, Star Tribune March 17,2019
Smiths Medical, the Plymouth-based maker of hospital infusion pumps and supplies, has long been a
curious component of British industrial technology conglomerate Smiths Group.
But several attempts to sell off the Smiths medical division to buyers with a deeper focus on health care
have failed over the years. So on Friday, executives with Smiths Group are set to announce their plans to
formally separate the medical division from its conglomerate owner, one way or another, for the benefit of
both businesses.
“Smiths Medical has long sat rather uncomfortably within what is predominantly an industrial company,”
Stifel analyst Mark Davies Jones wrote to investors. Following the collapse of sales talks last year,
“Smiths group management appear to have concluded that they can themselves address the structural
anomaly of having a medical equipment and consumables business sitting with an industrial group.”
Smiths Group CEO Andy Reynolds Smith has said a major impetus to sell Smiths Medical is the rapidly
changing market, which the medical division will be better-positioned to respond to as a separate entity.
Asked for specifics last November by an analyst, Smith cited disruptions in how medical products are
purchased and distributed, including the influence of “some out-of-field players starting to enter, like
Amazon.”
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that Amazon is exploring the creation of a major new market
for hospitals that could turn the online retailer into a nontraditional seller of outpatient, inpatient and
emergency-room supplies.
Smiths Group, based in London, is set to hold its regular earnings call with investors on Friday, and a
Smiths Medical spokesman confirmed that executives are set to announce plans for how to separate
Smiths Medical.
“Ultimately, it was a decision that has been made by the board of directors and by the executive
committee of the group,” Smiths Medical marketing executive Carl Stamp said, “to really ensure that we
are getting the strength of both companies — getting the strength of the med-device industry for a very
specific medical device player, Smiths Medical, and you have the ability for … the other businesses in
Smiths Group to really strongly relate to the industries in which they are involved.”
Potential options include spinning off Smiths Medical as a stand-alone company based in Minnesota,
selling off a large stake in the company in an IPO-like public offering, or finding a buyer for the entire
medical business, the note from Stifel’s Jones said. He speculated in November that the first option
appeared the most likely.
Smiths Medical is a large med-tech player in a state with many such companies. With a global employee
head count of about 7,600, including 850 in Minnesota, Smiths Medical is one of the largest med-tech
companies in the state by total head count, ranking just behind Medtronic and 3M Health Care.
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Smiths Medical is perhaps best-known for its infusion pumps, which are programmable machines often
mounted on an IV pole next to a hospital bed to dispense drugs or fluids through an IV line. Last year
Smiths Medical launched its latest ambulatory infusion pump, the CADD-Solis wireless infusion pump,
which can wirelessly communicate with electronic health record systems and can remotely accept
updates to its drug library and internal software. (Such pumps have been targeted by computer hackers in
the past.)
Infusion systems made up a third of Smiths Medical’s $1.2 billion in revenue last year. Another third came
from “consumables” like IV tubes and needles. Two divisions specializing in vital care and specialty
products generated the final third. The medical group overall launched 20 new products during fiscal
2018.
The medical division made up 27 percent of Smiths Group’s overall $4.2 billion in revenue during the
fiscal year that ended in July. Other company divisions include John Crane, which sells seals and other
equipment used in industries like oil and gas (also 27 percent), and Smiths Detection, which makes
security equipment including machines that scan luggage and other cargo (24 percent).
Despite making major new investments and launching 20 new products, the Minnesota-based medical
division reported a disappointing 7 percent drop in revenue and an operating margin decline of nearly 3
percentage points, to 17.6 percent.
Executives said the problems that led to the declines in performance on the medical side are all but
resolved. For example, Smiths Medical had to devote a sizable share of resources to bring its hundreds
of individual products into conformance with Europe’s new Medical Device Regulation, which is stricter
than the existing law. It also had a distribution problem related to the cancellation a distributor contract
that has since been resolved. Increased research-and-development spending also affected the 2018
profit margin.
There has been no shortage of interested buyers for Smiths Medical in the past, though Smiths Group
has yet to negotiate a deal to its liking.
Last September, the board at Smiths Group rejected an offer from California’s ICU Medical to buy Smiths
Medical for a reported $3.6 billion in cash and stock. In 2013, two different bids of at least $2.5 billion
each were either rejected or failed before a final bid was reached.
Stifel’s Jones observed that if Smiths Medical became a free-standing company, the move would give it
more freedom “to participate in industry consolidation, and make the bigger calls on investment priorities
and strategic options without reference to the rest of the group.”
Joe Carlson • 612-673-4779
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