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Home My WebLink AboutCouncil Information Memorandum 03-23-2017CITY OF PLYMOUTH COUNCIL INFO MEMO March 23, 2017 EVENTS / MEETINGS Official City Meeting Calendars ......................................................................................................... Page 2 Tentative List of Agenda Items ........................................................................................................... Page 5 CORRESPONDENCE Small Cell Wireless Facility Legislation ............................................................................................. Page 7 Thank You from Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners ............................................................ Page 9 Home Expo set for April 7-8 ............................................................................................................. Page 10 Preliminary Plat and Variances for Garland Meadows Located at 1415 Garland Lane North (2017010) ........................................................................................... Page 12 Site Plan Amendment for East Medicine Lake Park Located at 1740 Medicine Lake Boulevard East (2017020) .......................................................................... Page 13 Rezoning Site Plan and Conditional Use Permit for Plymouth Memory Care Located at 18040 Medina Road (2017021).................................................................................................... Page 14 REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST Hennepin County Rainy Day Fund Dwindles to Lowest Amount in Recent History, Star Tribune . Page 16 Metro Contributes Roughly Half of State Transportation Dollars, Gets Fewer in Return, Star Tribune ............................................................................................. Page 18 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Healthy Living Fair Plymouth Creek Center 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 March 2017 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE (EQC) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (HRA) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 5:00-7:00 PM Board & Commission Social City Hall Lobby 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 6:00 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Transit Update and parking ramp concept plan for Agora Development Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 11:00 AM—2:00 PM Wedding Exp Plymouth Creek Center Page 2 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 5:00 PM Primavera Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony Plymouth Creek Center 22 11:00 AM Primavera Exhibit Open Plymouth Creek Center 2311:00 AM Primavera Exhibit Open 6:30 PM Primavera/Literary Night Plymouth Creek Center 24 25 26 27 28 29 April 2017 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Plymouth Creek Center Feasibility Study Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL Council Chambers 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE (EQC) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 4:30 PM-7:00 PM Open Book Meeting Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (HRA) MEETING Medicine Lake Room SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT 5:30 PM JOINT COUNCIL/EDA MEETING Workforce, Senior and Affordable Housing Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers CHANGES ARE NOTED IN RED 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Plymouth Home Expo Plymouth Creek Center 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Plymouth Home Expo Plymouth Creek Center 30 Page 3 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 6:00 PM Walk with the Mayor Plymouth Creek Center 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kids Garage Sale Plymouth Creek Center 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May 2017 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE (EQC) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION (PRAC) MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (HRA) MEETING Medicine Lake Room SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT MEMORIAL DAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Lodging Tax Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Bark in the Park Hilde Performance Center Page 4 Tentative Schedule for City Council Agenda Items April 11, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Plymouth Creek Center Feasibility Study update April 11, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Public hearing to consider refunding existing bonds for the Family Child Development Center •Announce Primavera on April 21-23 •Approve Cooperative Funding Agreement with the Hennepin County Consortium for fair housing activities •Public hearing on the conveyance of property to Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation (location of substation) •Public hearing on the conveyance of property to Dave and Cheryl Cornille, 3035 Weston Lane April 25, Joint Meeting with HRA, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Workforce, senior, and affordable housing April 25, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Update from County Attorney Mike Freeman May 9, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Lodging tax May 9, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers May 23, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Oaths of Office to Police Officers Kasey Beran, Brady Hector, Paul Nystrom, and Brianna Bannon June 13, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Continued hearing on lodging tax June 27, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers July 25, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Announce Kids Fest on August 3 August 8, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers August 22, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers September 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Announce Plymouth on Parade on September 23 •Approve 2018 proposed budget, preliminary general property tax levy, HRA levy and budget hearing date Page 5 September 26, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers October 10, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers October 24, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers November 14, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers November 28, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers December 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Public hearing on 2018 budget, general property tax levy, HRA levy, and 2018-2022 Capital Improvement Program •Approve 2018 Target and Trap Shooting License renewal •Approve 2018 Amusement License renewals •Approve 2018 Tobacco License renewals Page 6 netonka 14600 Minnetonka Boulevard Minnetonka , MN 55345 952-939 -82 00 Fax 952-939-8244 Terry Schneider, Mayor March 21 , 2017 Honorable Paul Anderson Minnesota Senate Building , Room 2103 95 University Avenue W . St. Paul , MN 55155 Dear Senator Anderson : The city of Minnetonka has significant concerns with pending small cell wireless facility legislation (H .F . 739/S.F. 561) and supports the efforts of the League of Minnesota Cities to protect the interests of local governments and local residents . Smart phones and mobile services are a part of our culture and are in high demand . We understand the industry 's desire to roll out 5G service and the benefits of an efficient and cost- effective wireless expansion . As elected officials and stewards for our residents , however, we cannot adopt the single -minded view taken by the wireless industry . We need to protect the interests that our residents share : • Protecting the infrastructure and facilities that we were elected to manage , including the ability to objectively evaluate if the installation of the small cell wireless devices would have a negative impact on city infrastructure , especially related to public safety . • Being fairly compensated for costs associated with accommodating , supervising and facilitating the numerous locations as well as reasonable compensation for the use of taxpayer-funded right-of-way . • Protecting our environment from unnecessary visual blight. As proposed , this legislation forces privately-owned and managed infrastructure onto public property , with as little local oversight as possible, and at minimal cost -for the benefit of the private profit-making enterprise . Our concerns about the bill include : It severely limits local control over the publicly-owned right-of-way and infrastructure in that right-of-way. The bill mandates that small wireless facilities be allowed as permitted uses in all zoning districts , so long as they are in the right-of-way . Local governments cannot set density or height limitations and cannot even require wireless providers to collocate. This could result in a proliferation of wireless support structures within right-of-way that is already used by Minnetonka ... wher e quality is our nature Page 7 Honorable Paul Anderson March 21, 2017 Page 2 water , sewer, gas and electric; the potential results include not only visual clutter without a demonstrated need for multiple structures , but also increased complications in managing multiple types of infrastructure when a road improvement or reconstruction project is needed . If enacted, the bill would also impose strict timeliness to review permit applications that may include numerous proposed sites . Failure to meet the deadline will result in automatic approval of the application . It provides great economic benefit to for-profit companies, at the cost of local taxpayers. The legislation expressly acknowledges that any property owner other than a local government unit (e.g ., a private property owner or the state government) has the right to set rates, terms and conditions for a wireless provider to access its property . For local government units, however, the bill prevents the requirement for a franchise or license , places severe limits on application fees , and prohibits recovery of fees charged by third-party contractors to the local government. This imposes a significant burden on local taxpayers -especially those from smaller cities that rely upon third-party contractors for professional and technical services . It provides preferential treatment for private telecommunications right-of-way users, over other equally important (and publicly owned) right-of-way users. Local governments manage the right-of-way for everyone , primarily the public. This bill elevates wireless facility use of the right-of-way above all other uses . Water, sewer, gas and electric uses are all critical to public health and safety . Gas and electric companies need to have franchises to locate in our right-of-way , and right-of-way authorities may negotiate franchise fees for use of that asset. Our need to manage right-of-way is just as great for wireless facilities as it is for essential public services that provide residents with water, sanitation , heat and light. Local governments must retain control over their right-of-way , and preferential treatment should not be granted to private users . We believe in and support a strong market-based economy . Government should not unduly burden private enterprise . We routinely work with utilities to ensure that their projects can proceed in a timely fashion , but with adequate conditions to protect public infrast~ucture and to compensate local taxpayers for the use of public assets . H.F. 739/S.F. 561 provides private wireless providers with unwarranted priority to the use of publicly-owned right-of-way over other users . It also subordinates the public 's substantial interest in managing public property to the financial interests of a for-profit industry , w ithout providing appropriate compensation to the public. For these reasons , we ask you to oppose this legislation . Sincerely , l~~~·~ Terry Schneider Mayor c: Minnetonka City Council Geralyn Barone , Minnetonka City Manager Page 8 Interfaith Outreach . Igniting the power of community March 15, 2017 Mayor Kelli Slavik RECEIVED City of Plymouth 3400 Plymouth Blvd MAR 2 : 2011 Plymouth, MN 55447-1482 BY, Dear Mayor Kelli: Thank you for your vital support of Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners. Your grant of$28,642.00 from the City of Plymouth is greatly appreciated. 19,052.00 of your grant will be directed to general social services.This grant impacts the lives of struggling families and individuals living right here in our community. You help us provide our neighbors with services in the areas of family support, food, housing and neighborhoods, education and youth, employment, and transportation.Thanks to you,families can move past their immediate crises toward building strong futures. The remaining$9,590 will be directed to our Neighborhood Program (formerly called CONECT). The Neighborhood Program delivers onsite services in 9 affordable housing neighborhoods, helping residents receive immediate benefit and avoiding problematic transportation barriers whenever possible.These services include Homework Clubs,Teen Leaders programs, and Summer Camp for youth. Also, mobile computer labs help residents find employment, develop basic computer skills,and connect with their children's schools via the internet. Additionally, senior programming helps support healthy independent living for older residents.The Neighborhood Program succeeds when families are stable, children succeed in school,and seniors live independently&well. Becau • f you this success is possible! ni p Thank you again for your generous support. r V Sincerely, 5)::(1 off LaDonna Hoy Executive Director Interfaith Outreach &Community Partners Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners is a 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization. Gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Interfaith Outreach did not provide any goods or services in consideration of this gift. Interfaith Outreach&Community Partners I 1605 County Road 101 N,Plymouth,MN 55447 763-489-7500 www.iocp.org Page 9 City of Plymouth News Release For Immediate Release March 16, 2017 Contact: Kari Hemp Recreation Manager City of Plymouth 763-509-5220 khemp@plymouthmn.gov Plymouth Home Expo set for April 7-8 Plymouth, Minn. – The City of Plymouth will hold the Plymouth Home Expo 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 7 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 8 at the Plymouth Creek Center Fieldhouse, 14800 34th Ave. N. An event focused on all aspects of home improvement, the Home Expo covers landscaping, siding, roofing, windows, masonry, gardening, yard art, cleaning supplies, kitchen gadgets and more – and admission is free. Attendees can gather remodeling ideas, get ready for growing season, shop for unique gardening tools and furnishings, and take advantage of expertise of more than 100 vendors. The Home Expo will also offer a MN Marketplace, featuring local products, as well as a $15 flower bouquet booth, garden area and plant sale throughout the event. Children are welcome to attend and inflatable bouncers will be available. Attendees can enter hourly door prize drawings at no cost. Prizes are donated by expo vendors and are valued at $25 and greater. Get Help Choosing Trees, Shrubs City of Plymouth forestry staff will be present at the expo to offer assistance with selecting trees and shrubs. The city’s annual low-cost tree and shrub sale runs through Monday, May 1 at plymouthmn.gov/treesale. Home Expo Features Fix-It Clinic New this year, the Plymouth Home Expo will offer a Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 8. The clinic helps attendees fix broken items, including small appliances, clothing, electronics and mobile devices. Participants can learn valuable troubleshooting and basic repair skills, and reduce waste. For details, visit hennepin.us/fixitclinic. Funds raised by the Plymouth Home Expo benefit the Millennium Garden at the Plymouth Creek Center and help keep the city landmark well maintained. -More - Page 10 For more information or to view a list of participating vendors, visit plymouthmn.gov/homeexpo. Cutline (Home_Expo_2016.jpg): Covering every corner of home improvement, the Plymouth Home Expo is set for April 7-8. Attendees can gather landscaping and remodeling ideas, and shop locally produced MN Marketplace items. Cutline (Home_Expo2_2016.jpg): The flower bouquet booth is a popular attraction at the annual Plymouth Home Expo. This year’s event is April 7-8 at the Plymouth Creek Center Fieldhouse. -30- Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 WEST METRO 416485543 Hennepin County rainy day fund dwindles to lowest amount in recent history Some leaders concerned; others see it as a positive. By Kelly Smith Star Tribune MARCH 17, 2017 — 10:24PM Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune "We don't have quite as much room to spare," said Hennepin County Board Chairwoman Jan Callison. "It does constrain our options … especially in uncertain times." The rainy day fund for Hennepin County is trickling down to its lowest amount in recent history. To boost staffing for programs like child protection or, just this week, a youth sex-trafficking pilot prevention program, the county has been tapping its contingency fund, which started the year at $8 million — the lowest number in at least a decade. “We don’t have quite as much room to spare,” said Commissioner Jan Callison, who chairs the County Board. “It does constrain our options … especially in uncertain times.” Page 16 Hennepin County’s $1.9 billion budget is second only in size to the state’s budget. Normally, the county’s contingency budget is several million dollars higher; in 2012, it almost reached $23 million. The fund’s low ebb concerns some county commissioners like Callison, especially in light of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget unveiled this week that calls for cuts to programs that could force counties to pick up funding gaps. The county initially proposed a $13 million contingency fund, but that dropped to $8 million at the start of the year after $5 million was withdrawn for a $13 million child protection reform plan, which includes hiring more than 100 staffers. The fund has now dropped to $7.3 million after the county spent $750,000 on pay raises for Sheriff’s Office deputies over a two-year period, and this week’s approval of two new staff members for a sex-trafficking pilot prevention program — which was actually cut in half from the four staffers initially proposed. Other county leaders aren’t as concerned as Callison. “I’ve always thought our contingency budget is too big,” said Commissioner Jeff Johnson, often the lone board dissenter on spending votes. “It’s almost an invitation for us to spend more money … it’s been less about emergencies and more about a new program that we want to fund.” Johnson said he would actually push for the county to have a smaller contingency budget, along with a smaller property tax levy. With a $1.9 billion budget, he said, “It’s not like we’re scraping by.” Nearly 40 percent of Hennepin County’s budget is funded with the property taxes of homeowners in Minneapolis and west metro suburbs. The county levied $759.4 million in taxes this year, nearly $33 million more than last year. The rest of the budget is funded by federal and state aid, fees and services and other revenue. The biggest expense for the county, as with most organizations, is employee salaries and benefits. Hennepin County does have a separate reserve fund that could be tapped in an emergency, but Budget Director David Lawless said $7.3 million in the contingency fund is “not an unreasonable number.” He understood that some board members were concerned about spending from the account, he said, adding: “For an organization with a $1.9 billion budget, it’s not a lot.” kelly.smith@startribune.com 612-673-4141 kellystrib Page 17 POLITICS Metro contributes roughly half of state transportation dollars, gets fewer in return Jerry Holt, Star Tribune By J. PATRICK COOLICAN AND MARYJO WEBSTER , STAR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS March 20, 2017 - 6:08 AM 416485543 Greater Minnesota gets far more money for roads and bridges than its residents pay in taxes for those projects, a new Star Tribune analysis of transportation funding has found. The review found that metro and greater Minnesota taxpayers each provide about half the money for Minnesota’s roads and bridges, but greater Minnesota gets twice as much back in projects. Page 18 Even when state money for transit is factored in, greater Minnesota receives 22 percent more state transportation money than the metro, according to three years of transportation funding data. Republican Senate leaders on Monday are planning to review their 10-year transportation funding plan, which is expected to reignite the debate about how transportation money is collected and where it is spent. “When you’re dealing with chronic insufficiency, these fights get exacerbated,” DFL Gov. Mark Dayton said in an interview last week. The division of state transportation dollars is a flash point in the broader debate in the Legislature about the Southwest light rail project and public transit in the metro. Greater Minnesota lawmakers are convinced that their constituents are paying for what they view as a colossal boondoggle, while metro legislators contend their constituents’ contributions should be compensated with a robust transit system to lessen traffic. Geographic analysis The Star Tribune data combined the three major pools of money spent by the Minnesota Department of Transportation and assigned it to counties through a geographic analysis. It contradicts a commonly held perception in greater Minnesota — and one heard often in political campaigns — that the metro is taking more than it gives. MnDOT reviewed the data and verified its accuracy. “The data show greater Minnesota roads are doing well under the formula and we need to make sure metro needs, particularly in transit, are taken care of,” said Rep. Frank Hornstein of Minneapolis, a DFL leader on transportation issues. Rep. Paul Torkelson, R-Hanska, chairman of the House Transportation Finance Committee, conceded the discrepancy but said it makes sense given the nearly 255,000 lane miles in greater Minnesota against about 39,000 in the metro area: “I think the current distribution is reasonable and reflects the geography of the state,” he said. From the greater Minnesota perspective, it has 87 percent of the lane miles but receives just two-thirds of the money. Part of bigger picture The funding discrepancy — and perceptions about who gets what — complicate an already difficult path to a major transportation package that Republican lawmakers and Dayton have been unable to achieve for more than two years, allowing the nation’s fifth-largest road network to decay while traffic chokes off movement of people and goods in the metro. Page 19 The two sides have disagreed about how to pay for it, with Dayton preferring a gas tax increase to protect funding for schools and other priorities, while Republicans want to use existing money. But another source of conflict has emerged. Minnesota’s politics are increasingly geographically polarized, with Republicans dominating greater Minnesota while the DFL controls the cities, and especially the Twin Cities. The geographic conflict is showing up at the Capitol in fights over issues like environmental protection and gun rights — but especially transportation. “I’ve long maintained that it’s appropriate for the metro, the economic engine of the state, to subsidize greater Minnesota,” said Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis. “But it gets me going when they claim we’re stealing their money or getting more resources than we deserve.” Republicans in outstate races have used DFLers’ association with the metro area to portray them as big city carpetbaggers in thrall to the cities’ liberal elites. At a candidate forum last year, Rep. Jeff Backer, R-Browns Valley, attacked Dayton: “He put a train ahead of greater Minnesota,” referring to the governor’s commitment to Southwest light rail project. Billions at stake The fight is more than just regional bragging rights. Billions of dollars in transportation projects are at stake. A long-standing consensus of Minnesota transportation politics, Dayton and others say, dictated that any significant bill had to push road and bridge money to every corner of the state, while also fueling the future of Metro Transit to lessen congestion in the state’s major urban center. Republicans control the Legislature by dominating greater Minnesota with a shrinking presence in the metro, so their motivation to fund transit in the Twin Cities, such as the Southwest light rail, is waning. In 2016, House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, offered a plan to increase road and bridge money by $600 million per year, but it included no money for transit and an explicit pledge to kill the Southwest light rail. Staying competitive In the end, the 2016 legislative session collapsed without any new transportation or public works spending. Page 20 But metro DFLers and some Republicans see light rail as an important piece of the cities’ transportation future that they say will attract companies and younger residents, who fear the lengthy commutes of such cities as Atlanta and Washington. Torkelson, the House transportation chairman with the task of putting together a plan that can pass both chambers and get a signature from Dayton, pointed out that the road and bridge discrepancy in greater Minnesota’s favor disregards state support for Metro Transit. The Met Council will receive $359 million from state sources this year to run buses, light rail and other transit systems designed to lessen Twin Cities traffic, while greater Minnesota will get $81 million for transit. Once those figures are added to road spending, greater Minnesota still receives about 22 percent more funding — about $1 billion outstate vs. about $800 million in the metro. Still, Torkelson said he is committed to transit: “I as transportation chair have no intention of ignoring or trying to sideline transit. It is part of the conversation, and I intend to dedicate a certain amount of resources to addressing transit needs.” He added an important caveat, however. The Counties Transit Improvement Board, which is made up of the five metro counties that collect a quarter-cent sales tax for regional transit projects, might dissolve. If it does, then Hennepin and Ramsey counties could increase that quarter-cent tax to a half-cent. In that case, Torkelson said, the metro would require less state money for transit needs, which would make the discrepancy even more lopsided in favor of greater Minnesota. Putting funds where the roads are Absent new funding, the road and bridge discrepancy is likely to grow because the state’s first priority is maintaining existing assets. “As we move to maintain assets, we move resources to where those assets are,” said Ted Schoenaker, the deputy state aid engineer for MnDOT. With more than six times the number of lane miles in greater Minnesota, MnDOT will have little choice but to spend the money there. Mayor Jeff Lunde of Brooklyn Park, a Republican who ran an unsuccessful race for state Senate last year, said the metro should adapt to the new political reality of geographic gridlock. “It’s like the high school prom: You keep asking the same girl for a date and she keeps saying ‘no.’ So you move on,” he said. Page 21 Lunde is a strong supporter of light rail because, he said, companies considering a move to his city want a robust transit system. The conclusion, Lunde said: “At some point the metro is going to have to move on and do it ourselves.” Dayton called this unfortunate, but inevitable: “The Balkanization of transportation funding is unfortunate and works against everyone’s best interests. But I realize it’s the prevailing view.” J. Patrick Coolican • 651-925-5042 MaryJo Webster • 612-673-1789 Page 22