HomeMy WebLinkAboutCouncil Information Memorandum 08-24-2023 CITY OF PLYMOUTH
COUNCIL INFO MEMO
August 24, 2023
EVENTS / MEETINGS
Official City Meeting Calendars .................................................................... Page 2
Tentative List of Agenda Items ..................................................................... Page 5
CORRESPONDENCE
Plymouth is Now a Step One GreenStep City .................................................... Page 7
REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Minnesota's Future: A Short List of Priorities that Might
Not be on Your Radar, Star Tribune ............................................................. Page 8
Real Estate Developer Dominium Sells Plymouth Apartment Building for
$25 Million, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal ........................................ Page 11
Remembering: Al Hilde Jr. Former Plymouth Mayor, Star Tribune ......................... Page 13
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OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR
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7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Budget discussion Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE MEETING Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM HOUSING AND
REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY
MEETING
Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
5:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Budget discussion Medicine Lake Room
7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers
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Tentative Schedule for
City Council Agenda Items
September 12, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•2024/2025 Budget – Levy impacted funds and related CIP
September 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
•Swearing in of Career and PT/OC Firefighters (Deputy City Clerk Amy Gottschalk)
•Designate engineer for Station 73 Transit and Eagle Lake Regional Trail Improvement Project
Final Design and Bidding (ST230003)
•Approve purchase of fire engine
•Approve purchase of four pick-up trucks for maintenance use
•Adopt ordinance amending chapter XXI of the city code, regarding accessory dwelling units,
resolution approving summary publication and resolution approving findings of fact
•Approve variance to the bluff setback requirement for a deck addition for the property
located at 2105 Xanthus Lane (Chris Monroe and Dale Kivimaki - 2023048)
•Comprehensive plan text amendments, rezoning, and zoning text amendment for City Center
(City of Plymouth - 2023045)
September 26, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•Plymouth Ice Center 4th sheet of ice discussion
•Board and Commission involvement with Council discussion
September 26, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
•Presentation from Wayzata Public Schools Superintendent Chace Anderson
•Approve cooperative agreement with Hennepin County for the 2023 Gleason Lake Drive
Improvements Project (ST239001)
•Public hearing for certification of delinquent utility accounts, false alarms, tree removals,
and weed eradication charges
•Public hearing on interim ordinance adopting a moratorium regarding cannabis
•Ordinance concerning public use of cannabis and hemp
•Ordinance concerning smoking in city parks
October 10, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•Council policies review – including Special Assessment Policy, Charitable Gambling Funds,
Vendor RFP, etc.
October 10, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
•Adopt ordinance amending City Code section 600 concerning garbage and rubbish disposal
October 24, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•2024/2025 Budget – Enterprise funds with utility study and related CIP
October 24, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
November 14, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•2024/2025 Budget – Internal service funds and related CIP
November 14, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
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November 28, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•2024/2025 Budget – final review if needed
•Review Board and Commission applications
November 28, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
•Approve 2024 regular City Council meeting schedule
•Review 2024 legislative priorities
•Approve final closeout for County Road 47 Reconstruction Project - Phase 1 (ST220001)
December 5, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
•Interview Board and Commission applicants
December 12, Special 5:00 p.m., Medicine Lake Room
December 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers
•Swearing in PT/OC Firefighters (City Clerk Jodi Gallup)
•Adopt final levies and budget
•Approve 2024 tobacco licenses
•Approve 2024 refuse hauler licenses
•Approve 2024 target and trap shoot license
•Accept park and recreation donations for 2023
•Adopt polling locations for 2024 elections (if needed)
•Approve final closeout for Hidden Lake and Beacon Heights 2nd Street Reconstruction Project
(ST229001)
•Approve final closeout for 2022 Vicksburg Lane Improvements (ST229005)
•Approve final closeout for 2020 Street Reconstruction Project (ST209001)
•Approve final closeout for Ridgemount Avenue Rehabilitation Project (ST210002)
Date to be determined:
•Closed Session – Labor Negotiations
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GreenStep Cities is a partnership program of three state agencies (MPCA, Environmental Quality Board, Department of
Commerce), the League of Minnesota Cities, the University of Minnesota (Clean Energy Resource Teams), and four non-profit
organizations (Great Plains Institute, Urban Land Institute, Izaak Walton League, Rethos).
Mayor Jeffry Wosje August 11, 2023
City of Plymouth
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Plymouth, MN 55447-1482
Dear Mayor Jeffry Wosje and City Council Members:
On behalf of the GreenStep Steering Committee, I want to extend our appreciation to you for becoming
the 147th GreenStep City. We have designed the GreenStep program to make it easy to both report your
past actions taken to become a more sustainable city, and to find knowledgeable assistance for taking
future actions. As more cities join, telling their stories and calling on assistance, we are finding that this
free, voluntary program is stronger and more useful to cities. Thank you for being a part of this effort!
Each June at its annual conference, the League of Minnesota Cities (LMC) formally recognizes GreenStep
Cities and their level of achievement. Plymouth is now a Step One GreenStep City by virtue of having
adopted a resolution to join the program. Higher steps recognize city accomplishments — best practice
actions completed prior to joining the GreenStep program and actions you would complete before each
year’s LMC conference (being held in Rochester, June 26-28). We look forward to hearing about your
city’s accomplishments – short action reports submitted online from which other cities can benefit.
GreenStep resources include a free state-of-the art city-building energy-tracking web site (B3), up to 40
hours of free consultant time from our RETAP program (building energy/water/waste audits; street
calming audits; Emerald Ash Borer planning; solar panel consultation; green infrastructure advice, etc.),
monthly technical assistance webinars (except during summer), and an LMC listserv available to your
designated GreenStep coordinator, Chris LaBounty.
We encourage you and your staff and community members to use the many GreenStep resources
available, and to suggest changes to the GreenStep program. If you do not easily find what you need,
please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Kristin Mroz
GreenStep Cities Program Co-director
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
651-757-2793
Kristin.mroz-risse@state.mn.us
CC: Chris LaBounty, Deputy Public Works Director
Diana McKeown, Metro CERTs Coordinator
www.linkedin.com/groups/12494269/
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OPINION EXCHANGE 600297929
Minnesota's future: A short
list of priorities that might
not be on your radar
This state has a set of assets like few others, but we can't just assume they'll
always be there.
By Multiple authors AUGUST 17, 2023 — 5:30PM
SEAN RAYFORD, NEW YORK TIMES
“We need a study that compares the costs of moving freight by air cargo as well as by trucks,” the writers say.
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and
local commentaries online and in print each day. (To contribute, click here.) This commentary
is included among a collection of articles that were submitted in response to, or are otherwise
applicable to, Star Tribune Opinion's June 4 call for submissions on the question: "Where does
Minnesota go from here?" Read the full collection of responses here.
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This article was submitted by the leadership team of Global Wellness Connections, a nonprofit
that seeks international recognition of the Upper Midwest as a "wellness corridor," with its
unusual number of food and health care companies. Their names are listed below.
•••
People in Minnesota: You have a future. But you may not know it.
The past, often considered our state's "best days," gets mentioned a lot. But the best days are
ahead. People in Minnesota should be thinking forward, not backward.
Just in Minnesota we have one of the world's highest concentrations of food companies and all
that goes with that, including some of the finest farming country anywhere. And not just that, we
also have the best health care our nation can produce, right here within reach of most people. We
are well positioned for innovation.
In a very real sense, this state has food, water and energy. And not many places on the planet
have all three. We may be rarer than we think.
We tend to take all of the above for granted, just assuming it's always been there and always will
be. That has never been true, and given the uncertainties of the moment, less true today. Still,
those assets are real.
There are those who predict that this state, along with a few others in the northern tier, will be
climate change targets, as people figure out that climate change is real, that it is creating new lists
of winners and losers, that extreme weather is in our collective future. If so, Minnesota will have
a new problem, but a good one.
Global Wellness Connections (GWC) is composed of leaders who understand the past and are
creating a better future for all of us. GWC is taking on the toughest issues and making progress
with them.
Here is a short list, but it is the right list to be working on for a better future:
Freight. Now that is not a common term. But it matters. No one knows how much freight is
moving, mostly by trucks, along Interstates 94 and 90 to Chicago, bound for international
distribution. But if you drive those roads, you know it; you see trucks everywhere. We need a
study that compares the costs of moving freight by air cargo as well as by trucks. We need a study
that evaluates freshly what destinations air cargo might reach. GWC can do that and has
sponsored several meetings that are not only good intellectual collisions but are getting everyone
closer to doing such a study.
Water. Water, especially drinking water, is an assumption people make; they do not think
about water, they just assume it will always be there. GWC is not making that assumption. We
know that many cities in Minnesota do not have the financial capacity to even evaluate their
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vulnerability to a water crisis. They do not know what's in the water every day. And some cities
are exemplars, models of what every city needs. GWC is urging mayors to take on this issue, to
get ahead of the curve, as opposed to chasing it later with money they do not have. We are urging
them to see the economic development potential of proving that they have a modernized water
system and that people can move to their cities confident of the drinking water for decades to
come.
A fast connection with Rochester. GWC is working on funding for a feasibility study that
would ask and answer obvious questions about a faster connection: What would be the
advantages of Minnesota getting back into the cargo game? Is magnetic levitation in bored
tunnels underground the most innovative way — and the strategy most likely to avoid a repeat of
the understandable objections from landowners along the path — to traverse the distance
between the Twin Cities and Rochester? What would be the implications for both airports —
MSP and RST?
Twins with the Twin Cities. The metropolitan region is rich with medical-device companies
and all the technology that this concentration makes possible. Those concentrations can be
found in two cities that are natural twins — Plymouth and Edina. GWC is exploring what these
two cities might do together that is bigger than they might do alone.
Last year GWC helped to sponsor a look at the future by the international firm Foresight, with
David Beurle at the helm. That study confirmed most assumptions around the founding of GWC
and added some. Lori Sturdevant of Star Tribune Opinion devoted a December 2022 column to
the subject.
As citizens of Minnesota, we need to get serious about the future. We have assets but we need to
use them, not just assume they will always be there. We must build on those assets to create a
better future.
Contributors to this article, members of the Global Wellness Connections leadership team, are
Jim Hovland, Jeffry Wosje, Lisa Clarke, Michael Wright, William Goins, Curt Johnson,
Christine Hanson, Lori Syverson, Barb Marshall, Mark Ritchie and Donna Koren.
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Commercial Real Estate
Real Estate Developer Dominium
Sells Plymouth Apartment Building
for $25 Million
An apartment building at 1020 W. Medicine Lake Dr. has sold. DOMINIUM
By Caitlin Anderson - Reporter, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal August 18, 2023
Developer and property management firm Dominium has sold a 132-unit
multifamily property in Plymouth for $25.25 million.
Ted Bickel and Jeff Budish, managing directors of Northmarq’s Minneapolis
investment sales office, which represented Dominium on the sale, announced
the deal on Friday. The buyer was San Francisco-based FPA Multifamily. The
deal closed Aug. 17.
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The building is located at 1020 W. Medicine Lake Drive in the West End
neighborhood of Plymouth, the press release said. Built in 2003 and
developed by Dominium, the apartment complex spans six stories.
Developer and property management firm Dominium has sold a 132-unit
multifamily property in Plymouth for $25.25 million.
Ted Bickel and Jeff Budish, managing directors of Northmarq’s Minneapolis
investment sales office, which represented Dominium on the sale, announced
the deal on Friday. The buyer was San Francisco-based FPA Multifamily. The
deal closed Aug. 17.
The building is located at 1020 W. Medicine Lake Drive in the West End
neighborhood of Plymouth, the press release said. Built in 2003 and
developed by Dominium, the apartment complex spans six stories.
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LOCAL 600298626
Remembering: Al Hilde Jr.
Former Plymouth Mayor
He developed portable toilets and brought music to Plymouth
By: Tim Harlow, Star Tribune AUGUST 21, 2023 — 11:00AM
With nearly 80,000 residents and one of the largest business
parks in the state, Plymouth is now the seventh-largest city
in Minnesota.
As mayor from 1968 to 1977, Al Hilde Jr. helped create the
blueprint the west metro suburb followed as it rapidly
transitioned from largely rural farmland into a prospering
suburban community.
"He saw the need for a comprehensive plan," said Jim Willis,
who has been on the Plymouth City Council since the 1970s.
From extending sewer and water lines to guiding land use,
"everything was well planned and thought out. He
personified the spirit of somebody who wanted to contribute
to his community and make it a better place to live and raise
a family."
Al Hilde, Jr.
Hilde died July 28 at his home in Jackson, Wyo., where he moved in the mid-1980s to enjoy the
mountains and his passions for flying and hunting. He was 90.
Hilde graduated from Logan High School in LaCrosse, Wis., where his name was added to the
school's Wall of Fame in 1988. He earned a degree in business administration from the
University of Minnesota and spent two years in the U.S. Army stationed in Texas.
He started training to become a dental hygienist, but soon realized "that wasn't going to be what
he was doing," said his son, Todd, of Austin, Texas. Instead, Hilde turned his interest to portable
sanitation after learning about small toilets the Army was using in Long Beach, Calif., because it
was too expensive to keep shuttling ship builders back to the dock to use the bathroom.
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With the idea of bringing dignity to outdoor sanitation, Hilde founded Satellite Industries in
1958 and built and marketed his first wooden portable toilets to Minneapolis contractors.
"Nobody knew what they were," his son recalled. "We had to sell them on the value, and the
value was productivity, not having your hourly workers jump in the car and go down to the gas
station to go potty. And saving human dignity by not forcing people to go out in the woods."
Hilde grew the Plymouth-based firm into one of the largest in the sanitation rental industry, with
more than 15 models of portable restrooms and other products used in 130 countries. He was
honored with the Minnesota Governor's Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Community
and Economic Development" in 1970.
Hilde was also a generous man, his son said. Music was a big part of his life, and yearly he
brought the Minnesota Orchestra to Plymouth for an outdoor concert. When crowds got too big
for the vacant lot where the orchestra played, Hilde donated $1 million for the Hilde
Performance Center, an outdoor bandshell built adjacent to City Hall.
"It came from his desire to take high-quality music and bring it to the people," Todd Hilde said.
The performance art center and the Music in Plymouth series "is one of his legacies."
Guided by his Christian faith and a strong work ethic, Hilde believed in work before play. He
never shied away from tough tasks and made sure the job got done, those who knew him said.
"He had enormous integrity; he had it in spades," Willis said. "He had a great deal of trust and
relationships with the City Council, the town staff and the public he served."
Besides his son, Todd, Al Hilde is survived by his wife of 70 years, Jayne, of Jackson, Wyo., sons
Tim, of Vergas, Minn. and Bret of LaBelle, Fla., sisters Ann Ebbers, of Plymouth, and Carol
Stewart, of Tacoma Park, Md., and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Services have been held.
Tim Harlow covers traffic and transportation issues in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and likes to get out
of the office, even during rush hour. He also covers the suburbs in northern Hennepin and all of Anoka
counties, plus breaking news and weather.
tim.harlow@startribune.com 612-673-7768 timstrib
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