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MINUTES OF REGULAR BOARD OF JUNE 8,1995 <br />MINNEHAHA CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT <br />BOARD OF MANAGERS <br />CALL TO ORDER. The regular meeting of the Board of Managers of the Minnehaha Creek <br />Watershed Distnet was called to order by President Maple at 6:10 p m . Thursday. June 8. 1995, <br />Minnetonka City Hall Community Room. Minnetonka. Minnesota. <br />Managers Present: President Tom Maple. Vice President Woody Love, Treasurer Tom <br />LaBounty, Secretary Jolin Thomas, Pamela Blixt. Monica Gropss and Martha Hartfiel. <br />Managers absent: none <br />Also present: Counsels Louis Smith, Prasanta Reddy; F.^iinccrs Mike Panzer, Andrew <br />SyTcrson; Staff. Distnet Director Gene Strommen, Assistant Distpct Director Suzanne W'eedman. <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES. Manager Love moved to waive the reading of the 6/25/95 minutes, <br />seconded by Manager Thomas. Strommen noted a correction in the minutes, page 1, PERMIT <br />APPLICATIONS paragraph, line 10. delete “Minneapolis grant wrinen approval of’, and insert in its <br />place “St Louis Park appiove ’. Maiuiger Gross noted a spelling correction for Dale Claridge s name <br />among those also present. VOTE. Motion to approve as corrected earned. <br />CITIZEN COMMENTS. Vance Harris, 1305 Bl.ick Oaks La, Plymouth, an affected property <br />owner adjacent to the Gleason Creek II subwatershed improvement project, expressed his appreciation for <br />the work done to upgrade Gleason Creek. He noted that the area is considerably improved over the <br />condition which existed prior to the project start. Landscape improvements were also cited as well done <br />and a great benefit to the area. The board acknowledged this comment with an appreciation for the <br />patience and confidence the neighbors exhibited during the project. <br />Susu Jeffries, Braemar Av., Minneapolis, took e.xception to the characterization made of her <br />comments by Dennis Trooien. attorney for Halley Homes Builders, as reported in the May 25, 1995 <br />board meeting. Jeffries presented an overhead illustration sho\ving comparisons of wetland areas to re­ <br />make her point about what she believes is happening to the floodplain in the Haley Homes development. <br />LONG LAKE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. Engineer Panzer distributed the Long Lake <br />Improvement Project Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW') to the board members. The <br />EAW IS scheduled to ic published in the Environmental Quality Board Monitor June 19, followed <br />by a 30 day comment period endmg July 18. Panzer then pointed out that a meeting wth Jack <br />Wohlfers and his legal counsel on the designated site June 7 resulted in the landowner finding the <br />project too large and occupy ing too much of their land. <br />John B. Lennes. Jr. attorney for the WahIfors family, presented his client’s position. He <br />questioned why other propem- is not being considered. He cited an example of the publicly owned <br />property to the south. His client believes the 130,000 cu.yds of material to be removed will take a long <br />time to move, disrupting the WahIfors and their neighbors. His client may be more supportive of a <br />project “a little smaller”, Lennes continued. He added that the WahIfors would like to preserve some <br />horse trails near the north end. He also said that the land has been in the WahIfors family for over 100 <br />years Lennes also questioned if a “home” for the soil will be found before it is removed.