HomeMy WebLinkAboutCouncil Information Memorandum 09-05-2019CITY OF PLYMOUTH
COUNCIL INFO MEMO
September 5, 2019
EVENTS / MEETINGS
Environmental Quality Committee Agenda for September 11 ................................. Page 2
Official City Meeting Calendars .................................................................... Page 3
Tentative List of Agenda Items ..................................................................... Page 6
CORRESPONDENCE
TwinWest Chamber of Commerce Annual Report ................................................ Page 8
Pre-application Sketch Review for Property Located at
3735 and 3855 County Road 101 (2019059) .................................................. Page 11
REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Coon Rapids to Sue Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors, ABC Newspapers ................ Page 13
Hennepin County May Seek a 4.75% Property Tax Levy Increase in 2020, Star Tribune .. Page 16
Proposed Roseville Budget Would Add Four Cops, Three Firefighters, Star Tribune ..... Page 18
Plymouth City Council to Vote on Expansion of Recreation Hub, Finance&Commerce .. Page 20
Two Twin Cities Employee Engagement Companies are
Merging to Form $350 Firm, Star Tribune.................................................... Page 22
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
AGENDA
Environmental Quality Committee
September 11, 2019, 7:00 PM
Plymouth City Hall – Medicine Lake Room
1.CALL TO ORDER
2.PUBLIC FORUM – Individuals may address the Committee about any item not contained
on the regular agenda. A maximum of 15 minutes is allotted for the Forum. If the full 15
minutes are not needed for the Forum, the Committee will continue with the agenda. The
Commission will take no official action on items discussed at the Forum, with the exception
of referral to staff for future report.
3.APPROVE AGENDA – Environmental Quality Committee members may add items to the
agenda for discussion purposes or staff direction only. The Environmental Quality
Committee will not normally take official action on items added to the agenda.
4.CONSENT AGENDA – These items are considered to be routine and will be enacted by
one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Committee member
or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda
and placed elsewhere on the agenda.
4.1 Approve July 10, 2019 Environmental Quality Committee Meeting Minutes
5.GENERAL BUSINESS
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Metropolitan Council Water Efficiency Grant Program Application (Scharenbroich)
Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) City of Plymouth Water Audit
(Scharenbroich)
Approve Adopt-a-Street Collection Day (Scharenbroich)
6.REPORTS AND STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
6.1 Water Efficiency Rebate Program Update (Scharenbroich)
7.FUTURE MEETINGS
7.1 October 9, 2019
8.ADJOURNMENT
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7:30 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Discuss Oakwood Elementary School project with ISD 284 Finance Committee Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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District Court Update/Boards & Commissions Discussion Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
Council Chambers
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10:30 AM - 2:00 PM Plymouth on Parade Celebration City Center Area
7:30 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Review Schematic Design for Plymouth Creek Center Medicine Lake Room
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5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING CIP, Utility Study & Other Funds Budget Review (if needed) Medicine Lake Room
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Plymouth Arts Fair Plymouth Creek Center
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Tentative Schedule for
City Council Agenda Items
September 24, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• Update from Hennepin County District Court (Judge Ivy Bernhardson)
• Boards and Commissions discussion
September 24, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
• Approve Payment No. 6 and final for the Troy Lane Reconstruction Project (ST180002)
• Approve Change Order No. 3 and payment No. 4 and final for State Highway 55 Frontage Road
Reconstruction project (13002)
• Public Hearing on delinquent utility accounts, diseased trees, weed eradication, false alarm
fees and other miscellaneous charges
October 8, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• CIP, Utility Study, and other funds budget review
October 8, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
• Consider amendments to Site Plan and Conditional Use Permit for Oakwood Elementary
School, 17340 County Road 6 (Wold Architects & Engineers – 2019055) (Tabled from August
27)
October 15, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• CIP, Utility Study, and other funds budget review (if needed)
October 22, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• Oversight of watershed districts (financing of projects)
• MN GreenSteps Cities Program
October 22, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
November 12, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
• Budget/CIP (if needed)
November 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
• Adopt polling locations for 2020 elections
November 26, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
December 10, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers
• Recognize Police Citizen Academy graduates
• Approve 2020 Target and Trap Shooting License Renewal
• Approve 2020 Amusement License renewals
• Approve 2020 Tobacco License renewals
• Public hearing on 2020 budget, general property tax levy, HRA levy, and 2020-2024 Capital
Improvement Plan
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BUDGET PROCESS
Budget Calendar
2020 – 2021 Biennial Budget Preparation & 10-yr Capital Improvement Plan
Date Description
September 27, 2019 Council receives budget materials and utility study for Budget Meeting #4
October 8, 2019 Council Study Session CIP, Utility Study & Other Funds Budget Review (Meeting #4)
October 15, 2019 Council Study Session CIP, Utility Study & Other Funds Budget Review (Meeting #5) (If
needed)
November 6, 2019 Planning Commission public hearing
November 12, 2019 Council Study Session (Budget meeting #6) (If needed)
December 10, 2019 Budget Public Hearing - CIP, Budget, Levy, & Utility Rates Adoption
December 27, 2019 Levy is certified with Hennepin County
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Coon Rapids to sue opioid manufacturers,
distributors
By Peter Bodley, Contributing Writer Aug 29, 2019
Opioids have become a nationwide problem.
Coon Rapids is suing opioid manufacturers and distributors in federal court.
The City Council authorized the lawsuit Aug. 20 after discussing the possibility at a closed
meeting Aug. 6.
The civil lawsuit will be filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, then forwarded to the
federal court in the Northern District of Ohio where opioid lawsuits brought by government
agencies have been consolidated, according to City Attorney David Brodie.
This is not class action litigation, but a multiple district lawsuit, Brodie said.
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“Coon Rapids, like many other cities, counties and states, has been impacted by the opioid crisis
and the role of the pharmaceutical industry as a cause of the crisis,” he said.
According to Brodie, the city has suffered damages that include increased costs for
policing/prosecuting opioid-related crimes, increased police and fire calls for opioid overdoses
and other opioid-related incidents, increased first responder training and the use of overdose
reversal drugs like Narcan, along with new equipment costs to protect police/fire from drug
exposure.
In 2014 the Coon Rapids Fire Department became the first fire agency in the state to use Narcan
to reverse the effect of heroin overdoses, and several lives have been saved.
By joining other cities, counties and states across the country in litigation, the city is trying to
hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for its part in the opioid crisis and recover some of
the damages the city has suffered, Brodie told the council.
The city retained three law firms for the case: Keller Lenkner LLC, of Chicago; Consovoy
McCarthy Park PLLC, with offices in Boston, and Washington, D.C.; and Hoff Barry PA, Eden
Prairie.
The firms will represent the city on a contingency basis, which means if the city does not receive
any monetary award from the lawsuit, the firms won’t recover their costs or fees.
The manufacturers named in the lawsuit are Purdue Pharma LP, Purdue Pharma Inc., Purdue
Frederick Company Inc., Insys Therapeutics Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Teva
Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Cephalon Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
Endo Health Solutions Inc, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Actavis plc, Actavis Inc., Watson
Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Watson Laboratories, Inc.
Distributors listed as defendants are McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc. and
AmerisourceBergen Corporation.
Council Member Steve Wells supported the lawsuit against the opioid manufacturers and
distributors even though he said the attorneys will recoup most of the money the city gets from
any award.
As a criminal prosecutor, Council Member Brad Johnson said a significant number of cases he
deals with involve a chemical dependency component and the majority of those are opioids.
“This is a massive problem in society,” he said. “This lawsuit gives us a little bit of a voice in the
conversation on what happens.”
According to Council Member Jennifer Geisler, the lawsuit gives the city the ability to highlight
the opioid issue and the impact on its citizens whether it gets any money or not.
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All the council members supported the lawsuit except for Council Member Bill Kiecker who
abstained. He had been asked not to vote on the issue by his employer CVS/Aetna, Kiecker said.
The Anoka County Board in January 2018 voted to hire a law firm to file a federal lawsuit
against opioid manufacturers.
On Aug. 26, less than a week after the Coon Rapids council decision to sue, an Oklahoma judge
ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid epidemic in that state.
That case was closely watched and may influence the strategies of litigants in the myriad of
lawsuits pending against opioid manufacturers and distributors nationwide.
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WEST METRO 558733512
Hennepin County may seek a
4.75% property tax levy increase
in 2020
Owner of median value house would pay about $60 more in taxes.
By David Chanen Star Tribune AUGUST 30, 2019 — 5:28AM
JERRY HOLT – STAR TRIBUNE FILE Hennepin County Administrator David Hough, shown in 2015.
Hennepin County residents could see the county’s property tax levy rise by 4.75% next year.
County Administrator David Hough told the County Board on Thursday that figure was merely an
estimate and could change before he presents his 2020 budget proposal on Sept. 17.
“This is very preliminary,” said Hough. “We still have significant work to do on the budget.”
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However, if the figure holds it would mean a lower tax levy hike in 2020 than this year’s 5.25% increase.
A property tax levy increase of 4.75% would raise more than $30 million in revenue to help fund ongoing
needs in child protection, personnel expenses, and expansion and improvements at county service centers.
Property taxes paid for a third of this year’s $2.4 billion county budget.
The board will approve the maximum tax levy on Sept. 24 and finalize next year’s budget in December.
Hough has been working on budget submissions from departments since March, and there are still
discussions on possible trims. The county is in good financial shape but has a $9 million budget gap this
year, said David Lawless, the county’s chief financial officer.
Commissioners raised concerns Thursday that the cash balance for human services has been in the red the
past two years. Departments under human services are receiving less in reimbursements and aid from state
and federal funds, and are down 170 staff positions this year.
Even with fewer positions, Lawless said the departments have managed services exceptionally well and
have a two- to five-year plan to mitigate the budget issues. Child protection services had a $122 million
budget in 2018, up from $73.6 million in 2015.
If the preliminary levy hike of 4.75% were approved by the board, the owner of a $281,000 house — the
median value for the county — would pay about $60 more next year in county property taxes.
Some of that revenue would be used to fill 33 service center positions. It was ridiculous, Hough said, that
some people had to wait up to 90 minutes to get their driver’s licenses.
David Chanen is a reporter covering Hennepin County government and Prince's estate dealings.
He previously covered crime, courts and spent two sessions at the Legislature.
dchanen@startribune.com 612-673-4465
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EAST METRO 559203772
Proposed Roseville budget would
add four cops, three firefighters
Proposed $62.6M budget includes funding for four cops, three firefighters.
By Shannon Prather Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 — 7:33PM
Roseville could add four new police officers and three new firefighters in 2020 to help respond to a rising
number of calls for service.
City Manager Patrick Trudgeon included the seven public safety positions in his proposed $62.6 million
budget that will be considered this fall by the City Council.
That's a 12.8% increase over this year's budget, and would be partly paid for with a 5.5% increase in the
tax levy. A median-valued Roseville home worth $272,000 would see an annual property tax increase of
$80.
Though the city has 36,400 residents, an additional 35,000 people travel there each day for work; on top of
that, Rosedale Center attracts 14 million visitors annually. That influx of people requires an increased
investment in public safety, Trudgeon said.
Police calls for service in Roseville have climbed from 33,600 in 2015 to 42,100 last year, according to
city documents.
One of the new police officers would be an investigator dedicated to sex crimes. Ramsey County Attorney
John Choi has agreed to pay for that position for one year as part of a larger effort to improve the
investigation and prosecution of sex crimes.
Police Chief Rick Mathwig said the goal is to build on efforts already underway to make sure all sex-
crimes investigations are thorough and responsive to survivors.
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The new investigator position also would help expand the department's efforts to combat sex trafficking.
Roseville police periodically conduct sting operations; one such sting on a recent Tuesday afternoon
resulted in 44 contacts with men seeking illegal sex services, Mathwig said.
"I think we will have more sex-trafficking cases developed with these additional resources," Mathwig said.
The other proposed officers would patrol the city and respond to calls. One of those positions would fall
under the Commitment to Diversity program, which is designed to promote an existing Roseville
community-service officer, police cadet or reserve officer to full-time police status.
If the City Council approves all four new police positions, the department will grow to 52 sworn officers.
The cost for the four officers next year would be just under $300,000, according to budget documents.
Trudgeon said he also wants to add three firefighters to continue the department's transition from a part-
time, on-call model to a full-time professional firefighting force.
If the three positions are approved by the City Council, it will increase the number of full-time firefighters
to 20. The cost of the three new firefighters is around $220,000 a year.
A big part of the proposed budget increase is $5 million to begin making critical repairs to the Guidant
John Rose Minnesota Oval. The Oval, built in 1993, is the largest outdoor refrigerated skating facility in
the world. The city is seeking state bonding to cover that cost because the Oval is a regional draw and a
statewide asset, Trudgeon said.
Shannon Prather covers Ramsey County for the Star Tribune. Previously, she covered
philanthropy and nonprofits. Prather has two decades of experience reporting for newspapers in
Minnesota, California, Idaho, Wisconsin and North Dakota. She has covered a variety of topics including
the legal system, law enforcement, education, municipal government and slice-of-life community news.
Shannon.Prather@startribune.com 612-673-4804 ShannonMPrather
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The project would update the existing 30,000-square-foot Plymouth Creek Center and add about 80,000
square feet of space to the building, according to Diane Evans, Plymouth’s parks and recreation director.
(Submitted rendering: HGA Architects and Engineers)
Plymouth City Council to vote on expansion
of recreation hub
By: Brian Johnson September 3, 2019 4:09 pm
The Plymouth City Council will have a lot to say in the next week or so about the future of the
Plymouth Creek Center, a 20-year-old gathering place for culture and recreation in the Minneapolis
suburb.
The council is expected to vote up or down next week on a proposed $51.6 million expansion and
renovation of the center at 14800 34th Ave. N. Another option is to send preliminary designs back to
the drawing board.
“It could be not doing it, making some modifications, [or] accepting the schematic design and
moving forward with that,” Diane Evans, Plymouth’s parks and recreation director, said in an
interview Tuesday.
The council will review schematic designs for the project this Thursday, but won’t take a formal vote
until Sept. 10, when design and construction documents will be up for approval. Construction could
start in late summer or early fall of 2020 after another year of design.
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Evans said the project would update the existing 30,000-square-foot community center and add
about 80,000 square feet of space to the building. The city is working with HGA Architects and
Engineers on design and RJM Construction on construction management.
Proposed new spaces include two to three gyms, a walking track, an indoor playground,
multipurpose rooms, fitness studios, art rooms, a lounge area, dance studio, party rooms, music
rooms, a renovated ballroom and a redesigned black box theater, according to the city.
Initial drawings depict an elaborate, multi-level indoor playground, “which would not be the typical
tubes and tunnels, but more what you would consider an outdoor playground brought indoors,”
Evans said.
On the grounds of the Plymouth Creek Center is Millennium Garden, which features a blend of
gardens, trails, walkways and open spaces. The site is about 14 miles northwest of downtown
Minneapolis.
City officials say the expanded center is needed in part to serve a growing community. Plymouth,
population 80,000, has added about 13,000 residents since the Plymouth Creek Center first opened
in 1999, according to the city’s website.
A makeover and expansion has been in the works since at least 2016, when the city hired
Minneapolis-based HGA to do a feasibility study. In the past three years, the city has conducted
surveys and held numerous public meetings to get the pulse of the community.
At one open house in July, about 325 people attended to “speak with city staff, architects and
elected officials to learn more about the project,” according to the city.
Mayor Jeff Wosje said at a council meeting in July that roughly 60 percent of residents surveyed
indicate they support the project to one degree or another, while 30 percent are opposed and 10
percent are neutral.
“I think I am hearing a clear need,” Wosje said.
Evans said in July that city staff and the council have been “thoughtful in preparing for the growth of
Plymouth … and making sure we have a facility” that serves the community well.
The city plans to seek $15 million in state bonding and “other offsetting revenues” to help pay for
the project, according to the website. If the project is funded by property taxes only, the average
impact to homeowners would be $78 to $135 per year.
At one point the city considered putting the project up for a referendum. Ultimately, the council
abandoned that idea in part because it would delay the project by a year and add about $3 million
to the cost.
“I’m not supportive of a referendum for those reasons. The biggest is it’s just going to add costs to
this, and I feel pretty certain after hearing feedback” that the project would pass anyway, Wosje
said at the July meeting.
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BUSINESS 559457352
Two Twin Cities employee engagement
companies are merging to form $350M firm
Augeo has acquired MotivAction; terms were undisclosed.
By Patrick Kennedy Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 — 9:01AM
ANTHONY SOUFFLE – STAR TRIBUNEAugeo CEO David Kristal said it is a perfect time in the industry for his company to purchase MotivAction.
Two local companies that are the engine behind many large employee engagement programs are merging.
St. Paul-based Augeo on Thursday said it has acquired MotivAction in Plymouth. Terms were not
disclosed. Augeo CEO David Kristal said the merged company will have about 300 employees and $350
million in annual revenue.
The acquisition comes at a time when companies are looking more at customer and employee engagement
as a means to improve their businesses.
“It’s a very unique time in enterprise engagement,” Kristal said. “Both Augeo and MotivAction
coincidently share a similar view in terms of engagement and have been building our organizations over
the last several years to focus on the broader corporate ecosystem.”
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The merger comes as companies are looking more broadly at their missions. The Business Roundtable, an
influential group of CEOs from some of the company’s largest companies, announced last month a shift in
philosophy, saying companies should move beyond a sole focus on shareholders and to consider
employees, suppliers and customers as well.
“This whole focus on enterprise engagement and what the Business Roundtable announced, while entirely
coincidental to our transaction with MotivAction, couldn’t have been better timing,” said Kristal, a
member of the Star Tribune’s board of directors.
Augeo, founded in 2000, creates engagement and loyalty programs for both customers and
employees. MotivAction, which was founded in 1976, helps companies with employee recognition events,
sales incentive programs and other company meetings and events that drive employee engagement.
All of MotivAction’s 110 employees have moved over to Augeo with the exception of Bill Bryson, the
CEO and majority-owner of MotivAction, who will retire as part of the deal.
Kristal said MotivAction had been looking off and on for a buyer for awhile before both sides met late last
year.
“At the end of the day we determined it was a perfect match for us, regarding employees, customers,
technology and our cultural fit,” MotivAction President and Chief Operating Officer Joe Keller said. “We
couldn’t have found a better partner.”
Keller said employee engagement has always provided an enormous business opportunity but now
companies are paying even more attention to it as the war for talent increases.
“Our two companies together will provide the most comprehensive enterprise engagement product in the
market,” Keller added.
MotivAction employees will continue to work out of the company’s main office in Plymouth and 10 other
offices across the U.S.
Business reporter Patrick Kennedy covers executive compensation and public companies. He
has reported on the Minnesota business community for more than 20 years.
Patrick.Kennedy@startribune.com 612-673-7926 PKennedyStrib
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