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CITY COUNCIL INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
March 15, 1991
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UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS....
1. CITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE FOR MARCH:
MARCH 18 6:00 P.M. Executive Council Session
(Closed Meeting) to discuss
pending litigation between
City and the League of
Plymouth Voters.
Large Office Conf. Room
6:30 P.M. Plymouth Forum
City Council Chambers
7:00 P.M. Regular Council Meeting
City Council Chambers
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2. TWIN WEST CHAMBER - STATE OF THE CITY, COMMUNITY COFFEE
BREAK -- Tuesday, March 19, 7:30 A.M., City Council
Chambers. The City will host a meeting of local business
people to review current development trends in the
community.
3. PLANNING COMMISSION -- Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 P.M.
The Planning Commission will meet in the City Council
Chambers. Agenda attached. (M-3)
4. PRAC -- Thursday, March 21, 7:00 P.M. The Park and
Recreation Advisory Commission will meet in the City
Council Chambers. Agenda attached. (M-4)
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5. HRA MEETING -- The HRA meeting scheduled for Thursday,
March 21 has been cancelled. The meeting has been
rescheduled for Thursday, April 18. Notice attached.
(M-5)
6. LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES - 1991 LEGISLATIVE
CONFERENCE -- Wednesday, April 10. The League's annual
Legislative Conference will be held at the Radisson
Hotel, St. Paul. The agenda and registration information
is attached. Council members who will be attending
should contact Laurie. (M-6)
7. LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA CITIES - ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- The
League of Minnesota Cities Annual Conference will be held
in Rochester, Minnesota from June 11-14. Information on
the program schedule and housing information is attached.
(M-7)
8. OPEN HOUSE/RECEPTION FOR MARY ANDERSON -- Thursday, March
21, Brookview Community Center. Attached is an
invitation to attend an open house and reception in honor
of former Golden Valley Mayor, Mary Anderson. (M-8)
9. MEETING CALENDARS -- Meeting calendars for March and
April are attached. (M-9)
FOR YOUR INFORMATION.....
1. CITY v LEAGUE OF PLYMOUTH VOTERS -- Attached is a letter
from Mark McCullough to Laurie Rauenhorst, requesting
City documents and voting information relative to the
litigation. The attorney representing the City in this
case has responded to Mr. McCullough with the attached
letter. (I-1)
2. _LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS - MEETING TO DISCUSS VARIOUS FORMS
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- Following the Council meeting of
March 4, I have had conversations with Joy Tierney,
President of the Wayzata -Plymouth League of Women Voters,
regarding their proposal to have a forum on the types of
local government. I told her it was my view that the
Council did not want to become involved in their forum on
this issue as it would likely invoke discussions of the
current election issue which is under litigation. Ms.
Tierney indicated that the League was still considering
the setting of a public forum on this topic. She noted
that she and representatives of the Crystal -New Hope -East
Plymouth League of Women Voters would be meeting to try
and develop the program format, including cable coverage
of the event. I will keep the Council informed as I
learn more about this proposed program.
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3. SUMEK & ASSOCIATES - FIRE DEPARTMENT STUDY -- I received
a call from Marilynne Davis, March 11, indicating that
their report was going to be further delayed. She
apparently has been suffering with a serious case of
pneumonia and other respiratory problems for more than a
week. While she has been ill and cancelling other work
activities, she has not been able to complete the report
on our fire department. She asked me to express her
regrets to all concerned in Plymouth, and said this is
her first priority project. Attached is a letter I sent
to Ms. Davis asking for a date when we might expect the
report. (1-3)
4. SPEED STUDIES• SCHMIDT LAKE ROAD TO ZACHARY LANE TO
HIGHWAY 169 AND COUNTY ROAD 9• NORTHWEST BOULEVARD TO
VICKSBURG LANE
The City Council has adopted resolutions requesting the
Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to
determine the proper speed limits for these road
segments. Fred Moore informs me that while he has not
received formal authorization to change these speed
limits, he has been notified of what the order will
state. The following will be the authorized speed
limits:
Proposed Current
County Road 9 - Vicksburg Lane 45 mph 50 mph
to Fernbrook Lane
County Road 9 - Fernbrook Lane 40 mph 45 mph
to Northwest Boulevard (County
Road 61)
Schmidt Lake Road - Zachary Lane 40 mph new
to State Highway 169 west
frontage road.
State Highway 169 - west 30 mph Not
frontage road to east City Posted
limits.
The speed limits noted above will be installed by the
City and County upon official receipt of the order
authorizing these speeds by the City from MnDOT.
5. CITIES TAX EXTENSION RATES FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY --
Attached are the newly issued 1991 payable local tax
extension rates for all cities and school districts
within Hennepin County. Scott Hovet notes that
Plymouth's local city tax extension rate is the second
lowest for a major city in Hennepin County. (I-5)
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6. CLOSING TIMES OF CITY PARKS & BEACHES -- On March 4 the
City Council adopted a resolution dealing with the
closing times of City parks and beaches. At that time,
Councilmember Vasiliou inquired as to whether or not all
the parks and beaches are or would be appropriately
signed to inform the public of the hours of operation.
Eric Blank has informed me that the parks should be
currently appropriately signed, however, he has
instructed Mark Peterson to verify that fact. He has
further asked Mark to work with representatives of the
Police Department to determine if the number and
locations of signs is appropriate from their perspective.
Any additional signs which may be needed to be posted,
will be posted not later than May 1.
7. PERSONAL WATERCRAFT BILL -- Last year the City Council
received complaints from some residents adjacent to
Parkers Lake regarding the use of personal watercraft
(jet skis) at Parkers Lake. These people were gaining
access to the lake via the City's boat launch. Following
substantial public input, the City Council considered
adopting an ordinance which would place limitations on
the use of such watercraft on Parkers Lake. Current
State law requires that the Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) approve ordinances such as ours before
they can become effective. The DNR indicated that it
would not approve our ordinance and they propose to
introduce legislation in the current session which would
deal with this topic. Such a bill has now been
introduced. According to Eric Blank, the bill introduced
appears to cover all the items which were included in our
ordinance, as well as other items. Eric reports that the
bill is more restrictive than our ordinance in that it
calls for a prohibition of the machines after 6 p.m.,
where our ordinance specified 8 p.m. A copy of the bill
(SF 442) and our draft ordinance is attached for your
information. (I-7)
8. KING VIDEOCABLE PROPOSED SALE -- Mr. James Commers, Vice
President and General Manager, of King Videocable
Company, has written to inform us that their parent
company, King Broadcasting Company, has signed a letter
of intent to sell its television stations and cable
television systems to Providence Journal Company,
headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. This sale was
not unanticipated. The Northwest Suburbs Cable
Communication Commission will be having its negotiating
committee, of which I am chair, meet with the King
Videocable representatives at an appropriate time to
further discuss the sale and transfer of this franchise.
I suspect that the impact on the cable customer will be
negligible, largely as a result of the fact that King
purchased the system at a price equivalent to about
$2,700 per subscriber, and is selling it at about $1,900
per subscriber. (I-8)
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9. WETLANDS TASK FORCE REPORT -- In accordance with City
Council direction, I shared copies of the Wetlands Task
Force report with the City's senators and
representatives, members of the homeowners associations,
Development Council members, and the members of the
various City board and commissions. I requested that
each provide me with their feedback by Monday, March 4.
We have received no comments with respect to the report.
The Council should determine what action, if any, it
wishes to take with respect to this issue.
10. FERNDALE ROAD - REQUEST FOR IMPROVEMENTS BY STUDENTS AT
WAYZATA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL -- In January, three students
from Wayzata Senior High School, Jessica Nicholson, Megan
Himan, and Rachel Brass, made a presentation to the
Council requesting that the City consider joining with
Orono and Wayzata in improving Ferndale Road. On
February 27, the three girls met with the city
managers/administrators and appropriate public works
people of each of the cities involved. There are two
main hurdles of that appear to be overcome:
1. The roadway must be designated as a Municipal
State Aid (MSA) roadway between Old Highway 12 in
Wayzata and County Road 6 in Plymouth. This is
critical to Orono. The MSA designation would
allow the cities of Orono and Plymouth to obtain
state MSA funding to assist in the reconstruction
of the roadway. The main problem with this is the
fact that Wayzata is not eligible to have roads
designated as MSA because their population is less
than 5,000. Wayzata appears to be willing to
cooperate with either Orono or Plymouth to permit
one of the cities to annex, if necessary, the road
right-of-way from the southern city limits down to
Highway 12.
2. The second issue deals with the ultimate policy
decision on the part of the cities involved to
undertake the project. The project would not only
be costly, but would certainly disrupt the
existing character of the roadway by taking out
vertical curves, as well as widen the road. The
current speed limit is 40 mph, and it can be
anticipated that residents living adjacent to the
roadway will have significant concerns about any
"improvement" to the roadway character. Most of
the residents who have direct driveway access to
the road reside in Orono.
Fred Moore has written a letter to the Office of State
Aid within the Department of Transportation, requesting
information on how the roadway might be designated on the
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MSA system in Orono and Plymouth. Once that information
has been received we will again meet with the three girls
and report back to the City Council.
11. BEGIN SUIT - COTTONWOOD PLAZA RETAINING WALL -- Attached
is a memorandum from Fred Moore reporting on the District
Court's determination on the Begin lawsuit. The judge
ruled in favor of the City. Details on the court's
findings are included in Fred's memo. (I-11)
12. WEST HENNEPIN HUMAN SERVICES -- Attached is a copy of the
1991 Work Plan for the West Hennepin Human Services
Planning Board. (I-12)
13. DEVELOPMENT SIGNAGE -- On Friday, March 8 a development
sign was placed at the following location:
East side of Harbor Lane sou th of the Luce Line Trail
in the vicinity of 7th Avenue North. Carlson Real
Estate Company is requesting approval to rezone 12.7
acres from the Future Restricted District (FRD) to a
High Density Multiple -Residence District (R-4), a
Preliminary Plat for 16 Single Family lots and a
Multi -Family lot, and variances for the minimum lot
width for three lots. This request will be heard by
the Planning Commission on March 20, 1991.
14. CITY OF MEDINA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN (SANITARY SEWER AND
TRANSPORTATION ISSUES) -- Wednesday afternoon, Fred Moore
and I met with Medina Mayor Gary Acromite and
Councilmember Scherer, and three representatives of
Loram, and Glen Cook, Consulting Engineer for Medina, to
discuss the sanitary sewer and transportation elements of
the Comprehensive Medina Plan.
Several months ago I had met with Loram representatives
to discuss sanitary sewer issues. The current situation
involving the Medina Comprehensive Plan essentially boils
down to the fact that they have temporary sewer access
through the City of Plymouth's northwest trunk sanitary
sewer. This capacity is limited to 280,000 gallons per
day, but recognized to possible peak flow of 1,000,000
gallons per day. It appears that this capacity may not
be adequate for contemplated development in Medina in the
years ahead, prior to the extension of the Elm Creek
interceptor.
Medina officials are somewhat caught on the horns of
dilemma: they wish to encourage rational residential
development in their community, including opening new
land for residential development, while at the same time
seeking to address existing sanitary sewer problems of
some of their industries along the Highway 55 corridor.
Loram Industries is a particular case in point. That
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company has grown over the years and currently is not
able to satisfactorily handle its sewage with on-site
treatment facilities.
We were not able to give any assurances to the Medina
officials other than to indicate that we wish to work
closely with them as they worked on their comprehensive
plan to seek to mitigate any potential areas of conflict
between their development objectives and Plymouth's needs
to protect and preserve its own sewer capacity for its
own future development. We pointed out to them that the
Springsted study currently projects that we will pretty
well saturate development in the northwest sanitary sewer
district by the end of this century. The capacity,
therefore, in our northwest trunk sanitary sewer is going
to become more critical in that it will be used to serve
Plymouth development. We told them quite frankly that
this was the City's priority and that we were not, from a
staff perspective, in a position to recommend that Medina
receive a larger share of our capacity, particularly when
there was no commitment to build the Elm Creek
interceptor. Mayor Acromite indicated that he would keep
us informed on the progress of their updating of their
Comprehensive Plan.
15. MINUTES•
a. Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission, January
10, 1991. (I-15)
16. CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE -- Responses to calls received on
the Customer Service Line are attached. (I-16)
17. WASTE TRANSFER STATION -- The status report on Hennepin
County's application for a Waste Transfer Station is
attached. (I-17)
18. "ON THE LINE: PLYMOUTH FIREFIGHTERS" -- This video
program was judged a finalist in the municipal/government
programming category of the 1991 Minnesota Community
Television Awards. The program which gives an overview
of the Fire Department and features interviews with
several firefighters was produced in early 1990. The
previous year, another city -produced program, "A Dog's
Day" featuring the animal control ordinance from a dog's
perspective won in the municipal/government category of
the competition. A copy of the award notification is
attached. (I-18)
19. PLYMOUTH EMPLOYEES:
a. Police Officer Resignation -- Effective April 12,
Police Officer Rick Herman will be resigning his
position to take over a family farm operation in
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Wells, Minnesota. Some Councilmembers may recall that
Rick started as a Community Service Officer for the
City and then was promoted to the position of Police
Officer. In both positions he has proven himself to
be a very capable and conscientious employee. We will
miss Rick, but we wish he and his family the best of
luck in their future endeavors.
b. Denise Lanthier -- Denise Lanthier, currently a Senior
Clerk Typist in Planning and Community Development is
transferring to the newly established Senior Clerk
Typist position in the Police Department. After
initial training in departmental procedures, Denise
will work from 4:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. to assure more
timely clerical coverage for the departments.
c. BZ Correspondence:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Letter from Mike Lee, David Lee Funeral Home.
Note of appreciation from Pilgrim Lane Den #6.
Memo from Bob Zitur.
Letter from Rhoda Smith, Principal, Zachary Lane
School. (I-19)
20. CORRES-PONDENCE:
a. Letter from Senator Pat McGowan, to Mayor Bergman,
forwarding a copy of the letter from Kenneth Raschke,
Jr., Assistant State Attorney General. (I -20a)
b. Letter responding to William Brown, General
Manager/Postmaster, from Mayor Bergman, on the naming
of the Plymouth postal stations. (I -20b)
c. Letter and petition from Plymouth senior citizens, to
Mayor Bergman, for a senior center in Plymouth. (I -
20c)
d. Letter to Joel Jamnik, League of Minnesota Cities,
from Frank Boyles, providing comment on pending
legislation affecting part-time and seasonal
employees. (I -20d)
e. Letter to Perry Coonce, Minnesota Sports Federation,
from City Manager, concerning their March 5 to discuss
the City's interest in affiliating with the Minnesota
Sports Federation. (I -20e)
f. Memo from Dick Pouliot, Project Coordinator,
responding to an inquiry from Councilmember Vasiliou
on automotive drain oil recycling. (I -20f)
g. Letter to Rosemary Olson, 4945 Rosewood Lane, from Dan
Faulkner, confirming meeting for March 19 to discuss
the possible cul-de-sacing of Rosewood Lane. (I -20g)
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h. Memo to Maria Vasiliou, on 1991 Council meeting
adjournment times. (I -20h)
i. Letter from Robert Rohlf, Hennepin County Library
Director, to City Manager, regarding federal grants
for the Plymouth library. (I -20i)
James G. Willis
City Manager
PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1991
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1—%—..,4
WHERE: Plymouth City Center
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Plymouth, MN 55447
CONSENT AGENDA
All items listed with an asterisk (*) are considered to be routine by the
Planning Commission and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no
separate discussion of these items unless a Commissioner, citizen or
petitioner so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the
consent agenda and considered in normal sequence on the agenda.
PUBLIC FORUM
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3.* CONSENT AGENDA
4.* APPROVAL OF MINUTES
5. PUBLIC HEARINGS
6:45 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
2/27/91
A. Carlson Real Estate Company. Rezoning, Preliminary Plat and
Variance for "Harbor Woods" located northwest of Carlson Parkway
and I-494 (90093)
6. NEW BUSINESS
A. Krutzig Homes, Inc. RPUD Final Plat/Final Site Plan for "Boulder
Ridge" located at the southeast corner of Zachary Lane and Bass
Lake Road (91010)
7. OTHER BUSINESS
A. Review Plymouth/Maple Grove Corporate Boundary Modification
8. ADJOURNMENT
Regular Meeting of the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission
March 21, 1991, 7:00 p.m.
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes
3. Visitor Presentations
a. Athletic Associations
b. Staff
c. Others
4. Report on Past Council Action
a. Parkers Lake rental policy approved
b. Park closing times approved
c. Annual report accepted
d. Budget cuts approved
5. Unfinished Business
a. Special facilities - continue discussion
b. Bass Lake/Parkers Lake playfields update
c. Estimated cost for trail construction projects
6. New Business
a. Sidewalks/trails (referred from Council)
b. Annual park tour - pick date
c. Request for park at 10th Ave & South Shore Drive (presentation by
Sgt. Larry Rogers)
7. Commission Presentation
8. Staff Communication
9. Adjournment
Next regular PRAC meeting - April 11
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 12, 1991
TO: James G. Willis, Executive Director
FROM: Milt Dale, Housing Specialist through Blair Tremere, Community
Development Director
SUBJECT: Cancellation of HRA Meeting for March 21, 1991
In discussing the need for a March HRA meeting with Chairman Dave Crain, it
became apparent that there were no "action" items for a March HRA agenda.
Therefore, he suggested I reschedule a meeting for April. Following our usual
format of the third Thursday of the month, that meeting date would be
tentitively set for April 18.
It would be my intention to contact all the Commissioners by phone yet this
week. I will also notify Laurie Rauenhorst so she can revise the March
calendar accordingly.
League of Minnesota Cities
1991 Legislative Conference
Wednesday, April 10, 1991
Radisson Hotel, St. Paul
Agenda
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9.3040:30 a.m. Property Tax Issues, Radisson Hotel
"The Amazing Disappearing Act: Local Government Aid to Cities"
* Rep. Paul Ogren
* Senator Doug Johnson
11.00 -Noon Capitol Rally, Capitol Rotunda (LMC will provide shuttle buses)
City officials will hear and respond to legislative view points concerning funding for cities
Rep. Robert Vanasek
Rep. Terry Dempsey
Senator Roger Moe
Senator Duane Benson
12:30-1:45 p.m. Luncheon, Radisson Hotel (LMC will provide shuttle buses)
Where do cities stand with the Carlson administration? Will Governor Carlson introduce an
alternative to LGA?
* Governor Arne Carlson
2:00-3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
rts modifying and increasing existing governments
Protection of Wetlands --The League suppo
Protection of wetlands resources --does the Legislature agree?
* Senator Chuck Davis
* Ron Nargang, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Transportation Issues in Minnesota --Funding and Structure --Federal and State
* Commissioner John Riley, Department of Transportation
* Senator Keith Langseth
* Rep. Henry Kalis
3:30-5:00 p.m. Classification Rates --What changes should the state make in property tax property?
rates f,r low,
middle, and high-value homes, rental housing, and commercial -industrial ro rt ? What do
legislators predict will actually happen, in light of the state's budget deficit?
* Rep. Kathleen Blatz
* Rep. Alan Welle
* Senator David Frederickson
* Senator Ember Reichgott
Presidential Primary/Redistricting--Who will pick up the tab for the price of the presidential
primary? Will the Legislature have redistricting boundaries finished by 1992?
* Secretary of State Joan Anderson -Grove
* Rep. Linda Scheid
5.15-7:30 p.m. Reception for City Officials and Legislators
* Invited to speak
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to guarantee my hotel reservations reserved by me. I under-
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1991 Annual Conference Registration
State
M-1
I. General Information
Every delegate, guest, speaker, media
Sex F M representative, and other attendees
MUST REGISTER with this form.
Complete the form in full and return it
along with full payment of all appro-
Zip priate conference registration fees to
address indicated.
Family members attending (No registration fee BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE
MEAL TICKETS. ORDER BELOW)
Spouse full name Sex
Child Age
Child Age
F M
This is my first League of Minnesota Cities Annual Conference.
FULL CONFERENCE
June 11-14, 1991
Registration -includes admission to
all sessions and tickets for Wednes-
day exhibitor's luncheon, Thursday
luncheon. Thursday banquet, and
Friday coffee and rolls.
MINI -CONFERENCE
June 13, 1991
Registration includes admission to
all Thursday sessions, continental
breakfast, Mayor's Luncheon and
coffee. (DOES NOT include the
Thursday banquet. Order tickets
for the banquet below.)
Early Registration (Postmarked by May 14, 1991)
S165 Full Conference S
S70 Mini -Conference S
.advance Registration (Postmarked by May 29, 1991)
S185 Full Conference $
S80 Mini -Conference $
NOTE: No registration will be proc-
essed without payment in full, or with-
out an accompanying city voucher or
purchase order.
II. Registration Deadlines
May 14, 1991: Final postmark dead -
1 line for Early Registration.
May 29, 1991: Final postmark dead-
line for Advance Registration.
III. Conference Registration
Cancellation Policies
Your letter of registration cancellation
must be postmarked no later than May
29, 1991 to qualify for a refund of reg-
istration fees.
A registration cancellation is subject
to a $15 cancellation fee.
IV. Special Needs
If you are disabled and require special
services, or if you have special dietary
needs, please attach a written descrip-
tion.
V. Registration Confirmation
On -Site Registration (at Conference) Pre -registrants will receive a postcard
S200 Full Conference S acknowledgement to be presented at
S90 Mini -Conference $ the ADVANCE REGISTRATION desk
for quick registration.
Extra '.Neal Tickets
S14 Wednesday Exhibitor's Lunch S VI. Registration Information
S6 Continental Breakfast S For more information contact:Cathy
S15 Thursday Mayor's Luncheon S Dovidio (612) 227-5600.
S25 Thursday Banquet S
Cit\ contact
Daytime phone #_
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Feel free to duplicate for multiple registrations.
Make check payable and return with
form to League of Minnesota Cities,
183 University Avenue East
St. Paul, MN 55101.
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LMC Annual Conference
Coming Together: Building on Common Ground
Preliminary Program Schedule
Tuesday, June 11, 1991
LMC Board of Directors Meeting
1:00 P.M.
LMC Conference Planning Committee Meeting
3:30 p.m.
Special Kick -Off Event
South to the Border --Down Rochester Way
Enjoy southern hospitality and a block -buster show
at the Mayo Civic Auditorium.
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 12, 1991
Welcome/Opening Session
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Speaker to be announced
Building on Common Ground
Concurrent Sessions I (Choose one)
10:30 - 11:45
ff Communicating with the Public
Employee Development
Financial Realities in the '90s
Legal and Illegal Gambling in Minnesota
Problems of Gro, ing Cities
Exhibitors' Luncheon
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
General Session
1:15 -'_:15
Edwin ,\'ichols
Dealins with Differences: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity
Concurrent Sessions II (Choose one)
2:30 - 3:30
Public Speaking for Policymakers
Working with Culturally Diverse Groups (Skill Session)
Enhancing Revenues for Your City
Drug Programs --Success Stories/Funded Models
Problems of Shrinking Cities
Concurrent Sessions III (Choose one)
3:45 - 5:00
An Update on Council Meetings and the Nev,, Open
Meeting Law/Data Practices Act
Cultural Diversity --Model Programs
Minimizing City Expenditures
Enhancing Your Building Code
Cooperative Approaches Among Cities
Cit Night
Feast on a southem-style barbecue followed by an incredible Ice
Cream Fantasy --featuring over 80 different flavors!
6:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 13, 1991
Small Cities Leadership Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions IV (Choose one)
9:00 - 10:30
0 Working with Staff (Council -Manager Cities)
0 Comparable Worth
I Speaking to the Legislature with One Voice
Economic Development for Large Cities
Economic Development for Small Cities
Concurrent Sessions V (Choose one)
10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
Working with Staff (Cities Without Manager/
Administrator)
Employee Recognition
Timely Topic (To Be Determined)
Waste Processing Alternatives: Recycling/
Composting/Yard Waste
Challenges for Small Cities
Mayors Association/Mini-Conference Luncheon
12:30 - 2:00
Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent
Perspectives from Washington
Concurrent Sessions VI (Choose one)
2:15 - 3:30
Sister City Programs
Hiring Contract Professionals for Your City
Balancing Office/Home/Work
Current Issues (LMCIT)
F Grants for Small Cities
League Annual Meeting
3:45 p.m.
LMC Reception and Banquet
6:30 p.m.
Friday, June 14, 1991
Finale General Session
9:30 - 12:00 noon
Andrea Moberg
The Power of Family
Key
Especially for Policymakers
Especially for Staff
Tackling Tough Times
Keeping Current
Special Focus
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You are cordially invited to
an open house and reception in honor of
former Golden Valley Mayor
Mary E. Anderson
Thursday, March 21
5 PM to 7:30 PM (short program at 6 PM)
Brookview Community Center
Golden Valley
You are also invited to contribute to a "memory book" commemorating Mary's years at
Golden Valley. Bring a photo, a note, a card, a warm thought --anything that can be
written, taped, or glued into the scrapbook.
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HARVEY E. SKAAR
MARK C. MCCULLOUGH
REX L. BUXTON
Laurie Rauenhorst
City Clerk of Plymouth
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Nis. Rauenhorst:
'900 FIRST BANK PLACE WEST
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55402-1893
TELEPHONE (612) 333 1511
FACSIMILE (612) 333-1523
March 11, 1991
Re: League of Plymouth Voters v. -
City of Plymouth
As you know, the League of Plymouth Voters has commenced litigation
against the City of Plymouth, Hennepin County Court File No. 91-3190. In
connection with that litigation, we are requesting the following documents:
1. Ordinance 74-1
2. Ordinance 90-41
3. City Council Minutes 02/04/91 - Regular meeting
4. City Council Minutes 02/19/91 - Special meeting
5. City Council Minutes 02/25/91 - Regular meeting
6. City Council Minutes 02/25/91 - Regular meeting
7. The Ordinance regulating the last filing date for a regular municipal
election (if held).
8. Your statement of, or record of, number of registered voters in
Plymouth as of to date.
9. Your statement of, or record of, number of voters voting in the last
municipal election (1989).
10. Your statement of number of persons signing the petition submitted on
February 4, 1991, by the League of Plymouth Voters.
11. The ordinance or statement of oath, that councilmembers take before
assuming office.
Laurie Rauenhorst
March 11, 1991
Page 2
We would like these documents, records, or statements by March 18,
1991, and will pay the reasonable cost of preparing and sending these.
Please call me if you have any questions regarding this request.
Thank you for your assistance.
MCM:sml
cc:
Dave Anderson, President of League
)ugh
uth Voters
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MURNANE, CONLIN, WHITE, BRANDT & HOFFMAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
THOMAS M. CONLIN • 1800 MERITOR TOWER
ROBERT W. MURNANE
444 CEDAR STREET
ROBERT T. WHITE'
JOHN E. BRANDT •
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA 55101
JOHN R. HOFFMAN •
TELEPHONE (612) 227-9411
JOHN D. HIRTE
STEVEN J KIRSCH
LAWRENCE R. KING •
TELECOPIER (612) 223-5199
ANDREW T. SHERN
MICHAEL S. RYAN
SUSAN D. HALL• March 14, 1991
Mr. Mark C. McCullough
SKAAR & MCCULLOUGH
1900 First Bank Place West
Minneapolis, MN 55402
JAMES F. BALDWIN
C. TODD KOEBELE
BARBARA R. HATCH
MICHAEL P TIERNEY
_ M. SUSAN BURNS
IOHN R. SHOEMAKER
STEP HEN I. RONDESTVEDT
,•� DANIEL A. HAWS'
WILLIAM L. MORAN
��. CYNTHIA E. CORNELIUS
s�
THERESE M. PAUTZ
MICHELE D SEEHAFER
G� (k` I THOMAS A. GILLIGAN, 1R
(f L gi!_� PAUL D. PETERSON
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STEPHEN E. OTTO
PATRICK M. RYAN
DAVID C. ANASTASI
DANIEL 1. TRUDEAU
CLAURIE W. MEYER
PATRICIA A. MATTHEWS—
JOEL D. HEDBERG
• R
ALSO ADMTED IN WISCONSIN
Re: League of Plymouth Voters, et al v City of Plymouth ADMNOKLAHOMNEW MEXICO
Our. File No. 35488 —
E. WILLARD MURNANE
(19M-19161
Dear Mr. McCullough: CHARLES R MURNANE
(1913-1982)
We have now received a copy of your correspondence dated March 11,
1991 directed to Laurie Rauenhorst, City Clerk of Plymouth,
requesting various documents in connection with the above -captioned
litigation. As you are aware, our offices have been retained to
represent the interests of the City of Plymouth with regard to this
litigation. As such, your request was forwarded to our attention.
Although we believe your request may have been more appropriately
made through a Request for Production of Documents, we will respond
to the informal request presented in your March 11, 1991
correspondence. In the future, however, we must insist that future
requests for documents or other information be directed to our
office rather than through contact with our client.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please do not
hesitate to contact the undersigned.
Very truly yours,
�&� 9),J(A—
Barbara R. Hatch
BRH:las
cc: Mr. David A. Anderson
CELEBRATING YEARS OF LEGAL SERVICE
March 12, 1991
Ms. Marilynn D. Davis
Sumek Associates, Inc.
111 South Maitland Avenue
Suite 215
Maitland, Florida 32751
Dear Marilynn:
I was sorry to hear of your serious bout with pneumonia and hope
that you are now well on the road to a full recovery.
Last night at a Council study meeting, I shared with our
Councilmembers the fact that report was not yet ready and that
you are currently disabled due to pneumonia. They asked that I
contact you and try to ascertain when we might now expect the
report. The Councilmembers are obviously interested in having
this project completed as they have deferred consideration of
several factors dealing with the Fire Department pending receipt
and consideration of the study.
Best regards,
('JjaSmfG. Willis
Cnager
JW:kec
cc: Mayor & City Council
Dick Carlquist, Public Safety Director
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH. MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 550-5000
MEMO
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 13, 1991
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
Dale E. Hahn, Finance Director
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FROM: Scott Hovet, City Assessor
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SUBJECT: CITIES TAX EXTENSION RATES THROUGHOUT HENNEPIN COUNTY
Attached are the newly issued 1991 payable local tax extension rates for all
cities and school districts within Hennepin County.
You will again notice that Plymouth's local city tax extension rate is the
second lowest of any major city in Hennepin County.
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 7, 1991
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Eric J. Blank, Director of Parks and Recreation
SUBJECT: PERSONAL WATERCRAFT BILL
I have received a copy of the attached bill from Anita Tarnowski of the DNR
staff. The bill deals with the use of personal watercraft, which is a subject
the City was pursuing last year with regard to Parkers Lake Park. The bill
appears to cover all the items that were included in our ordinance and
additional ones. It is also more restrictive in that it is calling for no use
of machines after 6 p.m., whereas the City ordinance said 8 p.m. I have no
other information at this time with regard to the actual status of the bill in
_terms of which committee it's in and where it's headed. If you would like
further information, I would be happy to provide any research necessary.
EB/np
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01/16/91 (REVISOR ] XX/MC 91-0670
Senators Lessard, Price, Finn and Traub introduced --
S. F. No. 442 Referred to the Committee on Environment and Natural
Resources
1 A bill for an act
2 relating to watercraft; regulating the use and
3 operation of personal watercraft; amending Minnesota
4 Statutes 1990, section 86B.005, by adding
5 subdivisions; proposing coding for new law in
6 Minnesota Statutes, chapter 86B.
7 3E ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
8 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 86B.005, is
9 amended by adding a subdivision to read:
10 Subd. 14a. [PERSONAL WATERCRAFT.] "Personal watercraft"
11 means a motorboat which uses an inboard motor powering a water
12 jet pump, and is designed to be operated by a person or persons
13 sitt_ng, standing, or kneeling on the craft, rather than the
14 conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the motorboat.
15 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 86B.005, is
16 amended by adding a subdivision to read:
17 Subd. 16a. (SLOW -NO WAKE.] "Slow -no wake" means operation
18 of a watercraft at the slowest possible speed necessary to
19 maintain steerage, but in no case greater than five miles per
20 hour.
21 Sec. 3. (86B.313) (PERSONAL WATERCRAFT REGULATIONS.]
22 Subdivision 1. (GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.] In addition to
23 re^'irements of other laws relating to watercraft, it is
24 j^n a'wf.l: tp cperate or to permit the operation of a perscnal
25 watercraft cr to use any device relating to the use of a
26 personal watercraft as follows:
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1 (1) without each person on board the personal watercraft
2 wearing a United States Coast nuard approved Type I, II, III, or
3 V personal flotation device;
4 (2) after 6:00 p.m. daily and before sunrise the followina
5 day;
6 (3) within 150 feet of any shoreline, dock, swimmer,
7 swimming or diving raft, at greater than slow -no wake speed,
8 except that a personal watercraft may be operated at a
9 reasonable speed within 150 feet of the shoreline for the
10 purpcse of directly accessing and returning from the open speed
11 zone;
12 (4) upon approaching within 150 feet of another watercraft,
13 t-er than another personal watercraft, at greater than a
14 slow -no wake speed;
15 (5) to tow a person on water skis, kneeboards, inflatable
16 craft, or other device without an observer on board;
17 (6) without the lanyard -type engine cutoff switch being
18 attached to the person, clothing, or personal flotation device
19 of the operator, if the personal watercraft is equipped by the
20 manufacturer with such a device;
21 (7) to remove, alter, or tamper with any part of the
22 spring-loaded throttle mechanism which immediately returns the
23 engine to an idle speed upon release of the operator's hand from
24 the control or any other feature of an engine cutoff switch
25 installed by a manufacturer;
26 (8) jump the wake of another watercraft within 150 feet cf
27 that watercraft;
28 (9) to chase or harass wildlife; or
29 (10) to operate through emergent or floating vegetation at
30 other than a slow -no wake speed.
31 Subd. 2. (AGE OF OPERATOR.] Except in the case of an
32 emergency, no person under the age of 16 years shall operate c-
33 be permitted to operate a personal watercraft, regardless of
34 horsepower, unless there is a person 18 years of age or older
35 board the craft. It is unlawful for the owner of any personal
36 watercraft to permit the personal watercraft to be operated
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contrary to this subdivision.
Subd. 3. [OPERATOR'S PERMIT.] Except in the case of an
emergency, no person 16 years of age or over, but less than 18
years of aqe shall operate a personal watercraft, regardless of
horsepower without possessing a valid watercraft operator's
permit as required by section 86B.305, unless there is a person
18 years of age or older on board the craft. It is unlawful for
the owner of any personal watercraft to permit the personal
watercraft .s be operated contrary to this subdivision.
S.:bd. 4. (DEALERS AND RENTAL OPERATIONS.) (a) Dealers m st
d's-ribute a summary of the laws and rules governing operation
of oersoral watercraft, and provide instruction upon request, -o
anv o rchaser regarding safe operation of the personal
wa-ercraft The instruction provided by a dealer must include
tie laws and rules governing personal watercraft, as well as the
ac: -a' operation of the personal watercraft itself.
(b) A person who offers personal watercraft for rent:
(') may not rent a personal watercraft, regardless of the
^orsepower, to ani person who is less than 16 years _of age, or
who is 16 years of age or over, but less than 18 years of age
and not in possession of an operator's permit required by this
22 secticn;
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(2) is required to provide a summary of the laws and rules
governing the operation of personal watercraft and to provide
4nstr^c`ion regarding safe operation to any person renting a
personal watercraft The instruction provided by a renter must
cover the laws and rules governing personal watercraft, as we:-
as the actual operation of the personal watercraft itself; and
(3) is required to provide a United States Coast Guard
approved 'type I, II, III or V personal flotation device for all
persons who rent a personal watercraft, as well as all other
recuired safety equipment at no additional cost._
Sec. 4. (EFFECTIVE DATE.]
34 Sections 1 to 3 are effective 30 days after final
35 enact77ent, except that section 3, subdivision 4, paragraph (b),
36 c'a-se (2) is effective 60 days after final enactment.
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ORDINANCE NO. 90—
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND
REGULATION OF PERSONAL WATERCRAFT AND AMENDING
SECTION 1335 OF THE PLYMOUTH CITY CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH ORDAINS:
Section 1. The Plymouth City Code, Section 1335 is amended
by adding a new subsection to read:
1335.07 Parkers Lake; Special Provisions. Sub-
division 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this
subsection, the following words and terms have the
meanings given to them.
(a) "Personal Watercraft" means a watercraft less
than 14 feet in length which uses a motor
powering a water jet pump as its primary
source of power and that is designed to be
operated by a person sitting, standing, or
kneeling on, rather than inside, the
watercraft.
(b) "Watercraft" means any vessel, boat, canoe,
raft, barge, sailboard, or any similar device
used or usable for carrying and transporting
persons on Parkers Lake.
Subd. 2. Prohibition. It is unlawful for any
person to operate a watercraft or a personal watercraft
or for the owner thereof to permit the operation of a
watercraft or a personal watercraft on Parkers Lake in
any way which is contrary to the provisions of this
subsection, or the laws, rules, or regulations of the
state.
Subd. 3. No person may operate a personal
watercraft between 8:00 p.m. and sunrise on the follow-
ing day.
Subd. 4. Automatic Cut-off Device. No person
shall operate a personal watercraft that is equipped by
the manufacturer with a lanyard -type cut-off switch
unless the lanyard is attached to the person, clothing,
or personal flotation device of the operator. No
person shall operate a personal watercraft on which the
automatic cut-off device has been altered, disabled,
damaged, or removed.
Subd. 5. Wake
personal watercraft
watercraft within 150
Jumpin
shall
f eet o:
No person operating a
ump the wake of another
that
watercraft.
Subd. 6. No Wake Zone. No person shall operate a
watercraft or a personal watercraft at a speed that
results in more than a minimum wake within 100 feet of
any shoreline, swimmer, anchored watercraft, or dock.
Subd. 7. Special Permit. No person shall place
buoys or other markings on the lake for purposes of
establishing a course of any type for use by personal
watercraft or a water skier nor shall any person
conduct or participate in races, tournaments, or other
competition or exhibition events of personal watercraft
or water skiing without first obtaining a permit from
the City and County Sheriff's Department, if necessary.
Sec. 2. This ordinance is effective on the date of its
publication in accordance with Subsection 110.11, and after
approval by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
PL100-32PR
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King Videocable Company
March 7, 1991
Mr. Kim Bergman
13920 - 60th Avenue North
Plymouth, MN 55446
Dear Mr. Bergman,
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7584 Both Street South
Cottage Grove, Minnesota 55016
612.458-1866
1-800.255-4640
6901 Wmnetka Ave. N,
Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
(612) 533-8347 - Administration
(61 2) 533-8020 - Customer Service
An Affiliate of King Broadcasting Company
As you may have heard, on Friday, March 1st, King Broadcasting
Company signed a letter of intent to sell its television stations
and cable television systems to Providence Journal Company. I
have enclosed for your information, a copy of the press release
announcing the sale as well as some background information on
Providence Journal Company and their cable television subsidiary:
Colony Communications.
At this point, a letter of intent has been signed for the sale of
the company. We would hope to sign a purchase agreement within
four to five weeks after completion of the due diligence
evaluation by the buyers.
I'll continue to keep you apprised of information as it becomes
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FWommers
In the meantime, if you have any questions please
o contact me directly at 531-4400.
Vice President & General Manager
King Videocable Company
JWC/co
Enclosure
SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF:
Afton. Bayport, Baytown Township. Brooklyn Center. Brooklyn Park, Cottage Grove, Crystal. Denmark. Golden Valley, Grey Cloud
Island Hastings. Hudson. Lakeland. Lakeland Shores, Lake St. Croix Beach, Maple Grove, New Hope, Newport, North Hudson, Oak Park
Heights Osseo. Plymouth, Prescott, River Falls, Robbinsdale, Rogers, Stillwater, Stillwater Township, St. Paul Park, St. Mary's Point. Woodbury C Pirr
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Ga;ilpany
News Release s�e,e-,AC;:oro
March 1, 1991
Seattle, Washington - King Broadcasting Company announced today
that it has signed an agreement -in -principle for the acquisition of King
Broadcasting's television and cable operations by the Providence Journal
Company in a joint -venture partnership with the investment firm of Kelso and
Company, Inc.
The transaction is subject to the negotiation and execution of a definitive
agreement, the approval of the definitive agreement by the Boards of Directors
of King, Providence Journal and Kelso and the shareholders of King, and the
receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.
King's controlling shareholders, Priscilla "Patsy" Bullitt Collins, chairman
of the board, and Harriet Stimson Bullitt, chairman of the executive committee,
said, "The agreement is a major step toward the fulfillment of our goal to sell
King Broadcasting to a company that shares King's values, its respect for
employees and its commitment toward good corporate citizenship. We have
found that company."
Providence Journal Chairman, Publisher and CEO Stephen Hamblett
said, "We have a great interest in acquiring the fine businesses and the high
quality assets which the Bullitt family have created and developed. If we are
successful in acquiring King Broadcasting, we will operate King in a manner
consistent with the philosophy with which it has been operated by the Bullitts."
The Providence Journal Company is a privately held, diversified
communications company based in Providence, Rhode Island. The company
owns newspapers, broadcast television, and cable -TV operations. The
company's newspapers, founded in 1829, are among the nation's most
respected daily papers. They are known collectively as the Journal -Bulletin.
The Journal is the oldest major daily newspaper of general circulation in
continuous publication in the United States. The company's television stations
are: KMSB-TV, Tucson, Arizona; KGSW-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico; WHAS-
TV, Louisville, Kentucky; and WCNC-TV, Charlotte, North Carolina. The
Journal's wholly-owned cable -TV company, Colony Communications, is a
pioneer company in the cable -TV business and serves over 500,000
subscribers in five states which include Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New
York, Florida, and California.
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News Release
King Broadcasting Company
March 1, 1991
King Broadcasting CEO Steven A. Clifford called the Providence Journal
Company one of the finest media companies in the nation. "Just recently,
Colony was selected by the cable -TV industry to receive the 1991 Distinguished
Achievement Award for Programming. The award is presented annually to the
company that provides the most outstanding community service through its
programming service," he said.
King Broadcasting's television stations consist of: KING -TV, Seattle;
KGW-TV, Portland, Oregon; KREM-TV, Spokane, Washington; KTVB-TV, Boise,
Idaho; K38AS-TV, Twin Falls, Idaho; and KHNL-TV, Honolulu, Hawaii. King's
cable division consists of 13 systems with over 200,000 subscribers in
Washington, Idaho, Minnesota and California. Together, television and cable
comprise about eighty-five percent of the company.
The tentative agreement does not include King Broadcasting's radio
stations or its mobile television company. These properties will be sold
separately according to King Broadcasting CEO Steven A. Clifford.
"The search has already begun to find other buyers for these properties.
As before, we will look for buyers who are good employers and responsible
corporate citizens. We expect that this effort will be completed prior to the
closing of the sale with the Providence Journal expected in September," Clifford
said.
In making today's announcement, the Bullitt sisters recalled how King
Broadcasting was started as a result of their late mother Dorothy Stimson
Bullitt's love for classical music.
"It was her special treasure," Collins and Bullitt said. "We feel the same
way. She always told us that the music of KING -FM was our family's gift to the
community. As a tribute to our mother we will assure that classical music will
stay on the air in Seattle."
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JOURNAL -BULLETIN HISTORY
1820 -present
The Providence Journal is the oldest major daily newspaper of
general circulation in continuous publication in the United States.
The predecessor of the Providence Journal was the Manufacturers'
and Farmers' Journal, which was printed every Monday and Tuesday
starting on January 3, 1820. The Providence Daily Journal was first
printed on July 21, 1829 and has remained a daily paper whose job it
is to report the most important news of the preceding 24 hours. It
has grown from local to state in-depth coverage with the greatest
ratio of reporter to population in the country for local and state
news. The News Department has a staff of 325 people including 72
reporters assigned to 11 local office bureaus, none more than 20
minutes from any location in our news coverage area. The assigning
of reporters to the local bureaus was implemented in 1925 by then
= editor Sevellon Brown.
The Evening Bulletin began on January 26, 1863 as a vehicle for
updating the news of the Civil War. Today it has evolved as an
update of the morning paper, carrying late -breaking news which
occurred after the morning paper went to press. The Sunday Journal
was introduced on July 19, 1885. It carried news and reviews of
books and provided the first articles written specifically for women.
It is now one of the largest selling newspapers in New England with
extensive coverage in sports, the arts, travel and other general
areas other than news.
The Journal -Bulletin has attracted many fine writers including
Charles H. Dow who joined the Journal as a reporter in 1877 and went
on to found the Wall Street Journal with Edward D. Jones, a
Providence resident.
Journal -Bulletin writers have earned numerous prestigious awards
over the past 53 years including three Pulitzer Prizes. Former
reporter Jack White last earned a Pulitzer for the Journal -Bulletin
in 1974. We were named Newspaper of the Year by the New England
Newspaper Association in 1989.
Over 50 daily newspapers have been started in Rhode Island since
the first Providence Journal was published. The last major
Providence newspaper, The Star -Tribune, was purchased at a court-
ordered sale in 1937 by the Journal in order to maintain competition
in the city. The Journal had hopes that another company would buy
and operate The Star -Tribune which expired in April 1938.
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Among the daily feature sections of the Journal and Bulletin are
Sports Monday, presenting expanded national, state and local sports
coverage; Business Tuesday, which includes in-depth financial news
with complete tables and charts; Food, on Wednesday, containing the
latest culinary news and recipes; and Thursday's Style section, which
features fashion news. Our Saturday Journal -Bulletin has a
Recreation section containing articles on sports -related recreational
activities and the Junior Edition for children.
Featured daily in the Journal and Bulletin is the Lifebeat
section which includes extensive coverage of events and personalities
in the world of arts and entertainment. Friday's newspaper has a
special Weekend Edition in the Lifebeat section offering readers a
detailed listing of restaurants, movies, concerts and entertaining
events scheduled for that weekend. On Monday, Lifebeat adds a page
entitled Kidsbeat geared for children grades four through eight. The
page contains features integrating science, math, social studies and
the arts. It is designed to help young readers develop and refine
their reading skills and is part of our concerted effort to enhance
education and to promote literacy in the community.
Our newspaper is a progressive one. In 1889 we were one of the
first newspapers to use the Linotype machine that revolutionized
typesetting. We used these machines until July 1915.
On April 15, 1985, we broke ground for a new $60 million
facility for production and distribution of our newspapers. It is
located on Kinsley Avenue, about a -mile from our Fountain Street
building. The facility contains state-of-the-art equipment including
18 Flexographic press units and six half decks from Germany.
In June 1988, we totally ceased production with our letterpress
units at Fountain Street, printing all of our Providence Journals,
Evening Bulletins, Journal -Bulletins, and Sunday Journals at our new
Kinsley Avenue facility. With this move, our company became the
first newspaper in North America to publish exclusively with
Flexographic presses. These presses use a quick drying water-based
ink, print sharper images and are capable of printing processed four-
color ads and pictures.
In 1989 we began composing some sections of the newspaper by the
process of Pagination. The entire newspaper will someday be composed
.by this method wherein an entire page is composed on a terminal and
later printed electronically, thus eliminating the process of page
paste-up by compositors.
We currently have a combined circulation over 200,000 Providence
Journals and Evening Bulletins. Our Saturday Journal -Bulletin has an
approximate circulation of just under 200,000. We publish over
260,000 Sunday Journals.
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CELE TV
With its longstan3fincommitment to local
programming, Colony Communications has earned
its reputation'as a'visionary company.
By Janet Stilson
Eery summer, Jack Clifford, chairman
of Colony Communications, wields a
big wooden spoon at a chili cook -off in Cy-
press, Calif. The odds may seem stacked
against a New Englander in the battle of
Southwestern cuisine. But for Clifford, an
occasional bread -baking instructor who
looks like a cross between Telly Savalas
and James Beard, the contest is an im-
portant show of community involvement
in a market where Colony owns a cable
system. So before heading back to his
Providence, R.I., headquarters, Clifford
invariably asks the judges why his con-
coction has been rejected.
"Jack keeps working on his recipe. He's
dete �e oing to be a winner,"
say Dodie Tschircp director of gov-
ernment a::airs and communications.
In a similar way, Clifford and his staff
are convinced that the key to success in
the TV business lies in figuring out local
viewer appetites and finding innovative
recipes for satisfying them.
That approach over the years has given
the company a reputation as forward.
thinking, particularly when it comes to
local programming and sales. More than
ten years ago. Colony saw the need to
serve large ethnic communities and
created The Portuguese Channel in the
Neu' Bedford. Hass., area. It followed up
that venture in 1957 with Miavision, a
42 CHANNELS NOVEMBER 1489
network aimed at the large Spanish-
language population served by its system
in the Coral Gables, Fla., region. In ad-
dition, Colony has six local newscasts
around the country, some of which have
been honored by ACE awards and picked
up for feeds on Cable News Network. Its
Newscenter 13 is regularly rebroadcast on
the CBS affiliate in Providence.
Likewise, Colony became an aggressive
force in local advertising years ago. While
most operators have just begun to realize
that revenue potential, Colony, notes
Trygve Myhren, former chairman and
chief executive of American Television dt
Communications and currently owner of
an investment and consulting firm in
Denver, "has really been a pioneer in the
advertising side of the business."
For all its strategizing on the pro.
gramming and sales fronts, Colony bears
a quiet exterior. It is a relatively small op-
eration: the 36th largest MSO in the
country, according to Paul Kagan Asso-
ciates data, with over 3213,000 subscribers
in systems concentrated in New England,
New York. Florida and California.
Details of its earnings performance are
guarded by the New England families
that own its parent, the Providence
Journal Company, publisher of one of the
oldest continuously published newspapers
(160 years) in the U.S., the Providence
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second only to : ha: of the ne,.,:pa;
contributions to theco.�,ra:e bo::on:
line. As president of CATV and brand-
casting at the company, Cl .ord rnanazez
all of its businesses except the news-
papers, and he says the cable di : ision er.-
tai'.s "the most significant amount of wori;
of anything 1 do."
Like the New England estates in go::,ic
novels, the Journal Company comes with
its own dark mystery, "lifted from the
pages of the most haunting Ellen•
Queen," according to the JournaI-
Bulletin's own reportage: the death in
1957 of Michael Metcalf, who was a .key
force behind Colony as the Journal Com-
panj's president, chairman, chief exec-
utive and the newspapers' publisher.
Some nimors suggest Metcalf s death
was a Mafia hit on the head of two news-
papers that have taken a hard look at or-
ganized crime. Yet a police investigation
concluded that the death apparently re-
sulted from a freak bicycle accident. Dis-
satisfied, the Journal -Bulletin has had
two reporters investigating the mystery
over the last two years, and their findings
are expected shortly.
It was a meeting with Metcalf that
made the personality of the Journal— and
Colony—most striking to Clifford shortly
after he joined the company 12 years ago
as director of broadcasting and CATV.
Just back from a grand tour of the com-
pany's radio stations (since sold) and cable
systems, Clifford presented Metcalf with
a scheme for expanding the cable business
and acquiring TV stations. "I agree with
most of what you've said," Clifford recalls
Metcalf saying. "But whatever you do,
never, never damage an employee."
The regard for employees at Colour• is
reflected in an extremely low turnover
rate and the number of top officials thit
have risen through the ranks over the
years. Among the Ion e,
Colony's current presiders Bruce Clark
who joined the company in 1976 as an as-
sistant general manager in its Beacon.
N.Y., system, and executive director of
operations Paul Silva, who began his
career in the early 1970s as a project
manager at Colony's Greater Boston
Cable Corporation system (since sold).
The nurturing of employees is but one
element of Metcalf's legacy, carried on by
Stephen Hamblett, the, newspapers'
present publisher and the Journal Com-
pany's president, CEO and chairman. The
legacy is also manifest in the ongoing com-
mitment -to community involvement,
notably in Colony's local programming..
Five of the company's larger systems
produce six local newscasts 1,600 times �
year, in an effort to give viewers more in-
sight into their communities t2ar, local TV
stations provide.
Colony's Portuguese Channel, whic? is
produced at its «'haling City Cable TV
headquarters in New Bedford, :class., is
distributed to systems in 36 New En-
gland cities with large Portuguese constit-
uencies. And in Coral Gables, Fla.. the
Spanish-language Mia -vision channel:
caters to the local Latin American popu-
lation with a programming paella heavy
on local information and news.
In the latest ACE awards competition.
Miavision's half-hour weeknight
newscast, Noticiero Miat•ision, walked
Past four English-language nominees to
Win in the series news category. (T -,%o of
the other four finalists were from Colon%
systems. its U.S. Cablevision system in
New Fork state and Lowell Calih. T,.':v-
vision in Massachusetts.)
Joe. Langhan, Colonv's director of l '
grammng. recalls that The
Channel %vas launched in 19 ,^
Colony's
president Bruce Clark
(left), and its chair-
man, lack Clifford, in
Providence.
part-time network in an effort to increase
the New Bedford systems' penetration in
an area where about 60 percent of the
population is of Po.—.uguese descent.
But Clifford adds that Colony's local.
proeramming efforts also evolved out of
a desire to make the cable systems a pos-
itive force within their communities. And
doing the channels right required consid-
erable effort.
Most of the programming we had to
produce ourselves." say: Langhan. "Wv
basically did anything. We did music
v)(I"", before we even knew H'ha: music
vidoos were. We star ted Erring ►;hr R,r-
tuuuese commun;:Y's] favorite
ba,.k in Purtuga'.. 14 s'.-nch:ng th_•:r .
in thc- park or on ;hr heach."
The value of the channel became evident
about two years after its launch, when the
system bumped it up to a higher priced
tier and transformed it into a full-time
service. Within a month, about 20 percent
of the system's 15,000 subscribers had
called a special number to talk with
Portuguese -speaking operators about
signing up for the higher tier,according
to Langhan.
The channel, begun as a co -venture
with the local Portuguese Times news-
paper, is still produced at Colony's New
Bedford system. However. it is now
wholly owned by the Times.
While Langhan scoured Portugal
looking for product for the channel, a dif-
ferent kind of hustling has taken place at
Newsrcnfer 13, a program put out by
Colony's systems in Fall River and New
Bedford. 11ass. Each of the show's three
reporter anchors covers three to five
stories daily. A local district attorney
drugs in after work to deliver the sports.
And when the men in the group get ready
CH.',`:Ni--= \,,10E.:AFF. 43
p6i
sfirv.,lidt:r> \k-rh the CBS Ect,
Diu Pa. -her and the t1'1,er1nL:
newscast produced by NVLNE.Tv in
Providence. That station has picked up,
the cable show and transmits it at 6:30
P.V. as part of its regular evening
schedule to the New Bedford Fall River
portion of its ADI, served by a translator
station. In exchange, the New Bedford
and Fall River systems air NN'LNE's
evening news, along with the CBS
Evening News, on their local -origination
channels.
The impact of these efforts was a dra-
matic drop in the churn rate in New
Bedford and Fall River.
"That alone paid for the
news," says Clifford.
"On top of it, we sold ad-
vertising, and continue
"
to sell it year after
year."
This year, the New
Bedford and Fall River
systems are expected to
attract roughly $7 14,000
in advertising on their
local Channel 13. Some
$200,000 of that comes
from ad avails on Vews-
center 13, according to
Jeffrey Wavne, Colony's
execUtive Birector of
marketing and adver-
tising sales. (In com-
parison, the systems'
largest local ad -revenue
earner among the basic networks, CNN,
is expected to draw S160,000.)
Langhan plans to expand the local pro -
gr -coming effort in the future. and one op-
portunity he sees is in court trials. The
Fall River system put its name on the
journaLstic map a few years ago when it
gave area viewers complete, gavel -to -
gavel coverage of the Big Dan's Tavern
trial, on which the film The Accused is
loosely based. Colony's coverage of the
controversial trial—in which six
Portuguese -Americans faced charges of
gang -raping a woman in a local bar—is be-
lieved to mark the first nonstop coverage
of a court case on TV, in the U.S. CNN of-
ficials say that network initially picked up
Colonvlz feed for its stories on the trial.
But Within days, CNN was picking up the
complete gavel -to -gavel feed, until its own
crew arrived on the scene.
In at least one instance, attention to
local programming has proven shining
ligt,i_fJr.colonyWhen it has recw**\,ed
!_harp criticism for its serviqe.
In 19ST. & mayor's committee on
cable television in .14w Bedford released
a vitnolic report on Whaling Citv's per-
formance. The 29-PaLye report stated:
"What we found was shocking. A cable
and a ca
v
r(-,7%ru for tn,i-, sen -ES." In :*-.roz;c-.,
Sever. Sh:_ren- wno wa5 vicenairmar., cf
the committee and is presen:ly a New
Bedford city councilman, says. "You can't
]ay all the blame at Whaling City's
doorstep because the city didn't do a
darned thing to monitor their contract for
15 years." He says that even at the time
he railed against the system, he had
nothing but praise for the company's local
programming. He gives the system high
marks for improvements since the report
came out.
Colony's Tschirch says the system
never had an opportunity to defend itself
against the report's ac-
cusations.
"We were not in non-
compliance of the terms
of the agreement," she
contends. "We feel that
the report was the result
of an underlying frus-
tration of people in an
underserved portion of
the city." In attempting
to wire the section, the
system ran into oppo-
sition from some citizens
who didn't want the
system to use poles.
After the report, the
company spent a consid-
erable amount of money
\vring underground, a
difficu.1t task in that area
because of various
physical obstructions. "The problem, on
the part of both the community and the
company, was a lack of communication,"
Tschirch explains.
Nonetheless, reports of disgruntlement
at other Colony systems apparently are
very limited. Indeed, the city of Los An.
geles, where Colony has one out of 14
service areas, is so impressed with
Colony's local studio facilities that it is
modeling elements of its government.
access channel facilities after them, ac-
cording to a spokeswoman for L.A. coun-
cilwoman Joan '.%1ilkg_Flqres.
Of equal value to Colony's pro-
gramming assets are its sales efforts. In
the recent past, advertising has made up
10 pe7rcent of the company's revenue, says
Wayne. That compares with an industry
average of about 3.2 percent, judging by
Paul Kagan-Aisociates estimates.
In addition to local sales, Colony has
created several interconnects that attract
local, regional and national spot adver-
tising to its own systems as well as to
some other cable companies.
NVork- done by the NISO'S Colony Inter.
connects Inc. unit \vas responsible for
pickma up two of the three marketing
awards received by the company this
46 CHANNEIS NOVEMBU
\car fr,,n-. r.t Cable 7t,:,V;z:
an6 C.
CIZwc,rk as a
ch,a:rrn,,n o` the Ca.
Burea-.; (CAB) hL: redoun::-
benefit of other cable companies as v,L...
"Jack saw that cable advertising was
going to be a different se'_' than broadcaz--,
advertising, that we would have to
reinvent the wheel," says Bob Alter,
president of the CAB.
The sales technique which Clifford
honed at KTVK-TV and KTAF-TV in
Phoenix, WXIA-TV in Atlanta and
KXTV in Sacramento, and which he
swears by to this day, is as simple as itis
effective: Listen to what the advertising
client wants, and then prove you can give
it to them.
As for Colony's future, Clifford says the
company will continue to grow through
new -builds and expansion of franchises it
already serves, rather than through ac-
quisitions, because of current prices.
Colony's ranking as a medium-sized
MSO has worked to its benefit in bidding
for systems, says Clark. "If we had I or
2 million subscribers, there might be
some advantage in terms of programming
discounts. But nothing that's hui,;--g us."
By being smaller, he adds, Colony "makes
decisions much more quickly."
Mark Dempsey, an account executive
for the northeast region at Turner Cable
Network Sales, confirms that attribute.
"A lot of companies take a long time to re-
spond" during negotiations. he says. "But
Colony is very good at making decisions.
And they're -very strong in putting to-
gether marketing plans as well."
Its methodical growth which, combined
with earlier purchases, has seen the com-
pany's sub base rise 200 percent in the
last ten years, may not Ain Colony any
awards, Clifford says. "But by golf , we
do get slapped on the back every month
at the bank. And we haven't had any
layoffs."
Lack of acquisitions doesn't spell any
shortage of enthusiasm for cable,
however, The Journal's 20-vear control of
Colony makes it one of the oldest cable
companies continually owned by one firm.
"They are tenacious in holding onto the
cable systems," says Dennis Mc.Upine, a
vice president at Oppenheimer Inc. "But
that's not atypical of the Providence
Journal. It's held on to other proper -ties
for a long time. It's private, so i, doesn't
have to answer to shareholders."
To say the Journal is in cable for the
long haul is almost an understatement,
"Our intent is to write a 150 -year book
about cable television and our activity in
it," Clifford says. "I have no idea
what the exact form of cable will be
then.... But I can assure you the
Providence Journal will have someone
like a Jack Clifford around making
damned sure it's being done. NVCre com-
mitted to it." 0
71)C ole'ivew E"7(yi : J families that control
the p?-ovidence Jour al
Co. have at least
', 500 Million in cash, a hunger for
tional media properties and a fierce
mi7Zation to remai72 i7depelZdel7t-
511? Not at
any price
By Balm Mster
MICHAEL METCALF was an heir
to one of the country's great
publishing fortunes and
chief executive of the Providence
(R.I.) Journal Co. In September 1987
he was found crumpled and close to
death on a country road near his sum-
mer home. The bicycle he had been
riding was nearby. A bad spill? Side-
swiped by a car? Or murder? When he
died a week later at age 54, police
ruled his death an accident, but an
investigation financed by the Provi-
dence lour al continues.
Such is the hunger for media prop-
erties these days that his death
brought buyers, finders and invest-
ment bankers out of the woodwork
with offers for the company. Stephen
Hamblett, who succeeded Metcalf as
Pv talc .tfzchacl ,iyercaf
SULLar In eetlular.
addi-
deto--
compan}, and Nlctcalf's irnmc6;,; "
predecessor was a cousin by marr:ace
lohn C.A. Watkins, who is today
chairman emeritus.
Metcalf, who was named president
in 1974 and chief executive in 1985,
made his shrewdest decision when he
expanded into cellular telephone fran-
chises, long before cellular became a
hot investment concept. In the mid- to
late 1980s the journal Co. won cellular
lottenes far, afield, in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
Fayetteville, Ark. and Colorado
Springs, Colo. Metcalf, well ahead of
the pack, soon concluded that he was
better off clustering his cellular li-
censes in the Southeast. By swapping
its Midwest licenses and gobbling up
franchises in Virginia, Georgia and the
Carolinas, the company built a power-
ful cellular network that would even -
chairman, says soon after Metcalf's Wally catch the eye of GTE.
funeral there were "three or four in- Why did the Journal Co., so deter -
quints" into the joadnial's availabil- mined to retain its independence, sell
ity. The deal -seekers were wasting off what had turned into its crown
their time. So resolutely private is the jewel? "We thought the capital in -
Providence Journal Co —"Projo," as vestment would be too big," explains
it's sometimes called—that not until Watkins. "My belief is we were going
last year did the company's share- to be too small a player in too big an
holders even receive a written annual arena." Rather than do a tax-free spin -
report. Politely but firmly, Hamblett off, such as Bonar GIC -4v publisher Af-
told each suitor to go away. filiated Publications did with its big
In April the Journal Co. accepted a holding in McCaw Cellular, the jour -
buyer, but not for the newspaper. It nal Co. opted to raise cash for acquisi-
agreed to sell its cellular telephone tions. "Wc will have a significant war
franchises to CTE Corp. for 5710 mil- chest," says Hamblett.
lion in cash. After allowing for taxes How significant? Adding the after -
on the sale, FORBES conservatively tax proceeds of the cellular sale to
calculates the current breakup value existing cash reserves should give the
of the Providence Journal Co. to be in Providence journal Co. well in excess
excess of 51.5 billion. of 5500 million in cash. if leveraged,
Who owns it? Old Providence fam- that could finance nearly $2 billion
ily names, Metcalf, Sharpe and Dan- worth of acquisitions, although heavy
forth, stud the Journal Co.'s stock.
holder roster. Published daily since
1829, the Providence .lOunaul claims
to be the oldest continuously pub-
lished daily in the U.S. It's a gutsy
paper that has repeatedly stood up to
organized crime. One former publish-
er received round-the-clock police
protection on two different occa-
sions—once for three straight weeks.
In a State whose population is just
under 1 million, the .Journal sells
264,000 newspapers on Sunday,
203,000 daily—impressive penctra-
cion rates for any medium.
When Michael Metcalf joined the
jouraaal in 1962, the company had al-
ready begun to diversify into commer-
cial printing, radio and television. It
was practically preordained that Met-
calf would run the company. The
Metcalf family made its first fortune
in textiles, buying into the Journal in
the 1680s. Michael Metcalf's grandfa-
ther (Stephen Metcalf) and father
(George Pierce Metcalf) each led the
Yaarwrch slcl /x I melt all
In the begbudng eras te-miles.
77e Noeddence jounral Co.'s cbainrian mid publWvr o, riv Ih•oi ide?ice. urrn'al. icTberi Ilan» Well --
Related to the founding families by neither blood nor marriage. he has nevertheless fit in very well.
leverage has never been the journal
Co.'s style.
Hamblctt says he will use his cash
hoard to shop for newspaper and cable
television properties to add to the sub-
stantial holdings Journal Co. already
has. His timing is superb: Prices for
both newspapers and cable systems
arc off their peaks. Says Hamblctt:
"The media in general have a number
Of players who arc highly leveraged,
who bought companies on the as-
sumption that there would be hefty
increases in annual revenues in the
future. And those iust aren't occur-
ring." You can almost see him rub-
bing his hands at the thought of dis-
tress sales by overleveraged media
companies.
Not long before he died, Michael
Metcalf tried to purchase the %Vorces-
ter (Mass.) 7i•lc'lnn,n and Gazette (sister
newspapers) but was beaten by San
Francisco's Chronicle Publishing Co.
1-1amblcit is interested in this sort of
property: daily p3pers in moder3tc-
size markets In the Northeast. Also
weeklies lournal Co. is already negti-
tt3ting to buy a chain of weeklies in
the Washington, IJ. C. arca Weeklies
arc attractiyc, explains llamhlett. I)(-.
cause :hey car c,ncr "ch,ckcr till,
ner" community nc•w,, and thcrr,„ic
attract focused local advertisers, side-
stepping Tv competition, since teicvi-
sion tends to attract 9co9iaph,c3liy
broader 3ccounts.
In cable TV, Hamblctt is not much
scared by the double threat of re -regu-
lation and competition frost: the tele-
phone companies. " We lust don't
sec," he says, "the telephone eompa-
nics rewiring America tomorroc ."
Hamblctt, 55, is unrelated to the
Metcalf family, which has provided
the Journal Co.'s leadership for most
of the ecniur%.. But he fits nicely into
the mold The con of a lawvcr for the
Nashua iN--K) Hamblctt
graduated from Harv3rd in 1957, two
wars liter imichael mctcah did, and
first signet on with the as an
advertising clerk. His entire career
has been spent at the lurrnrrrl
As it prepare, it, next wavc of et
pansion, here is what the I'royidcnce
Journal Cu looks like.
In cable telcyisum, lounial Co h3-
around 2++0,0;)0 Suh]Crther>, clustctc.l
mainly Itt the Northeast and south
Flonda Lvcn In the cuticntly dc -
pressed c.,hic :iarkct. John Korntcich.
3 gCllt:ral ; : inti r Wnh N -Mt ici
tion'. .0 .... crit ; , . •::i ., i,hr,
S616 million.
Journal Co. owns four television
stations, including a pair of Fox affili-
ates in the Southwest. But its real
plum ,s ctis affiliate wHAs in Louis-
villc, Ky. N'ilham 1• McCluskcy, chief
executive of media mergers and ae-
yu:sirions spcci3lists Henry Ans-
bacher Inc., figures wHAs alone is
worth around S110 million, and the
other stations together arc worth SSO
million to S55 million.
The lournal Co.'s ncwspapers in-
cludc the daily morning./urinral, the
eveninz iwmuil•lodleriri and the Sun-
aril- low -wit Last year the newspapers
brought in 5133 million in revenues,
producing 3 net profit of S13 million.
That's by tit) means a shabby profit
performance, particularly since the
lotove with 37S editorial employees)
IS one of the beticr•staffcd dailies of
its si:c. Ansh3chcr's McCluskcy val-
ues the ne.,•spapers at S465 million to
S;30 million.
A,!.! ine attertax proceeds from the
talc, and lournal Co.'s break-
er y3iac lies between S1.5 billion and
51 7 1 ,hion Thai's a lot of capital.
1 1•,c- :::rake the company vulnerable
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ers. Control of the company has long
been consolidated through the vehicle
of a voting trust established in the
mid-1950s. The trust now holds 64%
of all voting shares, and with time has
devised ever more ingenious methods
for cementing its control.
Any shareholder who wants to sell
must offer his stock first to the com-
pany, which has a right of first refusal.
And therein lies the rub. if the stock is
priced too low, shareholders grumble.
If the stock is priced too high, the
company will spend too much of its
resources buying back stock, and not
enough buying more media proper-
ties. Finding a price that is just right is
no easy matter, and has led to hard
feelings.
Consider the fact that in 1987 the
Providence journal Co. was able to
buy back 8% of its own stock from a
A banker stiffens his lip in
justifying the sale. "One of
the disadvantages of
owning stock in a privately
heLd company is that you
don't necessarily realize
your prorated share of the
full asset value."
charitable trust shareholder for just
S33 million. That translates into a
S413 million valuation on the compa-
ny—little more than half what the
cellular sale alone generated.
Why did the seller settle for so lit-
tle' The Flcet National Bank is trust -
cc for the charitable trust. William
Mutterperl, a senior vice president
and general counsel at Flcet/Norstar
Financial Group (the bank's parent
holding company), stiffens his lip in
justifying the sale. "We were very
pleased with the price we got at the
time.... One of the disadvantages of
owning stock in a thinly traded, pri-
vately held company is that you don't
necessarily realize your prorated
share of the full asset value."
But not all sellers of Journal Co.
stock are so docile. In early 1988 a
group of ten shareholders who sold
stock between 1983 and 1986 threat-
ened to suc on grounds they had not
gotten full value for their shares. The
shareholders claimed the company
supplied neither sufficient informa-
tion nor a sufficiently liquid market.
Journal Co. disputed the claims but
settled out of court later that year, for
an undisclosed sum.
In late 1988 Journal Co. made a new
offer of 518,000 a share to holders of
So or fewer shares. With 28,600 shares
outstanding at the time (the stock has
since been split), this valued the lour-
1r%9gl,
.-o
aw-r7orte .1lcrcal% Micbacl ,tlercaljs 11•ir101i
"Our common goal is to help the Journal keep its independence."
nal Co. at SSI% million. Hoy could a
company w::h S I .S billion in assets be
valucc so ion•' One clue conies from
Richard lVitmer, partner at Brown
Brothers Harriman, which conducted
an appraisal of the company. Says he of
the apparent discrepancy til values:
"We take into account the restrictions
on the transfer of the stock and the very
limited marketability of the stock."
Kunhlett adds that because the lour -
nal Co. is not for sale, breakup valua-
tions do not apply. In short, the compa-
ny realizes market prices on its asset
sales but is able to repurchase its stock
at a sharp discount to asset value.
Whatever the rationale, paying less
for the stock than the companv's
breakup value clearly helps the curn-
pany'S value grow. Think of it this
way 'I"he lournal Co. retircd more
than .3.000 shares in the last year at a
cost of SIR.000 a share, or Si-; mil-
lion. But it) uidge from recent a%set
sale prices, those shares actually rep-
re%cnt underlying value of three tirnc,-
that amount So the company III eticc i
save over S100 million %%hlch can
now �Nr Ielner,tt•d In eahir ani
Vii:::,+:rtt ,a.irchultit•,� ;1.,..,. ,.
tnl;:l Irah::ll, full valor r ! t!:r„
company to sell to outsiders. That's
what happened to the Bingham iam-
ily's Louisville It
could happen in Florida with the 8r
I't'rtTlu�rr 7inuti IFpRBES, .fin. _'I. It
won't happen in Providence. howcv-
cr. The Mctcilis, Sharpes, Danforths
and a handful of nonfamily sharchold-
crs arc in firm control for the foresee-
able future. Herc's why:
New shareholders arc asked to sur-
render voting rights to the voting
trust. In 1987 a new class of stock was
created. One of the neje shares—a
Class A—carries one vote. The oth-
cr—a Class B --carries four votes. If a
shareholder sells Class B stock to any-
one bit: III% direct descendants. it re-
verts to Class A status, thereby assur-
InF the lclanve disenfranchisement of
outsidels.
in other wards, no one can take over
this media company unless the con-
trollul,: iarnilics consent. f ORBES
talked it, Several family members.
They all made it cigar t:i.l! consent
will it he forthcoming;
;ask, J t; Shc would ^e ternptcd w
self hc, tock in the even: o: a high-
i�;;�
,;I;;;• i Imply conn ,,:1.'.rrstand
,., ;•rtq�lr wily .. ,. !� ...'h
they will succumn to any otter. ncl-
cn Buchanan, a first cousin of Michael
Mctcalf land once marrit:d to lohn
Watkinsl, agrees: "I wouldn't sell iai
two or three times the current ap-
praisal value of lournal Co. shares."
A dignified and articulate woman of
impressive bearing, Charlotte Metcalf
is the widow of Michael Mctcalf and a
mother of three. She says inquiries
about the company's availability fol-
lowing her husband's death
"alarmed" her. since then. she adds.
Metcalf iamily shareholders in Provi-
dencc have drawn closer. "!t certainly
appears that we are in unanimity
around those shares," says she. "Our
common goal Is to help the low-sutl
keep its independence."
"There are not that many indepen-
dent papers that have been able to
survive in this country," she adds.
"No one was ever more aware of that
than Michael Mctcalf and his board.
And I think the family is aware of
that, too."
With that kind of solid support be-
hind him, Chairman Hamhlcit can
concentrate on putting that pile of
cash to work buying more cable Ty
anti newspaper% moyc over. Gannett.
Dow loner, Knight-Ridder. Here
conlc, the I'tnvidence lournal Co ■
,
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MEMO
CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 14, 1991
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
a -
FROM : Fred G. Moore, rDirector of Public Works
SUBJECT: BEGIN SUIT
COTTONWOOD PLAZA RETAINING WALL
On Tuesday, March 12, District Court Judge Danielson made the first court
determination on the law suit the City brought against Begin Contracting and
Jerome P. and Betty Begin for not constructing the retaining wall at the
Cottonwood Plaza Shopping Center. The judge ruled in the favor of the City
and made the following findings as part of his order:
1. Defendant's (Begins) unilateral decision to construct a slope
to provide lateral support does not create a fact issue on the
question of substantial performance.
2. As a matter of law, substantial performance will not be
available as a defense at trail.
3. Begin intentionally failed to construct the retaining wall
that they proposed in the preliminary plat submitted to the
City.
4. Begin's willful nonperformance is not recognized as an
acceptable condition of substantial performance.
5. Begin's substitute for a retaining wall is not a slight
deviation.
Begin's defense of the suit had been that they had substantially conformed
with the contract by installing a slope in lieu of the retaining wall. They
were requesting to have the suit dismissed on this basis. As can be seen by
the judge's ruling, he overruled this as a defense. The judge will set this
suit for full trail sometime in May.
The City Council has also authorized a suit in conjunction with the
Cottonwood Plaza Shopping Center for the storm water holding pond. Begins
have not reimbursed the City for its cost to purchase the necessary land for
the holding pond and they have not constructed the holding pond as agreed
to. Through the City Attorney's office, we will continue to attempt to
negotiate an agreed to settlement to resolve all of these matters.
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1991 WORK PLAN
GOAL I
TO PROVIDE EDUCATION, AWARENESS, AND LINKAGE AMONG
GOVERNMENTAL UNITS, CONSUMERS, AND PROVIDERS:
1. to provide information and referral services regarding human services availability to area
residents
2. to participate in and provide staff assistance to:
- Teens Alone
- Westonka Coordinating Group
- Suburban Mental Health Aftercare Providers
- Emergency Services Providers
- Suburban Inter -agency Transition Committee
- West Hennepin Early Intervention Committee
- Other provider and community coordinating committees as requested
3. to respond to requests for evaluations of services by municipalities
4. to respond to requests for letters of need from:
service providers
Hennepin County
5. to participate in organizations listed in "WHHS Representatives to Organizations"
6. to participate in CSSA Coordinating Council
7. to revise and distribute directories published by WHHS including:
- Directory of Human Services for West Hennepin Residents
- Basic Tools
- Home Sweet Home
- Emergency Services Directory
8. to promote energy policies and activities in local communities through staffing
community energy councils
9. to quarterly publish "Helping Hands" a newsletter for low-income people.
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GOAL II
TO PROVIDE A PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PROCESS WHICH DETERMINES
NEEDS AND PRIORITIES:
1. to continue collecting data to add to our demographic study including U.S. Census
material as it becomes available
2. to continue to computerize our data base
3. to prioritize and advocate for the Community Social Services needs for West Hennepin
residents by preparing reports utilizing:
- needs assessment survey
- citizen jury process
- data report
- Board input and priorities
- community. provider and consumer input
- focus groups to assess need and develop new ideas for service delivery
- incorporating low-income population needs into CSSA process
- presenting this report to Hennepin County Commissioners and Community Social
Service Staff
- monitoring Hennepin County budget process and presenting information to
Commissioners to influence decisionma.king
- promote implementation of the CSSA report recommendations
4. to prioritize and advocate for housing needs by implementing the work program of the
low-income housing collaborative program
5. to prioritize and advocate for energy conservation policies and programs to meet energy
needs of suburban Hennepin residents.
6. to develop and coordinate a local mental health advisory committee as part of the
County Mental Health Advisory process
7. to implement the suburban human services council working poor project including:
neighborhood -based program survey
CDBG study
job growth study
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GOAL III
TO ADVOCATE AND COALESCE AROUND ISSUES:
1. to provide organizational assistance and leadership for the Mental Health Aftercare
Providers.
2. to participate in and provide leadership in the development of ad hoc coalitions around
WHHS priority issues including but not limited to:
- housing
- mental health
- energy
- food
- crisis intervention
- emergency intervention
- chemical abuse
- transportation
- economic assistance
- youth
3. to actively participate in and provide leadership to:
- Hennepin Community Chemical Abuse Prevention Coalition
- Food First Coalition
- Jobs Now Coalition
_ - Child Care Works Coalition
- Energy CENTS Coalition
- Minnesota Housing Partnership
- Health Care Campaign of Minnesota
- Minnesota Council of Non -Profits
- Consortium of Hennepin County Community Agencies
- Forgotten Half Initiative
4. to continue providing organizational assistance and leadership for the Suburban
Hennepin Head Start Access Task Force
5. to coordinate advocacy on behalf of homeless women in treatment
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TO INFLUENCE PROVIDERS AND FUNDERS TO ADEQUATELY ASSIST PEOPLE IN
NEED:
1. to monitor private and public planning efforts which impact on WHHS programs and
committee priorities
2. to respond to and actively seek out opportunities to provide information and advice and
participate in special planning efforts at the local, county, state, federal and metro
council levels.
3. to prepare position statements on legislation and advocate for these positions
4. to comment and testify on County, State, and Federal administrative rules and plans
which impact on WHHS committee and program priorities and the West Hennepin area
5. to provide information to congressional delegation and respond to requests for support
by coalitions in regard to Federal human services legislation which will impact on the
West Hennepin area
6. to monitor Federal, State, County, and local efforts to develop and fund services in the
following areas:
- mental health
- emergency services
- energy assistance, conservation and weatherization
- jobs and employment training
- child care
- chemical abuse
- community social services
- health care
- housing
- economic assistance
- food
7. to analyze data and provide input to private funding sources such as the United Way,
foundations, etc.
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GOAL V
TO DEVELOP, IMPLEMENT, AND IMPROVE SERVICES:
1. respond to requests for information and technical assistance from area human service
providers
2. to examine solutions to current barriers to usage of the human services system
3. to coordinate and administer the West Hennepin Emergency Services Program
4. to be the administering agency for and implement the Low -Income Energy Assistance
program for Suburban Hennepin County
5. to coordinate and administer the Conservation Improvement Programs
6. to continue to develop Mazebusters and staff a Mazebusters Advisory Committee
7. to develop a plan and timeline for funding and implementing a human rights awareness
effort at the staff, Board, provider, and community levels.
ADMINISTRATIVE GOAL
TO ENSURE THE EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF WEST HENNEPIN HUMAN
SERVICES PLANNING BOARD IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT ITS PROGRAM GOALS.
1. to provide for an effective board by ensuring that all provider and Executive Committee
positions are filled with qualified individuals
2. to get full (2) board representation from 10 member municipalities and 1 board
representative from 6 member municipalities
3. to regularly evaluate and actively promote involvement by board members by:
- providing a regular orientation for new members and a follow-up orientation
- ensuring an active program of in-service training for board members after
completion of survey of board members
- continuing the 'buddy system" for new board members
- ensuring that every board member participates in a committee
- ensuring recognition of active board members
- promoting committee chairs and/or members to do reports at board meetings
- providing an annual retreat
- providing an annual meeting
- doing a board member time study
- ensuring revision of board affirmative action and equal opportunity statements
- reviewing board member attendance
- informing member municipalities of all municipal board member vacancies
4. to establish and oversee personnel policies and procedures for equitable treatment, for
fair compensation and promoting quality staff performance including updating and
revising the fringe benefit package and implement an equitable salary structure
5. to continue the budget planning process and financial policies and procedures including
reevaluating our current banking arrangements
6. to recruit West Hennepin non-member municipalities to enter into the WHHS Joint
Powers Agreement
7. to provide information to member municipalities on WHHS activities by:
- regular informational mailings
- regular presentations by board members to their municipalities
- periodic meetings with municipal officials
- coordination of municipal advisory committee
8. to complete a long range plan for WHHS
9. to enhance the public image of WHHS by:
establishing a public relations committee
developing and implementing a P.R. plan
10. to continue to focus Board efforts on the concept of "empowerment"
11. to increase community awareness of WHHS meetings by implementing open meeting
law compliance plan. 'n�n�
SHINGLE CREEK WATERSHED
MANAGEMENT COMMISSION
3030 Harbor lane • Plymouth, MN 55447
(612) 553-1144
M I N U T E S
January 10, 1991
A meeting of the Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission was called to
order by Chairman Neil Johnson on Thursday, January 10, 1991, at 1:00 p.m. at
the Saint Andrews Club, 8700 Edinbrook Crossing, Brooklyn Park, MN.
Present were: Sy Knapp, Brooklyn Center; Neil Johnson, Brooklyn Park; Bill
Monk, Crystal; Gerry Butcher, Maple Grove; Les Degner, Min-
neapolis (non-voting); Mark Hanson, New Hope; Gene Hakanson,
Osseo; Fred Moore, Plymouth; Lee Gustafson, Robbinsdal.e;
Dale Claridge, JMM; and Judie Anderson, recording secretary.
Also present was: Daniel Parks, McCombs Frank Roos.
1. Minutes.
Knapp moved and Gustafson seconded a motion to approve the minutes of
the December 13, 1990 meeting. Motion carried.
2. Treasurer's Report.
Moore moved and Butcher seconded a motion to approve the Treasurer's
Report. Motion carried.
3. Approval of Claims.
Moore moved and Butcher seconded a motion to approve claims totaling
$17,864.04. The claims were approved by roll call vote: ayes - Knapp, John-
son, Monk, Butcher, Hanson, Hakanson, Moore, and Gustafson; nays - none;
absent - Minneapolis.
4. Correspondence.
The Commissioners reviewed the Communications Log. No action was re-
quired.
Butcher indicated that a second draft from the Task Force of proposed
rules for Metropolitan Local Water Management should be available by the first
week in February. The Commissioners are advised to review this draft careful-
ly and offer their comments to Moore and Butcher who are members of the Task
Force.
5. Twin Lakes/Ryan Lake Improvement Proiect.
Gustafson reported that construction of the improvements has been com-
pleted. Trash guards will be placed on the ends of the 54" pipe and be main-
tained by the cities of Brooklyn Center and Minneapolis.
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January 10, 1991
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6. Project Reviews.
89-4 Solid Waste Transfer Station, Brooklyn Park. JMM has requested
Hennepin County to confirm the benzene concentrations detected in the ground
water during the September monitoring and review for possible laboratory
error.
7. Other Business.
Hanson moved and Gustafson seconded a motion to approve JMM's 1991 hour-
ly fee schedule and authorizing the appropriate signatures. Motion carried.
Monk moved and Knapp seconded a motion to approve the 1989 Audit Report.
Motion carried.
JMM will mail the 1990 Water Quality Monitoring Report to the Commis-
sioners so it can be reviewed at the February meeting.
Johnson reminded the Commissioners that elections will be held in Febru-
ary and appointed Butcher, Knapp and Moore as a Nominating Committee to pre-
sent a slate of candidates at the February meeting. Johnson also announced
his upcoming retirement.
Anderson has advised the Cities of Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park and
Crystal that they must reappoint Commissioners and Alternates to the Commis-
sion for the years 1991-3. Commissioners from other communities should also
ascertain that their appointments are current.
Claridge presented a report of the costs of 1990 project reviews.
Average cost of the 17 projects reviewed was $1005.
Parks presented preliminary plans for street and storm sewer improve-
ments on Jolly Lane from West Broadway to Brooklyn Boulevard, in Brooklyn
Park. The Commissioners indicated that the plan must be developed for the
entire parcel and that the Commission will require treatment of drainage from
the site.
There being no further business before the Commission, Gustafson moved and
Butcher seconded a motion to adjourn. Motion carried. The meeting was ad-
journed at 2:45 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Judie A. Anderson
Recording Secretary
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 12, 1991
TO: Fred Moore, Public Works Director
FROM: Helen LaFave, ommunications Coordinator
SUBJECT: CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE CALL
I received a call on the 24 -Hour Customer Service Line on
March 11 from Tony Wagner, 4585 Magnolia Lane. Mr. Wagner called
to report that the street light which sits in his yard has been
out for about a week. He requested that the light be repaired.
Please inform the electric company of this light being out and
advise Mr. Wagner as to its status. Also, please let me know
what action you have taken on this by Monday, March 18 so that I
= may note it in my customer service line log.
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 13, 1991
T0: James G. li ty Manager
FROM: Charles E. l ud, Community Development Coordinator, through
Blair Tr Community Development Director
SUBJECT: HENNEPIN COUNTY WASTE TRANSFER STATION CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT
APPLICATION (89057)
The City of Plymouth received 10 sets of plans on October 29, 1990, in
response to our Titters of August 24, 1990, and August 31, 1990.
The Development Review Committee reviewed the revised plans on Wednesday,
November 7, 1990, but did not yet have the benefit of comments from the City's
engineering consultant. On November 13, 1990 the Development Review Committee
again considered the revised plans --with the engineering comments available.
On November 14, 1990 Hennepin County requested amendment to their Site Plan to
add a classroom facility.
A DRC Stage II letter has been sent to Hennepin County reviewing deficiencies
remaining and also requesting plan revisions reflecting the classroom
addition. There has been partial response to that letter of November 20,
1990, which was reviewed by the DRC December 14, 1990, and a letter was sent
to the County on December 20, 1990 with comments on these partial responses.
No additional County responses to our November 20, 1990 letter have been
received.
The attached letter from Hennepin County of February 12, 1991 states that
additional information will be submitted by March 15, 1991. County staff has
verbally informed us that they intend to meet the March 15 date for submission
of amended plans.
Attachments:
1. February 12, 1991 Letter from Hennepin County
(cc/cd/89057:jw)
F?TDEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
822 South Third Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415-1208
HENNEPIN
Phone: (612) 348-6846
FAX: (612) 348-8532
February 12, 1991 FEB 13 1991.
Charles E. Dillerud
Community Development Coordinator
City of Plymouth
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Plymouth, Minnesota 55447
Dear Mr. Dillerud:
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IMMUNITY DF4'CiNIMENY IC -F°
I apologize for the delay in answering your letter of December 20,
1990, addressed to Luther Nelson. You have asked for additional
information from Hennepin County and we are in the process of getting
the material ready for presentation.
Please be assured that Hennepin County is desirous of proceeding with
this project and requests that the application be considered active.
I will have additional information for your consideration by March 15,
1991.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Cbz C7'JY�"°�
Janet Leick
Director
JL:ms
HENNEPIN COUNTY
an equal opportunity employer
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February 28, 1991
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in the 1991 rulinnesota Community Television Awards. Winners will
be announced at the special Awards ceremony on Monday-, March 11, 1991.
This year's ceremony is being held at the Hyatt's ureenu7ay Ballroom in
Minneapolis in conjunction -trith the North Central Cable Television Show.
A reception %..rill be held at 7:00 p.m.; the ceremony- will begin at 8:00 p.m.
Two tickets are enclosed for your use.
This %.-ear fourteen judging sites throughout the stcite viewed '665 program=
subrnit.ted in the , arious categories from both volunteer and professional
producers.
1' ollo-•.ring the a z -lards' those entrants vrho did not submit a return ..hailer
for their tapes or indicate they would pick therm up, will have the
opportunity- to do so. after that time, all tapes become the property of the
rulinne_ota Comrlaunit-7 Tele-rision A%nrards.
We hope you'll join us for this evening of recognition and fun. If you are
unable to be there, please ass: someone to accept your award for you
(should you urin) or call 507-345-4034 by Friday, March 8 so the committee
can make arrangements.
Sincerely,
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Program Administrator
c/o MCCA - 450 North Syndicate Suite 298 - St. Paul, MN 55104 - (612) 641-0268
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
"On The Line: Plymouth Firefighters"
1220 E. WAYZATA BOULEVARD
WAYZATA, MINNESOTA 55391
March 8, 1991
Plymouth Police Department
Plymouth City Center
3400 Plymouth Blvd.
Plymouth, Minnesota 55447
I would like to thank Officer Larson for his
assistance on March 2, 1991 at the home of
Richard Reeves. I appreciated his help and
understanding at the time of Mr. Reeves death.
Your department has been very helpful to us
at these difficult times for the families we
serve.
Sincerely,
Mike Lee
Director
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 11, 1991
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager
FROM: Bob Zitur, Councilmember
SUBJECT: BZ
On Friday afternoon, I saw former Police Lt. Mel Solberg. In our
conversation, he told me to tell Jim Willis that he was the best
boss he ever had. Enjoy it Jim, we get so few!
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ZACHARY LANE SCHOOL
4350 Zachary Lane
Plymouth, MN 55442
March 11, 1991
Chief Carlquist
Plymouth Police Department
3400 Plymouth Blvd
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Chief Carlquist:
We wish to extend a sincere thank you to you and your department for all of
the officers who helped out with the pedestrian crossing for the Zachary
Lane Carnival. They were very instrumental in getting people here safely
to enjoy a fun -filled evening. Their presence was also very effective in
promoting public relations on the part of the police department.
We very much appreciate your willingness to help make this a successful
- event for Zachary Lane.
Sincerely,
W
Rhonda Smith
Principal
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PATRICK D. McGOWAN
Assistant Minority Leader
Senator 48th District
Room 129
State Office Building
St. Paul. 11N 55155
16121296-2159
March 11, 1991
Kim Bergman
Mayor
3400 Plymouth Blvd.
City of Plymouth
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Mayor Bergman:
Senate
State of Minnesota
On February 1, 1991, Mr. James J. Johnson of Holmes & Graven
requested an opinion from the office of the Minnesota Attorney
General regarding certain questions pertaining to Minnesota State
Statute 205.07. and 205.10.
Attached is a copy of a letter I received from the Attorney
General's office. The Attorney General has declined to render an
opinion in response to questions regarding these statutes because
of pending litigation (lawsuit filed 2-19-91, file #91-3190) in
Hennepin District Court.
I will be sending a copy of this letter, plus the attached letter
from the Attorney General's office to the Mayor, each City
Council member and Sue Kavanaugh, League of Plymouth Voters.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Sincerely,
Senato Patrick D. McGowan
Assistant Minority Leader
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ATTORNEYGENERAL
James J. Thomson
Holmes & Graven
470 Pillsbury Center
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Dear Mr. Thomson:
STATE OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE OF THE ATTORINTEY GENERAL
March 7, 1991
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On February 1, you requested our opinion on certain questions pertaining to Minn.
Stat. SS 205.07 and 205.10 (1990).
It has come to our attention that the issues raised in that request are now the subject
of litigation between the City and and certain of its citizens. As you may know, our office
does not normally undertake to render opinions upon matters in litigation since our
opinions are advisory only and we must defer to the judiciary in matters pending before the
courts. -$= g.g., Op. Atty. Gen. 629a, May 9, 1975. Inasmuch as the city's question is now
before the court for resolution, there appears no purpose to be served in addressing an
advisory opinion to the city. Therefore, we decline to render an opinion to the city at this
time.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss the matter further, please feel free to call
me.
Very truly yours,
KENNETH E. RASCHKE, JR.
Assistant Attorney General
(612)297-1141
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Senator Patrick McGowan
David Anderson
Mark McCullough
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Mr. William J. Brown
General Manager/Postmaster
Twin Cities Division
100 South 1st Street
Minneapolis, MN 55401-9998
SUBJECT: NAMING OF PLYMOUTH POSTAL STATIONS
Dear Mr. Brown:
Thank you for your February 15, 1991 letter. I appreciate your
commitment to work with the City of Plymouth to find a name for
the new Plymouth station which will meet the needs of both the
City of Plymouth and the United States Postal Service.
As indicated in our earlier letter, the City is committed to the
objective of fostering a sense of community identity in Plymouth.
Historically, one of our problems has been that districts and
other entities lying within the community take the name of
geographic areas, physical landmarks, or political subdivisions
which do not include the name Plymouth. This causes a great deal
of confusion for our residents and undermines our community
identity efforts.
To get some ideas for the name of the new Plymouth station, I
checked in the white pages of the Minneapolis/St. Paul telephone
book. I see that the City of Bloomington, like Plymouth, has two
branches. The first is called the Bloomington Branch, located at
9641 Garfield Avenue South. The second station is called
Bloomington Branch Annex, which is located at 6701 West 101st
Street.
I suggest that Plymouth receive the same treatment and that the
3300 Plymouth Boulevard station be called Plymouth Branch, and
the 45th Avenue and Nathan station be called the Plymouth Branch
Annex.
I believe this proposal is responsive to your concerns and ours.
It is also consistent with previous postal service practices.
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 550-5000
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Mr. William J. Brown
March 8, 1991
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I hope that you will give this proposal your positive
consideration.
Sincerely,
Kim M. Bergman
Mayor
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City of Plymouth
3400 Plymouth Blvd.
Plymouth, MN 55447
February 1, 1991
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Dear Mayor Bergman,
We, senior citizens of Plymouth, realize a great need for a
senior center in Plymouth. Currently our activities are
scattered throughout the area in churches, private homes,
West Medicine Lake Community Club, and the City Center. The
lack of space and facilities available limits the potential
for growth of participants.
We are thinking of the future as the senior population is
the fastest growing segment in Hennepin County. People are
choosing to age in place, people are living longer, and soon
the baby boomers will be reaching their retirement years.
There is no central location in Plymouth to provide
activities and services for this bulging population.
The seni.rax citizens of Plymouth need a place for activities,
services, information, socializing, and support. Please
reconsider, plan for the future, build a senior center.
Sincerely,
Marty Dusk
President, St. Mary's Over 55
Marty Guritz
Care & Share Committee
Alice Dieninger
Over 50 & Fit Leader
Mable Swanson
Craft Group
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Lloyd Ricker
Maria Vasiliou
Bob Zitur
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President, Plymouth Seniors
Becky Loegering
Bridge Coordinator
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CITY OF
Joel Jamnik PLYMOUTH -
League of Minnesota Cities
183 University Avenue East
St. Paul, MN 55101
SUBJECT: NEGOTIATIONS ON PART-TIME/SEASONAL EMPLOYEES
Dear Joel:
Your article in the March 8 "Cities Bulletin," requested input
from cities on revisions being contemplated to the P.E.L.R.A.
definition of public employee.
I understand that House File 173, and Senate File 202, would make
all part-time and most seasonal employees "public employees"
under the law and therefore, eligible for union membership. The
impact of these bills, or any compromises on the existing
definition of part-time/seasonal employees would have a
dramatically negative affect on the City of Plymouth. I believe
the same is traw of other Minnesota communities.
The impacts are outlined below:
1. Peak season for outdoor street, sewer, water, and park
maintenance responsibilities is spring, summer, and fall.
In an effort to be prudent with taxpayer dollars, we hire
only enough full-time maintenance employees to
accommodate our normal needs. During peak season, we
hire temporary and part-time employees to assist the
full-time personnel in completing the peak workload. On
the average, we have employed twenty-five to thirty 67 to
100 day temporary maintenance employees.
Given the State's budget crisis, Plymouth's only prudent
alternative is to continue to hire temporary and seasonal
employees. If the public employee definition becomes
more restrictive, we have a number of options:
1. Cutback on our maintenance efforts. Such action
will hasten the depreciation of these public
facilities.
2. Raise property taxes and/or user fees to provide
the funding required.
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 550-5000
Joel Jamnik
March 13, 1991
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2. Each year, the City hires about 200 seasonal employees to
act as life guards and teach a wide variety of
recreational programs. Under current law, these
employees are not considered public employees. Each is
paid on a lump sum, per class, or per hour basis. Most
of these employees work for other cities concurrently.
The impact of defining these persons as public employees
is:
1. Increased program costs and therefore, users fees
unless the program is for seniors or disabled, in
which case, it is tax supported. The increased
cost would have to be borne by the taxpayers.
2. These employees would likely belong to a
different bargaining unit per city employer. You
can imagine the union dues they would pay and the
reduction they would experience in take home pay.
3. Because recreation program costs would increase,
a greater number of programs would no longer be
self sustaining and therefore, would be
eliminated. The programs most likely to go would
be those which serve special populations who have
the greatest need.
From my perspective, there is no compromise position on the
existing statute. The A.M.M. policy is that the definition of
public employee should be uniform at 100 work days per year,
rather than the 67/100 cap contained in existing law.
Frankly, I am chagrined by members of the legislature who would
entertain this bill when it can only add to the high cost of
doing business in Minnesota and the escalating property tax
burden. Apparently they fail to see the connection between
legislative action and their constituents' pocketbooks.
Let me know if I can be of assistance.
550 5013.
S"ncerely,
Frank Boyles
Assistant City Manager
FB:kec
cc: James G. Willis, City Manager
Jeanette Sobania, Personnel Coordinator
My phone number is
March 13, 1991
Mr. Perry Coonce
Executive Director
Minnesota Sports Federation
Zachary Square Center
11235 - 96th Avenue North
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Dear e:
ary of
PLYMOUTR
Thank you for meeting with Rick Busch and me on March 5. I
appreciated the opportunity of not only becoming acquainted with
you and Barb Northway, but also to learn more about your
organization and its programs. During our meeting we had an
opportunity of reviewing your letter of January 30 regarding your
association.
At the conclusion of our meeting I indicated I would respond to
you in writing with respect to our views on the points which you
have raised.
As you are aware, Plymouth has been affiliated with the United
States Slo-pitch Softball Association (USSSA) through the
Minnesota Recreation and Park Association (MRPA) for the past
eight years. During this period of time, our Park and Recreation
Department reports it has not received a single complaint from a
Plymouth teams regarding the services provided by the USSSA/MRPA.
Nor have the team requested affiliation with your Minnesota
Sports Federation (MSF) or its affiliate, the Amateur Softball
Association of America (ASA).
We believe this results largely in the fact that your
organization is essentially representative of outstate softball
teams. In the Twin City Metropolitan Area, virtually all cities
register their softball teams with the USSSA/MRPA. It is my
understanding that Bloomington is most the notable ASA community
in the suburban area. Our softball league director, Rick Busch,
informs me that the majority of the MSF post -season district and
state tournaments are held in outstate Minnesota, while all
USSSA/MRPA post season, regional and state tournaments are
conducted here in the metropolitan area. I recognize that a
local team may occasionally choose to travel out of the
metropolitan area to participate in a weekend tournament.
We acknowledge that the MSF/ASA charges $10 per team and the
USSSA/MRPA charges $16. You reported that $6 of the fee stays
with your organization, the MSF, with $4 being forwarded to the
ASA. Rick Busch tells me that of the $16 fee, $9 is forwarded to
the USSSA and $7 to the MRPA. I further understand that one
reason you are able to offer a lower rate is that ASA receives
some funding through the U.S. Olympic Committee.
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 550-5000
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Mr. Perry Coonce
March 13, 1991
Page 2
Although it is too late to consider changing our community
affiliation this year, we will solicit input from our teams
regarding their interest in a possible future affiliation change.
It is also possible that the teams could have the opportunity of
individually opting to register with the ASA. Rick Busch tells
me that he has become aware of an opportunity of registering
individual teams with the ASA through the Metro Minneapolis ASA
Commissioner, should teams seek that affiliation.
We are also prepared to distribute information with respect to
your MSF/ASA softball program to our teams. I invite you to
contact Rick Busch in order that the material could be supplied
to him for distribution.
Thank you for sharing your observations and program thoughts with
US. I recognize that there are two competing organizations for
serving the recreational softball needs of adults. While we
believe the benefits of remaining affiliated with the USSSA/MRPA
softball program outweigh the benefits of your organization,
large due to the result of the opportunities for localized post.
season, regional, and state tournaments, we will continue to
welcome the opportunity to explore means by which interested
teams would be able to individually affiliate with the ASA if
they are interested.
Thank you again for meeting with us, Perry, and if I may be of
further assistance to you with regard to this matter, please do
not hesitate to contact me.
Yours truly,
es G. Willis
City Manager
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cc: Barb Northway, Associate Director - MSF
Eric Blank, Park and Recreation Advisory Commission
Mayor & City Council
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MINNESOTA SPORTS FEDERATION
Zachery Square Center • 11235 96th Avenue North
Maple Grove, Minnesota 55369 . (612) 425-0311
January 30, 1991
Mr. Jim Willis
City Manager
3400 Plymouth Blvd
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Mr. Willis:
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,
We are writing to provide you with some background information on the Minnesota Sports
Federation (ASA) and offer our services to the amateur sports teams under the auspices of your
local park and recreation department.
The Minnesota Sports Federation (ASA) is a non-profit amateur sports organization serving the
entire state of Minnesota through the provision of amateur sports programs (see enclosures).
We are the largest amateur sports organization of our kind in Minnesota and the nation for
that matter.
In previous years, we have contacted officials of your park and recreation department in an
effort to serve your community but have had no response. You should know that members of your
park and recreation staff are professional members of our competitor, the MRPA.
This is in spite of the fact that our fees are substantially lower and the services we provide
are greater. Conservatively, affiliation with the ASA -MSF versus the current organization
your city is affiliated with, (the MRPA-USSSA), will save between $1,500 - $2,500. In these
recessionary cost conscious times we believe any savings is significant.
For your information we have enclosed several publications produced by the Minnesota Sports
Federation as well as a copy of the "hmateur Sports Reviewn. The Sports Review is just one
example of a valuable service that is singularly provided by the MSF.
Because amateur sports teams and game officials from your community are the individuals paying
the fees, be it to the MRPA or MSF, we feel it should be their decision on which organization
they are affiliated with, if any. We are sure the team managers would welcome a democratic
approach.
Enclosed is a brochure on softball field owners insurance which may be of interest to the
individual in your community in charge of risk management. This policy has paid off in a
number of incidents over the past several years. Enclosed is a summation of last years claims
(see page 31 for Minnesota claims). This policy is superior to that offered by our
competitor.
SERVIN6 MINNESOTA THROUGH SPORTS s"
Affiliated with the Amateur Softball Association of America, the Amateur Athletic Union, the United States Olympic Committee
and recognized as the governing body of Amateur Softball in Minnesota.
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January 30, 1991
Mr Jim Willis
Page 2
We are interested in an opportunity to discuss the ASA -MSF program in detail and are available
to meet at your convenience. Because teams, mpires and tournaments will all begin
registering for 1991 in the near future, timing is a critical factor.
We look forward to hearing from you.
very Sincerely,
erzrY10 C
Executive Director
I
Barb No th
Associ to Director
cc: City Council Members
Park and Recreation Advisory CoaTnission
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 12, 1991
TO: James G. Willis, City Manager through Fred G. Moore, Director of
Public Works
FROM Richard J. Pouliot, Project Coordinator
SUBJECT: AUTOMOTIVE DRAIN OIL RECYCLING
I received a voice mail message from Councilmember Vasiliou several days ago
requesting that I call Neil Grewe of the Highway 55 and Xenium Lane AMOCO
station regarding his offer to allow city residents to bring used drain oil
to his station. I called Neil and discussed the proposal with him and also
returned a voice mail message to Councilmember Vasiliou.
Mr. Grewe appeared to be unaware that the City was also collecting drain oil
at our recycling dropoff center and wished to offer his station to our
residents as a place to bring their drain oil. For some time now, State law
has required that all stations who change oil either accept used drain oil
from residents or post a sign telling them where the closest place used
drain oil can be taken. Apparently, he is just now capable of accepting
drain oil. The City of Plymouth has been accepting drain oil from residents
since the inception of our recycling program in April of 1986. We were able
to collect it from the residents at the curb in addition to the dropoff
center up until the time Super Cycle defaulted on their contract, which was
June of 1989. Since that time, Waste Management has not picked it up at the
curb, and therefore, we are accepting it only at the dropoff center.
Residents are asked to dump the oil into an outside funnel shaped receptacle
that goes into a large underground tank along with the drain oil from the
Public Works garage. Jim Kolstad monitors the level in the tank and has a
company come out who pumps the oil out of the tank and pays a small amount
per gallon for the drain oil. The City is able to credit the tons of drain
oil recycled only if we can certify that the oil was reconstituted for reuse
in automobiles as opposed to being burned for heating or in asphalt plants,
etc. Apparently, very little is being reconstituted for use in automobiles.
Since all stations with oil change facilities are required to accept drain
oil or post the closest place that it can be disposed of, I felt that it
would be redundant and somewhat discriminatory to advertise in the City
publication that one station would accept the drain oil in addition to the
city dropoff center. We are currently drafting a new brochure to go out
with the next City newsletter and a statement next to automotive drain oil,
such as "In addition to this being accepted at the City dropoff center, all
oil change facilities in the city must either accept used drain oil or
direct you to the closest facility that will accept drain oil." I don't
feel there is a lot to be gained from this, however, if you wish, I will add
it to the draft brochure.
RJP:kh
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March 14, 1991
Rosemary Olson
4945 Rosewood Lane
Plymouth, MN 55442
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CITY OF
PUMOUTR
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR CUL-DE-SAC OF ROSEWOOD LANE
AT PROPOSED SCHMIDT LAKE ROAD
CITY PROJECT NO. 011
Dear -Mrs. Olson:
Tris is to confirm the meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, 1991, at 5:30
p.m. at your residence to discuss the possible cul-de-sacing of Rosewood Lane.
Jim Dvorak with the City's consulting firm, Strgar-Roscoe-Fausch, Inc., will
also attend. I am also sending a copy of this letter to Dave and Dawn
Johnson, your neighbors to the east whose property would also be directly
impacted with the construction of a permanent cul-de-sac.
Our engineer has prepared a preliminary sketch of a cul-de-sac, which we will
share with you at our meeting.
If you have any further questions, please contact me at 550-5071.
Sincerely,
. -
c0e� Daniel L. Faulkner, P.E.
City Engineer
DLF/do
cc: Fred G. Moore, Director of Public Works
Jim Willl,S.City Manager
Jim Dvorak, Strgar-Roscoe-Fausch, Inc.
Bryan Sykora, President
Meadows of Bass Lake Homeowner's Association
4970 Quinwood Lane
Plymouth, MN 55442
Dave and Dawn Johnson
4950 Rosewood Lane
Plymouth, MN 55442
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 550-5000
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
DATE: March 15, 1991
TO: Maria Vasiliou, Councilmember
FROM: Judy McMillin,�}Exec. Secretary
SUBJECT: ADJOURNMENT TIMES FOR COUNCIL MEETINGS
Laurie has been on vacation this week so I have been checking her
voice mail messages. With regard to your message for a record of
adjournment times for 1991 Council meetings, they are as follows:
January 7, 1991 8:30 p.m. (Adjourned to executive
session)
January 28, 1991
10:30
p.m.
February
4, 1991
8:55
p.m.
February
19, 1991
8:07
a.m.
February
25, 1991
7:01
p.m.
March 4,
1991
11:03
p.m.
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HENNEPIN
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HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
RIDGEDALE DRIVE AT PLYMOUTH ROAD
12601 Ridgedale Drive
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343-5648
(612)541-8530
James G. Willis
City of Plymouth
3400 Plymouth Blvd.
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Jim:
March 13, 1991
Thank you for your note regarding possible Federal grants for the Plymouth library,
and your inquiry as to whether we might attempt to receive such a grant. The answer
is a probable yes. We have received grants in the past for some of our buildings, the
most recent being the Minnetonka library.
We hope to apply for a grant for the Plymouth building but there are several factors we
must consider. The application is based on an approved owned site, architectural and
engineering plans and a complex amount of data required by the Federal government
including an environmental impact study.
One problem is that the grants are given only once a year and their timetable may or
may not fit ours. If we are ahead of them, we would need to hold up the project without
knowing if a grant would actually be given. There is not a great deal of money
available and there has been stiff competition in the past. Last year there were over a
dozen preliminary applications, seven final applications, and only four grants
awarded. The maximum grant amount is only $200,000, and the Federal and State
paperwork and extra architectural and engineering data required consumes about
$25,000 of that amount.
When we finally have the site pinned down and schematic plans completed, we can
assess the project schedule better, both for plan completion and to see how we can fit
into the grant schedule. We will keep you informed as the project progresses.
Sincerely yours,
Robert H. Rohlf
Director
RHR/sh
HENNEPIN COUNTY
an equal opportunity employer