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Home My WebLink AboutCouncil Information Memorandum 12-12-2019CITY OF PLYMOUTH COUNCIL INFO MEMO December 12, 2019 EVENTS / MEETINGS Planning Commission Agenda for December 18 .................................................. Page 2 Official City Meeting Calendars .................................................................... Page 3 Tentative List of Agenda Items ..................................................................... Page 6 REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST Employees of a Plymouth-Based Insurance Company Will Now Be Shareholders as Well, Star Tribune .............................................. Page 7 1.CALL TO ORDER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 2.PUBLIC FORUM 3.APPROVE 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 Commissioner or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and placed elsewhere on the agenda. 4A Approve proposed December 4, 2019 minutes. 5.PUBLIC HEARINGS 5A Xcel Energy. Site plan amendment, conditional use permit amendment and variances for an expansion to the existing substation and related site improvements at 3940 County Road 101. (2019094) 6.NEW BUSINESS 7.ADJOURNMENT CITY OF PLYMOUTH AGENDA Planning Commission December 18, 2019, 7:00 PM Page 2 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 December 2019 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5080 plymouthmn.gov 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Dundee Nursery Redevelopment Concept Plan and 2020 Legislative Priorities Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUN-CIL MEETING Council Chambers SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT 7:00 PM CHARTER COMMISSION MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers CHRISTMAS DAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED CHRISTMAS EVE CITY OFFICES CLOSED AT NOON 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Old Fashioned Christmas Plymouth Creek Park 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Board and Commission Interviews Medicine Lake Room Page 3 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BIRTHDAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 January 2020 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR 763-509-5080plymouthmn.gov 7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT CHANGES ARE NOTED IN RED 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Council Goals for 2020 Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MEETING Parkers Lake Room NEW YEAR’S DAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Renewable Energy Alternatives for City Facilities Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers Absentee Voting begins for Presidential Nomination Primary Election 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Skate the Garden Millennium Gardens Pond 6:30 PM-10:00 PM After Hours at the Creek Plymouth Creek Center Page 4 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT February 2020 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR 763-509-5080plymouthmn.gov 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Council Chambers 5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Architect Interviews for Fire Station Building Projects Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers PRESIDENTS DAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY MEETING Council Chambers 8:00 AM-4:30 PM ABSENTEE/DIRECT BALLOTING Medicine Lake Room 8:00 AM-4:30 PM ABSENTEE/DIRECT BALLOTING Medicine Lake Room 8:00 AM-4:30 PM ABSENTEE/DIRECT BALLOTING Medicine Lake Room 10:00 AM-3:00 PM ABSENTEE/DIRECT BALLOTING Medicine Lake Room 8:00 AM-4:30 PM ABSENTEE/DIRECT BALLOTING Medicine Lake Room 3:00 PM-7:00 PM Fire and Ice Parkers Lake Page 5 Tentative Schedule for City Council Agenda Items January 14, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room • Council Goals for 2020 January 14, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers • Approve liquor licenses for 2020 • Appoint 2020 City Health Officer • Appoint 2020 City Council Secretary • Designate 2020 Official Newspaper • Appoint 2020 Official Depository • Approve change orders No. 4-5 and payment No. 8 and final for the Schmidt Lake Road at I- 494 Expansion Project (ST180003) and the Fernbrook Lane Mill and Overlay Project (ST189002) • Approve payment No. 3 and final for the Old Rockford Road Overlay (16005) and Trail Project (40063) • Approve payment No. 7 and final for the 15th Avenue and Highway 55 Utility Improvement Project (WR160003) • Approve payment No. 3 and final for the 2019 Mill and Overlay Project (ST199004) • Approve Preliminary Plat to divide the existing lot into two lots, a 5.05-acre lot that includes corporate lodging buildings and a 1.50-acre lot to the west for property located at 10050 59th Avenue (2019090) • Public Hearing on Off-Sale Liquor License application of Merwin Liquors Plymouth, LLC d/b/a Merwin Liquors, 10200 6th Avenue North January 28, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room • Renewable energy alternatives for City facilities January 28, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers • Appoint election judges for the March 3 Presidential Nomination Primary Election • Minnesota GreenStep Cities Program February 11, Special, 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room • Architect interviews for fire station building projects February 11, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers • Presentation of National Community Survey results February 25, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers March 10, Special, 5:30 p.m., Medicine Lake Room • Committee and Commission Social March 10, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room • Recognize Committee and Commission members March 24, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers Page 6 BUSINESS 566104561 Employees of a Plymouth-based insurance company will now be shareholders as well Dallas company that owns GoldenCare is making all of its employees shareholders. By Patrick Kennedy Star Tribune DECEMBER 11, 2019 — 6:45PM PROVIDED PHOTO Employees of Plymouth-based GoldenCare, one of the largest privately held long-term care insurance brokerages in the country, stand to become shareholders in Golden Care's parent company. Dallas-based Integrity Marketing Group announced completion of a new benefit that awards company shares to its 750 employees, including 40 employees at GoldenCare. Integrity Marketing Group is a distributor of life and health insurance products through its more than 30 brands across the country, including GoldenCare. On Tuesday it announced it has made its 750 employees shareholders. The employees don't have to pay anything for the shares. Page 7 Integrity also retroactively awarded about $50 million in profit-sharing awards to employees. Those cash awards were based on Integrity's performance over the past three years. That success includes an eightfold increase in parent-company earnings. The growth convinced Integrity's co-founder and CEO, Bryan Adams, to share the wealth. "We are a people business; there is no business without the people," Adams said in an interview. "Employees are the key to our success, and part of this is to recognize their importance to the business and recognize them and make sure they share in the upside of the business." GoldenCare was founded in 1976 and was acquired by Integrity Marketing in March 2018. Integrity, backed by private-equity shareholders, has acquired 30-some agencies since 2016. Lenny Anderson, the president and CEO of GoldenCare and now a partner with Integrity Marketing, chose to sell to Integrity because of their corporate values. "Integrity is the clear choice in the market because it has the same partnership philosophy I used to build my business over 41 years," Anderson said in 2018. Said Adams on Wednesday: "GoldenCare has been one of our more successful businesses we've partnered with." Integrity Marketing's largest shareholders include private-equity firms Harvest Partners and HGGC. Adams thanked those investors and others for supporting the new employee ownership plan. Integrity will sell more than 1 million new insurance policies this year, Adams said, and help sell over $2.1 billion in premiums this year. Adams, who founded the business from his house in 2006, said he traveled the country to tell all the employees firsthand of the profit- and ownership-sharing awards. "I want every employee to be an owner," Adams said. "The biggest regret that I had is that we hadn't done this in the past." Integrity Marketing is not a publicly traded company. Employees would reap the value of their stock awards during a change in ownership event. 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 Page 8