02/08/00 LCEC AgP
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NOTICE
• Land Conservation & Environment Committee
will meet
Tuesday, February 8, 2044
and at 5:45 p.m. at
Shorewood City Hall
5755 Country Club Road
Shorewood, MN 55331
Agenda
1. Convene Meeting
A. Role Call
B. Review Agenda
2. Approval of Minutes - Meeting of January 11, 1999
3. Discussion of Open Space Plan
• 4. Discussion of Issues Regarding Deer Population
5. Reports on Member Projects
6. Reports on Guest Speakers
7. Newsletter Report
8. Adjournment
A majority of the City Council may be present. No Council action will be taken.
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City of Shorewood
• Land Conservation and Environmental Committee
Tuesday, January 8, 2000
MINUTES
Meeting called to order at 5:50 p.m. by Chair Fred Bruno.
ROLL CALL
Present - Chair Fred Bruno, Donna Woodruff, Tom Schmid, Paula Berndt and
Lucinda Kircher
Absent - Joel Jurgens
REVIEW OF AGENDA
The agenda was approved.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The comment was made that the vote for the motion's passed at the previous
meetings were not reflected in the minutes. The minutes were approved as
. changed. Motion by Donna Woodruff, second by Lucinda Kircher. 7-0.
PRESENTATION BY GLENDA SPIOTTA
Glenda Spiotta, a Planner & Program Manager for the Minnehaha Creek
Watershed District briefly gave a presentation to the committee regarding the
Watershed District and its role in regards to the City of Shorewood. This was
primarily an introductory presentation on the Watershed District, however,
discussion took place in regards to it to have additional meetings with the
Watershed District.
Glenda began by explaining that the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District was
created in 1967, established by the Minnesota Legislative act. The Watershed
District is an overlay district that is one of the largest metro-watersheds in the
United States. It involves two counties, two townships, and twenty-seven cities.
A seven member volunteer board governs the district.
Glenda explained that the main purpose of the Watershed District is to protect and
manage water in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed. Glenda also explained that a
large part of the watershed's duties evolve around monitoring the water quality of
lakes and waterbodies included in the watershed. She also noted that another
important responsibility of the watershed is to educate the public about the it,
• more importantly about the technical data that is being collected on the watershed.
In order to carry out these programs, which encompasses a four million-dollar
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NEWSLETTER REPORT
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Fred Bruno stated that he has submitted a letter to Jim Hurm for the city
newsletter, which he hopes, will be in time for the upcoming newsletter. Fred
explained that it was an introductory letter for the citizens, explaining the benefits
of conservation and the committee itself
ADJOURNMENT
Motion by Donna Woodruff, seconded by Fred Bruno. The meeting was
adjourned at 6:45 p.m.
SIGNED
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CITY OF INTER-OFFICE COMMUNICATION
SHOREWOOD
TO: Land Conservation & Environment Committee Member
FROM: Daniel Ehrke, Environmental/Planning Intern
DATE: 01-13-99
RE: Suggested Time Line for Initiating Open Space Plan
Purpose
The purpose of this memo is to make suggestions on when and how the committee should initiate
the Open Space Plan processes. Staff has also made recommendations in this memo on how the
process can be carried out. Many of these recommendations mirror the ones outlined in the
report that was submitted to the council on December 14, 1998 by the Land Conservation
Committee.
It is important to remember that this memo is intended to serve as a catalyst for discussion at the
• February 8, 2000 meeting, however, time is important since a report is due to the City Council in
June in regards to the open space plan.
Summary
It is staff's believe that citizen involvement is very important to the success of the Open Space
Plan for the City of Shorewood. We follow the recommendations of the Land Conservation
Report to involve the citizens to insure that the plan is consistent with the community's values.
Likewise, local support and consciousness of the plan are also extremely important to the overall
success of the Open Space Plan. By involving the citizens in the planning process early on, input
will be made and more importantly support will grow.
In the early stages of the planning process staff believes that it will be important to hold
community meetings to educate the public on the importance of the plan and also to allow staff
to obtain feedback from Shorewood's citizens. Times and places of these community meetings
should change, to allow all citizens the opportunity to attend the meetings.
Staff opinion is that the use of visual preference survey would be very effective method of
gaining an idea on what the community values in open space. This method would also allow for
discussion for those attending the meetings on what vision, goals, and objectives they feel are
important for the Open Space Plan. Again, it would be important to have these meeting at
different times and places to truly get an understanding of the community's opinions as a whole.
• Once the survey was finalized, staff could then compile a report that would then be given to the
Land Conservation Committee. This report would not only include what the citizen's of