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CITY OF
PLYMOUTR
CITY COUNCIL INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
March 1, 1985
UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS......
1. N. W. SUBURBS LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST MEETING -- Saturday, March 2,
8:00 a.m. at the Maple Grove Fire Station on Hemlock Lane.
2. CITY COUNCIL DINNER MEETING -- Monday, March 4. Dinner at 5:30
p.m., with the Council meeting with Dr. Bill Morris at 6:00 p.m. to
discuss the residential survey, and at 6:35 p.m. with the Community
Development Task Force.
3. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING -- Monday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. Regular
Council meeting in City Council Chambers.
4. BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENTS & APPEALS -- Due to lack of official
business to come before the Board, the March 11 meeting of the Board
of Zoning Adjustments and Appeals has been cancelled.
5. REVISED MARCH CALENDAR -- A copy of a revised March meeting calendar
is attached. Attach.- M-1)
FOR YOUR INFORMATION.....
1. METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEMBER JOSEPHINE NUNN -- Ms. Nunn has accepted
Mayor Davenport's invitation to meet with the City Council at 7:30
p.m. on Monday, March 18. The purpose of this visit would be to
generally discuss matters of mutual interest and concern between the
City and Metropolitan Council.
2. MEDIATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROBLEM -- In an effort to resolve a
continuing neighborhood problem regarding a zoning complaint, Blair
Tremere suggested to the parties involved that they utilize the
services of the West Suburban Mediation Center. Attached is a
report from Blair on the successful mediation of the problem by the
Mediation Center. (Attach - I-2)
3. HENNEPIN COUNTY SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE -- Attached is a
letter from Richard Schieffer, Chairman of the Hennepin County Solid
Waste Advisory Committee, providing a copy of the Committee's work
schedule for the next two months and requesting comments from
Hennepin County municipalities on the work of the Committee. The
pommititteethwedtbdgKdattee Cbxditr(Li r#edn atiftAh@dm29t4 lls#:40
committee members. (Attach - I-3)
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
CITY COUNCIL INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
March 1, 1985
4. "THE LAGGING INDICATOR" -- Attached is a publication from the
Unemployment Committee of the West Hennepin Human Services Planning
Board. The newsletter provides community-based organizations and
human service agencies with information which will help them better
serve the unemployed and underemployed in the area and to keep these
groups informed of employment issues which are being addressed by
local organizations. (Attach- I-4)
5. CABLE SEMINAR -- The law firm of Herbst & Thue, Ltd, is sponsoring a
half-day seminar on Friday, March 8 to acquaint local officials and
city attorneys with the new Cable Communications Policy Act of
1984. The seminar will be held at the Radisson South Hotel in
Bloomington. Attached is the notification on the seminar. If you
are interested in attending please contact Laurie. (Attach - I-5)
6. COUNCIL FOLLOW-UPS:
a. TOWN MEETING FEEDBACK RESPONSES -- Attached are staff responses
to resident feedback forms received at the February 19 Town
Meeting. (Attach - I-6)
7. EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION -- The following correspondence has been
received concerning Plymouth employees:
a. Letter of appreciation from Cliff Hammarlund, Hammarlund Homes &
Contracting, to Joe Ryan and Scott McLellan for assistance
during a footing inspection. (Attach - I-7)
8. CORRESPONDENCE:
a. Letter to Steven Poindexter from City Manager in response to
Mr. Poindexter's letter of February 21 on sanitary sewer
availability service in the northeast portion of Plymouth.
(Attach - I -8-a)
b. Letter to Mayor Davenport from Howard Hunt commenting on the
City's proposal for the Elm Creek drainage problem involving his
property. (Attach - I -8-b)
c. Letter to Steve Chesebrough from Eric Blank, thanking Mr.
Chesebrough for his time and effort in the Park Department's
Iceman Triathlon. (Attach - I -8-c)
d. Letter to Bob Roscoe from Councilmember Maria Vasiliou with
regard to his comments on rezoning at the February 13 Planning
Commission meeting. (Attach - I -8-d)
CITY COUNCIL INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM
March 1, 1985
e. Letter to Jim Kemp, Chair, Wayzata School District, from City
Manager regarding the Beacon Heights School property and its
possible reuse by the School District. (Attach - I -8-e)
f. Letter to Robert Scribner, President, Assoc. of Medicine Lake
Area Citizens, from Mayor Davenport regarding February 8
enforcement effort on Medicine Lake. (Attach - I -8-f)
g. Letter to Daniel Lopez from Mayor Davenport thanking him for his
letter supporting the 2:00 - 5:00 a.m. parking ban. (Attach -
I -8-g)
h. Letter to Don Paschke from Mayor Davenport with regard to his
comments on the Council's denial of his lot division request.
(Attach - I -8-h)
James G. Willis
City Manager
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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
3400 PLYMOUTH BLVD., PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447
TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
MEMO
DATE: February 26, 1985
TO: City Manager dames Willis
FROM: Community Development Director Blair Tremere
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SUBJECT MEDIATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROBLEM
Attached is a February 23, 1985 letter I recently received from Daniel Lopez, 17725
11th Avenue North, as well as an enclosure which is an Agreement signed by Mr. Lopez,
his wife, and a neighbor, Mr. Kelly Neal. Also attached is a February 12, 1985 letter
from the West Suburban Mediation Center regarding a problem that these residents had
dating back to last summer.
The matter first came to my attention as a zoning complaint from one of Mr. Neal's
other. neighbors and from Mr. Lopez. Whereas, we felt that we had resolved the zoning
problem for awhile, further complaints by Mr. Lopez led to the suggestion that Mr.
Lopez and Mr. Neal utilize the West Suburban Mediation Center to which the City
subscribes for mediation services. Dick Pouliot of the Engineering Department is the
designated coordinator of that service.
I suggested this to these parties after talking with Public Safety Director Dick
Carlquist, and I have found that the experience was a very positive one although for a
time, the parties involved were somewhat skeptical as to its use.
I have had the opportunity to talk with Mr. Neal, and he endorsed the use of the
service as well.
I am impressed with the diligence with which the West Suburban Mediation Center pursued
this matter, and I intend to consider its use in the future when circumstances of a
similar nature are evident.
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February 12, 1985
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Dear "'^. Tremere:
I am writing to inform you thazL._DannLez,--$im Lopez and
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Kelley Neal participated in a successful mediation on
February 9th.
The participants identified the problems which they
wanted solved.
I. Noise and traffic from Kelley's trucks to
and from his home.
2. Kelley's employees arriving and leaving
several times a day from Kelley's home.
The se-tlement agreement included:
1. Kelley Neal will be responsible for
eliminating the identified problems. He
will keep employees and fleet away from
his home unless absolutely necessary.
�. Mr. and Mrs. Lopez agree to communicate
directly with Kelley Neal if future problems
arise. (Please note that Mr. and Mrs. Lopez
stated that the problems have not occurred
very often within the past six months.)
Thank you for your cooperation.
if you have any questions.
cc: Dick Pouliot
Please feel free to call
Sincerely,
D is R a, Administrator
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You are invited to pass this information along to your City
Council and to urge them to call either myself or any Commit-
tee member if they have any comments on the work of the Com-
mittee. In particular, if there are topics, problems or in-
formation which they think is important and which are not in-
cluded in our schedule of work, we would like to know about
it at an early date so that we can give those matters consid-
eration.
I will be forwarding additional information to you as the Com-
mittee's work progresses and encourage you to give me a call
if you have any comments on our work.
Sincerely yours
Ric and . SchiAer,hairman
Hennepin County Solid Waste
Advisory Committee
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Enclosures
Plolr»ional
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Mr. James Willis
City Manager
2000 First Bank Place West
City of Plymouth
Minneapolis
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Minnesota 55402
Plymouth, Minnesota 55447 '
Telephone 612-333-0543
RE: Hennepin County Solid Waste Advisory Committee
Clayton L. LeFevere
Herbert P. Lefler
J. Dennis O'Brien
Dear Mr. Willis:
John E. Drawz
David J. Kennedy
John B. Dean
The Hennepin County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (HCSWAC)
Glenn E. Purdue
is a Committee appointed by the Hennepin County Board to ad -
Richard J. efer
vise the Board on the preparation of its Solid Waste Master
LeFv
Charles L. LeFeere
Herbert P. Lefler III
Plan. The Committee is composed of one-third City representa-
Jeffrey J. Strand
tives, one-third industry representatives, and one-third citi-
Mary
Zen representatives. A list of Committee members is enclosed.
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JohnG Kres el
John G. Kressel
Dayle Nolan
Cindy L. Lavorato
The first function of the Committee was to respond to the pro -
Michael A. Nash
Luke R. Komarek
posed Metropolitan Solid Waste Management Development Guide/
Brian F. Rice
Policy Plan. A copy of the Committee response is enclosed.
Lorraine S. Clugg
James J. Thomson, Jr.
James M. Strommen
itttm. on the 2nd and 4th
regularly at 4:30 P- The Committee meets reularl
Mary C. Nielsen
Wednesday of the month at the Ridgedale County Library in
Minnetonka. A copy of the work schedule for the next several
months is enclosed.
You are invited to pass this information along to your City
Council and to urge them to call either myself or any Commit-
tee member if they have any comments on the work of the Com-
mittee. In particular, if there are topics, problems or in-
formation which they think is important and which are not in-
cluded in our schedule of work, we would like to know about
it at an early date so that we can give those matters consid-
eration.
I will be forwarding additional information to you as the Com-
mittee's work progresses and encourage you to give me a call
if you have any comments on our work.
Sincerely yours
Ric and . SchiAer,hairman
Hennepin County Solid Waste
Advisory Committee
RJS/rat
Enclosures
HENNEPIN OOUNTY
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
ADVISORY 01)MMITI'EE
[/4hyllis Jessen
Phone:
472-4519
Home
City Rep.
5189 Emerald Drive
Mound, MN 55364
1/Thomas Anderson
Phone:
478-6500
Work
City Rep.
221-9700
Home
2052 Cty. Rd. #24
Hamel, MN 55340
*Richard Schieffer
Phone:
333-0543
Work
City Rep.
479-3112
Home
3590 Independence Road
Maple Plain, MN 55359
Robert M. Sharlin
Phone:
887-9636
Work
City Rep.
Bloomington City Hall
2215 W. Old Shakopee Rd.
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Bloomington, MN 55431
✓Charles S. Thomson
Phone:
474-4693
Home
City Rep.
130 Lake Street
Excelsior, MN 55331
Marilynn Corcoran
Phone:
427-5717
Home
City Rep.
13931 Vinewood Lane
Dayton, MN 55327
(/oris J. Conzet
Phone:
498-8192
Home
City Rep.
5560 Woodland Trail
Loretto, MN 55357
Robert T. Derus
Phone:
420-2288
Home
City Rep.
2942 Ardmore Avenue
Maple Plain, MN 55359
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Ray Stockman
Phone:
377-8310
Work
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City Rep.
4216 Poplar Drive
Golden Valley, MN 55422
j/�eorgia Ray DeCoster
Phone:
475-1918
Home
Ind. Rep.
Total Energy Systems of Florida, Inc.
1735 Troy Lane
Plymouth, MN 55447
* A. William Johnson
Phone:
941-5771
Home
Ind. Rep.
941-5957
Work
BFI
9033 Preserve Blvd.
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
* Chuck Rutter
Phone:
866-6603
Home
Ind. Rep.
869-5876
Work
Mpls, Refuse, Inc.
721-7451
Work
4649 Blocmington Avenue So.
Mpls, MN 55407
CDavid
Kiatka, Jr.
Phone:
425-7844
Work
Ind. Rep.
Hilger Transfer, Inc.
8550 Zachary Lane
Osseo, MN 55369
Mike Pauling
Phone:
941-7225
Work
Ind. Rep.
941-4688
Work
PFS (Preferable Fuel Systems, Inc.
10805 Northmark Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Hilmer Hartman
Phone:
421-1446
Home
MWMAC
17501 Dayton River Road
Dayton, MN 55327
Mary Heitzig
Phone:
561-8631
Home
MWMAC
3618 - 69th Avenue North
Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
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Barbara B. Kelley
MWMAC
10920 Glen Wilding Lane
Bloomington, MN 55431
Louise Kuderling
MWMAC
4001 Heritage Hills Dr. #205
Mpls, MN 55437
Luther D. Nelson
7130 Park View Lane
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Rick Person
MWMAC
7030 West 24th Street
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
Laura Oatman
MWMAC
717 Delaware Street Southeast
Mpls, MN 55440
Kim N. Boyce
MWMAC
3838 Sheridan Ave. N.
Mpls, MN 55412
Josephine D. Nunn
Metro Mem.
401 Elm Creek Road
Champlin, MN 55316
Paul Smith
Environmental Planner
Metro Staff
300 Metro Sq. Bldg.
St. Paul, MN 55101
Ron Dehn
Citizen Rep.
6010 Terrace Circle
Rockford, MN 55373
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Phone:
Phone: 893-9822 Home
Phone: 348-4046 Work
Phone: 546-3490 Home
292-6122 Work
Phone:
Phone: 521-0036 Home
373-9700 Work
Phone: 421-1547 Home
Phone: 291-6408 Work
Phone: 477-5753 Home
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Archie B. Reed
Phone:
476-1931
Home
Citizen Rep.
\\\ 205 Barry Avenue So.
Wayzata, MN 55391
John Burklund
Phone:
Citizen Rep.
6823 Woodland
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Roz Shovlin
Phone:
544-4861
Home
Citizen Rep.
1845 Hampshire Lane
Golden Valley, MN 55427
Don E. Ostenson
Phone:
377-1283
Home
Citizen Rep.
633-2301
X 662 Work
124 North Cedar Lake Road
Mpls, MN 55405
Clarence C. Oster
Phone:
884-5120
Home
Citizen Rep,
4113 Overlook Circle
Bloomington, MN 55437
Richard L. Zilka, Jr.
Phone:
831-8695
Home
Citizen Rep.
4516 Southmore Drive
Bloomington, MN 55437
Carol R. Johnson
Phone:
825-3322
Home
4925 Fremont Avenue So.
Mpls, MN 55409
Richard J. Hlavka
Phone:
926-0336
Home
Citizen Rep.
645-3601
Work
3272 Blackstone Avenue
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
John Whitman
Phone:
473-7988
Home
Citizen Rep.
227-6500
Work
2700 Brockton Lane
Plymouth, MN 55447
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Margaret Fuller
Phone:
374-4322
Home
Citizen Rep.
308 Gramercy Avenue No.
Mpls, MN 55405
Edward Grabowski
Phone:
789-2877
Home
Citizen Rep.
3023 N.E. Grand Street
Mpls, MN 55418
* Susan E. Covnick
Phone:
920-0340
Home
Citizen Rep.
348-6603
Work
4708 Lakeview Drive
Edina, MN 55424
* John Wright
Phone:
424-5483
Home
Citizen Rep.
10148 - 103rd Avenue North
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Alvin T. Balgaard
Phone:
473-5031
Home
Citizen Rep.
3560 Bayside Road
Long Lake, MN 55356
John Leadholm
Phone:
869-6714
Home
5725 2nd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55419
* indicate executive committee members
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December 10, 1984
Cam ents on Regional Policy Plan
by the �) A �-
Hennepin County
Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee
The general consensus of the HCSWMAC submits the following comments.
A five-year time frame for prohibiting all processible wastes from
landfills should be adopted as a goal for the TCMA. Individual waste
processing programs should have separate time frames depending on
realistic probability of success. Program time frames should be
evaluated as programs develop for the following items: siting,
construction, and operation of waste -to -energy facilities; marketing
of recycled waste paper, glass, metals, and compost;
public education regarding source separation; other public education
activities; organized collection; enforcement of mandatory source
separation ordinances; and the ability to achieve substantial citizen
participation.
B, Part -by- rt iew of Comments:
Part 1: Introduction and Summary:
Part 2: Badkground:
Metropolitan Council should indicate the sources of
specific figures and detail the assumptions. Zhis
information should be presented in a consolidated fashion.
Part 3: Regional Strategy for Waste Management
- No comment
Roles and Responsibilities for Imm n ing the Regional_ Strategy:
- The Metropolitan Council should remain an overview and planning
agency; implementation should be left to the counties and
F municipalities.
Anlicies for Solid Waste Manag=nt:
- Policy No. 1: == -
The Committee agrees that waste reduction and resource recovery
are prudent alternatives to land disposal. However, reaching the
development goals within the next five years will require
considerable and concerted efforts by all effected agencies and
the general public. 7he success of waste reduction and resource
recovery programs depends on educational programs which change
long-established human behavior patterns, and complete compliance
by all individuals will take longer than a few years. Source
separation made mandatory by county or city ordinance will be
impossible to enforce unless public acceptance of the concept is
converted into unfailing, daily action on the part of the vast
majority of individual members of the public. Behavior modifi-
cation through education is the key, with ordinance enforcement
as a remedy for the few who do not comply.
- Policy No. 2:
The comirdttee feels that prohibiting processible waste from
land disposal by 1990 is possible only if strong commitments
to program development occurs prior to 1990. The target year
of 1990 is to a great extent, dependent on solid waste energy
recovery and co -composting programs. Several of the facilities
needed to meet the development schedule objectives are still in
the concept stage. The planning, siting, environmental
reviews, construction and shake -down of these additional
facilities will extend beyond 1990 unless these procedures
are streamlined and improved.
- Policy No. 3:
The Metropolitan Council's Legislative proposal to
require mandatory source separation by counties and cities
after 1988 should not be forwarded until confirmed markets
are established and public education programs have
been proven effective. Confirmed markets for
the vast amounts of materials collected have not been
established. The contracts for the sale of recyclables
should be in-place prior to mandatory source separation.
Furthermore committee members expressed concern that
contracts for the amounts of recyclables expected will not
be obtainable because market prices are too volatile.
- Policy No. 4 and 5
This committee agrees that a regional system of waste processing
and recycling services should be a planning responsibility of the
public sector. This committee further agrees the metropolitan
counties should work together on sub -regional service areas. tm
Although a regional system of waste processing and recycling
services will require regional planning, the implementation
and operation of the system should be handled by counties
and cities.
- Policy No. 6:
The committee agrees that small amounts of hazardous substances
generated by residential and comvnercial sources is a problem
which needs to be addressed. However, Metropolitan Council
should define the collection and management services along with
their associated costs before establishing a development time
schedule.
- Policy No. 7:
The committee agrees with this policy. We wish to note, the
success of coordinated public education and participation
programs will determine the ability of waste reduction and
resource recovery programs to reach abatement goals.
- Policy No. 8:
The committee feels that a region -wide, centrally -coordinated
resource recovery market development plan should be prepared
before a program is established.
- Policy No. 9:
The committee supports the concept of organized collection.
The committee holds further comument until the organized
collection study is complete.
- Policy No. 10:
The committee concurs with this policy.
- Policy No. 11:
The committee agrees that operating capacity for land disposal _
should not exceed the amount specified in the land disposal
development schedule. Future landfill needs may be greater than
expected if all abatement programs are not in place by 1990.
However, if abatement objectives are not achieved there will be
a need to plan for additional landfill space.
Part 4: System Plan:
- 4% waste reduction from mulching/backyard composting
seems high.
- Market contracts should be in place
before facilities and programs are implemented.
- Waste -to -energy facilities should be established before
major paper recycling efforts are undertaken to assure C
sufficient combustion to maintain satisfactory BTU levels
at the facilities. After this paper recycling efforts can
be phased in .
- The implementation of mandatory source separation by
comTrercial generators is not practical in many situations
where there is limited space for additional collection `
containers.
- The organized collection study being prepared should
consider the maintenance of the existing solid waste
collection industry under organized collection.
- Landfill capacity must be kept at a minimum to conserve
land resources and to maintain pressure on everyone to
implement all programs in the shortest time frame possible.
Landfill space needs must be constantly re-evaluated to
insure that minimum future needs are available.
- $345 million for total implementation costs of the regional
system seems low.
- Costs for implementing residential, and particularly
commercial source separation programs, are going to be
expensive and may require government funding assistance
to haulers, in the short run. In the long run, individual
responsibility for the cost of waste disposal can only
enhance the success of waste reduction and source
separation, and the entire Regional Program.
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HENNEPIN Cairn
Solid Waste Management Advisory
Committee
Meeting Topics
(February 13, 1985)
Estimated
# of Meetings Topics
Presenter,q
1 - Committee Organization:
* Elect Chair
* Meeting Format
* Review Plan for Future
Meetings, Discussion,
Comments, and Approval
* Determine method of Committee
input into the Master Plan
* Meeting Frequency
- Current Solid Waste Management
County Staff
System:
* Solid Waste Quantities
* Collection
* Disposal
1 - 2 - Current Solid Waste Management
County Staff
System:
* Solid Waste Master Plan Overview
* Solid Waste Master Plan General
Outline
- Waste-to-Energy:
County Staff and
* Description of Technologies:
Staff of Henningson,
Mass Burn and R.D.F.
Durham and Richardson
* Current Hennepin Waste-to-Energy
(HDR) (County's Waste-to-
Plans and Progress
Energy Consultant)
* Air Pollution aspects of Waste-to-
Energy Facilities
* Transfer Stations
* Estimated Costs
* Siting of Waste-to-Energy and
Transfer Station Facilities
4 - 6 - Recycling/Source Separation:
* Recycling Methods & Recycling Study
Pope-Reid and
Curbside Collection
Jerry Powell (County's
Drop -Off Center Centers
Recycling Consultants)
Redemption Centers
Other Methods
Recycling/Source Separation
Scenarios - Impacts & Costs
* Composting
Backyard Composting
Bill Nunn
Centralized Composting
Pope-Reid & E & A
& Co-composting - (yard
Environmental (County's
Waste & Mixed Municipal Waste)
Recycling Consultants)
1 - 2 - Review and Comment on Solid Waste
Master Plan
* Outlines
* Draft Report
* Final Report
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HCSWMAC Meeting Rhpics
(2/14/85)
* City Recycling Programs
. Curbside Collection - St.
Mayor and/or
Louis Park
City Staff
. Others as Requested -
Richfield & Minneapolis
* Private Recycling Companies
. Recycling Unlimited
Joan Nelson, President
Recycling Unlimited
. Other
1-2
- Other Environmental Perspectives:
Darby Nelson, Representative
MN State Legislature
Environmental Group
Representatives
1
- Other Metropolitan County Plans
Ramsey County Staff
and Programs:
* Ramsey County Activities,
Programs and Plans
1
- Public Education for Solid Waste
Representative from
Waste Management:
a Public Relations
Firm
1
- Solid Waste Management
County Staff and
Finding Sources and Methods:
County Waste -to -
Energy Financial
Consultant
1
- Landfill Siting in Hennepin County:
Hennepin County and
* Site Selection Process
Metropolitan Council
* Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
Staff
Status:
3 - 6
- Establish HCSWMAC
recommendations on:
* Polices
* Objectives
* Programs
-
* Funding
* Public Education
* County and City roles in Solid
Waste Management Activities
* Other
1 - 2 - Review and Comment on Solid Waste
Master Plan
* Outlines
* Draft Report
* Final Report
MSB:dlr
HCSWMAC Meeting Rhpics
(2/14/85)
INTRODUCTION
This is the second edition of "THE
LAGGING INDICATOR', a publication
of the Unemployment Committee of
the West Hennepin Human Services
Planning Board. The purpose of
this bi-monthly publication is to
provide community-based
organizations and human service
agencies with information which
will help them better serve the
unemployed and underemployed in the
area and to keep these groups
informed of employment issues which
are being addressed by local
organizations.
In the last issue we requested
readers to share with us
information or concerns regarding
programs, services, or issues
involving unemployment. The
response was extremely limited. To
make this a viable effort in
communicating information among
service providers in the area we do
need your help. We will make every
effort to include any appropriate
information in this newsletter
which is helpful to the unemployed
and underemployed.
Please send this information to "A
LAGGING INDICATOR' at the address
listed below
the
lagging
indicat or
UNEMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
Two problems the Unemployment
Committee will be addressing in the
coming months are: 1), to obtain a
better assessment of the resources
available to the unemployed and
underemployed in the West Hennepin
area; and 2), to try and obtain a
better understanding of the problem
of hidden unemployment in the
area. Special emphasis will be
made to obtain data on discouraged
workers, the underemployed; and the
self-employed who earn less than
the poverty level.
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HEATING
PROBLEMS
To date this has been a relatively
mild fall/winter and may have
lulled us with the sense that a
typical Minnesota winter will not
come. But, it always does and with
it the worry about utility bills.
This is especially true for those
on a limited income who may be
unemployed.or underemployed.
Utility payments, especially for
electricity and heat (gas, oil,
propane, wood, etc,) should receive
high priority in household budgets
during the winter months. Once
behind on utility payments, it is
very difficult to catch up. If it
is possible, a household should try
=to get on a "budget plan" or
maintain the payments if already on
such a plan. Generally, partial
payments must be approved by the
utility company to be considered in
governing decisions on ahut-offs
The -following are resources and
information which may be used in
addressing heating problems.
ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
This' is a program available to low
and moderate income families to
provide assistance in making home
heating payments between October
lat and May 31st. -It is available
to home owners and renters who pay
OTHER ENERGY ASSISTANCE RESOURCES
The following resources are listed
as possible supplemental or back-up
assistance programs where the
energy assistance program may not
be applicable. Application should
first be made to the energy
assistance program as these
programs will always refer back if
this has not been done. These are
listed in the order they should be
contacted.
HENNEPIN COUNTY EMERGENCY
ASSISTANCE
348-4952 - For families with
children who have exhausted all
other resources. If the situation
is a heating emergency please have
the family stress this in their
contacts with this office.
SALVATION ARMY HEATSHARE PROGRAM
721-1668 - For families who have
exhausted all other resources and
experienced an emergency in the
family which has substantially
reduced the family income such as
illness, death, unemployment or
fire. This program places primary
emphasis on serving the elderly and
the handicapped. C3
their own heating bills, to renters
_
To develop a data base for this
whose heating costs are included in
needs assessment,_ the _Committee
the rent and to renters in
will survey programs which serve
subsidized housing who pay their
the unemployed as well as
own heating bills. Due to a recent
participants in food distribution,
change in policy, households in
energy assistance. and emergency
subsidized housing who have their
service programa. If you should
heat included in the rent are not
have any suggestions for obtaining ____ .___
_ eligible.
this information please let us
know. Your assistance and
Appointments to make application
cooperation would be greatly
for assistance MUST be made in
appreciated. We will be more than
advance. The number to call in the
willing to share all of the
West Hennepin area is 929-2474.
findings with you
There are a number of satellite
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offices at which applications will
be taken. Home visits can be
scheduled for homebound residents.
HEATING
PROBLEMS
To date this has been a relatively
mild fall/winter and may have
lulled us with the sense that a
typical Minnesota winter will not
come. But, it always does and with
it the worry about utility bills.
This is especially true for those
on a limited income who may be
unemployed.or underemployed.
Utility payments, especially for
electricity and heat (gas, oil,
propane, wood, etc,) should receive
high priority in household budgets
during the winter months. Once
behind on utility payments, it is
very difficult to catch up. If it
is possible, a household should try
=to get on a "budget plan" or
maintain the payments if already on
such a plan. Generally, partial
payments must be approved by the
utility company to be considered in
governing decisions on ahut-offs
The -following are resources and
information which may be used in
addressing heating problems.
ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
This' is a program available to low
and moderate income families to
provide assistance in making home
heating payments between October
lat and May 31st. -It is available
to home owners and renters who pay
OTHER ENERGY ASSISTANCE RESOURCES
The following resources are listed
as possible supplemental or back-up
assistance programs where the
energy assistance program may not
be applicable. Application should
first be made to the energy
assistance program as these
programs will always refer back if
this has not been done. These are
listed in the order they should be
contacted.
HENNEPIN COUNTY EMERGENCY
ASSISTANCE
348-4952 - For families with
children who have exhausted all
other resources. If the situation
is a heating emergency please have
the family stress this in their
contacts with this office.
SALVATION ARMY HEATSHARE PROGRAM
721-1668 - For families who have
exhausted all other resources and
experienced an emergency in the
family which has substantially
reduced the family income such as
illness, death, unemployment or
fire. This program places primary
emphasis on serving the elderly and
the handicapped. C3
THE COLD WEATHER RULE
This rule, established by the
Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission
(PUC) is to protect certain
residential . customers against
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wintertime shut -offs. It is in
effect between October 15th and
April 15th.
Households who want _to become
eligible for such protection
(called ."Inability To Pay" or ITP
status) will have to meet several
conditions: a) they must have been
reasonably current in your payments
on October 15th; b) they must meet
certain income guidelines; c) they
must be willing to enter into a
reasonable payment schedule with
the utility; and d) if they are
facing disconnection, they must
return a completed "Inablility To
Pay" form to the utility within 10
days of receiving a notice of
Proposed Disconnection.
This rule can only be used with
R_e_gulatedU_t_ilit_ie_s_. In our
service area, utilities in this
category are Minnegaaco and NSP. If
a household is facing a
disconnection from a regulated
utility, they should file for
"Inability To Pay" status
immediately. Even if the household
does not think it is eligible, this
should be done as it will provide
an extra week or two for finding
other possible assistance. (See
Heating Assistance)
The following information should be
received with a disconnection
notice: a notice of the customers
rights; a list of agencies who
provide energy assistance; a form
for claiming inability to pay
(ITP).
Aw_or_d__o_f_caution-if a person seeks
relief under the'Cold Weather Rule'
or a partial payment schedule,
remember it does not wipe out or
reduce the debt, it only delays
payment. Try to pay off as much as
possible each month as the billings
will continue. With Minnesota
winters these bills can add up
quickly.
UNREGULATED UTILITIES
Unregulated utilities such as
municipal utilities, cooperatives,
and small independent vendors such
as oil companies are not regulated
by the PUC. If you are a customer
of an unregulated utility and you
are having trouble paying your
bill, don't delay: contact the
utility right away to see if you
can work out a payment
arrangement. Do so immediately if
you get a shut-off notice. If
these efforts do not solve the
problem, get copies of the
utility's written policy on the
type of problem you have. If you
need help after that you may want
to call your attorney or if you do
not have an attorney call the Legal
Service Office, (332-1441).
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JOB SERVICE
The Job Service is a labor exchange
agency with a prime mission of
finding ,fobs for workers and
workers for fobs. This is a
Minnesota State agency, financed by
the Federal Unemployment Tax Act
paid by employers. There are no
eligibility requirements for
applicants except that they be fob
ready. There is NO FEE charged to
applicants or employers.
Applicant residence does not
preclude service at any Job Service
Office. For applicant convenience
though, each office has a service
area.
The Job Service Office at:
6121 Baker Road, Suite 111
Minnetonka, MN. 55345
341-7163
serves Hennepin County west of
Minneapolis and south of Plymouth
and Carver and Scott Counties.
PWYMENT SER:IE'
now" V VW
The Job Service Office at:
5600 West Broadway Ave.
Crystal, MN
341-7168
serves the balance of suburban
Hennepin County north of Highway 12
in Plymouth and west of
Minneapolis.
During the past year, this
operation filled approximately
4,500• ,fobs. These included fobs
from entry. level to professional.
They use Job Bank, a computer
listing of available ,fobs in the
local area, Metro area, throughout
-Minnesota and other states.
Listings are updated daily.
Other Available Services from the
Job Service:
Vocational Counaeling-A process to
aid applicants in evaluating
interests and aptitudes and
establishing vocational goals.
Testing -Skill tests to measure
proficiency in typing, shorthand
and spelling. Aptitude tests
measure latent abilities to perform
a variety of jobs.,
Federal Bonding Program -Provide a
financial bond for employment when
needed by an individual not
bondable through -normal means. If
the household still faces a crisis
and is unable to get assistance
'from the above agencies, call the
Energy Assistance Program,
929-2474. It will try to find
another referral resources.
Emergency Health and Dental
Care -Provide a voucher to authorize
emergency care at selected clinics
for eligible individuals.
Targeted Jobs Tax Credit -Authorize
a tax credit to employers hiring
low-income persons.
Food Stamp and General Assistance -
Recipients must register with this
office for specialized assistance
in finding employment. Failure to
comply places continued eligibility
in jeopardy.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
The Unemployment Insurance Office
is located in the Minnetonka Job
Service Office. Their telephone
number is 341-7512.
A weekly benefit is paid to
individuals involuntarily
unemployed.
Eligibility to file a claim is a
minimum of 15 weeks of employment
(at 9594 each week) during the past
52 weeks. The individual must be
able and available to work.
Specific questions on the program
can be answered during a visit to
the office. If you are in doubt
regarding your eligibility be sure
to apply. You may be eligible and
only the Unemployment Insurance
Office can answer for sure.
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ADRIAN E. HERBST
DANIEL D. THLE
GARY R. MATZ
JOHN F. GIBBS
TOM TOGAS
VicKi L. BAILEY
TO:
RE:
HERBST & THUE, LTD.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
2030 NORTHWESTERN FINANCIAL CENTER
7900 XERXES AVENUE SOUTH
BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA 55431-1178
February 5, 1985
Herbst & Thue Cable Clients
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TELEPHONE
(812) 835-2434
Seminar - "The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984"
On December 29, 1984, a new era in the local regulation of
cable television began as The Cable Communications Policy Act of
1984 became effective. This Act will significantly affect the
authority of local governments to regulate cable television
systems and many traditional forms of regulation have been or
soon will be eliminated.
The law firm of Herbst & Thue, Ltd., is sponsoring a half-day
seminar on Friday, March 8, 1985, to acquaint local officials and
city attorneys with the Act. The seminar will cover in depth the
authority of cities under the Act in areas such as rate regula-
tion, franchise fees, franchise renewals, franchise modifications
and access requirements. The seminar has been specifically develop-
ed for elected officials, city staff, cable committees and
municipal attorneys.
We hope that you will be able to attend this seminar on
Friday, March 8, 1985, at the Radisson South Hotel in
Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration form provided should be
returned to us by March 1, 1985. Enclosed with this letter you
will find the seminar schedule.
HERBST & THUE, LTD.
Enclosures
"THE CABLE COMMUNICATIONS POLICY ACT OF 1984"
Friday, March 8, 1985
Radisson South Hotel, Bloomington, Minnesota
(Highway 494 at Highway 100)
1:00 - 1:30
A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Adrian Herbst, Attorney at Law
Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
James Erickson, Attorney at Law
Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren
1:30 - 2:00
GENERAL FRANCHISING AUTHORITY
John Gibbs, Attorney at Law
Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
2:00 - 2:30
RATE REGULATION AND FRANCHISE FEES
Gary Matz, Attorney at Law
Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
2:30 - 3:00
GENERAL DISCUSSION AND BREAK
3:00 - 3:30
FRANCHISE MODIFICATIONS
John Gibbs, Attorney at Law
Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
3:30 - 4:00
FRANCHISE RENEWALS
Gary Matz, Attorney at Law
Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
4:00 - 5:00
FUTURE REGULATION OF CABLE TELEVISION
Adrian Herbst, Attorney at Law
Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
Wayne Popham, Attorney at Law
Popham, Haik, Schnobrich,
Kaufman & Doty, Ltd.
W.D. Donaldson, Executive Director
Minnesota Cable Communications Bd.
5:00
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REGISTRATION FORM
NAME
ITY
Yes, I will attend. Payment of
($10.00 per person)
is enclosed.
No, I cannot attend but would like to purchase the seminar material.
Payment of $10.00 is enclosed.
ADDRESS
STATE ZIP TELEPHONE
RETURN TO: Herbst & Thue, Ltd.
2030 Northwestern Financial Center
7900 Xerxes Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55431
W. D. (Chris) Donaldson is the Executive Director of the
Minnesota Cable Communications Board, an agency that guides the
development of cable communications in the state and establishes
public policies concerning franchising and public service appli-
cation of cable and related public telecommunications technology.
Prior to his 1978 appointment, he had spent 32 years in radio and
television management, operations and programming.
James C. Erickson is a partner in the law firm of Larkin,
Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren and is Chairman of the Administrative
law department of that firm. He has been practicing law for 16
years, specializing in the area of administrative and telecom-
munications law. From 1970 - 72 he served as Special Assistant
Attorney General. He presently is a member of the ABA Forum
Committee on Communications Law. Mr. Erickson is legal counsel
for the Minnesota Cable Communications Association and a number
of cable companies.
John F. Gibbs is an Associate in the law firm of Herbst & Thue,
Ltd. Mr. Gibbs has been representing municipalities in cable
television matters since 1980. He currently serves as Chairman
of the Cable Commission in Bloomington, Minnesota. He also serves
as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the National
Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. He is
currently a member of the ABA Forum Committee on Communications Law.
Adrian E. Herbst is President and owner of Herbst & Thue, Ltd., a
law firm in Bloomington, Minnesota, engaged in practicing pri-
marily in municipal and governmental law. Mr. Herbst has repre-
sented municipalities in cable television matters for 15 years.
He has served on numerous committees relating to cable television,
e.g., Chairman of the Metropolitan Council Telecommunications
Task Force and committee member of the Minnesota Telecommunications
Council. Mr. Herbst is Past President of the Minnesota Trial
Lawyers Association and Past Vice President of the League of
Minnesota Cities. Mr. Herbst is considered a leading authority
in the field of cable communications law.
Gary R. Matz is an Associate in the law firm of Herbst & Thue,
Ltd. Mr. Matz has been representing municipalities in cable
television matters since 1981. Prior to entering private legal
practice he served as a staff member for the Minnesota Cable
Communications Board.
Wayne Popham is a Senior Partner in the law firm of Popham, Haik,
Schnobrich, Kaufman & Doty, Ltd. He currently is legal counsel
for Rogers Cablesystems and Continental Cablevision. Mr. Popham
is a former member of the Minnesota Senate (1963-72) and has been
practicing law in the areas of litigation and administrative law
for 27 years. He is a member of the Insurance (Fidelity and
Surety Committee), Litigation and Antitrust sections of the ABA.
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CITY Or-
Shelley
FShelley Hallermann PLYMOUTH+
11740 50th Avenue North
Plymouth, MN 55442
Dear Ms. Hallermann:
Thank you for taking the time to fill out the resident feedback form at the
Tuesday, February 19, Town Meeting. As we discussed at the conclusion of
that meeting, I am passing along your concerns with regard to the parking
and the appearance of Schmidt Lake Park along 50th Avenue to the City
Manager, Park and Recreation Advisory Commission and City Council.
I would encourage you to get the signatures of your neighbors supporting
your position for having this portion of the park: manicured to a better
looking state. When you have done that, please forward them to me at the
City Center, 3400 Plymouth Boulevard. I can assure you that we will give
every consideration to your request and keep you informed of our review
of this matter. If, at ally time, you would like to discuss this subject
further, please call me at 559-2800 x 265.
Thank you for your time and interest in this matter.
Sincerely,
,F, 9 /5A.
Eric J. Blank, Director
Park and Recreation Dept.
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cc: City Manager
Park and Recreation Advisory Commission
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD. PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
February 26, 1985
Ms. Donna Walther
4237 Magnolia Lane
Plymouth, MN 55442
Dear Ms. Walther:
CITY OF
PLYMOUTR
I am responding to the Resident Feed -Back form you submitted following the recent Town
Meeting. I also understand that you discussed this matter with a representative of the
Planning Department, and that you came into the City Center and reviewed plan materials
regarding the Westridge Estates development. You and at least one other neighbor have
expressed concern that you were not made aware of the future County Road 9 by sales
representatives before you purchased your homes. I have checked the materials that
would have typically been shown to persons inquiring about this development, and I have
concluded that the official plat maps, as well as plans for this area and the entire
City, have for a number of years clearly represented future County Road 9. The
right-of-way for future County Road 9 in this area was platted as part of the Westridge
development.
We have a copy of a brochure prepared by the developer, which also clearly shows
proposed County Road 9 in relationship to the manor home portion of the Westridge
development. I understand that perhaps sales personnel did not make this available to
some prospective buyers. I do not think you should expect that the new County Road 9
project will be stopped, or that the road right-of-way will be re-routed. I believe
you have seen the Westridge development plans for your immediate area and I would hope
that you notice the landscaping and other improvements that were required by the City
Council as a transition to new County Road 9.
I believe you will find that the County Road will be a positive traffic amenity in this
area, but I also understand your concern that it apparently was not fully represented
to you when you purchased your home. Perhaps you should contact Mr. Laukka or his rep-
resentatives and express your concern in that regard.
I sincerely hope that you have acquired enough additional information that you will see
that the City has taken deliberate steps over the years to carefully plan the commun-
ity, including future roads as well as private developments which are near those trans-
portation system improvements.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Sincerely,
/6n,
Blair Tremere, Director
Community Development
BT/gw
cc: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
File
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447. TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
February 26, 1985
Mr. R. B. McAdam
4233 Magnolia Lane
Plymouth, MN 55442
Dear Mr. McAdam:
CITY OF
PLYMOu i it
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I am responding to your recent comments made on the Resident Feed -Back form you submit-
ted at the Plymouth Town Meeting. I appreciated the opportunity to talk to you at the
Town Meeting, and subsequently at the Public Service Counter where you were obtaining
several items of information regarding your concerns.
I believe I explained that the City is not in a position to constantly monitor whether
sales personnel adequately inform prospective buyers of all features of land surround-
ing a particular development. It is our hope that they would and as you now know, this
particular developer, Laukka & Associates, has prepared literature which was intended
for distribution to prospective buyers such as yourself. Unfortunately, it is
apparent not all persons received this information prior to purchase.
Many residents, including those who have purchased homes in this development, contact
the City personally or through their realtors and legal advisors before closing on home
purchases. We are able to show them the maps and information contained in the City's
Comprehensive Plan, as well as in the City's planning files. I believe that this in-
formation helps prospective residents make the appropriate decisions.
You have now seen the approved plan, and I believe you understand that there are still
site improvements yet to be made in the vicinity of new County Road 9. Perhaps you
will conclude that the City took steps to see that an appropriate transition was pro-
vided between County Road 9 and the new homes developed in this area.
I hope we have been able to assist with the information that has been provided. I do
not believe that you should expect County Road 9 to be re-routed. You may wish to con-
tact Mr. Laukka or his representatives as to the concerns you have about the apparent
failure of the sales representative to show the full layout of the development.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Sincerely,
k4t,t
Blair Tremere, Director
Community Development
BT/gw
cc: Frank Boyles, Assistant City Manager
File
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 559-2800
February 22, 1985
Mr. Steven M. Johnson
12945 - 45th Avenue No.
Plymouth, MN 55442
Dear Mr. Johnson:
CITY OF
PLYMOUTR
Mayor Davenport has referred your resident feedback form from the February
19 Town Meeting to me for response. I am delighted that you are interested
in having Plymouth Metrolink service extended to your neighborhood.
In order to expand service as you suggest, we must first wait to determine
whether Plymouth Metrolink will be able to operate for the entire calendar
year of 1985. An evaluation is currently being conducted by the Minnesota
Department of Transportation. We would expect that they will provide us
with a report of their findings in early March.
Assuming that the evaluation concludes that Plymouth Metrolink can continue
in operation through calendar year 1985, one additional step will be
necessary to expand our service area. Because our service is regularly
evaluated to ascertain the level of ridership versus the dollars expended,
we require some form of ridership assurances prior to extending our service
area. This is where you come in. Where service expansions are requested,
we ask interested residents to circulate a petition within their neighbor-
hood to determine how many potential additional riders could be gained
through the expansion. If there is a significant number of interested
riders and the service expansion can be justified economically, we would
initiate experimental service. Based upon the ridership experience of the
experimental service, we then determine if service will become permanent.
I recognize that the petition requirement adds an extra burden for our
potential passengers, but it also helps us to maintain high ridership levels
so that the project can continue in operation. I would be happy to meet
with you or assist you in developing a petition.
Thanks very much for your interest in Plymouth Metrolink.
Yours very truly,
Frank Boyles
Assistant City Manager
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cc: Mark Fuhrmann, Medicine Lake Lines
3400 PLYMOUTH BOULEVARD, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55447, TELEPHONE (612) 559.2800
February 22, 1985
Mr. David J. Kjos
3905 Orleans Lane
Plymouth, MN 55441
Dear Mr. Kjos:
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Mayor Davenport has provided me with your resident feedback form from the
February 19 Town Meeting. You have asked that consideration be given to
providing transit service from Four Seasons to Ridgedale. I am pleased to
say that we have already initiated preliminary discussions with Medicine
Lake Lines on providing just such a service. What we have been contemplat-
ing to date would involve a shuttle vehicle to link the traditional Medicine
Lake Line service operating north and east of Medicine Lake with the
Plymouth Metrolink internal circulator during mid-day hours (10:00 a.m. -
4:00 p.m.). In order to make this change, however, there are a number of
problems which have to be overcome. For the most part, the problems are of
a technical nature which the City and Medicine Lake Lines will have to
solve.
There is, however, something you can do that would greatly assist in deter-
mining whether service is provided. Historically when riders have suggested
new service areas, we have asked that they circulate a petition to demon-
strate whether or not potential ridership could justify new service. While
we do not particularly enjoy being "numbers oriented", the legislation under
which Plymouth Metrolink operates requires that we meet high ridership
levels with relatively low expenditures. Thus, to expand Metrolink service
we have to be confident that there will be sufficient riders to justify such
service expansions.
If I can assist you in this effort, I would be glad to do so. If you have
any other questions please feel free to contact me.
Yours very truly,
Frank Boyles
Assistant City Manager
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cc: Mark Fuhrmann, Medicine Lake Lines
February 27, 1985
Doug and Donna Eichten
12500 46th Avenue N
Plymouth, MN 55442
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Eichten:
CITY C�
PLYMOUTR
L
Mayor Davenport has forwarded your resident feedback form from the Tuesday,
February 19, Town Meeting to me for comment. You state the action you desire
the City to take is to clean skating rinks on weekends for family use. As I
mentioned at the meeting, the current policy is to clean the rinks on Saturdays,
but not on Sundays. A couple of factors were considered in making this decision.
First, there is just enough crew (seven full-time and one part-time) during the
winter season to clean and flood our 30 rinks on a daily basis (Monday through
Saturday). If we changed to a split -week schedule (requiring some personnel to
work on Sundays), there would not be enough staff available during the week to
clean all of our rinks in a regular shift. One solution would be to add more
full or part-time staff, which would increase the cost of maintaining the rinks.
Our second option is to pay over -time for the additional hours needed to clean
rinks. We now pay over -time to our unionized crews on Saturdays, and it would
mean additional over -time hours if they were required to work on Sundays.
The second consideration involves skating attendance at all our parks. We do
a daily count of all the skaters at locations with warming house attendants on
duty. This data is used annually for determining the hours of operation at
various rinks throughout Plymouth. Based on demonstrated need and desire by
residents, the hours of the skating rinks are manipulated to satisfy the needs
and wishes of that particular area. In some cases, we have found that there
are days where there is little or no skating taking place at certain locations.
Therefore, we have been able to reduce the hours of skating at those rinks.
At other locations, where we find high use of a program or rink, we have expanded
the hours in order to meet that need. As we keep records of the skating atten-
dance, the weather and ice conditions are also tracked, i.e., whether there is
snow on the ice, temperature and wind chill, so that we can draw correlations
between poor skating attendance and poor weather or ice conditions,
For your information, New Hope maintains approximately 18 sheets of ice in
comparison to our 30 sheets of ice, with almost the same labor force available
to each of us. The fact that Plymouth is so much larger physically than New
Hope means that our 30 rinks are spread a greater distance apart, so we spend
more time traveling to and from our rinks to maintain them. Finally, I am
told that New Hope sweeps only their hockey rinks on Sundays, and not their
pleasure rinks.
Each September, the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission reviews the loca-
tion of our skating rinks, previous years' attendance records and the hours
and rules of operation for the skating program. Your concern with regard to
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Sunday rink cleaning will be passed along to the Park and Recreation Advisory
Commission, and cost implications reviewed to determine whether Sunday maintenance
can be justified based on skating attendance.
If you would like to supply further testimony, letters, etc., please contact
me and I will make the necessary arrangements to share that information with
our Park and Recreation Advisory Commission and the City Council.
Sincerely,
Eric J. Blank, Director
Parks and Recreation
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Mr. Steven 3. Poindexter
Poindexter, Jacobson and Stromme
2550 Multifoods Tower
33 South 6th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Dear Mr. Poindexter:
Thank you for your letter of February 21.
I believe our exchange of correspondence has been useful and sets forth our
respective views on the subject of sanitary sewer availability service in
the northeast portion of Plymouth. The City Council as part of its next
five year Capital Improvement Program review will, of course, be giving this
topic its attention.
Thank you for your interest in this matter.
Yours truly,
mes G. Willis
Ci Manager
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POINDEXTER, JACOBSON AND STROMME
ATTORNEYS
A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
STEPHEN J. POINDEXTER
MARK E. JACOBSON
ROY B. STROMME
NEVTN R. HARWOOD
ROBERT M.ROSENBERG
PATTI L ZENK
NANCY A. FOSTER
February 21, 1985
Mr. James G. Willis
City Manager
3400 Plymouth Boulevard
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Mr. Willis:
Thank you for your letter of February 14.
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While we realize that the Tennant Company's decision tc
proceed with its project would not, in and of itself, insure the
construction of the Pike Lake interceptor in 1986, it is my un-
derstanding that all things considered, the City now intends to
do so provided it is feasible with the plans Tennant Company
intends to submit. I believe it is fair to state that we have
received the impression that the only impediment to constructing
the Pike Lake interceptor has been the lack of direction from the
Tennant Company regarding its development. We expect that, ab-
sent extraordinary circumstances, that the completion of the Pike
Lake interceptor through the Tennant Company property to enable
Area A residents to hook up to that interceptor will occur with
the 1986 Capital Improvements Project approval.
While it is our understanding that the residents in Area A
ultimately are looking to the Pike Lake interceptor as the trunk
sewer line to serve their area, the uncertainty of the situation
to the present date and continuing to the fall of 1985 has raised
questions concerning the possibility of hooking up, at least
temporarily, to the trunk sewer line which will serve the Scherer
Brothers development. We have discussed with the Planning De-
partment that perhaps some consideration should be given to this
particular hook-up. While we have not formally requested the
City to undertake a formal study, we have asked the City to con-
sider its feasibility and not to dismiss it outright as not being
consistent with its overall development plans.
Mr. James G. Willis
February 21, 1985
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Again, thank you for your letter and should you have any
further questions raised in my letter of February 7, or herein,
please feel free to give me a call.
Very truly yours,
POINDEXTER, JACOBSON AND STROMME
Stephen J. Poindexter
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Fred Moore
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PLYMOUTR
February 20, 1985
Mr. Vernon F. Peterson,.
17425-D County Road 47
Plymouth, MN 55446 - /
Mr. Howard L. Hunt
17205-D County Road 47
Plymouth, MN 55446
Dear Vern and Howard:
I believe by now you have received copies of the February 1,
1985 memo from Fred Moore to Jim Willis. -Also, on January
25th Doug Reeder, the City Administrator for Maple Grove,
corresponded with Councilmember Pat Neils indicating that
Maple Grove would be working with the City to remove sediment
in a -an f --f at -retch of r1m QrAov and that the work should be
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I hope that this satisfies the concerns you have expressed
about this �Hblem that has plagued your properties. Please
let me kr
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this
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Steve Cheaebtough
3615 Evetgneen Lane N
Ptymouth, MN 55441
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On behat6 o6 the Ptymouth Park and Recteati.on Depaktment, I would tike to
take this oppoAtu.nc ty to 6oAma ty .shank you bot a.Ze ob the time and e66oAt
you put into making the Iceman TAiathton a succe .660 event. A.ethough the
numbe,u weAe .Zeas than we had hoped bot, 1 am encoukaged that a wett-tun event
such as th is wit be h,ighty viz ibte and wet attended .in the 6utune.
As the obb.iciat Lace chaii avian, you ane to be commended bot a job welt. done.
You continue to exempt i6y outstanding teadeAah.ip .in seAv.ing your tote on the
Pa,tk and Recreation Adv.caoty Commizz ion. Bxamptes o6 thi z ate your pet6ect
attendance at meetings, wittingneas to cha.iA the community center citizens'
committee, coming up with and promoting the .idea ob the Iceman TAi.athton,
and constant vi,6iting ob out park baci?.ities and keeping u,6 .in6onmed o6 sma t
det� which we, 6tom time to time, tend to oveAtook.
The sta66 and 1 .Zook 6oAwwcd to continuing to work with you on 6uture endeavors
w.cth tegatd to pack and tecAeation programa.
Agan, tet me say thank you bot att that you have conttibuted to out e66ont6,
and wish you the but o6 tuck throughout 1985.
Sincenety,
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Park and Recreation 'Dept.
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Betty ThAe.inen
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February 25, 1985
Mr. Bob Roscoe
Strgar-Roscoe-Fausch, Inc.
630 Twelve Oaks Center
15500 Wayzata Blvd.
Wayzata, MN 55391
Dear Bob,
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CITY OF
PLYMOUTR
At the Plymouth Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday, February 13 you
stated that you checked the zoning and guiding maps for Plymouth and
subsequently purchased property relying on those maps. You were unhappy
that the commission was considering rezoning a part of Plymouth that you
believe should be allowed to retain its rural characteristics.
In a developing community like Plymouth a request for rezoning is not
unusual. What is unusual, in my opinion, is that an engineer whose company
bids jobs in Plymouth questions why the city would even consider a rezoning
request. It is my understanding that some of the bids that have been
awarded to your firm involve major changes to the city's original plans.
Thank you for letting me express my thoughts.
Sincerely,
Maria Vasiliou
Councilmember
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Mr. dim Kemp, Chair
Board of Education
Independent School District 284
210 Highway 101
Plymouth, MN 55447
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RE: BEACON HEIGHTS SCHOOL SITE
Dear dim:
I am writing this letter to follow up our meeting yesterday regarding the
Beacon Heights Elementary School property and its possible reuse by the
School District.
Earlier this year Mayor Davenport convened a meeting of the Beacon Heights
Elementary School Committee which had been formed as a result of the
previous Council consideration of a request of Mrs. fan Carlson to use the
property. This meeting was held on January 7. A copy of my meeting notes
are attached. You will note from a review of these notes that Mayor Daven-
port conveyed the Council's belief that the property should remain in its
present low density - single family residence (R -1A) zoning classification.
This zoning classification is consistent with adjacent land uses and clearly
represents the desire of those residing within the area. Schools are
commonly located within residential districts and we recognize the
difficulty this may create when the school is no longer needed and the
District seeks to convert the property to some other use.
The Plymouth Zoning Ordinance provides that within the R -1A zoning district
there are other non-residential uses which are allowed by conditional use
permit. The following is a list of those which are contained within the
City's zoning ordinance (Section 7, Subd. C)
1. Planned Unit Development (PUD) as regulated in Section 9.
2. Agriculture, *he keeping of one or more horses, nurseries, green-
houses for growing only, landscape gardening and tree farms, includ-
ing sale of products grown on premises.
3. Parks and recreational areas owned or operated by public bodies,
other than the City of Plymouth.
4. Private recreation including golf club house, country club, swimming
pool or tennis club.
5. Public schools or equivalent private schools.
6. Churches or other religious or philanthropic institutions,
cemeteries.
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7. Day care center and nursery school when operated in churches or
public or private schools.
8. Municipal, administrative or service buildings or uses including
public and semi-public institutions, libraries, museums, post
offices, etc., except industrial type uses.
9. Essential service buildings.
10. Home occupations as defined by this ordinance.
11. Railroad rights of way.
12. Cemetery
13. Mining or land reclamation.
Jim, that represents the entire list from the ordinance. A number of those
conditional uses are obviously not of interest to the School District. The
Planned Unit Development (PUD) requires a minimum of a 40 acre parcel unless
the petitioner can demonstrate that the minimum area requirement should be
waived because the PUD is in the public interest and that one or more or
both of the following conditions exist:
a) Unusual features of the property itself or the surrounding neigbor-
hood are such that development under the standard provisions of the
normal district would not be appropriate in order to conserve a
feature of importance to the neighborhood or community.
b) The property adjoins property that has been developed under the
provisions of the PUD ordinance and will contribute to the amenities
of the neighborhood.
In any event, the minimum project size cannot not be less than 15 acres
without a special variance approved by the City Council.
Other conditional uses within the present zoning provide the District with
the opportunity to have the facility converted to a private school and
nursery. school or perhaps, administrative offices for the District. This
latter use was also one of the options considered by the District's Beacon
Heights Committee and is referred to in their report of February 22, 1983.
Mayor Davenport's committee is prepared to meet again to discuss the Beacon
Heights School use. As noted in my January 7 meeting notes, the Committee
anticipated meeting again after the School District had developed additional
information on the possibility or feasibility of moving the administrative
offices to the Beacon Heights site.
Mr. dim Kemp
February 27, 1985
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It is our desire to work closely and cooperatively with the School District
as you seek to find an appropriate use for your property. We are prepared
to meet at any mutually convenient time to further the achivement of this
objective, as well as to provide you or the District with additional
information you may need to facilitate your review of the options available.
Yours truly,
6Cit3as G.Willis
Manager
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Mayor & City Council
Blair Tremere, Director of Planning & Community Development
BEACON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
January 7, 1985
Mayor Davenport and I met on January 7 with Lester and June Nielsen, and
Mrs. Pat Redick, representing the Beacon Heights neighborhood, and Shirli
Vioni and Stan Tikkanen of the School District. The purpose of this meeting
was to have the parties become acquainted with the topic and review the
history of the School District's desire to recycle the property into some
other use.
Mayor Davenport thanked the parties for getting together to discuss this
issue. He noted that the School District and its taxpayers have a consider-
able amount invested in Beacon Heights and that it would be to everyone's
advantage to insure that this asset was properly recycled. He noted that
Dean Fitch, representing the Board, was not present because he was out of
town and wondered whether or not the Board as a whole was endorsing the
meeting with the citizens and the City to seek to find ways by which the
School District could use its property. Shirli Vioni noted that the Board
members were aware of the committee and endorsed its efforts.
Mayor Davenport noted that the City Council had previously received a
request for a land use guide plan amendment and rezoning for the property
from Ms. Jan Carlson (84060). This application had been denied by the City
Council and it was clear that it was the City Council's intention that the
property should not be rezoned from the R1 -A single family zoning classifi-
cation. The committee members should therefore consider uses for the
property which are either permitted or conditional under the R1 zoning
district. The City Manager reviewed these types of uses from the zoning
code. Mayor Davenport also indicated that the Beacon Heights Committee
report submitted to the District's Building and Grounds Committee in
February 1983, provided a rich background of possible alternative uses for
the site, and that this report should be used as a reference point. He
noted that the Building and Grounds Committee considered that rezoning of
the property would be "doubtful".
The Nielsen's and Mrs. Redick confirmed that the neighborhood would not
desire to see the property rezoned, but would prefer some permitted or
conditional use. They also would like to see the property utilized rather
than remain closed and therefore subject to deterioriation and vandalism.
Mayor Davenport suggested that the Beacon Heights Committee report of 1983
be re -reviewed to look at the feasibility of moving the District offices to
the Beacon Heights site and selling the administration site for housing.
That site is also zoned R1 -A. It was agreed that Stan Tikkanen would review
the 1983 report and the Wold Associates data on the economic viability of
such a move. The City will, upon request, assist in providing information
on possible development costs as well as land values at the request of the
District. It was suggested that the administrative office site would be
"choice" for residential development with Gleason Lake on one side, Burl
Oaks and Luce Line to the north, and the Kingswood Farm to the south. A
small neighborhood park might be required, but that could easily be
accommodated within a residential development.
BEACON HEIGHTS ELEW- -ARY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
January 7, 1985
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The School District also will look into determining whether or not the
Gullickson field on the site would constrain its --use for other purposes.
Shirli Vloni noted that there had previously been some interest expressed in
using the Beacon Heights site for a church. She thinks this is still a
possible option, although it might be considered a long shot. Other
possible uses, assuming the present structures would remain, would be for a
private school, day care or senior citizen activity center. Any use of the
existing school site would require substantial investments to bring them up
to code depending on the type of occupancy.
It was agreed that the committee would get together upon request of the
School District officials after they have developed additional data on the
feasibility of moving the administrative offices to the Beacon Heights site.
February 26, 1985
CITY C�
PUMOUTR
Mr. Robert Scribner, President
Association of Medicine Lake Area Citizens
2015 Lancaster Lane
Plymouth, MN 441
Dear ribner:
Historically the City has been frustrated in its efforts to undertake
enforcement efforts on Medicine Lake. Under State law, various agencies are
charged with enforcement on the lake.
On February 8, with the encouragement of Medicine Lake area residents who
attended a January 14 Town Meeting, a total of 17 law enforcement officials
conducted a saturation enforcement effort. Represented in this effort were
the Hennepin County Water Patrol, Department of Natural Resources, Federal
Narcotics Division, Hennepin County Park Reserve District and the City of
Plymouth.
The project resulted in the tagging of 15 juveniles for alcohol related
offenses, 8 careless driving violations on the lake, and another 10
miscellaneous verbal warnings. The bulk of the individuals arrested
incidentially were not Plymouth residents.
This approach is not a "flash in the pan" effort. The Hennepin County Water
Patrol has agreed to continue a routine patrol of the lake primarily on
weekends. Our Public Safety Department will also continue to monitor the
situation on the lake and will conduct another saturation effort if activity
justifies.
I, and the City Council, are sensitive to the continuing concerns of
Medicine Lake area residents. We share your desire to protect this
tremendous resource. Unfortunately, because of the regional attraction of
the lake, problems occasionally develop in maintaining peace, tranquility
and environmental balance in the area.
You can be assured we will continue our efforts
appreciate it if you would share this information
AMLAC and individuals living adjacent to the lake.
please feel -free to c act me.
SinV&r'
DavDavenport
Mayor
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Plymouth Public Safety Department
in this area. I would
with other members of
If you have questions
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CITY OF
PLYMOUTH -
February 28, 1985
Mr. Daniel J. Lopez
17725 11th Avenue North
Plymouth, MN 55447
Dear Mr. Lopez:
Thank you for your recent letter. I and the Council are
pleased to receive some positive feedback regarding the
2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. parking restrictions.
I also was pleased to learn that the City's plowing efforts
have been facilitated by the ordinance as well.
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February 28, 1985
Mr. Donald R. Paschke
700 Harbor Lane
Plymouth, MN 55441
Dear Mr. Paschke:
Thank you for your letter of February 4th in which you express
your concern with respect to the decision of the City Council
denying your request for a lot division.
I appreciate your concern about the Council's disposition of
your request. As a policy-making body, the Council is ultimately
responsible for making its decisions on requests such as yours
by a majority vote. Your particular application was reviewed at
a time when there was a membership change on the City Council
and as a result, what may have been perceived to have been a
majority in support for your position in December, was reversed
in January. While this is unfortunate from your perspective,
it is the way governments must operate: that is, people holding
policy-making positions must individually cast their votes as
their best judgment dictates.
I do not believe it would be appropriate for the City Council to
take action to reconsider its January 7th action as I would
anticipate the outcome would be the same. I am sorry that you
are not able to achieve your objective in this particular request,
but hope that we may be able to be of assistance to you at some
date in the tur
David J. Daj6enport
Mayor
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