Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008 - 09 SepMaplewood Monthly September 2008 City Newsletter Primary Election September 9, 2008 Polls Open at 7:00AM With this being a presidential election year it is more important than ever to get out and vote. However voting in any type of election, whether its for local government or the presidential primaries, provides a unique opportunity to voice your opinion. Despite the important decisions determined through elections (for example, who our local, state, and national leaders will be or whether a referendum will pass or fail) most presidential races are participated in by less than 70 percent of the eligible voting public. These numbers drop even lower in off-presidential years or in the case of local elections. So this year make your vote count, beginning by page three participating in the Primary Election on September 9. See precinct! Please note that there are new precincts and/or precinct boundaries for many polling www.ci.maplewood.mn.us and clicking on “Find your polling precinct.” ...Experience It! At the Maplewood Community Center we recognize that people want an affordable top-notch facility with state-of-the-art equipment and innovative products. Voted “Best Inside: Fitness Center” eight times and recognized in The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s “Top 25 Metro Area Fitness Centers,” the Maplewood Community Center offers 2 Caught Recycling more than your average local health club. We invite you to be a part of Maplewood Community Center. 2 Dear Friends VISITOR OPEN HOUSE 3 Precinct Locations Sunday, October 5, 9:00AM to 3:00PM 2100 White Bear Avenue, Maplewood, MN 55109 4 Commission Corner YOUR FREE ADMISSION INCLUDES: Feeling Full After the Fair? Access to Strength and Cardio Centers (ages 16+) Come to the MCC Open House 5 Charitable Gambling and Pool for your “Mid-Day Membership Drawings and Prizes on a Stick!” 5 Child Care 9:00AM - 3:00PM for visitors ages 2+ Ready to Talk Transit? MCC is excited to announce that Group Fitness Classes Beginning at 9:15AM mid-day memberships will be available Dance and Fitness Programs starting at 12:00PM 5 Buyer Beware starting October 1. Mid-day memberships Family Flotation Party -- bring your swimsuit! are valid Monday through Friday from 10:00AM to 2:00PM. They are available 5 On the Police Scanner Join as an annual member and get one month FREE for family or individual purchase for three ($75 for individual, $120 for family) or and pay NO initial fees! (Mid-day Memberships twelve month increments ($300 for 6 Buckthorn excluded. Offer ends 10/31/08.) individual, $480 for family). Visit www.maplewoodcommunitycenter.com or call 651-249-2230 7 Fluorescent Lamps 651-249-2230 for a complete schedule of events. Diana Longrie: Mayor 651.774.1490 diana.longrie@ci.maplewood.mn.us Kathleen Juenemann: Councilmember 651.771.3670 kathleen.juenemann@ci.maplewood.mn.us Will Rossbach: Councilmember 651.779.0220 will.rossbach@ci.maplewood.mn.us Erik Hjelle: Councilmember 651.217.2172 erik.hjelle@ci.maplewood.mn.us John Nephew: Councilmember 651.776.5963 john.nephew@ci.maplewood.mn.us Chuck Ahl: Acting City Manager 651.249.2050 chuck.ahl@ci.maplewood.mn.us Frequently Called Numbers Maplewood Meeting Schedule City Council: September 8 & 22 at 6:30PM Maplewood City Hall General Information 651.249.2000 Community Design Review Board: September 9 & 23 at 6:00PM Deputy Registrar and Passport Hours: Environmental & Natural Resource Commission: September 9 at 5:15PM Monday - Friday: 8:00AM - 4:30PM Saturday: 8:00AM - 12:00PM Housing & Redevelopment Authority: September 10 at 7:00PM Maplewood Community Center Citizen Forum: September 6 at 10:00AM Registration 651.249.2230 Park Commission: September 17 at 7:00PM Customer Service 651.249.2230 Admissions 651.249.2210 Planning Commission: September 16 at 7:00PM Theater/Banquet Room Information 651.249.2103 Historical Preservation Committee: September 18 at 7:00PM Group Information 651.249.2203 All City Council and Commission meetings are broadcast live on Channel Birthday Party Information 651.249.2203 16 and are rebroadcast on a schedule that is posted at Aquatics 651.249.2206 www.ci.maplewood.mn.us. Any meeting cancellations are posted on the Child Care 651.249.2218 City’s website. Fitness 651.249.2207 Maplewood Recreation General Information 651.249.2120 Maplewood Nature Center General Information 651.249.2170 Advertise with us ! Make a statement in your community. Reach over 18,200 homes, businesses, and apartments with market! The entire newsletter is featured on the city website for a full year. For more information, contact Heidi Carey at 651.249.2021 or heidi.carey@ci.maplewood.mn.us. Thank you to the advertisers who support this publication! (0 -%2%32+6-) =SYV2IMKLFSVLSSH%XXSVRI] *VSWX%ZI1ETPI[SSH 6IEP)WXEXI;MPPW8VYWXW 4S[IVSJ%XXSVRI] *SV7EPIF]3[RIV 4VSFEXI (MZSVGI'YWXSH] 7YTTSVX%GGMHIRXW -RNYVMIW  1SWXMRLSQIIZIRMRK[IIOIRHETTSMRXQIRXWEX RSEHHMXMSREPGSWX ity of Maplewood 1 August 2008 C Caught Recycling: 48 Dennis Lane North The residents at 48 Dennis Lane North are the lucky winners of $50 for recycling during the month of August. Each month, through December 2008, recycling districts will be the winners of $50 cash. The recyclables must be set out by 7:00AM that morning. It’s that simple! Maplewood residents are great recyclers. In 2007 you recycled almost 2,700 tons of material in the curbside recycling program. That amount of recycling prevented the release of over 6,800 metric tons of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from being released into our atmosphere. Unfortunately, not everyone in Maplewood is participating in the city’s recycling program. An average of 67% of Maplewood households are if we can do even better! Recycling bins are available at the Public Works building at 1902 County Road B East, Monday through Friday from 8:00AM to Craig and Jane Verhulst - the super recyclers of 4:30PM. Call 651-249-2400 for more information or Eureka Recycling at 48 Dennis Lane North! 651-222-SORT (7678) for recycling questions. :SXIHw&IWX&IEYX]7EPSR8S'LERKI=SYV0SSOWx The Maplewood , 7)6:-')7 Community Center EMV '3036-2+;%<-2+ Presents... 4)6172%-07)6:-') 7EPSR7TE 4 78=0)7'9871%77%+))78%8-32 Wine and 3** Jazz Festival VSJIWWMSREPW %2%-07)6:-') Saturday, November 1, 1YWXFIEWIVZMGIQMRMQYQ)\T  7:00 - 9:00pm at the Maplewood Community Center 496)303+= ;LMXI&IEV%ZI7YMXI1ETPI[SSH WIVMSYWGSPSYVGEVI (2100 White Bear Avenue) Taste over 80 different wines! Enjoy delicious hors d’oeuvres and piano jazz music. Call 651.249.2230 for more information or to reserve your tickets today! Tickets: $40 ($45 at the door) ity of Maplewood 2 August 2008 C By Councilmember Kathleen Juenemann Dear Friends and Neighbors Local government is truly a team effort. The city council, city manager, city staff, volunteer commissioners and citizens are all important partners in the process. We, the city council are responsible for policy decisions and directing the city manager who is responsible for daily city operations, assisted by city staff. City council members and staff regard our commissioners and citizens as integral to the process. We are only successful in keeping our community viable and vital if all the partners Visit the MCC Open put forth positive effort. House on Saturday, October 5 During Maplewood’s formative years (1957-1970’s), the city trustees (council members) and staff took the responsibilities for building a community framework, establishing a system of basic services and visioning for the future. Their legacy to Center. Check out Maplewood We, too, the recent and current city councils are charged with upgrading that Community Center’s new sign for community structure and process, maintaining and improving our basic services and upcoming events and announcements! visioning for the future stability, renewal and redevelopment of our city. What will be our legacy to future Maplewood residents? Let us all move forward together working to keep Maplewood a good, stable community. Precinct Locations Precinct 9: Maplewood Community Center Precinct 1: Maplewood Fire Station #3 (Parkside) 2100 White Bear Avenue 2001 McMenemy Road (Boundary Change) (Formerly located at Maplewood City Hall) Precinct 2: St.Jeromes School Precinct 10: Ramsey County Home 380 Roselawn Avenue E. (Boundary Change) 2000 White Bear Avenue (Boundary Change) Precinct 3: Edgerton School Precinct 11: Maplewood Middle School 1929 Edgerton Street 1896 Lakewood Drive N. (Boundary Change) Precinct 4: Maplewood Fire Station #2 (Gladstone) Precinct 12: Beaver Lake School 1955 Clarence Street 1060 Sterling Street N. Precinct 5: Gladstone Community Center Precinct 13: Maplewood Fire Station #1 (E. Co. Line) Frost Avenue at Manton Street 1177 Century N. Precinct 6: Maplewood Fire Station #7 (Hazelwood) Precinct 14: Carver School 1530 County Road C 2680 Upper Afton Road (Boundary Change) Precinct 7: First Evangelical Free Church Precinct 15: Lutheran Church of Peace 2696 Hazelwood Street 47 Century Avenue S. (Boundary Change) (Formerly located at Londin Lane Fire Station) Precinct 8: Ramsey County Library 3025 Southlawn Drive Precinct 16: Maplewood Fire Station #4 (E. Co. Line 2) (Formerly located at Concordia Arms) 2501 Londin Lane (Boundary Change) ity of Maplewood 3 August 2008 C By Commission Chair Linda Olson Commission Corner: Community Design Review Board The CDRB is the city’s architectural and site-design review committee. The board reviews all development proposals larger than a single-family home. The CDRB is currently comprised of some very experienced volunteers: Matt Ledvina, Anath Shankar, Matt Wise, John Demko and myself. With our varied background we provide a wide range of professional experience in Environmental, Architectural, and Civil Engineering, Corporate Development and Infrastructure. Our issues of concern and lighting. We work in tandem with the Planning Commission and staff liaison Senior Planner Tom Ekstand and we make our recommendations directly to the City Council. The CDRB has studied the issues of light pollution and the Dark Skys Initiative as they affect Maplewood, and with staff and City Council drafted the city’s Lighting Ordinance. We also spent several years revising the sign code, including the recently passed dynamic signs. One of our initiatives is to promote sidewalks and improve pedestrian access, both increasingly necessary for mobility and safety. Another goal is retaining permeable surfaces and return rainwater to the ground, rather than channeling it into our storm sewer systems. Ultimately, as volunteers we depend on City staff, and the City Manager’s directions. Acting City Manager Chuck Ahl, has been very forward thinking in promoting rain gardens, roundabouts and walkability. The Board values Chuck Ahl’s depth of knowledge and years of experience in this city. 22000099 SSUUMMMMEERR SSOOCCCCEERR RREEGGIISSTTRRAATTIIOONN NOW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 NOW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 Register at www.nesasoccer.org North East Soccer Association (NESA)Competitive Traveling is a Soccer association that competes in the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association (MYSA) with teams from the east metro area. Both boys and girls compete in age groups ranging from Under 9 to Under 19 COME CONTINUE THE GREAT TRADITION COME CONTINUE THE GREAT TRADITION OF SOCCER WITH NESA! OF SOCCER WITH NESA!  ity of Maplewood 4 August 2008 C City Now Accepting Applications for 2009 Charitable Gambling Funds The City of Maplewood is now accepting applications for the use of the 2009 proceeds of the City’s 10% Charitable Gambling Tax. The September 12, 2008 application deadline is priority to organizations from outside the city proposing to meet the needs of Maplewood residents. In general, requests from organized athletic groups are not funded. The City Council awarded a total of $35,000 in Charitable Gambling Tax Funds in 2008. Funds went to the following groups: the Ramsey County Fair, the American Red Cross, Heritage Theater Company, Maplewood Area Historical Society, Tubman Family Alliance, Friends of The funds are awarded by a vote of the Maplewood City Council. Applications are available on the city website www.ci.maplewood.mn.us or by calling Sarah Burlingame at 651.249.2051. Ready to Talk Transit? By Assistant City Engineer Michael Thompson Get ready to offer your comments about transit options on the proposed Rush Line Corridor, an 80-mile corridor from downtown St. Paul north to Hinckley. As growth continues in the north metro, it’s time to begin thinking about how to provide transit service within the corridor. Several bus rapid transit, light rail transit, and commuter rail options the Maplewood Community Center (Room C), 2100 White Bear Avenue, on October 2nd from 5:30 to 8:00PM., with presentations at 6:00 and 7:00PM. The second open house will be held on October 7th at the North Branch Library, 6355 379th Street, from 5:30 to 8:00PM, with presentations also at 6:00 and 7:00PM. For more information, visit the project website at www.rushline.org or call Tim Mayasich at 651.266.2762. On the Police Scanner Buyer Beware! In July, the Maplewood Police Department responded to 2,527 calls for service. deals”. But a word of caution -- when something sounds too good to be true, Included in this number were the following broken into in a St. Paul park. Stolen items included a cell phone, a camera, incidents: various personal items and a Department issued 800 MHz portable radio. 31 Assault Cases 5 Robbery Cases checking Craigslist, a popular on-line “want ads”. A few days after the theft, he 39 Burglary Cases 152 Theft Cases 52 Criminal Damage to Property Cases 28 Auto Theft Cases proceeded to arrest the “seller”. 86 Theft from Vehicle Cases Department portable radio. St. Paul Police are attempting to locate the owners shoplifting, 29 arrests for DWI and issued of property seized in the search warrant including several laptop computers, 1,014 citations. cameras and other personal items. ity of Maplewood 5 August 2008 C By Buckthorn Coordinator Carol Gernes Maplewood Buckthorn Management Program Announcements Buckthorn Removal Day at Vista Hills Park! Saturday, October 11, From 10:00 - 11:15AM, adults and kids (11+) will pull buckthorn and plant an acorn in its place! From noon—2:00PM, adults will cut and herbicide buckthorn. Training, tools, gloves and refreshments are provided. Call the Maplewood Nature Center to register and for more information, 651.249.2170. issue of the Maplewood City News. Do not drop off trees or any other brush, instead bring them to a Ramsey County Compost Brush Site. Visit the Ramsey County website or call 651.266.1155 for more information. Volunteer to be a Buckthorn Block Captain! Block captains distribute door hangers, check out tools and promote buckthorn removal in their neighborhoods! Leave a message at 651.249.2188 to sign up! Buckthorn Target Neighborhoods: 1. Sunset Ridge Park Neighborhood -- bordered by Walter Street, Highway 61, County Road D and Beam Avenue. 2. Maryland to Upper Afton Neighborhood including Maplewood households between Upper Afton Road, Maryland Avenue, Century (Hwy 120) and McKnight Road. Avenue pick up by October 28. To register, leave your name, address and phone or email on the Maplewood Buckthorn Hotline voice mail: Buckthorn Herbicide Coupon Join the City’s effort to remove buckthorn from Maplewood. To help with this important community environmental issue, these businesses are offering Maplewood residents a discount on buckthorn herbicide products. Bring your buckthorn brochure to make sure that you buy effective chemical concentrations! Dege’s Garden Center: 25% OFF! 651.739.5296 Concentrated Kills-All©, with surfactants (41% Glyphosate) or Ferti-Lome© Brush and Stump Killer (8% Trichlopyr) Linder’s Garden Center: 20% OFF! 651.488.1927 All Glyphosate products and Brush-B-Gone (8% Trichlopyr) Bachman’s: 20% OFF! 651.770.0531 Maplewood store only. 20% off Vine-X® Vine & Brush 7-78)6/)22=6),%&-0-8%8-32-278-898) Control (Trichlopyr ester 13.6%) 7MWXIV/IRR]7TSVXW4L]WMGEP8LIVET]'IRXIV Coupon good 9/1/08 – 10/15/08 ;MPH[SSH6SEH;LMXI&IEV0EOI ity of Maplewood 6 August 2008 C Compact Fluorescent Lamps last up to 10 times longer. Replacing a 60 watt incandescent bulb with a 13 watt CFL will save $30 in energy costs over its lifetime, reduce coal consumption at a power plant by 200 pounds, and prevent more than 400 pounds of they must be recycled in Minnesota. Hazardous Waste sites. Businesses should call 651-266-1199 for recycling options. City Hall PRSRT STD 1830 County Road B East U.S. POSTAGE Maplewood, MN 55109 PAID Phone: 651.249.2000 Permit #4903 www.ci.maplewood.mn.us ********ECRWSS** RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER Upon request, this newsletter will be made available in an alternate format.Printed on recycled paper.