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MEDINA CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF JULY 3, 2001
The City Council of Medina, Minnesota met in regular session on July 3, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. in
the City Hall Chambers. Mayor John Ferris presided.
Members present: Ferris, Smith, Workman, Zietlow, and Lane at 7:40 p.m.
Members absent: None.
Also present: Police Chief Ed Belland, Attorney Ron Batty, Public Works Director Jim Dillman,
City Engineer Tom Kellogg, Planning & Zoning Administrator Loren Kohnen, and Administrator
Clerk -Treasurer Paul Robinson.
1. Agenda
Moved by Phil Zietlow, seconded by Bruce Workman, to approve the agenda as presented.
Motion passed unanimously.
2. Approval of the Minutes from June 19, 2001 Regular Council Meeting
Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to approve the minutes of June 19, 2001 as
presented. Motion passed unanimously.
3. Comments from Residents in Attendance on Items Not on the Agenda
There were none.
4. Park Commission Comments
There was some discussion about a joint meeting between the City Council and the Park
Commission. A joint meeting was set up for the 24th of July at 7:00 p.m.
5. Planning Commission Comments
There were none.
6. Consent Agenda
A. Resolution 01-38 Approving Final Plat for Jack Day.
B. Wood Chip Disposal.
C. Resolution 01-37 Approving CUP for JDS Marketing.
Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to approve the consent agenda. Motion
passed unanimously.
7. Police Update on Mike Rouillard
Ed Belland said Mike Rouillard is in physical therapy and is planning on coming back to work in
August. Because of this injury, he will probably be extending his retirement date to April 2002.
Belland said he would still like to have Kevin Boecker work part-time until then, and would like to
request the ability to activate Kevin Boecker.
After some discussion, the consensus of the Council was to allow Ed to hire Kevin part-time to
fill in between now and when Mike Rouillard returns as a full-time officer.
Moved by Bruce Workman, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to approve the proposal to hire Kevin
part-time until Mike Rouillard returns full-time. Motion passed unanimously.
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8. Preliminary and Final Plat Approval for Raskob's Lakeview Second Addition
Loren Kohnen said at the last Council meeting, Mr. Raskob received a variance reducing the
amount of contiguous good soils needed for a lot subdivision. Kohnen said this is a simple lot
split. Therefore, staff would like the Council to consider preliminary and final plat approval at the
same time. He said all the easements were shown on the plat.
Ron Batty said title work still needs to be done for final plat approval. He said this would come
back to the Council when all the title work has been done.
Moved by Bruce Workman, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to authorize the City Attorney to prepare a
Final Plat Resolution. Motion passed unanimously.
Jim Lane arrived -7:40 p.m.
8. Consideration of Rezoning from Business Park to Rural Residential
Loren Kohnen showed the property owned by Mrs. Roskop owned on an overhead. He said
Mrs. Roskop and her daughter would like to take a piece of the property that is now zoned
Business Park and put it into a Rural Residential zoning.
Loren Kohnen said that this would involve a Comprehensive Plan amendment, as well as a
rezoning. He said staff recommends the Council not consider this change.
However, this is before the Council tonight to see if there is any interest by the Council in
bringing this request to the Planning Commission for a formal review.
Bruce Workman asked if this was an existing lot.
Loren Kohnen said no it was not an existing lot at this time.
Phil Zietlow said the City had just been through several years of planning to update the City's
Comprehensive Plan. He said a change at this point is fairly difficult.
Bernadette, the daughter of the owner, Mrs. Roskop, said they would like to build a home and
have a hobby farm on this property. She was born and raised on this property, they are running
out of room in their current home, and would like to build a home out here. She said it is a
beautiful property full of woods and wildlife. She said she would like to have her mother live
with them and also live near their business, the Medina Mini Storage, which they could better
maintain.
After some additional discussion, the Council considered whether or not this made the best
sense. Several Council members believed that this would not make the best sense for the long
term planning of the City, that quite a bit of effort had gone into placing this area in the Business
Park and that this property has been zoned commercially for over 20 years. The consensus
was that this change would have a tough time getting approval from the City Council.
9. County Road 101 Improvement Update
Paul Robinson said the County included three options in your packets. He said that staff and
the County were recommending layout option 1A. Robinson said the two main issues to be
decided were alignment of the road at the intersection of County Road 101 and TH 55, and the
type of access that would be allowed to the property at this intersection.
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Robinson said that there were a number of competing and conflicting interests in regards to the
access to the property. He said these were explained in the staff memo. He also said that
there were a few additional issues that needed consideration once the basic alignment issue
was resolved.
Robinson said a potential compromise may include a full access at the mid point of the Cudd
development and some type of restricted access right in only, or, right in, right out on the
Dorweiler property.
Phil Zietlow was concerned that there was no access being shown to the Cudd property on the
1A layout.
Carolyn Smith was concerned about the access to the Dorweiler property. She was not sure
that a right in, right out would be appropriate. She thought that a full intersection at Clydesdale
would be better. She also thought the road should be shifted more to the west and include a
new location of the frontage road, Clydesdale Trail, further to the north.
There was some discussion about a signalized intersection at Clydesdale Trail, especially if the
property on the west side of 101 were to develop commercially with more high traffic uses.
Phil Zietlow said we need to look at the best long term solution for the City. He believed that full
access at the mid point of the Cudd development makes sense. This way, traffic from the
Dorweiler property would not have to travel all the way to Evergreen to get full access to CR
101
There was some discussion about the various alignments.
Carolyn Smith had some discussions with the City Engineer about whether or not it was
possible to move the road over to the west.
The City Engineer said it would be possible, however, this would cause greater impacts to the
Holiday Station and to the properties across on Sioux Drive. These impacts would definitely
increase the cost of the project and may not necessarily provide a better road.
Carolyn Smith said that she was not necessarily looking at the impact to the current property
owner, but the best ultimate use of the property. She still thought that moving the road to the
west had some merit. She thought the County had provided extreme alternatives.
Robinson said that he thought the County tried to provide an alternative that would have the
least impact to the Dorweiler's property and one that would provide the best alignment. They
did not provide a multitude of options in between those two options.
Phil Zietlow said that he was in favor of a right in, right out at the Dorweiler property.
Bruce Workman said that he was okay with that as well, and believed that the 1A alignment
would provide the best benefit to both the City and the County in the long term.
There was some discussion about the differences between the #1 A and #3 alternatives. One
took 31,500 square feet of Mr. Dorweiler's property and the other around 17,000 square feet.
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There was some discussion about whether or not the City wanted to leave room for a trail on the
east side of 101 along the Cudd property.
Bob Leistikow of the Cudd development said they would rather the City not grade for a trail
there so that it would allow them to put a larger berm with more trees on it.
There was more discussion regarding the multiple options.
Moved by Phil Zietlow, seconded by Carolyn Smith, to approve the 1A alignment, with the
stipulation that full access be provided to the middle of the Cudd Development, and that the
Dorweiler property be guaranteed a right in, right out access, and that those be designated on
the plan. Motion passed unanimously.
Robinson said staff would go back to the County with this proposal and if approved, would bring
back a resolution for approval by the Council.
10. Lake Peter Drainage Issue
Jim Dillman said he would like to work on solving a drainage issue that has been more extreme
this year, at Peter Lake. He said there are some issues with keeping the culvert open. Dillman
said recently the Department of Natural Resources has been more flexible about allowing some
grading and digging to take place with the spoils to be placed near the area cleaned out. He
said he would like to apply for a permit from the DNR for this particular project.
There was some discussion about when this would be done.
Jim Dillman said that it would probably be done in the wintertime in order for them to access the
area.
There was some discussion about cost.
Dillman said there were no hard and fast figures at this point, however, he would like to proceed
with the DNR permit to see if they would allow this area to be dredged and for the ditch to be
improved.
Moved by Bruce Workman, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to authorize staff to proceed with a
Department of Natural Resources permit for dredging the outlet of Lake Peter. Motion passed
unanimously.
11. County Road 19 Improvement
Jim Dillman said the County is starting to work on the improvement for County Road 19. He
said a majority of the project is in Corcoran. However, a portion of the project will impact
Medina at the intersection of County Road 19 and TH 55. This was talked about at the last
meeting.
The most significant impact from this project will be to Jack Ebert's alternate septic site and
Kenny Doboszenski's primary septic site. Dillman said Doboszenski's may not have room for a
secondary site. He said at this point they are not looking for any formal action. They would like
to set up a joint meeting between the City's of Loretto, Medina, and Corcoran to talk about some
long-term solutions regarding sewer in this area. He said there may be a possibility of using
Loretto's sewage treatment system to help cover these two properties, and have the County
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help pay for a portion of the sewer infrastructure. Then at some time in the future, these
properties could be connected to municipal sewer service.
There was some discussion about the ways to provide service to the rural commercial holding
zone area. Dillman said it could go up TH 55 or it may be more feasible for the sewer to go
down to Chippewa to a lift station, and then be pumped across Chippewa over to the existing
sewer line at Willow and TH 55.
The consensus of the Council was to authorize staff to go ahead and set up a meeting between
the cities to discuss the various options for providing sewer in the short term for this area. Staff
was also directed to look at long-term infrastructure alternatives for providing sewer service to
the rural commercial holding zone.
11. Trail Along County Road 19
Galen Bruer, Chair of the Park Commission, said that Bob Byers of the Hennepin County
Transportation Department was here this evening. He said the County would like the City to
support a trail along County Road 19. He said that the Park Commission has done some
analysis on this trail and a trail has been shown along CR 19 in the Comprehensive Plan.
Galen Bruer said this issue came before the Park Commission initially as a safety issue from
some residents in Independence Beach who wanted to provide a safer trail along the west side
of the road. He said it looks like Hennepin County Parks may assume maintenance of the trail.
This would be helpful and relieve some of the concerns about maintenance.
At this point they are basically looking for the City Council to support an application for a federal
grant for the trail. He said that Mr. Byers may be able to add more information regarding that.
Bruce Workman asked if this would be a matching grant.
Mr. Byers said that yes, it would. Mr. Byers said that the County would be applying for a
matching grant and that they typically match about 20% of the cost. He said they were initially
approached by a citizen's group about the safety concerns and they agreed that there were
some and that a trail would help. He said this trail has also been shown in the northwest
suburban trail plan since the mid 90's.
There was some additional discussion about federal financing and some of the details.
Moved by Phil Zietlow, seconded by Bruce Workman, to support the County's application for a
Federal Trail Grant. Motion passed unanimously.
12. Traffic Signal Maintenance Agreement
Jim Dillman asked that this item be tabled in order to work out a couple details that were raised
today by the City Attorney. The item was tabled.
13. Payment of the Schoell and Madson Consulting Bill
There was some discussion about the past due bill. Both the Zoning Administrator and the City
Attorney reviewed the bill and believed that approximately half of the hours included sufficient
justification to warrant payment.
After some discussion, the City Council decided that was all that would be authorized to be paid
on this bill was $1,258.20.
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Moved by Jim Lane, seconded by Phil Zietlow, to authorize a final payment of $1,258.20 to
Schoell & Madson. Motion passed unanimously.
14. Pav the Bills
Moved by Phil Zietlow, seconded by Bruce Workman, to approve the bills, order check numbers
22574-22623 for $93,879.58, and payroll check numbers 17155-17174 for $18,070.61. Motion
passed unanimously.
15. Adjournment
Moved by Carolyn Smith, seconded by John Ferris, to adjourn the meeting at 9:30 p.m. Motion
passed unanimously.
o n B. Ferris, Mayor
Att
Paul RobiTrn, Administrator Clerk -Treasurer
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ORDER CHECKS - JULY 3, 2001
22574 ALL STEEL PRODUCTS $4,591.43
22575 ALL SURFACE SPECIALISTS $3,799.00
22576 ASPEN ENVIRONMENTAL $258.90
22577 BERGMAN COMPANIES $2,276.50
22578 BONESTROO, ROSENE, ANDERLIK $14,435.07
22579 CIPHER LABORATORIES $175.37
22580 CLASSIC CLEANING $399.38
22581 CONNELLY IND. ELECT. $28.57
22582 DELTA DENTAL $867.45
22583 DILLMAN, JAMES $75.00
22584 DRESSEL, ROBERT $75.00
22585 E-Z-RECYCLING $2,627.46
22586 ELM CREEK WATERSHED $2,947.01
22587 FORTIS BENEFITS $263.96
22588 GOPHER STATE ONE CALL $267.20
22589 HAWKINS INC. $302.13
22590 HENNEPIN COUNTY CENTRAL SVCS. $22.15
22591 HOME DEPOT/GECF $126.03
22592 KD & COMPANY $798.75
22593 KENNEDY & GRAVEN $11,184.91
22594 KRAEMER, EDWARD & SONS, INC. $2,689.78
22595 LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR SERVICES $198.00
22596 MASYS CORPORATION $1,704.00
22597 MAXWELL DESKTOP SERVICES $110.00
22598 MEDICA CHOICE $7,207.20
22599 MELROSE NORTH PYROTECHNICS $4,000.00
22600 METROCALL $108.73
22601 MIDWEST ASPHALT CORPORATION $113.46
22602 MINNESOTA CHILD SUPP. PYT.CTR. $630.00
22603 MINNESOTA DEPT. OF PUB.SAFETY $200.00
22604 NORTHERN ESCROW, INC. $4,750.00
22605 ORCHARD TRUST CO $880.00
22606 PEARSON BROS., INC. $10,192.50
22607 QW EST $584.35
22608 RANDY'S SANITATION $182.14
22609 RELIANT ENERGY MINNEGASCO $67.66
22610 ROCHESTER MIDLAND $346.85
22611 SCHARBER & SONS, INC. $596.40
22612 SCHERER, STEVEN $75.00
22613 SCHMIT, STEVEN PLUMBING $79.65
22614 SEWERMAN, INC $250.00
22615 STREICHER'S $134.67
22616 THIBAULT ASSOCIATES $6,711.60
22617 TOWN & CO. FENCE $3,350.00
22618 TRUGREEN CHEMLAWN (MTKA) $330.16
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ORDER CHECKS - JULY 3, 2001
22619 TRUGREEN CHEMLAWN (OSSEO) $662.45
22620 USPS $500.00
22621 VERIZON WIRELESS $10.24
22622 WRIGHT-HENNEPIN ELECTRIC $1,406.26
22623 XEROX CORPORATION $287.21
$93,879.58
PAYROLL CHECKS - JULY 2, 2001
17155 SMITH, CAROLYN A. $138.52
17156 FERRIS, JOHN B $207.79
17157 ZIETLOW, PHILIP K. $138.52
17158 ROBINSON, PAUL A. $1,306.05
17159 SCHERER, STEVEN T $1,063.39
17160 MCGILL, CHRISTOPHER R. $1,403.64
17161 ROUILLARD, MICHAEL J $1,255.52
17162 DILLMAN, JAMES D. $1,533.21
17163 DRESSEL, ROBERT P. $961.79
17164 BELLAND, EDGAR J. $1,901.74
17165 VIEAU, CECILIA M. $992.64
17166 SULANDER, LAURA L. $1,075.51
17167 LARSON, SANDRA L. $896.11
17168 BOECKER, KEVIN D. $268.68
17169 PRIEM, JON D. $1,140.99
17170 CHRI.STENSON, JEREMY L. $1,375.72
17171 NYSTROM, JAMES $1,122.22
17172 LANE, JAMES S. $138.52
17173 WORKMAN, BRUCE $138.52
17174 NELSON, JASON $1,011.53
$18,070.61
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