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Home My WebLink About04-08-25 Agenda Packet Chair: Susan Johnson (2025) Secretary: Linda Hansohn (2026) Board Members: Gary Gerding (2025) Kent Stennes (2026) Melissa Jannakos (2027) Joel Gerich (2027) Andrew Elmquist (2027) Staff Liaison: David Swearingen Karth Lake Improvement District Board REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, April 8, 2025 City Hall 1245 W. Highway 96 Arden Hills, MN 55112 651.792.7800 www.cityofardenhills.org Agenda Board Meeting Convenes at 6:30 PM CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL 1.APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA 2.APPROVAL OF MINUTES of the previous meeting January 28, 2025 3.PUBLIC INQUIRIES 4.OLD BUSINESS 4.1. Lakeshore owner outreach and education. Kent Stennes 4.1.1. Background: The KLIDB has reached out to KLID members in the past with flyers, events and door -knocking to increase awareness of what the KLIDB does, provide information to assist members in managing their shoreline and to recruit new board members. The Board agreed to consider another Ice Cream Social for Summer 2025. 4.1.2. Action: Consider sending out educational information and let folks know who to contact if they see something that shouldn’t happen and what things are good for them to do to and plan for outreach to new residents. 4.2. Karth Lake water level modeling and management process progress report. Renée Marino 4.2.1. Background: Hypothesis: a revision to the pump management policy can reduce water level bounce (i.e., range of high and low levels), which can improve lake quality and its environment while appropriately mitigating risk of damage to shoreline properties. Renee made a detailed presentation in October and a subcommittee was going to work with David to decide next steps. 4.2.2. Action: Discussion of subcommittee recommendations and communications with city council. 4.3. Water quality and impact of feeding migratory waterfowl as well as purple loosestrife mitigation 4.3.1. Background: Some people have been feeding geese and crows and this has been impact ing water quality in the lake. A presentation was made to city council to tighten wording for restrictions for feeding migrating waterfowl. 4.3.2. Action: Discuss current status 4.4. Status of log removal by DNR gauge 4.4.1. Background: There are some logs by the DNR gauge in the lake that have moved the gauge and need to be removed. The logs have been cut and the DNR gauge reset. The logs could not be removed because they were still frozen in the ground. 4.4.2. Action: Has David’s team removed the cut up logs? 5.NEW BUSINESS 5.1. Board member and officer elections 5.1.1. Terms expire for Gary Gerding and Susan Johnson 5.1.2. Election of Chair and Secretary 5.2. Water quality monitoring for Karth Lake for 2025. Gary Gerding 5.2.1. Background: The KLIDB has participated in the Citizen-Assisted Monitoring Program (CAMP) with the Metropolitan Council by coordinating volunteer sampling of Karth Lake’s water quality since 2006. 5.2.2. Action: Provide any updates for 2025 sampling program. 6.NEXT MEETING Karth Lake Improvement District Board April 8, 2025 Page 2 7.ADJOURN Draft Minutes for Karth Lake Improvement District Board Regular Meeting 6:30 PM, Tuesday, January 28, 2025 CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL The meeting convened at: 6:30 PM. Present: Board Members: Susan Johnson, Chair, Linda Hansohn, Secretary; Kent Stennes; Gary Gerding; Andrew Elmquist; Joel Gerich; Melissa Jannakos Staff Liaison: David Swearingen, Public Works Director Visitors and Karth Lake Improvement District members: Renee Marino, Jim Elliot Absent: None 1.APPROVAL OF AGENDA: The agenda was approved 2.APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes of the previous meeting on October 8,2024, were approved with a correction to the spelling of Secchi in section 5.2.2 3.PUBLIC INQUIRIES: None. 4.OLD BUSINESS 4.1. Lakeshore owner outreach and education. Kent Stennes. 4.1.1. Background: The KLIDB has reached out to KLID members in the past with flyers, events and door-knocking to increase awareness of what the KLIDB does, provide information to assist members in managing their shoreline and to recruit new board members. The Board agreed to consider another Ice Cream Social for Summer 2025. 4.1.2. Discussion: Discussion of the Cummings Park Ice Cream Social timing. Set the definitive date in June. With the upcoming election, add contact information to website for folks to contact if there is an issue. 4.2. Karth Lake water level modeling and management process progress report. Renée Marino 4.2.1. Background: Hypothesis: a revision to the pump management policy can reduce water level bounce (i.e., range of high and low levels), which can improve lake quality and its environment while appropriately mitigating risk of damage to shoreline properties. 4.2.2. Discussion: Renée provided information for the task force. The task force met to discuss the various options. The option they settled on was on 935.5 and off 935. This would be about 8 days of pumping (the level goes down about .8” per day) if there is no rain. Could just plan to turn it on at 935.5 and leave it for a week without checking. We will need to present this to the city council to give us authority to talk to the DNR or the city needs to make the recommendation to the DNR. David talked to Shoreview about how they monitor the water level for Snail lake. David would include the automatic monitoring system as part of the PMP feasibility study for 2026. We would need this approved by the City Council. This could be included with the retaining wall rebuild. The lake is essentially part of the storm sewer system. The PMP approvals are going to be reviewed by council on June 9. 4.2.3. Action: The task force needs to work with David Swearington to write a proposal to present to the City Council. The current process does not meet the DNR strategy. We need a proposal to improve how the city maintains the strategy. This new group is going to work with Renee Marino to discuss the document to present the reason to include the improvements along with the retaining wall rebuild. The members of this group are Joel Gerich, Kent Stennes with document review by Melissa Jannakos. This should be presented April 21 or May 12. 4.3. Bylaws review and possible modification. Susan Johnson 4.3.1. Background: A preliminary review of the bylaws causes there to be questions regarding who is a member of KLID, how elections should be run going forward, and who can vote. 4.3.2. Discussion: Susan proposed the possibility of a change to the bylaws that has the City Council make appointments to the Board rather than an election. The elections have had little to no participation and seem like a waste of resources. The City Council already makes appointments to other commissions so it seems like this might be a reasonable change. 4.3.3. Action: We would need to modify the bylaws. The Board voted to continue with the bylaws and the election process as it is for now. The letter that goes with the ballot is a good opportunity to communicate what the board does that will benefit them. 4.4. Possibility of initiating a new study to identify status and refresh list of BMPs for future management of Karth Lake. Joel Gerich and David Swearingen (change title to reflect work that will be part of PMP for 2026) 4.4.1. Background: The most recent Karth Lake study and BMP identification was performed by the Rice Creek Watershed District in 2009. The board would like to identify a plan for a follow-up assessment of Karth Lake’s current health and opportunities for improvement (BMPs). In April 2023, David Swearingen had described possible grant opportunities that the City of Arden Hills could pursue. 4.4.2. Discussion: We would wait until after the PMP project is completed and then consider meeting with Rice Creek watershed to evaluate. That means deferring this until after 2026. 5. NEW BUSINESS 5.1. Status of log removal by DNR gauge 5.1.1. Background: There are some logs by the DNR gauge in the lake that have moved the gauge and need to be removed. 5.1.2. Action: Joel and Kent are planning to go down and remove the log with a chain saw. 5.2. Water quality monitoring for Karth Lake for 2024. Gary Gerding 5.2.1. Background: The KLIDB has participated in the Citizen-Assisted Monitoring Program (CAMP) with the Metropolitan Council by coordinating volunteer sampling of Karth Lake’s water quality since 2006. 5.2.2. Action: All of the data will be available electronically just prior to the April Board meeting. This year there was very low secchi depth. 5.3. Water quality and impact of feeding migratory water fowl 5.3.1. Background: Some people have been feeding geese and crows and this has been impacting water quality in the lake 5.3.2. Action: Discuss a suggestion for the city to have an ordinance to restrict feeding of migratory waterfowl. Susan is going to research the text for a proposal. 6.NEXT MEETING: Tuesday April 8, 2025, at 6:30 PM at City Hall. 7.ADJOURN