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City Hall Campus 2022A view of the City Hall campus 2022.
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August primary will narrow Burnsville City Council fieldJuly 1, 2022 - Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Seven seek two seats in Burnsville....
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Dakota County Commissioners2022 elected county commissioners.
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Burnsville Center, new fire station among mayor's topicsApril 22, 2022 - Burnsville Sun/Thisweek News
Mayor Kautz delivers the State of the City Address...
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Gregg Lindberg, interim city manager 2022February 11, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Gregg Lindberg is Burnsville's new interim city manager...
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Affordable apartments planned in Heart of the CityJuly 1, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
A 43 unit affordable apartment project is planned for a vacant lot in Burnsville's Heart of the City...
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Major City building needs exceed $70 million - 2022July 15, 2022 - Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Burnsville eyes city hall, police, fire, public works improvements.
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Burnsville on the Go vehicle 2022Introducing Burnsville's new Community Engagement Vehicle! This eye-catching van is designed to bring City Hall out into neighborhoods, parks and key areas throughout the City. When projects are happening in your neighborhood or City activities are being driven by your needs and vision, we will bring City staff and information out to you!
Did you catch the engagement vehicle's debut at the Burnsville Festival and Fire Muster? Keep an eye out for this uniquely Burnsville van and stay connected with the City we continue to deliver City services to you.
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Big tax hike draws a crowd in BurnsvilleDecember 9, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Council approves a 14.5% increase...
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Report: Burnsville is underfunded, understaffedMarch 11, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Burnsville City government is understaffed, underfunded and unequipped ,,,
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City Council - a city hard at workBurnsville Chamber of Commerce Directory 2022 -
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2022 a year of change and reckoning for Burnsville City governmentDecember 30, 2022 - Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
New city manager, landfills made the news....
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Melanie Lee - city manager resignsJanuary 21, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Burnsville City Manager Melanie Lee resigned January 12, a day after the city council indicated it would not renew her annual contract...
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Engagement Vehicle of Awesomeness - 2022Burnsville Bulletin - Fall 2022
Introducing Burnsville's new Engagement Vehicle of Awesomeness, known as Eva....
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Elections 2022Head to the polls (whether that be in-person or absentee) with confidence this November! Our team is ready to answer all your questions, help with voter registration, find your polling location and more. Stop out to Burnhaven Library on Sept. 22 from 4 – 6 p.m., say hi and pick up a free elections guide along with other voting information. - City of Burnsville Facebook post 2022.
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Incumbents returned to council 2022November 4, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Kealey and Workman re-elected to council...
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Forester's long career bookended by tree diseasesMarch 4, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Dave Grommesch's career with the city of Burnsville began in 1980...
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Burnsville approves landfillAugust 26, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Council members have words for opponent Bloomington
Before approving a long-anticipated landfill expansion Aug. 16, Burnsville City Council members had some tart words for their neighbors to the north who oppose the expansion.
The council voted unanimously to allow an expansion of the Burnsville Sanitary Landfill that raises the peak permitted height of the covered trash pyramid from 104 feet to 372.
It will become the unwelcome visual symbol of the Minnesota River Valley, Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse told the Burnsville Planning Commission in July.
Council members countered that Bloomington’s opposition to the expansion is long predated by Burnsville — which has three landfills, one active — serving as a dumping ground for the region.
“Because 60 years ago we were barely a township and we were like the place across the river that Bloomington and Minneapolis wanted to dump their garbage,” Council Member Dan Kealey said.
If Bloomington “has a problem with this landfill,” Council Member Cara Schulz said, “they can take their garbage somewhere else.”
But some Burnsville residents also oppose expanding the landfill south of the Minnesota River in the city’s northwest corner, Mayor Elizabeth Kautz acknowledged.
“We are the host to a landfill and I understand there are many members of our community who do not want to see the landfill expanded,” she said. “However, the landfill is there. It’s not going to go away. The decision was made back in the ’50s, and so we are the host to it. And there are some benefits.”
Kealey said visual representations Bloomington officials have produced in recent years mischaracterize the visual impact of the grass- and vegetation-covered hill at its peak height.
“It’s almost laughable what they presented,” he said.
“I’m pretty sure that residents on the other side will get used to that green hill they’ll be looking at. I know they didn’t want to look at an amphitheater,” said Council Member Dan Gustafson, referring to a riverfront amphitheater proposal two decades ago in Burnsville that generated resident opposition in both cities, faced a legal challenge from Bloomington and was felled by a state appeals court ruling in 2003.
The expansion will increase the landfill’s disposal capacity from 28.6 million cubic yards to 45 million. Landfill owner Waste Management still faces several rounds of Minnesota Pollution Control Agency permitting before it can raise and maximize the capacity in stages, Michael Miller, a Waste Management senior district manager, told the Burnsville Planning Commission Aug. 8.
While raising the height, the expansion also shrinks the landfill’s total footprint from 216 acres to 204. The would-be northern edge of the landfill is moved about 724 feet south, further from the river, which council members applauded.
The expansion would allow the landfill — projected to reach capacity in 2024 under the previous planned unit development governed the property — to continue operating until about 2062, according to a city staff report.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said in 2020 that landfill space for about 6 million tons of metro-area municipal solid waste would be needed in the next seven years, with about 1.7 million headed for Burnsville.
City officials say benefits of expansion include the potential to relocate the 6 million cubic yards of waste in the Freeway Landfill west of Interstate 35W and Freeway Dump east of the freeway. Both are unlined, and the MPCA says they must be cleaned out before dewatering ceases years from now at an adjacent limestone quarry. That will change groundwater flow and threaten the water supply with contamination from the Freeway garbage, according to the MPCA.
The agency has yet to recommend between a “dig and haul” option that could use the Burnsville Sanitary Landfill or another site or a “dig and line” option that would place the waste in a new lined landfill on Freeway property. The city backs dig and haul in order to open up 94 acres of Freeway property for development. The quarry operator, Kraemer Mining and Materials, and Waste Management have proposed that Kraemer unearth the waste and haul it to the Burnsville Sanitary Landfill. The Legislature must fund any solution.
Dig and line would preclude “probably a billion dollars of development for us over the years,” Council Member Dan Gustafson said. “That’s not good for any of us.”
Cleaning up the Freeway properties would reduce the number of landfills along the river from three to one and shrink the area’s total trash footprint from 310 acres to 204, said a city staff report.
Terms of the Burnsville Sanitary Landfill expansion will increase host fees to the city from the current $4.33 per ton of waste to $6.83 beginning next year, with an automatic 3.5% annual increase. Along with approving a new planned unit development and other measures allowing the expansion, the council approved a renegotiated host agreement.
The city, Dakota County and the state stand to collect nearly $750 million in host fees over the next several decades, Miller told the council Aug. 16. The landfill and Kraemer Mining and Materials stand to collect another $2.5 billion in revenue over the period, he said.
Waste Management will also pay the city a one-time park dedication fee of $1.9 million under the host agreement.
An 18-hole golf course once envisioned after landfilling stopped is no longer part of the landfill’s end-use plan. New federal environmental regulations will require permanent security fencing around the landfill for more than 30 years after operations cease. The regulations are meant protect the public from ambient air emissions, including methane gas.
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Keep in touch with city leadersBurnsville Community Guide 2022 - published by Sun/Thisweek News
A listing of addresses and contact persons for local government.
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Gregg Lindberg, new city manager 2022Summer 2022 - Burnsville Bulletin - Gregg Lindberg, new city manager...
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Burnsville on the Go vehicle 2022Introducing Burnsville's new Community Engagement Vehicle! This eye-catching van is designed to bring City Hall out into neighborhoods, parks and key areas throughout the City. When projects are happening in your neighborhood or City activities are being driven by your needs and vision, we will bring City staff and information out to you!
Did you catch the engagement vehicle's debut at the Burnsville Festival and Fire Muster? Keep an eye out for this uniquely Burnsville van and stay connected with the City we continue to deliver City services to you.
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Police, fire make their cases for more staffJuly 1, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Department stressed, chiefs of police and fire say...
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New Development director familiar with city's challengesDecember 9, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Maplewood, population 41,000, is a first-tier suburb of St. Paul. Burnsville, population 64,000, is 14 miles from downtown Minneapolis.
But they’re alike in key ways, observes Jeff Thomson, who was Maplewood’s community development director before starting the same job in Burnsville in October.
Both cities are fully developed and trying to stay vibrant as they age. Both have massive regional shopping malls built in a bygone era and surrounded by sprawling brick-and-mortar retail sectors. Both have strong medical sectors, with a hospital in each city.
And like Maplewood, Burnsville is “a very diverse city as well in terms of its population,” Thomson said.
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Gregg Lindberg named city managerApril 15, 2022 - Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Gregg Lindberg, Burnsville's interim city manager since January 12 is now City Manager...
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Burnsville Police and Fire2022 - Logos for Burnsville Police and Fire.
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Police collaborate with citizens 2022Burnsville Community Guide published by Sun/Thisweek News - 2022 profile of the Burnsville Police Department.
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Have a voice in city government - fun for city council2022 - Burnsville has two council seats open in 2022....
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Electric scooterplan moves ahead in BurnsvilleJune 24, 2022 Burnsville Eagan Sun/Thisweek News
Burnsville City Council members set the stage for the introduction of electric rental scooters...
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Street Sweeping vehicleCity of Burnsville Street Sweeping vehicle - 2022. Photo compliments of the City of Burnsville.
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Your Community , your voice, your Burnsville survey results 2022Winter 2022 Burnsville Bulletin - reviews the results of a community survey.
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