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Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Newspaper articles on Sperry Univac's (Lockheed Martin) start in Eagan to its demise in 2010. - 12/1/1986
Ltic,Khe e-ol /M Hai Fo DER Lockheed Martin's decision For Eagan, there are opportunities to explore While no one celebrates an abrupt change in a 40-year relationship with a major communityemployer like Lockheed Martin, there are market realities that busi- nesses face. Markets shrink. New markets emerge. To remain competitive, we all • must adapt to new realities and define new opportunities. Lockheed Martin's decision ta's business climate or taxes. to reorganize its Mission Sys- As mayor, I, understand terns & Sensors business unit market realities, but I am away from its storied Eagan 'Mike driven by all the Lockheed facility is disappointing. Com- employees who want to stay pany officials believe it is a . ;,::. M a 9 u i re in Eagan to call on the Lock- necessary market adjust- - heed Martin board, while it. ment for 'the 145,000-employee, Maryland- consolidates, to be more creative by consider- ing locating new and emerging business units here. Let's not give up on these capable and loyal men and women who, for more than 30 years, have helped build not only Lockheed Martin, but our .community. These are things we can build on to move forward together. Two hundred employees from Lockheed's air traffic control unit will remain. The Eagan facilities' first class data center and fiber -rich location make it well suited for growth. Its energy efficiency. and unique. simulation and test capabilities are best in class — all in a city • and area that retain significant airline train - based corporation. Leadership has made clear the decision is motivated by declining defense contracts and the need to more efficiently position their assets. The collateral damage is the 1,000 Eagan -based employees who face job loss or tough relocation decisions. I would have liked to have had the opportu- nity to tout the Eagan advantage before Lock- heed Martin's board made its decision, but I also believe they have a clear understanding of the excellent workforce here and the mar- ketable value of their already -paid -for Eagan facility. And I've been told point blank that the company's decision was not about Minneso- , 414 • ems . 3 ,`,NT tiA • ing facilities, a major international airport hub and an air traffic control center. Eagan's new state -of -the art postal sorting\ and bulk mail facility is literally across the bridge from Lockheed Martin's Eagan plant, and fits ideally with its contract to develop postal automation and mail handling equip- ment. We understand and can help the com- pany grow its data protection and transporta- tion business. Of course, if Lockheed Martin's board does- n't see these possibilities as opportunities, oth- ers will. Our first concern will be helping affected employees and their families stay in our community and move forward, followed by a collaborative effort between the city, the state and Lockheed Martin to put the site to its best possible use. It took Lockheed Martin almost a year of careful consideration to make this difficult decision, and the solutions to what will come: next will not come quick or easy. Whether in City Hall, the state Capitol or the Eagan plant itself, rm confident we have a capable and. committed team that will identify the right path. Mike Maguire is the mayor of Eagan. Platinum Blue"' (Cost If switching your coverage wasn't something you were planning to do, we have something for you. Platinum Blue is the lowest -priced Medicare plan for medical -only coverage from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Choose from three plan options that work with any Medicare drug plan, and get instant access to our network of providers. 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Tim Pawlenty and Eagan Mayor Mike Magu- ire have both vowed to fight to keep Lockheed Martin in Eagan. The company announced last week it will close its Eagan facility by 2013, re- sulting in about 350 layoffs and 650 job transfers to other facilities throughout the country, including facili- ties in Owego, N.Y., Manas- sas, Va., and San Diego. Upon hearing news of the closing, Pawlenty im- mediately sent a letter to Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens asking to meet with him and offer- ing his assistance in finding ways to keep the company open. Lockheed has a long history in Eagan, he wrote, and is an important part of the economic vitality of the community. "I strongly believe the plant's location near the Minneapolis -St. Paul Inter- national Airport, the high quality of our workforce, and the business -friendly environment in Minnesota are important consider- ations for continuing opera- tions here," he wrote. Pawlenty, an Eagan resi- dent, pledged to encourage the next governor to consid- er recommending "signifi- cant and innovative incen- tives" to the Legislature to keep Lockheed in Eagan. "The company is an im- portant business partner in Minnesota, and we are committed to helping you operate successfully here for many years to come," he wrote. Maguire said he, too, is looking to meet with Lockheed officials within the next two weeks to ask them to reconsider the move. "My intention is to go in advocating for those em- ployees," he said. "We know we have a lot to offer in Eagan and the Twin Cities in general." That strategy worked when Northwest Airlines merged with Delta, he said, and city and state officials advocated for some of the airline's operations and em- Photo by Rick Orndor Lockheed Martin announced it will close its Eagan facility by 2013, resulting in 350 layoffs and 650 job transfers to other facilities. The Eagan plant opened in 1964. ployees to stay in Eagan. Delta agreed to keep two of its Eagan facilities open, the data center and flight train- ing center, and sell its head- quarters. "We were successful in that effort. We will try to do the same thing with Layoffs and transfers are Lockheed Martin," he said. expected to begin in the first "It's a different situation, but we're hopeful." See Lockheed, 15A assault and unlawfully pos- sessing a firearm after being convicted of a violent crime. Buckney was arrested on Oct. 29 in St. Anthony af- ter an informant contacted • bag and 9 mm handgun. The informant, who was a pas- senger in the vehicle, had told Minneapolis police that Buckney said he used those items in the robbery, accord - that make him ineligible to possess a firearm, the com- plaint said. — John Gessner Bomb threat at Burnsville High School by Jessica Harper Helke wrote in an e-mail to notified and searched the THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS subscribers. school with staff members. Burnsville High School "Even though the date but found nothing suspi- officials found a note posted mentioned on the note had cious. on a hallway pillar on Nov. already passed, we must The incident is still under 19 that contained a bomb take every threat seriously investigation. threat. so school officials and the The note referenced police immediately followed E-mail Jessica Harper at: "very specific information the procedures for this type jessica.harper@ecm-inc.com as to date, time and loca- of incident," he wrote. tion," BHS Principal Dave Burnsville police were Eagan students raise money, pack meals for Haiti BACHMANN ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED Professional Christian Counseling Services in Burnsville Lockheed/from lA quarter of 2011 and contin- ue over the next two years, according to the company. Employees do not yet know which positions will be moved and which will be eliminated. Lockheed spokeswoman Peggy Mullikin said dos- ing the Eagan facility is a cost -saving measure to help Lockheed stay competitive. "We're looking ahead. It's a tough marketplace out there now," she said. Orlando P. Carvalho, president of Lockheed's Mission Systems and Sen- sors (MS2) business, said the closing is essential to drive down costs and opti- mize capacity at the compa- ny's other facilities nation- wide. "While these changes will result in layoffs in some locations, they will strength- en employment in others and provide efficiencies that make us more competitive," he said. "We estimate these actions are expected to save approximately $150 million over the next 10 years." A senior manager at Lockheed who did not want to be named said that while he respects the company's senior leadership, he thinks the decision to leave Eagan is flawed. "Eagan's location en- abled Lockheed Martin to attract a wealth of engi- neering talent from a five - state area that has strong engineering universities," he said. That engineering exper- tise added significantly to the company's talent pool, he said, and the legacy Lockheed heritage comps- nies, namely Sperry Univac, had a long and storied his- tory as a result. "By closing Eagan, Lockheed Martin has essen- tially removed itself from this highly capable engi- neering pipeline, something that may prove detrimental to numerous programs and to certain areas of business growth," he said. City officials said they were surprised by news of the closing and are not yet sure how it will affect Eagan. "We're surprised, but more importantly we're concerned about the 1,000 families that are going to be impacted by this and the local businesses that will be impacted by this, as well," Maguire said. If 1,000 jobs are phased out over time, he said, it's almost sure to affect local small businesses where em- ployees had lunch, bought their gas, and brought their dry cleaning. "That's bound to have some impact," he said. City Administrator Tom Hedges said officials were saddened by news of the closing, and that Lockheed has been an important part of Eagan's legacy for nearly 50 years. "It's difficult news to re- ceive," he said. "It's so hard in a suburban community like ours in a metro area to gauge what the full impact is going to be on our com- munity." If officials can't convince Lockheed to stay, Maguire said he's confident the city will find another buyer for the building. Eagan is ideally located near both Twin Cities and near the airport and major freeways, he said. The site itself is at a prime location - the corner of Yankee Doo- dle and Pilot Knob roads - and offers a lot of ameni- ties. "Eagan is a great place to do business in this region, and we're confident we'll be able to put that facility to reuse," he said. "We're going to do our best to hold onto or bring in new jobs." The city hasn't had much luck so far with the former NWA headquarters build- ing, which continues to sit empty. But even if the two build- ings take time to fill, it will not affect the city's bottom line, Maguire said. "Whether vacant or not, somebody owns those buildings, so the city will re- main whole financially," he said. "Our concern is more about the families that will be impacted by this." Meanwhile, the senior manager at Lockheed said the company is doing an excellent job of helping em- ployees through the upcom- ing transition. "They care very much about their employees, and in my opinion go beyond the industry norm to help all who are affected by this," he said. Lockheed Martin opened its 623,000-square- foot Eagan facility in 1964; at the time it was called Univac. Now part of the MS2 division of Lockheed, the facility provides surface, air and undersea applica- tions for the U.S. military and other clients, includ- ing radar, surveillance and combat systems. The company originally owned 200 acres at the site, but several portions have since been sold off, includ- ing land the city bought for its Community Center. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin has several facili- ties around the country and employs more than 140,000 people globally. The company laid off 1,200 workers nation- wide earlier this year - 47 of whom came from the Eagan facility - to offset an expected decrease in work from the Pentagon. Erin Johnson is at eagan. thisweek@ecm-inc.com. *4, I INI� I I II WORLD'S IRIA lI H 1lI APPLE VALLEY'S I !NH I )I 1\I I I I: N‘ illy Iwo •r ily (r; 111(s c it ,(r•!; tini ‘sl (1(,;It.w('lry (lilt 1 (1r(u1u()( in( 'ry Ault i()r i,i ,(1 l c rr( n r( ' I )R Ir nt >r x 1 It 'I( ril( 1r I )cvriir xt (11 I( `ri r('r 11 r it tq; Item A. 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The move, described by the company as "Facility Consolidations to Increase Affordability in Mission Systems and Sensors Business," will see about 650 employees' jobs transferred to Owego, N.Y., San Diego, Calif.; and Manassas, Va. Layoffs are set to begin first quar- ter 2011, and will continue through the next two years. Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors (MS2) provide systems engineering, software, development and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets. It employs more than 15,000 people around the world, and the largest segment of their workforce con- sists of computer systems, software and hardware engineering profession- als. Peggy Mullikin, the Eagan site com- munications lead for MS2, described the 620,000 square -foot Eagan facility as a "design, integration ad test facili- ty" which was not involved in manufac- turing. Activities conducted on site focus on communication systems, mis- sion systems and avionics for aircraft, ships and submarines, more specifical- ly for the U.S. Navy P-3 Orion anti-sub- marine and surveillance aircraft and Desert Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, among others. "In an era of increased affordability, it is essential we drive down costs and optimize capacity at our facilities nationwide," Orlando P. Carvalho, president of MS2, said. "While these changes will result in layoffs in some locations, they will strengthen employ- ment in others and provide efficiencies that make us more competitive. We estimate these actions are expected to save approximately $150 million over the next 10 years." Lockheed Martin, which is based in Bethesda, posted $44 billion in sales in 2009, and employees more than 133,000 people worldwide. "It's startling news," said Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire. "Our concern is with the 1,000 employees who may be impacted, and the small businesses that do business with and for the Lockheed Martin campus. Lockheed Martin's employees, beyond having incomes and property, contribute a lot - there's a high amount of community capital." Maguire said city hall was given a heads -up about a half-hour before the announcement, and expressed disap- pointment that the city and the state never got to outline a case "as to why we think we can compete better than Southern California or northern Virginia." He isn't the only one - Gov. Tim Pawlenty released a letter he'd sent to Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens requesting a discussion about the clo- sure plans. "As part of my pledge to the compa- ny, I will encourage the next governor to consider recommending significant and innovative incentives for keeping the Lockheed Martin facility in Eagan," Pawlenty wrote. "The compa- ny is an important business partner in Minnesota, and we are committed to helping you operate successfully here for many years to come." On the numbers side of things, City Administrator Tom Hedges said that Lockheed Martin pays about $37,000 to the city's tax base each year - roughly 0.2 percent. OPINI • These pages are provided as a forum to debate ideas of interest and importance in our communities. Signed letters should be no longer than 250 words. Include daytime and evening. phone numbers and address for verification purposes. Submitted letters and columns ,become the property of Sun Newspapers, which reserves the right to edit and publish them in any format, including online. Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 Eagan • Apple Valley • Rosemount Visit us online at minnlocal.com Page 6 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Looking forward to serving District 38A To the editor: I enjoyed meeting many people during the course of the campaign. I appreciate the support of the voters to elect me as your next state representative of House District 38A. It will be an honor and a pleasure to rep- resent you in St. Paul. I am grateful to my vol- unteers for all of their hard work. Thank you for all that _ .7 .ith m‘i Fluorescent light bulbs: Buy them, use them, recycle them BY ANGIE TIMMONS GUEST COLUMNIST Using fluorescent light bulbs makes sense — you save money on your electric bill and help protect the environment by reducing energy use. According to the Pollution Control Agency, fluorescent bulbs use only one-fourth as much energy 'as equivalent incandescent bulbs and they last up to 10 times longer. However, because they con- tain mercury, fluorescent bulbs mnet ha rnrvrlari P.vnn a QM all There are many local recy- cling options for bulbs that con- tain mercury. Many hardware stores and retailers that sell flu- orescent light bulbs also collect them for recycling. Other options include recycling com- panies, city recycling events, and some county household hazardous waste drop-off sites.. The types of bulbs that require recycling include: •Fluorescent bulbs of all shapes and sizes (CFLs,- tubes, circles, U-shaped, -bug - "zap- pers," tanning lamps and black and do not tape the bubble wrap. If you break more than two fluorescent bulbs at one time, or if you are unsure of how to safely clean up broken bulbs, call the Minnesota Duty Officer at 800-422-0798. • - Visit RethinkRecycling.c om/cfl for more information about fluorescent light bulbs and to learn about recycling options in your area. Want to hear more about recycling issues? Visit the Rethink Recycling blog (Rethink Recycling.com/blog), fan us on Eagan • Apple Valley • Rosemount 1 • , CURRENT In the Community, With the Community, For the Community Jeff Coolman, Group Publisher jcoolman@acnpapers.com 952-392-6807 Peggy Bakken, Executive Editor pbakken@acnpapers.com • 763-424-7373 Joseph Palmersheim, Community Editor jpalmersheim@acnpapers.com 763-424-7380 Mike Shaughnessy, Community Editor mshaughnessy@acnpapers.com 763-424-7383 Jason Walker, Design Editor jwalker@acnpapers.com 763-424-7386 - Paul Wahl, Managing Editor pwahl@acnpapers.com 763-424-7385 Bill Ehlert, Account Executive behlert@acnpapers.com 952-392-6852 LOCKHEED ENDS AN ERA IN EAGAN PIONEER PRESS: RICHARD MARSHALL Tim Huie, 51, a systems integrator at Lockheed Martin for the past seven years, expects to be among the workers who will lose their jobs when the company leaves Eagan. "It's dismaying," Huie said Thursday. Defense contractor leaving in 2013; 1,000 local jobs will be lost; state roots date to birth of computer age By Julie Forster jforster@pioneerpress.com Defense contractor Lockheed Mar- tin said Thursday that it will close its sprawling Eagan operation by 2013, a move that will cost the area 1,000 jobs and end a long history in Min- nesota dating back to the state's pio- neering computer companies. About 350 jobs will be eliminated, and 650 others will be moved to Owego, N.Y.; San Diego; and Manas- sas, Va Layoffs and transfers will begin early next year and continue over the next two years, the compa- ny said. Workers were told of the decision in a 90-minute meeting. State offi- cials, who learned of the decision Thursday, said they would continue to lobby Lockheed to change its mind. The closing, Lockheed said, is part of a restructuring aimed at saving $150 million over the next 10 years. LOCKHEED MARTIN, 4A > Running out: U.S. House blocks extension of jobless benefits. Page 2A Mixed message: State unemployment up, despite job growth. Page 1C LOCKHEED MARTIN Where: Eagan Division: Mission Systems and Sensors Size: 623,000 square feet Workers: 1,000, including about 700 engineers Job: Design computing systems and processors for military aircraft. History: Formerly owned by Sperry Rand, its roots go back to Engineering Research Associates, a St. Paul military contractor founded in 1946. What's next: Plant to close by 2013; 350 jobs eliminated beginning early 2011; 650 to move to Owego, N.Y.; San Diego; and Manassas, Va. ILY3 rsday: 2, 7, 7 CONSIN MEGABUCKS dnesday: 21, 24, 27, 32, 36, t drawing: Saturday ENCASH rsday: 12,13, 28, 29, 30, 33 DGER 5 rsday: 2, 3, 9, 11, 13 K3 rsday: 5, 4, 2 K4 rsday: 1, 7, 2, 8 MORE plete U.S. lottery results: ncities.com/lottery nesota Lottery: w.mnlottery.com consin Lottery: w.wilottery.com Paint onatlon second harvest HEARTLAND id's hfields.com alid thru Nov. 28, 2010. Savings off " of 20%off. Not valid with other offers. IV A new citizen GETTY IMAGES: CHRIS HONDROS Four -year -old Jillian holds a flag during a naturalization ceremony Thursday at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigra- tion Services offices in New York City. Jillian was born in China. Eighteen children from Haiti, Ethiopia, China and other countries were sworn in as citizens as their Ameri- can adoptive parents stood by. Deal delay huge Med Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Se] ate late Thursday voted 1 postpone a massive cut i Medicare pay for doctor agreeing to pay doctors at cu rent levels through Dec. 31. If the House goes along, Col gress would stave off a 23 pe cent cut in doctors' pay schei uled to take effect Dec. 1. Th cost of the one -month pos ponement, $1 billion ovE 10 years, will be paid for b changes in Medicare rein bursement for outpatient the] apy services. The Senate's voice-vot approval came after an agre ment on the one -month pos 20th annual BUY ONE TICKET GET ONE FREE! THIS WEEKEND! Nov. 19-21 Minneapolis Convention Center Remodeling • Design • Landscaping Valid at Cub or present coupon at the door. Q, wwyv.MidwestHomeShow.com night of free holiday fun for the whole family at Woodbury Lakes! 0 I + AA F twincities.com St. Paul Pioneer Press Friday 11-19-2010 CONTINUED FROM 1A > Lockheed Martin "In an era of increased affordability, it is essential we drive downtosts and optimize capacity • at our facilities nationwide," said Orlando Car- valho, president of Lockheed's Mission Systems and Sensors business unit, ;which includes the Eagan operation. After Thursday's "all hands" employee meeting, the mood among workers was subdued, said Tim Huie, 51, of Farming- ton; a systems integrator at the company for seven years. "Some left early," he said. ."It's been a pretty somber atmosphere for most of the day." Workers were told to talk to their managers if they were interested in transferring. Huie said he didn't think he'd have a. hard time finding a new job'. in Minnesota, where • his family lives and where he plans to stay. "I've never had too much trouble finding a job in this local job market," he said, adding, "I've been in this boat before, and I've always stayed afloat." Lockheed Martin leaving About 1,000 people work for Lockheed Martin at its Eagan facility: pt000F 0etai DAKOTA COUNTY Lemay"; AGAN PIONEER PRESS Lockheed's departure will be another economic blow to Eagan, already grappling with the loss of more than 1,000 Northwest Airlines headquar- ters jobs after the carrier was acquired by Delta Air Lines. In addition, another big employ- er, Thomson ' Reuters, announced job cuts in recent months. For Lockheed, it marks the end of an era in Min- nesota — the company's roots were planted in the state's pio- neering computer industry. The Eagan facility was once owned by the Univac division of Sperry -Rand and its succes- sor, Unisys. When its defense side was spun off,' the' Eagan facility ultimately became part of Lockheed Martin. Comput- • ers designed and produced by Lockheed. Martin and its lega- cy companies have been .a rou- tine part of the Navy arsenal since the 1950s. But its ancestry really dates to Engineering Research Asso- ciates, a top-secret military contractor the Navy helped to establish in St. Paul in 1946. The contractor's pioneering work helped launch the world's computer industry and established the Twin Cities as a computer powerhouse in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. More than any other local company, Lockheed Martin's Eagan facility followed. the path first charted by Engineer- ing Research Associates engineering the high-perform- ance, ultra -sophisticated sys- tems required by the U.S. mili- tary. Much of its work is classi- fied, although some is public, including development of the world's smallest ruggedized supercomputer for the Joint Strike Fighter. The facility's projects include designing and developing mission computing systems for Navy ships and developing a computer proces- sor for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet as part of a contract with the Air Force. At Lockheed's • 623,000- square-foot Eagan facility of mostly offices and laborato- ries, about 70 percent of the employees are highly skilled engineers — including soft- ware engineers, systems engi- neers as well as electrical, - mechanical and hardware engineers. • In coming weeks, the • company will. determine what types of jobs will transfer with the programs. Although Minnesota's job market has outperformed the nation over the past year, it remains sluggish. That could make employees more willing than usual to move should they be offered one of the 650 jobs headed elsewhere in the company. "In normal times; I would expect that fewer of them would move and more would stay and find work in the local - economy rather than uproot their families," said Tom Stin- son, the state's chief econo- mist. "These haven't been normal times lately, and so I'd expect to see more people taking the less risky choice of keeping their jobs but moving. A jobin hand is worth more than the prospects for future employ- ment." State officials didn't have the opportunity to make a pitch to keep Eagan open,,: said Dan McElroy, the state's commis- sioner of employment and eco- nomic development. • McElroy said he was told by a Lockheed executive that the company wants to squeeze excess space from its global operations. Rather than trim throughout the system, the company targeted Eagan and a Maryland plant for closure. "It wasn't about incentives," McElroy said. "It was about having too much capacity" Gov. Tim Pawlenty sent a let- ter Thursday to Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens, asking to discuss the compa- ny's plans and to offer assis- tance in finding ways to keep the facility open. Anne Marie Squeo, spokes- woman for Lockheed Martin MS2, said the decision to close the Eagan facility came after a yearlong analysis. "It was determined that closing the Eagan facilityand, ceasing manufacturing operationsat our Middle River, Md., facility made the most sense because the products made there could be made at other Lockheed Martin facilities," she said. Lockheed, based in Bethes- da, Md.,, employs 1.33,000 com- panywide and reported sales. ,of $44 billion last year. ' ' Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire 'said rumors had been floating around City Hall for 'several weeks,. but city officials didn't learn of the closing until Thursday. "It was a surprise to -' us," Maguire said. The mayor said he hopes to meet with Lockheed Martin . officials in the next few weeks. "We'll encourage themto reconsider," Maguire said. a. "We have great assets and great, knowledgeable employ- ees here." • • Chip Laingen, executive director of the Defense Alliance, an industry group designed to pitch the region to the Defense Department, was less hopeful. He said he believed Lock- heed's decision has little to do with the national defense budget and much to do with the state and region losing its competitive edge in the high- tech -industry. Most of the industry is being consolidated on the East and West coasts, he said, adding that the state's lack of venture capital and the lack of incentives and a rela- tively high corporate tax base don't help. . "I think we're living on our legacy," he said. - Tom Webb and Jessica Fleming contributed to this report. s _: L StarTrubune STARTRIBUNE.COM k MINNESOTA'S TOP NEWS CHOICE • MINNEAPOLIS • ST. PAUL • NOVEMBER 19, 2010 1,000 JOBS TO GO WITH LOCKHEED • About 650 of the Eagan plant's employees will be offered transfers to plants elsewhere in the U.S. The rest will be let go. By SUSAN FEYDER sfeyder@startribune.com Lockheed Martin retiree Mike Wold says he'd gotten used to hearing about downsiz- ing at the company's facility in Eagan in the past few years, but he admits he was taken aback Thursday when he heard about plans to close it for good. "I guess I thought and hoped they would maybe keep cut- ting gradually," said Wold, 66, who retired in 1997. "It makes me sad, because there's been so much good work done there." Lockheed Martin announced Thursday it will close its Eagan facility, laying off or transferring about 1,000 workers by 2013. About 70 percent of the work- force consists of engineers who work on communications sys- tems used on military ships and aircraft, including P-3 surveil- lance planes. By the end of the year, em- ployees will find out if they have a future elsewhere with the Bethesda, Md.-based de- fense giant. The layoffs will be partially offset by the transfer of about 650 jobs from Eagan to Owego, N.Y.; Manassas, Va., and San Diego. Remaining employ- ees will be let go. The only uncertainty at this point is the future of about 190 Eagan employees who work on air traffic control system soft- ware. No decision will be made on their futures until the Eagan complex is closed, according to company spokeswoman Anne Marie Squeo. Plant continues on All ► Up abit: State's jobless rate inch- es up to 7.1 percent. Di THE EAGAN PLANT Opened: 1946 by Engineering Research Associates Other owners: Sperry, UNISYS, Loral Current life: Lockheed Martin took over the plant in 1996 when it bought Loral Corp's electronics and systems -integration business. Lockheed's peak employment there: 3,000 in the late 1990s Current employment: 1,000 Facilities: 623,000 square feet of buildings on 50 acres H39° L34° Peeks of sun but plen- ty of wind. B8 ACALLTO CENSURE .4416 posed an adultery - scandal, writes about how he says he has changed in an essay for Newsweek. It be- gins: "Last November, everything I thought I knew about myself changed abruptly, and what others perceived about me shifted, too. I had been conduct- ing my personal life in an artificial way. ... "And it concludes: "I can never truly re- pair the damage I've done, especially to my family. But I can keep trying...." Pop culture junk food, and then some. ("MR. ED"), 91 • TALK SHOW HOST LARRY KING, 77 • TALK IGNER CALVIN KLEIN, 68 • ACTRESS ALLISON JANNEY, 51 • jODIE FOSTER, 48 • COUNTRY SINGER BILLY CURRINGTON, 37 `DWTS' SETS UP A DIZZY FINISH By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK - Conser- vative blogger Kevin Du - Jan is psyched. 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Palin fan DuJan said the public support for Palin was a sign of real affection and a desire to reward her after her ordeal under the harsh media spotlight — both as an unmarried preg- nant teen and now facing snide comments about her JJJ;.JJr Power Play Multiplier 3 Winner / Jackpot None / $35 million Next drawing / Jackpot Saturday night / $ 50 million HOT LOTTO Wednesday: 18.21.34.35.39 Hot Ball: 8 Winner / Jackpot None / $12 million Next drawing /Jackpot Saturday night; $12.3 million GOPHER 5 Wednesday: 5.20.34.45.47 Winner/Jackpot None; $140,000 Next drawing/Jackpot Today; $150,000 NORTHSTAR CASH Thursday: 9.11.14.30.31 Jackpot: $25,000 DAILY 3 Thursday: 2.7.7 (in order) MEGA MILLIONS Tuesday:1 • 26 . 27 • 39 . 46 Mega Ball: 21 Megaplier: 3 Next drawing / Jackpot Today; $25 million GLEN STUBBE • gstubbe@startribune.com -About 70 percent of the employees at Lockheed Martin's Eagan plant are engineers who work on military communications systems. LOCKHEED TO CLOSE EAGAN PLANT PLANT FROM Al At a bar not far from the cor- porate campus, one longtime employee sharing beers with 1co-workers said he always as- sumed he'd be able to work for Lockheed in Eagan until it came time to retire. - "Now that's changed. It flips -the picture for you," said the rworker, who declined to be named. "It's a pretty sad day for Jail of us." Plans for Christmas 'travel, fixing his car and gift 'spending are now all up in the -air, he said. Gov. Tim Pawlenty sent a 'letter to the CEO of Lockheed r asking for a meeting to discuss keeping the operation open. "I strongly believe the plant's lo- cation near the Minneapolis -St. Paul International Airport, the -high quality of our workforce `and the business -friendly, en- ',vironment in 'Minnesota are important considerations for continuing operations here," -the governor 'wrote to CEO Robert Stevens. Pawlenty said -he would encourage the next i' governor to consider recom- mending significant incen-. tives to the Legislature to keep the Lockheed Martin plant in Eagan. The closing is a blow to Eagan, where Northwest Air- lines' headquarters were closed after the airline was ac- quired by Delta. Those offic- es are still vacant. Squeo said Lockheed Martin plans to try to sell its 623,000-square-foot facility on 50 acres. Eagan Mayor Mike Magu- ire said he hopes to meet with Lockheed Martin . officials in the next few weeks to ask them to reconsider; their decision. He said he's not, concerned about the impact on the city's tax base since either Lockheed or the property's new owner will continue to -pay taxes. But he is concerned about employ- ees. and the impact on neigh- boring businesses like shops and restaurants. "It's a great site; though, and we're confident that, in time, it would be attractive to a major employer," he said. . LOCKH®'S EAGAN PLANT Lockheed announced Thursday it ' would close its Eagan facility by 2013. Yankee Doodle Rd Dakota Co. Source: ESRI, TeleAtlas Star Tribune The Eagan facility has long been a huge source of pride for thestate. and was frequently visited by state and congressio- nal:delegates and showcased in the media for various high pro- file contracts. It opened in 1946 as a facility for Engineering Re- search Associates and was later home to the Univac division of _Sperry Rand and Loral Corp. It ' became part of Lockheed Mar- tin in 1996 when Lockheed Martin acquired Loral's elec- tronics and systems -integra- tion business. Peak employment during the. time Lockheed Martin owned the facility was about 3,000 in the late 1990s. Lockheed said the moves are being done to trim costs and should save it about $150 mil- lion over the next 10 years. Dan McElroy, commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, said Lockheed's news "is not statistically a large loss. But it is a real blow to [em- ployees]." The state will send people to the plant soon to help employees learn how to write resumes and brush up on interviewing and job search skills.: He noted that those af- fected are very highly skilled and may not have trouble find- ing new jobs. Staff writers Dee DePass and Wendy Lee contributed to this report. Susan Feyder.612-673.1723 it university of minnesota presidency Regents get to question Kaler in private • The sessions, in groups of three on Wednesday morning, raise questions, but U leaders ay they followed the law. By JENNA ROSS jross@startribune.com Thursday might have been the first time the Universi- ty of Minnesota Board of Re- gents interviewed Eric Kaler in public, but regents had al- ready questioned him behind closed doors. In groups of three, they talked with Kaler privately Wednesday morning in meet- ings not listed on his itinerary or mentioned during the public interview. Each meeting lasted about an hour. Had the full board met with him in such a setting, it would have been a violation of the state's Open Meeting Law, which requires public bod- ies to give notification of such meetings. "To me, this is a violation of JNE TICKET ONE FREE! KEND! Nov. 19-21., is Convention Center th lisa 1 or present coupon • at the door. p' 1 IvestHomeShow.com 1 J the spirit of the law," said Jane Kirtley, director of the U's Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. "I'm getting kind of fed up with the regents' total disregard for the public process." But board Chair Clyde Allen said the regents "took pains" to plan those meetings in a way that wouldn't violate the law. 'We think the law was followed, scrupulously." Spokesman Daniel Wolter said the meetings with the re- gents were not listed on Kal- er's schedule because they were "not considered part of the formal process.". Members of the faculty and the public have criticized the regents for choosing one final- ist in the first place, calling it an attempt to circumvent state law. Regents have said that they decided to name Kaler alone after two of the four semifinal- ists declined to be interviewed in public and the fourth candi- date didn't match Kaler. Although the U can conduct much of its- search for a presi- dent in private, once the board" decides 'to interview candi- dates, thosefmalists' names -become public. If the regents broke into THE JUMP, IN NUMBERS • Comparing Eric Kaler's move from Stony Brook University in New York to the University of Minnesota. • Stony Brook University Founded 1957 ,.._ . . In -state tuition and fees $6,578 Nonresident tuition and fees ` $14,988'. Total enrollment 24,594 ',Faculty Annual budget $1.2 billion. Sources: Stony Brook University, University of Minnesota smaller groups to meet Kaler "serially," they may be in viola- tion of the law if they did it de- liberately to get around the law. "Setting up a deal where you can have little groups of regents talk to the prospec- tive candidate - making sure you don't constitute a quo- rum — sure doesn't pass the smell test," said Don Geniber- ling, a lawyer and the former longtime head of a state agen- cy that oversaw public records requests. "No wonder people don't trust the government." U general counsel Mark Ro- tenberg said on Thursday that the small -group meetings were "social encounters." There are "certain conversations and per- sonal encounters not covered by the Open Meeting Law," said Rotenberg, mentioning the Wednesday night dinner that the regents had with Kal- University of Minnesota 1851 $12,288 $16588, 67,364 systemwide $ 3.4 billion er and his wife, Karen. Kaler's three meetings in- volved the nine regents who were not a part of the search process. They were not inter- views, Rotenberg said, "the way we designed it." That's not the way that one regent described her session with Kaler. J "We were just firing ques- tions at him," regent Venora Hung said. "We all had a mil- lion questions in our head, like, 'How are you going to react to the budget?' "I would describe it as an intense conversation for an hour." That meeting helped the re- gents who had not yet met Kal- er get a sense of him as a'per- son, Hung said, and he per- formed well. Jenna Ross • 612-673-7168 0 WE WE E JUST FIRING Q ESTIONS T HIM. 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OIL $51.69 +$1.21 ..., GOLD $1234.60 -$28.10 BUSINESS 8A M Saturday 2-7-2015 EDITOR DAVID FONDLER DFONDLER@PIOf� New plan for Eagan Lockheed site Commercial district calls for shipping, offices By Nick Ferraro nferraro@pioneerpress.com Developer CSM Corp. has been given the go-ahead from Eagan offi- cials to redevelop. the former Lock- heed Martin site into an urban -style shopping district with a planned grocery store, sit-down restaurant's and medical offices. Plans the Eagan City Council unanimously approved Tuesday include 387,000 square feet of retail and a 47,000-square-foot medical office building on the 47-acre site at Yankee Doodle and Pilot Knob roads, a prominent corner just west of Interstate 35E. The area east of the interstate already is heavily developed with retail. The latest plans for the develop- ment, called Central Park Commons and nearly four years in the making, show a grocery store and fitness center on the southern end of the site. The medical building, a bank and four restaurants make up the northern portion of the property. A call to CSM on Friday seeking specifics was not returned. Minneapolis -based CSM bought the Lockheed Martin corporate office and laboratory site in2O11. The developer submitted two other plans to the city in 2012 and 2013 that were heavier on retail, but later withdrew them both. The planned shopping center's pedestrian -friendly design puts the buildings at the perimeter of the property, with storefronts facing up into the center of the site. "It's what we call an inward cen- ter," John Johannson, CSM's devel- opment agent on the project, told council members and city staff before the vote. Amplifying the design is a "village" setting in the middle of the property with six smaller -sized retail buildings, an outside plaza, seating and walking paths. A curved, landscaped road runs horizontally through the village area. Limiting expanses of parking was another design goal, while still pre- serving the access and convenient parking that suburban shoppers expect, CSM said in its project nar- rative submitted to the city Sidewalks and multiple trail con- nections will be put at key pedestri- an access points surrounding the site. "There are myriad trail opportuni- ties," Johannson told the council and city staff. "There are myriad plaza and open -space seating oppor- tunities built into the plan that frankly did not exist in the earliest iterations of the project. And that's the direct result of the feedback from you." Jon Hohenstein, Eagan's commu- nity development director, said the, city's comprehensive guide plan lays out expectations for the Central Commons area, including "things like an expectation of mixed use, pedestrian orientated gathering places,shared parking, minimizing large areas of parking. And each new plan CSM did got closer to the policy rules." The new shopping center will be situated about three miles northeast of Twin Cities Premium Outlets, a 409,000-square-foot 100-plus store outlet mall that opened in August in - the, Cedar Grove redevelopment area. Hohenstein said that when plans were submitted for the outlet mall in 2012, Maxfield Research looked at its ' potential impact. The market research study concluded the mall would not compete directly with existing retail in the city or any new retail developments . like the one green -lighted Tuesday, he said. Workers have removed roughly 240tons of asbestos from the vacant New retail development Plans include a grocery store, small- and medium-sized shops, a fitness center, four sit-down restaurants and a medical office building. PIONEER PRESS Lockheed Martin building, which was built in 1967. Demolition of the 620,000-square-foot building will begin in April or May. The new shopping center could be open by the end of spring 2016. Nick Ferraro can be reached at 651-228-2173. Follow him at twitter.com/NFerraroPiPress. r Press Saturday 2-7-2015 M er a day after Cameroon expels them ntinuing assistance to fight e militants. oko Haram has openly eatened to attack other untries taking part in the itary effort to subdue their surgency, blamed for 10,000 ,aths over' the past year. eroon, Niger, Chad and nin all have pledged to send oops to fight Boko Haram, hich has waged a five-year ebellion against the Nigerian overnment. On Friday, soldiers from Tiger and Chad fought an our -long battle that caused i oko Haram fighters to with- aw from Bosso, leaving the iger town's streets deserted, lid Abba Hassan, a local iarmacist. iefi"e "Niger and Chadian planes are conducting surveillance at the 'moment in town and troops on the ground are combing through the streets," Hassan said by phone. There was no word on casu- alties, and Niger's govern- ment spokesman could not be reached for comment. Niger's president was holding a Cabi- net meeting Friday. The area of Niger where the attack took place is flooded with Nigerian refugees who have fled Boko Haram's vio- lence in Nigeria. Niger's gov- ernment cites 100,000 dis- placed people, making one out of six in the region a refu- gee. - Those fleeing the violence invades another African nation Remembering OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM in Bosso were headed toward Diffa, a second town hit by Boko Haram fire Friday. At least four mortar rounds fell in the town, although there were no immediate reports of injuries, according to an aid official in the capital who had spoken with witnesses. The. official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. On Wednesday and Thurs- day, Boko Haram fighters attacked Fotokol, in Camer- oon, leaving nearly 100 people dead and some 500 wounded, according to Cameroonian officials. The extremists razed mosques and churches and used civilians as human shields before Cameroonian forces pushed them back across the border to Nigeria. Today's Obituaries To contact the obituary department at the Pioneer Press please ca11651-228-5263 Asfeld, Norbert L. Kaschke, Audrey J. Romig, George Charles Ryan, Sylvia Johnson ASFELD Norbert L. Age 81 of Shakopee, formerly of -Kimball and Burnsville. Full notice Sunday. McNearney Funeral,Home Shakopee 952-445-2755 • www.menearneyfuneralhome.com ' KASCHKE Audrey J. Age 91, of West St. Paul Died February 4, 2015 Survived by husband, Robert; son, Mark (Cheryl) and granddaughter, Amy. Memorial Mass of Christian Burial 10AM •Monday, February 9 at the CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH, 1154 Seminole Ave., West St. Paul. Interment Fort Snelling National Cemetery. No visitation. Memorials preferred to donor's choice. Natural Burial and Cremation • BY WILLWERSCHEID WEST -HEIGHTS Info@wwlllweracheld.com 651-457-7938 ROMIG George Charles Age 83 o St. Paul died peacefully at home on February 2, 2015. George is survived by Susan, his_wifeof 53 years; his daughters, Kathryn Russell (Scott) of Los Angeles and Jennifer Pedersen (Robert) of Phoenix;and his grandsons, Kristopher and Brian Russell and Nicholas and Jacob Pedersen. George was born on May 14,1931 in Hollywood, California to Lieuellen RYAN , Sylvia Johnson Age 90, of Shakopee, MN sipped her last cup of English tea on February 4, 2015 after a beautiful day spent with her family. Born December 8, 1924 in London,' England to Harry and Cis Johnson, she grew up during WW II. She was swept off her Meet by a young American pilot, Ronald J. Johnson whom she married on October 28, 1944. She came to Minnesota in 1946, where she was . introduced to the warmness of the Johnson family and of small town life. They raised three children David, Brenda Ann, and Ann Marie. Sylvia lost her young .pilot on November 2, 1968. Bob Ryan drove into her life and presented her with yet another full life and a huge loving family who embraced her when they married on May 27, 1969. Although he passed away on August 23, 2005, the Ryan family cherished her to the very last moment. Sylvia was preceded in death by her parents and two husbands. Survivors include children David (Kathy Casanova) Johnson, Brenda Ann (Jim) Schaffer, and Ann Marie (Dan) Tripps; grandchildren Scott Nicole) Johnson, Keri (Ryan) Stanzel, and Michelle Johnson; great: grandchildren Ariana Johnson,"Tyra ohnson, Emilia Stanzel, and Daniel Johnson; brother Ronald H. (Beryl) Johnson of Roydon, Essex; England and sister Brenda Palmer of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; sisters-in-law Mary Johnson, Laura Ryan, and Helen Pomije; and many nieces and lnephews who will miss her dearly but who will always keep her in their hearts. Visitation Sunday from 3-7 PM, with a Prayer Service at 6 PM at McNearney Funeral Home, 1220 3rd Ave. E., Shakopee. Visitation also Monday from 9:30-10:45 AM at The Parish of Sts. Joachim and Anne (Church of St. Mary)535 Lewis St. Shakopee., followe• by Mass of Christian Burial at 11 AM. Interment Catholic Cemetery. McNearney Funeral Home Shakopee 952-445-2755 www.mcnearneyfuneralhome.com o 4OCKHEED, from 1A fices and restaurants. In keeping with the urban village design, the project includes numer- ous sidewalks that weave throughout the develop- ment and connect to exist- ing trails. "I'm pleased with. the proposal before us," said Council Member Paul Bakken, who• was critical of previous. proposals. "I think it strikes a nice bal- ance and will be good for the community." • In December , 2012, CSM withdrew plans to build 400,000 square feet of retail complex to await results of a traffic study by Dakota County. Initial plans included a big -box retailer. The study exam- ined traffic .on Pilot Knob Road in Eagan; and its findings were presented in January 2013. The developer submit- ted a revised proposal in September 2013 that nixed a big -box retailer and add- ed 50,000 square feet of office space. It withdrew that proposal in January 2014. CSM submitted its cur- rent proposal•in December 204 4. Council 'members ex- pressed' concerns that the developer's new plans in- clude more parking than necessary, but Johannson assured council members excess spaces will be con- verted into green areas if — after a year or two of operations — • CSM de- termines the development has excess parking stalls. Council members praised CSM and its af- filiates for using trees and green spaces to • eak up CSM CENTRAL PARK COMMONS. PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN • • EAGAN. MINNESOTA R S'C ARCH E'C"T9 The plans combine • traditional suburban development with aspects of an urban village, a walkable retail area that features on -street parking, small parking Tots, and parking structures. (Graphic submitted) the large parking,lot. Demolition of the former Lockheed Mar tin building is expected to occur in the next few weeks, and construction is' expected to follow this spring. Johannson said he expects the project will be completed in fall 2016. The development is ex- pected to add an estimated $2.2 million to Eagan's tax base.' Jessica Harper is at jessica. harper@ecin-inc. corn or facebook. co,nlsunthisweek. Letters • LETTERS,'from 4A Tom Egan was quoted as saying, "They are trying to top -down dictate how we . operate, our parks." It continued, "Com- missioners bristled at, the suggestion that the Met Council should help de- cide which park improve- ment programs to pur- sue." The county's letter said, "It is important that the Metropolitan Council does not usurp the author- ity of local elected officials in the improvement of re- gional park systems." I would appreciate being informed of the difference(s) between what our commissioners stated the Met Council was do- ing to them and what they are attempting to do to county citizens. The Lebanon Hills Cit- izens Advisory Panel, sup- posedly established to ad- dress citizens' objections, was rather, it appears, used to enable the commission- ers to . impose their plans on the people the parks belong to, doing just what they - were complaining about the Met Council do- ing. What is that old say- ing about the shoe "pinch= ing when it's on the -other foot? My tally of 39 articles and letters relative to 'the "Master Plan". published over the last 20 months is 31 "nays" and two "yeas," six being strictly informa- tive orneutral commentar- ies. A couple of other "old sayings" I like: "Recogni- tion of reality is the be- ginning of wisdom" and/. or, alternately, "When illu- sion dies, wisdom.is born." to 40 hours the definition of full:time employment before an employer is re- quired to provide health insurance under the Af- fordable Care Act. As a result, many employees will be, removed from the rolls of the insured. We, the taxpayers, will bear the burden of this decision. Keystone XL Pipe- line: He voted to autho- rize the construction of the pipeline. No oil flow- ing through this pipeline will remain in the United States. Only approximate- ly 30. permanent jobs re- sult from its construction. And, it encourages the production some of the world's dirtiest oil from the Canadian tar sands. Regulatory Account- ability Act: He voted to create many of . new hur- dles for the EPA, the FDA, and other science agencies, while allowing for endless court challenges from spe- cial interests. This could delay protections from current and emerging threats for years. Homeland Security: He voted to defund all immigration reforms un- dertaken by the president. This results. in continuing insecurity for workers and students who have and will contribute to our economy and society. Job Creation and. Re- ducing Burdens on Small. Business: This bill weak— ens the Dodd -Frank leg- islation, giving renewed power to Wall Street to impose its will on Main Street. . Before he retires or is. voted out of office, he should stop doing damage mental health must in- clude the topic of trans- portation. With the popu- lation of Lakeville nearing 60,000, I wonder when the discussion of implement- ing an expanded public transportation system will begin. I suggest a "transit initiative" needs to take 'place, _a' coalition simi- lar to the one Northfield formed in 2008. We need community leaders, citizens, and mem- bers, from several .different organizations to unite and attempt to determine the benefits of an expanded public transportation sys- tem in Lakeville, and how to make it a reality. -Questions will need to be answered: Would regular bus routes be used and by how many people? Where would the routes run? Where will the mon- ey come from? Would lo- cal businesses voluntarily kick into a "donation" .fund in exchange for some positive publicity? How can we prevent creating an extra tax burden, or would the socio-economic ben- efits to the community .as a whole outweigh a small tax increase? Would it be more financially feasible to start with one bus route, then gradually, over a pe- riod of several years, in- crease the number of bus routes? How does limited public transportation afL fect seniors, youth, people seeking or maintaining employment, people who need ongoing physical and mental health services? Would it create more social opportunities? Is having a better -connected com- munity a good idea or bad and have support from Democrats, Republicans, The Global Ed uc - spirituall in a caring, OPEN Lockheed redevelopment flans gain .momentum by Jessica. Harper "We plan to make this , SUN THISWEEK a unique destination;",said DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE John Johannson, senior Plans to create a shop- ping area on the former Lockheed Martin prop- erty in Eagan are moving forward after a year of de- lays. On Feb. •3, the City Council unanimously ap- proved a comprehensive guide amendment, rezon- ing; preliminary -planned development and prelimi- nary subdivision plan that will allow CSM Eagan, a subsidiary of, CSM Corp. of Minneapolis, to build a 434,000-square-foot, mul- tibuilding retail develop- ment called Central Park Commons on the prop - vice president of Welsh, an 'architecture firm con- tracted by CSM. The plans combine tra- ditional suburban devel- opment with aspects of an urban village, a walkable retail area that features on -street parking, small parking lots, and parking structures. • Preliminary illustrations show a grocery store, large retailers, restaurants and a fitness, center forming a ring around the outer edge of the property. Inside the. ring is a "retail village" that ' consists of small shops, of- erty. See LOCKHEED', 6A rza'a.a..y NewHorizonncaderny.n OFFICIAL READERS' CHOI "BEST CHILD CA voted by Eagan reade Day by Day Child Develop Day By Day Child Developm "Building Bright Futures since Thank you Eagan 1565 CIi1 Ea! 651• www. Hou M-F 6:: 'h)ef2AC. ©� - °(o-)-oll Announcements/4A IM AUGUST 26, 2011 Real Estate/4A Opinion/5A VOLUME 32, NO. 26 Public Notices/6A & 9A Art and All That tau in Burnsville hits a high note. See Thisweekend Page 14A. Sports/7A & 8A Classifieds/10A A NEWS NION ORTS Retail office at Lockheed Martin site by Jessica Harper .THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS A Minneapolis -based de- veloper is hoping toturn a huge chunk of the Lockheed Martin building in Eagan into retail space. "Given its proximately to Town Centre and Prom- enade (two major retail centers), we believe it is a strong, viable trade area site that lends itself to retail uses," said Tom Palmquist, vice president of commer- cial development for CSM Corp. The city's comprehensive guide currently designates the property as major office. "(But) filling a 623,000 square -foot office building that was built 40 years ago for a specific use could be very difficult," said City Ad- ministrator Tom Hedges. Subdividing the site could also be challenging, he said. CSM Equities LLC, an affiliate of CSM Corp., is asking city officials to amend their comprehensive guide plan to redesignate 41.2 acres of the 51-acre site as retail commercial. The plans also call for several freestanding restau rants and would keep the remaining 6.2 acres as office space. "We are looking at a va- riety of alternatives and are trying to put together the best mix," Palmquist said. The site is at a prime lo- cation' — the intersection of Pilot Knob and Yankee Doodle roads, Eagan's busi- Ftle photo CSM Equities LLC, a developer who in April purchased Lockheed Martin's facility in Eagan, hopes to redevelop the land into a retail and office complex. Lockheed announced last winter it will close the Eagan site in 2013. est intersection — and is near its major retail centers, Promenade and Town Cen- tre. Before making any final decisions, though, city of- ficials would • want to en- sure another retail complex would compliment others in the area, Palmquist said. The project — which CSM calls Central Park Commons — would do just that, he said. "Our hope is to bring retailers to the Eagan trade area that are new to the mar- ket and who offer something that the current retailers don't," he said, adding that CSM has been talking with several interested businesses. The developer purchased the property in April and closed on the sale in June, but Lockheed Martin will continue to occupy the space under a lease agree- ment until it officially closes its Eagan operation in the spring of 2013. The company announced last November it would close its Eagan facility by 2013, resulting in about 350 layoffs and 650 job transfers to other Lockheed Martin facilities. CSM's redevelopment plans are still in their infan- cy. Its proposal is expected to go before the Planning Commission in September. If it passes there, the pro- posal will move on to the City Council on Oct. 4. If it approves the comprehensive plan amendment, the coun- cil would also need Metro- politan Council approval. The property is,presently zoned as research and devel- opment, so that, too, would need to be changed before a development could move forward, Hedges said. E-mail Jessica Harper at: jessica. harper@ecm-inzc. coin City envisi Council approves .comprehensive guide c by Jessica Harper THISWEEKNEWSPAPERS The Eagan City Council has agreed to change its vi- sion for the Lockheed Mar- tin property, moving plans for a potential retail space i one step closer. On Oct. 4, the council unanimously passed . an amendment to its compre- hensive guide plan, which will go to the Metropolitan Council for review. . The city's comprehensive guide currently designates the property as major of- fice. "(But) filling a 623,000 square -foot office build- ing that was built 40 years ago for a specific use could be very difficult," said City Administrator Tom Hedges in previous interviews. A Minneapolis -based developer is hoping to turn a huge chunk of the Lockheed Martin building in Eagan into retail space.. .CSM Equities LLC an affiliate of .CSM Corpora= tion, asked city officials to amend its comprehensive" guide plan to. redesignate 41.2 acres of the 51-acre site as retail commercial. The plans also. call for several free-standing res- taurants and would keep the remaining i 6.2 acres. as . ' office space: "We .. are very . excited about this:; project, said Tom Palmquist, vice presi- dent of commercial devel- opment for CSM:;`.This is a great piece of property.in'a great community":; transit and has g The site is at a;pnme lo and gathers places-'-- cation = the intersection Maguire said lie behe�e; of Pilot Knob' and Yankee any new"retail development Doodle roads, which is Ea- must include @fiat" hefcalls gan's busiest intersection, and is near its major' retail centers, Promen'ade and Town Centre. Before making any final, decisions, though, city of- ficials say they want to en- sure another retail complex would complement others in the area. The project — which'. CSM calls Central Park Commons - would do just' that, Palmquist said. , The developer purchased the property in April and ing strip ina111 Several, councilrneixibs... �5 - e and Mayor Mike'Maguire said they would^aiktoe> -see a retail' developmentha t t is walkable- allows r • for mass; seen mace. a marquee - destination something :that will attract people to';the area'such"as a` major outdoor gear' retailer" `We need an anchortha is uni ue:'in 7this:°area," said CSM's redevelo plans are s'ti11 m its`tnfatic The city's greeiAlgh'it per tams only to,its guide plan' Detailed! plans ;of a pro �F posed project Would iStiH need council. approval',prior to any redevelopment The= Lockheed 'Martin` closed on the sale in June,.,- property . is .presentlyzoned. but Lockheed _Martin :.will 'as '. research and ydevelop . . continue to occupy ;the merit, so that too would space under a lease agree need ,to be `change"dbefore merit until it officially closes a...develop'mentcould move : in the •spring of 2013 forward, Hedgessaid CSM plans to not only In addrtioneapproving .`. be the developer of the site;,:,changes to the igu des'plaan but also the long-term own the il.;approved apro= er, Palmquist said.. posal to seek a tlurd� ar " •- councp The development would conductia ;markeiresearc be approximately the.: size .study ofthe=Locklieed}areaf of Promande, but council members said they hope it E-imail'Vessic a Harp r a e looks nothing like the exist Jessica harper@ecnz.;inc com Voice Systems© Written by David P. Andersen LEGACY project publication - 7/16/2007 Page 1 of 9 The Invention of Voice Maik In the early 1970s, Sperry UNIVAC Defense Systems in Eagan Minnesota, formerly a division of Remington Rand UNIVAC, formed a small research group whose primary mission was to develop a continuous speech recognition system for military applications. Such a system promised to improve operation of eyes -busy and hands -busy tasks such as inputting data to a computer while flying a helicopter or controlling a CRT display without taking one's eyes off the screen. The requirements were tough—telephone/radio bandwidth speech, no pause between words, and a noisy environment. During the 14 years of the Speech Research Group's existence, it had considerable success.... The Speech Group's early success led to a contract with a certain defense intelligence agency that awarded us a contract to develop an algorithm called word spotting. The task was to identify certain key words being spoken in an eavesdropped radio or telephone conversation. When combined with a context analysis program, it was possible to determine the gist or topic being discussed. In some ways this task is easier than understanding cooperative speech because the detection rate can be lower and still work. This program was the first Top Secret project at the Eagan plant and resulted in the construction of a special RF-shielded lab space underground which Larry and Don designed. This project, we were told, caused our plant to become a target in the USSR's ICBM system. This form of professional recognition was received with a bit of pride. The word -spotting program demonstrated the feasibility of automated real-time gisting in English and Russian on a large scale. Now, thirty years later, one wonders what our government is doing with this technology. This article provided to the VIP Club and Lockheed Martin Corporation Legacy Project by David P. Andersen on July 16, 2007. 01. mumismai Z--0! 1 Fo LsD� �N DS Fo t.1)Ec S NS Kujawski named president of Eagan's Lockheed Peter L. Kujawski has been named president of Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Sys- tems in Eagan, succeeding Sidney Rundel, who retired earlier this year. Kujawski will lead the busi- ness unit, which employs more than 2,100 people and has ad- ditional operations in Florida and a number of customer serv- ice sites throughout the United States. Tactical Defense Systems in Eagan designs and integrates information systems and pro- vides computer products to the U.S. Department of Defense and similar foreign government agencies. Most recently, Kujawski was vice president of business de- velopment for Lockheed Mar- tin's Ocean, Radar and Sensor Systems business unit in Syra- cuse, N.Y. Prior to the Syra- cuse assignment, he served in a similar capacity for the com- pany's Information Group in Bethesda, Md. Before that, he was general manager of Gen- eral Electric's Simulation and Automation systems organiza_ lion in ayton Beach, Fla The' Lakeville Senior Center is looking forcrafters to par- ticipate in the Harvest Bazaar, whichwill be held Saturday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. • You must be 55 or oldei to participate. If interested, call Linda at 985-4622. • Happy Feet visits senior. center Happy Feet will be at the Lakeville Senior Center on Wednesday, .Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Appointments fill up %fast, so call 985-4622.early. Cost is $18: . !1,. Seniors' - Oktoberfest 1 is Oct. .3 The Burnsville Senior. Center ;h will present a fall Oktoberfest. 11 Thursday evening, Oct. 3 in the a- senior center courtyard. • . Punch' will be served at 5:30, followed by potluck dinner be- ginning at 6 and ,music by the n Barvarian Musik Meisters at 7. e ' Bring your favorite potluck dish, (no desserts, please). RSVP is requested by Oct. 1. Ca11 707-4120. High-tech retirees: preserve vital history of computing in Minnesota by John Gessner THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS Bernie Jansen had a ground's -eye view of the Cold War and the technol-- ogy it helped spawn. • After joining ' UNIVAC Military Operations in 1956, the former Army mathema- tician programmed Athena •computers, which guided Titan 1 missiles' capable of reaching Africa and Russia. After the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik sat- ellite, NASA came calling with another use for the computer -guided missile. "Instead of a nose cone and a bomb in it, it carried a satellite into orbit," said Jan= sen, 81, of Eagan. Jansen, is one of Minne- sota's computer -industry retirees working to preserve the state's legacy as -a high- tech giant. He retired in 1988 from Unisys, one of the many General 952-894-1 1 1] Distribution 952-846-2070 Display Advertising 952-846-2011 Classified Advertising 952-846-2000 rc 1 l,lMMM tt% 6 34493 00023 6 1- Photo by John Gessner VIP Club members who worked in Minnesota's high-tech industry include, from left, club 'Minder. Millie Gignac of Eagan, Bernie Jansen of Eagan and Larry Bolton of Burnsville. firms in an evolving land- scape of companies that , have•comprised a Minnesota industry that dates back to the 1940s. Jansen .is a member of the VIP Club of 960 retir- ees from Unisys, Lockheed Martin and their Twin Cities predecessors. Around 120 live in Eagan and Burnsville. The club's Legacy Com- mittee has spent the last cou- ple of years documenting an industry that began in 1946 in St. Paul with Engineering Research Associates. The committee is 'advised by Dr. Tom Misa, director, of the University of Min- nesota's Charles' Babbage Institute, which studies the history ofinformation tech-. nology. • Misa his been giv- Ow- • ing a series, of lectures called " "Minnesota's Hidden His- tory in Computing.;' - "His first lecture is on whether or 'not we should have been called Silicon Valley, instead of Califor- nia," said Larry. Bolton of Burnsville, a retired compo- nent engineer who logged 41 years with UNIVAC, Sperry, Unisys and Lockheed Mar- tin. "The.biggest reason is se- crecy," Jansen added."Much of what was done couldn't be talked • about for years and years." • Jansen, Bolton and Millie Gignac — an Eagan resident .who founded the Sperry .Univac retirees club and was the company's benefits See Tech, 7A 11I2.I1-e-vg LEBRATIoN DAY, NOV. 2OTH Y, Nov. 23R.D • `I T S ral Or • Largest Selection of Organics in the Twin Cities • Bigger, Fresher Produce • All -Natural Meat Department (No Hormones or Antibiotics —Ever.) • Huge Variety of Local Products • Expanded Deli, including Fresh, Chef -Prepared Meals • World -Class Artisan Cheese Selection • Full -Service Starbucks • And Much, Much More i1-328-8300 • www.kowalskis.com i1m•1ree1bn•As Tech/from 1A director — met for an inter- view last week at Lockheed Martin's naval electronics and surveillance systems building on Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan. Parts of the sprawling campus have been sold off since the days when it was called UNIVAC Park and Sperry Univac Plant 8. • "It's still Sperry Univac to me," said Gignac, a vig- orous 88-year-old who was that company's first female , director. ' The company lineages can be confusing. "We put the name in Velcro on the front door because it keeps changing," Bolton joked. Today, the Twin Cities sites consist of Lockheed Martin's Eagan location, the Roseville location of Unisys and a ,smaller Unisys loca- tion'in Eagan. The wellspring of Minne- sota's high-tech future was -Engineering Research Asso- ciates (ERA), which opened in 1-946 .in a former mili- tary glider factory at 1902 Minnehaha Ave. in St. Paul. Founded . by Navy Capt. William Norris, who went on to found Control Data - Corp., the company applied early computing to military code -breaking.. . "There is a debate about what constitutes a comput-• er," Bolton said. "A lot of the early. machines were nothing :more than high-speed adding machines. What ERA came up with was a programmable • THISWEEK 'November 21, 2008 7A- Submitted photo This is the Goldberg,Drum Memory system, the world's first hard drive, made by Engineering Research Associates. computer, one that could ex- ecute multiple functions." The world's first hard drive came from ERA. Standing 3 feet high, the Goldberg Drum Memory System was launched in• 1947. • Along with cryptography, missile guidance was another, earlycomputer application, Jansen said. But ERA's cash cow, ac- cording'to Belton, was the "antenna coupler," which allowed military and civilian. pilots -to change their radio frequencies in mid-flight. "That's where ERA made their money," he said, noting. that • by' 1952, the company produced 85 percerit'of the world's computers. "They could take that money and spend it on computer devel- opment." . According to the VIP Club historians, dozens of companies big andsmall can trace theirroots to ERA. The club has tried to tell the story of 'Minnesota's high-tech history through displays at the State Fair, Eagan's Fourth of July cel- ebration and the Minnesota sesquicentennial event at the Capitol. . "I don't think we get cred- it for a lot of things that have gone on here," Bolton said. "That's why: we're doing all these things and trying to get the message out." . 8A November 21, 2008 THISWEEK Real Esitat Discover the Area's Finest Thu werle NeompmilQ$' $ .ItW I/modelers and Housing Developments hi' .(/ttztoducut y..:.1 Eight single-family homes in a wooded setting starting in the $700,000s. Built exclusively by Dahle Bros. Directions: Cliff Road to Lenore, South to Ellie Court DAHLE RO S. N<,mes of 1)istinL flan , MN Builder License #1647 For more information, contact Chuck Ryan 952-431-1900 ,.112" Story a ge 2 ... MMC Will Reopen Hearing on Lebanon Incorporation P.O. Box 87, Savage, Minnesota EAGAN TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS at a recent meeting studied a topographic model of the proposed new UNIVAC plant with R. K. Headley (right), planning co- ordinator for Sperry Rand Corporation's UNIVAC Defense Systems division. Pic- tured (I-r) are John J. Klein, supervisor; Herbert Polzin, treasurer; Edward Schwanz, supervisor; Arthur Rahn, chairman of the Eagan board of supervisors; and Alyce Bolke, town clerk. Headley is pointing to the initial construction which is due for occupancy in 1967. UNIVAC Purchases 200-Acre Site In Eagan For New Plant Facility Purchases of 200 acres of previously optioned land for future expansion in Eagantown- ship was announced yesterday by Sperry Rand Corporation's UNIVAC division. In announcing the exercises of options on property valued at more than $300,000, R. E. McDonald, vice president and general manager of the UNIVAC Defense Systems division, said :: News Deadlines;::: Advanced for Holiday Issues The Minnesota Valley Re- view will bedistributed:>: Tuesday next week because of the Christmas holiday. x. All news copy and adver- tising should be submitted no later than noon Friday for the Dec. 21 paper. The paper will also be published on Tuesday be- e New Year's and copy ldvertising for that 'st be in our office >; "n Friday, Dec.:::: the purchase is expected to be completed by the end of this month. The site is near the inter- li c a c t( In fc cc a( to pi B of w ti 10 Cents section of Co. Rd. 31 and planned Interstate 35E, and is owned by Arthur, Joseph and (Continued on Page 2) 644,--ioi Thursday, December 16, 1965 REVIEW _rsday, Dec. 16, 1965 Page 2, Optimist Club Discusses Plan For Teen Club The newly -organized Op- timist Club of Minnesota Val- ley hopes to do something for the youth of the community. Currently under discussion is a Teen Kanteen at which reg- ularly scheduled dances could i acted for the area teen- agers. At a meeting last week at which Warren Preeshl pre - sided, members heard reports from Robert Pomije and Jack Young on the possibility of es- tablishing a club for the teens. The study will continue with e.. is expected atfu- Lt. Gov. Keith Lt. Gov. Keith Will Address Burnsville DFL Next MMC Will Reopen Hea#g On Lebanon Incorporation It appears certain there will be sparks ready to fly next Tuesday when the Minnesota Municipal Commission reopens its hearing at 1 p.m. in the Apple Valley Country Club on the proposed incorporation of Lebanon township. Members of the East Leban- on Property Owners associa- tion are expected to voice fur- ther arguments against the incorporation proceedings. Early last month the East Lebanon Property Owners as- ociation stated it intended to petition the Dakota County Board for annexation to Rose- mount township. Another group of Lebanon residents is seeking to have the present petition withdrawn. Mrs. Bonnie LaSalle, a mem- ber of this group, said, "We wish to see this present pro- posal withdrawn so that Leban- on township will consider thoughtfully and with wisdom the effect of incorporationupon the area. "With many surrounding areas waiting to see what effect the Atomic Energy site decision will have," she continued, "it appears wiser for us to wait for the three short months to make a decision as large as this." Ray Skelton, owner of North- western Gravel Co., last week said he intended to be at the hearing to ask that his property be removed from the incorpo- ration proceedings. He said his intention is to have his business property, approximately 160 acres, an- nexed into Burnsville. 1. •..1... ur..l pro Spe plan essing Eagan expected to OK tax financing district By Thomas B. Koetting Staff Writer With initial dissension essentially over, Sperry Corp.'s plans for expansion on its 204-acre Pilot Knob Road campus in Eagan are moving relatively smooth- ly. At the state level, officials of the Department of Energy and Economic Development are planning to meet in the coming weeks to discuss their $1 million loan commitment to Sperry. At the local level, the Eagan City Council will hold a public hearing tonight on declaring the Sperry site a tax increment district. It also will give a general out- line of the uses for the tax increment money. Although the local activity is taking place against the national backdrop of Sperry's merger discussions with Burroughs Corp., the project does not appear to be in danger. The activity is the result of Sperry's plan to con- struct a 295,000-square-foot sales and marketing building. The $14 million project will employ about 1,000 people, about 700 of whom already work in Eagan, according to city officials. The company — one of the largest taxpayers in Dakota County — em- ploys over 5,000 people in its Eagan operations. When Sperry first informed state and local officials last December that it was considering the consolida- tion, it asked for incentives to keep the project in Min- nesota. The company has never disclosed what — if -.^y competition Eagan had for the site, but in April, Sperry formally announced its intention to keep the project in Eagan. Details of the incentives still are being worked out. Kathleen Callahan, state deputy commissioner for loan development, said a meeting with Sperry offi- cials at their headquarters in New York last week was canceled because of Sperry's preoccupation with the Burroughs situation. She said she did not sense that Sperry financial directors were avoiding the meeting, but were simply too busy to look at the Eagan project. She added, however, that no new meeting had been scheduled. "We're committed 100 percent to following through," said Callahan, referring to the $1 million loan at below -market rates. But she also said that the Please see Sperry/2 Sperry Continued from Page 1 department would be willing to consider some other incentive plan of equal value if Sperry had different ideas. "Sometimes $1 in loans is not as good as 30 cents in grant," she said. "We just want them to know that we're willing to meet — if they want to meet here, fine, if they want to meet in New York, fine — and we're excited about keeping the project here." So are the officials on the local level, but there are still some scars about the way it was accomplished. The City Council meeting tonight is essentially a formality, said Council Member Vic Ellison. "There shouldn't be any need for people to be there. If the question was still before the council to do it or not, then you might see people," Ellison said. He add- ed that this type of public hearing was needed in Feb- ruary, when a tax increment financing package for up to $700,000 was approved. Under the city's plan, Eagan will sell bonds that would essentially be a loan to Sperry for up to $700,000. The increased property taxes for the new building then would be divided in half, with 50 percent going to the city, county and school districts, and 50 percent going to pay off the loan and the interest on the loan. In essence, the financing is paid for with the tax increment — the difference between the property taxes generated on the land before and after the project. The city also is expected to decide tonight whether to include the $65,000 closing costs in the $700,000 bond. Ellison said he thought the closing costs would be included, essentially making Sperry pay for them. Ellison and Council Member Ted Wachter voted against the package in February, saying incentives es- sentially pick winners and losers in business. Both men said they thought Sperry would stay in Eagan without any tax breaks. They remain opposed to the idea, and fellow Council Member James Smith said he expected another 3-2 vote tonight on the matter. However, Smith said he thought that without incen- tives, Sperry would have built outside of Eagan and taken most of the 700 defense -related jobs with it. Sperry officials remained tight-lipped on the matter, but Mayor Bea Blomquist echoed Smith's comments. "I know they would have walked," she said, adding that the amount of the package may not have been as important as the package itself. "It was every penny we felt we could muster; what it really said is that Minnesota really cared." She said that in the wake of the tax increment fi- nancing debate, Eagan's Economic Development Commission — with the blessing of the council — has put together a list of criteria for tax increment financ- ing consideration. If a company qualifies under those criteria, it still would have to go before the council, which would consider each request on a case -by -case basis. "People say, 'Can we get tax increment financing?' and our response is, `Well, at first blush, no,' " Blom- quist said. "But you can never say never on these things — you need to look at each situation." With the recent approval of its preliminary plat, tonight's expected approval of the tax increment dis- trict, and the eventual meeting on the state's $1 mil- lion commitment, Sperry's situation appears secure in Eagan, and ground breaking on the new addition should begin this June, with a completion goal of De- cember 1987. Sperry Univac building, 1968. (Minnesota Historical Society) Some major businesses located in Eagan are:, Sperry Corporation Eagan was selected for the headquarter § Of Sperry Univac Defense Systems because of its: proximity to the Twin Cities and the possiblities it provided for future expansion. The corporation is a leading world developer of sophisticated computer technology that is used by military arid civilian agencies of the U.S. government. The original building was completed in 1967 and expanded in 1973. Another 235,000-§quare-feet facility was completed in the early 1980s. _Approximately 800 employees work on nearly 70 acres of Company land in 8agari. Sperry's location iri Eagan helps affirm the position of the Twin Cities as one of the nations leading electronics centers. iiitS*AC 162 Sperry campers found guilty By Jim Adams Staff Writer Five peace demonstrators will be go to jail today and five will write es- says after all were found guilty Wednesday of trespassing at Sperry Corp.'s Eagan headquarters June 14. Dakota County District Judge Eu- gene Atkins gave the 10 women, members of the Minnesota Women's Peace Camp, the choice of paying $75 fines, writing 1,500-word essays or going to jail. The essays, to be written within 30 days, are to ad- dress the legal and societal ramifica- tions of the Sperry protest, Atkins said. Atkins said the five who refused to pay the fines would be jailed until they paid their fines or agreed to write essays. The women were to report this morning to the Dakota County Jail in Hastings. The sentences were delivered after an emotional five -hour trial at the Dakota County Court Building in Burnsville. The defense argued that the Sperry demonstration was justified under previous court decisions that perml:- ted trespassing in emergency situa- tions when no other alternative exist- ed. The 10 women were arrested for trespassing when they refused to leave Sperry property until they could meet with Dick Seaberg, vice president of the defense division. They demanded that the company repay taxpayers the estimated $3.2 million that a government report said the firm overcharged on an MX missile contract. They also asked the firm to stop producing parts used in nuclear weapons. (Sperry pleaded guilty in December to defrauding the government of $325,000 in overcharges. It paid $1.1 million in damages, interest, legal fees and fines.) Before sentencing the women, Atkins said that although he agreed with some of their concerns, their protest was not civil disobedience of an un- just trespass law, but "advocacy for anarchy." He suggested several essay topics, including what the women's protest goals are, how they plan to achieve them and what the consequences would be for the legal system. Anoth- er topic was what steps the govern- ment should take to change the sys- tem in the way the women desire. Sperry spokesman Don Bruun said it was "not our place to comment" on the trial outcome. Prosecutor Kevin Eide objected to the essay sentence, saying it would not deter "future violations of the law and abuse of the judicial proc- ess, which I consider this to be to- day." Jail Continued from page 3B near Sperry's Shepard Rd. plant in St. Paul. More protests would result in further police and legal costs to municipal- ities and employers, he said. Atkins said he might submit the es- says to legal journals to add to "the social discourse" on protests in the nation. If the women object to having their essays published, they will re- main in court files, available to the public, he said. The women can use any money received for their essays for social projects of their choice, he said. Shayna Berkowitz, Charlene Nicho- lie, Esther Schneider, Lilli Sprintz and Patricia Miibrath agreed to write essays. Sprintz said the essay will enable the protesters to reach more people. "It is a way to get people to think about what is going on in the world, the danger of nuclear war and the responsibility of corporations to what is going on In the world," Sprintz said. Linda Mountjoy, Carol Masters, Mary Spiering, Polly Kellogg and Nance Mosier will go to jail unless they pay their fines or write an es- say. Kellogg said she felt going to jail was a stronger statement of her con- victions than writing an essay. As an example, Eide showed the judge a flyer that the women had distributed during trial recesses. The flyer announced a "Festival of Resis- tance" Aug. 4-6 at the peace camp Jail continued on page 4B • 1984 AMC, Jeep or Renault. ng Zero Down Days. Jeep CJ 9/month* 5t Pal_ P1ot3f T& ? -3C N Eagan makes a/14 offer to Sperry Building would get tax break By Thomas B. Koetting Staff Writer In a bid to retain hundreds of jobs and keep its top employer from expanding elsewhere, Eagan has joined the Minnesota Depart- ment of Energy and Economic De- velopment in offering an incen- tives package to Sperry Corp. In an emotional meeting last week, the Eagan City Council ap- proved an offer for tax increment financing of up to $700,000 for a possible new Sperry building. The city's package will be com- bined with the offer from the state, the bulk of which is a $1 million loan at below -market rates, said Eagan city manager Thomas Hedges. He said that he had I received verbal commitment on the offer from Mark Dayton, chair- man of the department, and that the official offer would bear Gov. Rudy Perpich's signature. Sperry, which employs about 5,000 people in Eagan, is studying a plan to construct a 295,000- square-foot sales and marketing building somewhere in the United States in an effort to consolidate its work with defense -related prod- ucts, according to city officials. Sperry officials informed the city confidentially of its idea in De- cember and asked the city and the state to consider possible incen- tives to build the new plant on Sperry's sprawling 204-acre Pilot Knob Road campus. The $14 million project would employ about 1,000 people, more than 700 of whom already work in Eagan, according to city officials. If the plant was built in another state — Eagan is the only Minneso- ta city being considered — not all the 700 would have to relocate, but a substantial number would proba- bly face that prospect, said Eagan Mayor Bea Blomquist. The company has refused to dis- close what other cities Sperry is considering, and Eagan city staff members said that trying to pre- pare a package has been difficult because the city does not know what Sperry is looking for. "I don't know what the magic number is that they want," said council member Jim Smith at last week's meeting. "If I did, I'd do that and one dollar more." However, Sperry spokesman Don Bruun was much more vague about Sperry's overall plans. Bru- un said the company leased much of its space and was simply trying to determine if consolidating some of its employees in a new building was more efficient. He said Eagan had been given early information so the city could include potential incentives as part of the study. But he said he did not know why Eagan officials would be talking in specifics when the study had not been completed. Bruun would not confirm that any other cities had been ap- proached, but said that if the study shows the need for consolidating into one site, building in Eagan "appears to be more cost-effective Please see Eagan/5 Eagan Continued from Page 1 at this time." Under the city's plan, Eagan would sell a bond that would essen- tially be a loan to Sperry for up to $700,000. The increased property taxes from the new building would then be divided in half, with 50 per- cent going to the city, county and school districts, and 50 percent going to pay off the loan and inter- est on the loan. In essence, the financing is paid for with the tax increment — the difference between taxes before the project and after the project. Smith, who proposed the 50-50 split, calculated the loan would be paid off in about eight years. When the loan is paid off, all the property taxes would follow the normal property tax route to the city, county and school districts. Tax increment financing is a hot political issue and the offer did not get through the council without controversy. Council members Ted Wachter and Vic Ellison spoke against the concept. Ellison took an especially hard- line approach and delivered what is becoming an unusual trademark by reading a prepared text. He said the proposal would set a dangerous precedent and was unfair to other businesses that could not get direct city aid. He compared the request to the Ghermezian brothers' pressure on the Legislature last fall to give fi- nancial aid to the Bloomington mega -mall plan, and said such maneuvering was the equivalent of terrorism in which a city was tak- en hostage. Blomquist said Ellison's attacks were merely platitudes that "don't really mean anything." She said that if Sperry built elsewhere, the resulting loss of jobs and taxes would cost the state between $1.2 million and $1.6 million annually. Council member Jim Smith was more forceful. "You can't make your own rules," he said, referring to other cities' use of the ta:i in'"ement fi- nancing option. "Y( )u can't tio=ha i'C going to allow m} 1 team only two strikes" phen the other team has three. Ellison tried to delay the vote by asking that a public hearing be scheduled. The move was defeated 3-2 because Blomquist, Smith and council member Thomas Egan said they thought Sperry would not push back its deadline for a decision. The company had given Eagan un- til last Thursday to present an in- centive offer, Bruun said. The eventual motion for the fi- nancing package passed by the same 3-2 margin, with Smith launching another attack on Elli- son and Wachter immediately af- ter the vote. Smith said his two col- leagues had campaigned as being pro -business and pro -development but did not follow through in their votes. Wachter remained silent and Ellison reiterated his belief that tax increment financing "picks winners and losers." Sperry spokesman Bruun said he did not know when the company would make a decision on building. EAR T-tiswE&K 3/i0/3 , Sperry incentive is job -saving act To the editor: I would like to respond -to Michael Beard's letter to the editor, which you printed in your last issue. lagmlnewhatamus- 40SINIEINCaraged that he ould write about the city council actions regarding Sperry Corp. and the use of tax -increment financing because Mr. Beard has never attended a full council meeting. If he did, he might learn what goes on and learn the pro- cess of decision making at the ci- ty level. Oh yes, Mr. Beard has shown up at meetings (about six meetings) but then only for short periods of .time, not the entire meeting. His short attendance periods periods take in only a small portion of city business and - discussion. He was not present during any of the Sperry discussion. Before the decision was made on Sperry, this item was on the agenda and was published in the newspaper. Had he been there he might have learned that as many as 700 peo- ple in the metro area would be moved, transferred or laid off. Other states do offer incentives. We do not like it but it is a fact of life that one must deal with. Must I remind him of the fact that part of Sperry is already in Pueblo, Colo., because they gave Sperry a tax incentive and St. Paul did not? Other companies such as 3M have moved divisions from Min- nesota. Had Mr. Beard attended this meeting, he would also have learned that some of the tax - increment proceeds would be us - finance improvements w will benefit more than just Sperry, such as traffic signals. These, along with other im- provements, are very expensive, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. These costs are not usually assessed to only one user; they are shared by all those who benefit from them. It is not easy to determine who gets the benefit without being selective. Perhaps the best way to explain it to Mr. Beard, since he did not attend this council meeting, is in terms of saving 700 jobs in Minnesota, many held by our neighbors in Eagan. When it comes to using taxpayers' money for uses which would benefit the entire city, one must weigh all the facts which impact the city. It takes hours to come to just one decision. No one is misled if they follow the process. Although I personally do not like the use of tax -increment financing, it is a tool provided for the city if the facts merit its use. Each case must be studied in- dividually. This time, I felt that saving jobs within our communi- ty was the humanitarian thing to do. Perhaps Mr. Beard should learn more about our city and the actual decision -making process before he finds fault with our city council and the corporate system. BEA BLOMQUIST Mayor, city of Eagan ,S KSperry financing 311° sL was used wisely To the editor: Have you heard the story about the fellow who hardly attended any council meetings in his com- munity and never publicly ex- pressed his views on any subject at city hall and then decided to run against the incumbent mayor making tax -increment financing one of his central issues, not- withstanding the many other complex issues facing his com- munity? One need go no further than Eagan, Minn., to uncover that setting. Mike Beard, in his March 3 let- ter to the editor has continued his criticism of the mayor and Eagan City Council majority for offering $700,000 in city -sponsored in- ducements to Sperry Corp. financed through tax -increment financing. Mr. Beard, in no uncertain terms, has stated tax - increment financing is absolutely wrong under any circumstances. One thing I learned many years ago: life contains very few ab- solutes. This is particularly true in the administration of city government policy. Sperry Corp. has convinced the city staff and majority of the Eagan City Council that they will perform no further expansion in their 212-acre computer/ - research and development park without appropriate in- ducements. Indeed, Sperry has clearly indicated that without such inducements, hundreds of jobs located within Eagan may be lost. With appropriate in- ducements Sperry has indicated they are seriously considering an estimated $14 million marketing facility expansion and centraliza- tion of operations in Eagan. Whenever any form of induce- 4A MARCH 10, 1986 THISWEEK ment is considered, financing is critical. The Minnesota State Legislature has provided the city of Eagan, and all other Min- nesota communities with a tool for such financing known as tax - increment financing. If tax - increment financing, as Mr. Beard so clearly indicates, is ab- solutely wrong, then why have the people of Minnesota through their Legislature created this device? If this tool is absolutely wrong, why have Eagan's neighbors to the south in Burn- sville and to the west in Bloom- ington already utilized this device before Eagan? I have always felt that ab- solutes are a terribly poor way to establish guidelines in city policy. Sound, prudent, in- telligent, discretionary judgment should always govern any deci- sion made by city governments. Before Mr. Beard speaks in such absolute terms I believe he should interview the hundreds if not thousands of Eagan residents and their families who will be im- pacted by Sperry's decision. If the city of Eagan adds the $14 million Sperry expansions to its tax base in just a few short years, how has anybody within the city of Eagan suffered? If the only means available to induce this development is tax -increment financing, how can anyone be faulted for the utilization of that tool? I believe that it is time that Eagan officials were allowed to focus their attention on those many other complex issues which are currently facing city hall. TOM EGAN Eagan City Council Member WEDNESDAY, DUNE 18, 1986 SC PA P/c EA Pits 01s ap v, Eagan still hopes Sperry will build City and state incentives may make the difference By Thomas B. Koetting Staff Writer Eagan and Minnesota officials are fairly cer- tain — and each time they drive by the Sperry Corp. Pilot Knob Road campus they feel better — that expansion plans are not in jeopardy. Company officials have been assuring every- one they plan no changes, despite the impending merger with Burroughs Corp., despite a 125-job cut in the computer systems division (with today as a deadline for voluntary resignations before layoffs begin) and despite a search for a partner or a buyer for Sperry's semi -conductor plant on the same site. Last week, Sperry officials met with Kathleen Callahan, state deputy commissioner for loan development, to discuss a $1 million incentive package for the expansion that had been ar- ranged through the Department of Energy and Economic Development. And on July 1, Eagan will sell $700,000 in bonds as part of a tax incre- ment financing incentive for the project. "There doesn't seem to be any question that the project is going forward," said Callahan af- ter the meeting. "All the signs are still positive," echoed Eagan City Manager Thomas Hedges. "I have not heard anything ... everything is full go as far as the city." The main Sperry plant on the Pilot Knob Road site was built in the early 1960s and expanded in the mid-1970s. The semi -conductor plant now for sale was built in the early 1980s. The new building is planned as a 295,000- square-foot sales and marketing center, costing about $14 million and employing about 1,000 people, about 700 of whom already work for Please see Sperry;' 10 Sperry Continued from Page 1 Sperry in Eagan, company officials have said. Sperry threatened to build elsewhere without some form of incentive package, and city and state officials took the company at its word. They came through — although with some strong philosophical dis- sension on the Eagan City Council — with packages that apparently convinced Sperry officials to build in Eagan, if they were indeed wavering. Callahan said she expected the state's $1 million commitment to go for "bricks and mortar ... it would be best to say for a piece of building equipment." She said the company needs to decide how to finance the rest of the building before it decides how to use the state's money. Jack Ni- chols, Sperry's vice president of communications in Minnesota, con- firmed the company was just be- ginning to look at specifics on how to use the money. For Callahan, that still is a posi- tive sign, because last month a similar meeting was canceled by Sperry because negotiations with Burroughs were heating up at the time. Callahan said that in her meet- ing with corporate officials she ex- pressed concern about the compa- ny's plan to sell its semi -conductor plant or take on a partner in that operation. "I asked them, If that building is empty, why do you need another one?' " Sperry officials said the semi- conductor building simply was not designed to be transferred to an- other use. Callahan also said that two points were crucial to remember in the ongoing Sperry situation. First, high-tech companies fre- quently shrink in one area while expanding in another, so a shift in corporate emphasis should be looked at in a long-term context. Second, of the 13,800 Sperry em- ployees in Minnesota, only about 5,000 of them work in Sperry - owned buildings, a statistic Sper- ry's Nichols confirmed. "Putting 1,000 of them in a 3,000-square-foot facility goes a long way toward ensuring that they'll be here two years, five years, 10 years from now," Cal- lahan said, referring to the lack of permanency involved with employ- ees who are working in leased buildings. At the local level, Eagan is ho WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1986 St- P A UL p/oit:f �Q� ige 5 O/sMq TZ'i, still Eagan hopes Sperry will build City and state incentives may make the difference By Thomas B. Koetting Staff Writer Eagan and Minnesota officials are fairly cer- tain — and each time they drive by the Sperry Corp. Pilot Knob Road campus they feel better — that expansion plans are not in jeopardy. Company officials have been assuring every- one they plan no changes, despite the impending merger with Burroughs Corp., despite a 125-job cut in the computer systems division (with today as a deadline for voluntary resignations before layoffs begin) and despite a search for a partner or a buyer for Sperry's semi -conductor plant on the same site. Last week, Sperry officials met with Kathleen Callahan, state deputy commissioner for loan development, to discuss a $1 million incentive package for the expansion that had been ar- ranged through the Department of Energy and Economic Development. And on July 1, Eagan will sell $700,000 in bonds as part of a tax incre- ment financing incentive for the project. "There doesn't seem to be any question that the project is going forward," said Callahan af- ter the meeting. "All the signs are still positive," echoed Eagan City Manager Thomas Hedges. "I have not heard anything ... everything is full go as far as the city." The main Sperry plant on the Pilot Knob Road site was built in the early 1960s and expanded in the mid-1970s. The semi -conductor plant now for sale was built in the early 1980s. The new building is planned as a 295,000- square-foot sales and marketing center, costing about $14 million and employing about 1,000 people, about 700 of whom already work for Please see Sperry/ 10 Sperry Continued from Page 1 Sperry in Eagan, company officials have said. Sperry threatened to build elsewhere without some form of incentive package, and city and state officials took the company at its word. They came through — although with some strong philosophical dis- sension on the Eagan City Council — with packages that apparently convinced Sperry officials to build in Eagan, if they were indeed wavering. Callahan said she expected the state's $1 million commitment to go for "bricks and mortar ... it would be best to say for a piece of building equipment." She said the company needs to decide how to finance the rest of the building before it decides how to use the state's money. Jack Ni- chols, Sperry's vice president of communications in Minnesota, con- firmed the company was just be- ginning to look at specifics on bow to use the money. For Callahan, that still is a posi- tive sign, because last month a similar meeting was canceled by Sperry because negotiations with Burroughs were heating up at the time. Callahan said that in her meet- ing with corporate officials she ex- pressed concern about the compa- ny's plan to sell its semi -conductor plant or take on a partner in that operation. "I asked them, `If that building is empty, why do you need another one?' " Sperry officials said the semi- conductor building simply was not designed to be transferred to an- other use. Callahan also said that two points were crucial to remember in the ongoing Sperry situation. First, high-tech companies fre- quently shrink in one area while expanding in another, so a shift in corporate emphasis should be looked at in a long-term context. Second, of the 13,800 Sperry em- ployees in Minnesota, only about 5,000 of them work in Sperry - owned buildings, a statistic Sper- ry's Nichols confirmed. "Putting 1,000 of them in a 3,000-square-foot facility goes a long way toward ensuring that they'll be here two years, five years, 10 years from now," Cal- lahan said, referring to the lack of permanency involved with employ- ees who are working in leased buildings. At the local level, Eagan is hop- ing that prediction proves correct. Hedges said grading and staking of the land is under way, and city staff members have been talking with Sperry architects almost ev- ery day. However, Hedges acknowledged it was hard not to doubt as long as Sperry's corporate future was in flux. Hedges said Sperry always has had something of a two - pronged setup in Eagan, with de- fense related activities under one umbrella and commercial activi- ties under another. He said that beyond that basic understanding, most of Sperry's in- house activity is relatively un- known, and although there have been rumors about the stability of the Eagan operation, especially in the defense field, nothing is cer- tain. The city is making its tax incre- ment financing bonds callable, so if a crisis occurs, the city can call in the bonds and get its money, Hedges said. "That's not to be taken the wrong way, it's just good manage- ment," he said. 228-5311 easy it is to profit from talk to your advertising co-op team at 228-5311. Dispatch call me with more information -I Y result from the decision to build the will be used to pay off up to $700,000 Staff Writer building, Eagan City Administrator in bonds issued to finance the build - Thomas L. Hedges said Sperry made ing, he said. Financial incentives from the state It cleaq that an attractive incentive and the city of Eagan apparently was epseritiai if the new building "I think the tax -increment financing have saved as many as 1,000 Minne- housing existing workers was to be was a very important incentive to sota jobs at Sperry Corp., which an- located in Minnesota. Sperry offi- (Sperry's) decision," he said. "I nounced plans Monday to build a ciais reminded Eagan officials that know that they considered out-of- 250,000-square-foot office building in St. Paul lost a Sperry plant to Pueb- state sites but I don't know where Eagan at a cost estimated by city lo, Colo., by not offering enough in- they are. I know there were at least officials at about $14 million. centives, Hedges said. two (sites) outside the Midwest that Sperry said in a statement that it As a result of Sperry's they concentrated very hard on." p ry's suggestion, Had another state been selected, "applauded the city of Eagan, its Eagan offered the company "The severity ... of the job (loss) on council, and the state of Minnesota $700,000 in tax -increment financing Eagan and Minnesota would have for their excellent cooperation in assistance, and the Minnesota De- been felt," Hedges said. providing proposals for financial in- partment of Energy and Economic centives which were instrumental in Development offered up to $1 mil- Jack Nichols, a Sperry spokesman, Sperry's decision to consolidate in lion in low -interest loans, Hedges said he did not know what other Minnesota." said. The Eagan tax -increment fi- locations were considered. nancing provides that half of the While Sperry said no new jobs will taxes generated by the new building The new building, to be on a 213- Incentives save 1,000 Sperry jobs Eagan will get a 250,000-square-foot office building BSteve Gross acre site in Eagan, will be next to Sperry's headquarters for its defense products group and its computer chip factory, Nichols said. It will house about 1,000 marketing, admin- istrative, service, data processing and training employees who now oc- cupy about 28 leased office sites in the Twin Cities, he added. Consoli- dating them in a company -owned building will be less costly, he said. Sperry has about 13,900 employees in Minnesota, about 4,000 of whom are in Eagan. Sperry said construc- tion should begin in a few weeks and be completed in late 1987. While it did not disclose the value of the building, Hedges said city officials based their incentives on estimates that it would cost S13 million to $14 million. Incentive lures Sperry to city By-CHRISTY DeJOY EAGAN -- An incentive package prepared by the city of Eagan proved too tempting to pass up for Sperry Corp. After be- ing offered up to $700,000 in tax in- crement financing, Sperry an- nounced April 14 that it will build a new office facility in Eagan. Sperry met with city staff a few , months ago and indicated Eagan was one of several sites in the country being considered for the facility. Company officials then asked the city to prepare a pro- posal and indicated that any kind of incentive would be helpful to the company, according to City Administrator Tom Hedges. On a 3-2 vote, the city council passed a proposal Feb. 4 allowing for the financing. Fifty percent of the taxes that would normally be generated from the new building would, instead, be used for site development and general in- frastructure, such as storm sewers and water mains. Funds for the development - would be recaptured through the sale of tax increment financing bonds, with payback in about eight years. The city, school districts and county would receive the other half of the funds (raised through taxes) that was not included in Ithe financing program. Council members Jim Smith and Tom Egan and Mayor Bea ,Blomquist were in favor of such financing for Sperry, while Coun- cil members Vic Ellison and Ted Wachter opposed it. Ellison and Wachter have indicated they disapprove -of tax increment financing in all situations. Blom- quist and Egan have said they generally oppose the practice, but some cases, such as Sperry's may warrant the use. "Sperry applauded the city of Eagan, its council, and the state of Minnesota for their excellent cooperation in providing pro- posals for financial incentives which were instrumental in Sperry's decision to consolidate in Minnesota," according to a prepared statement from the company. The statement made reference to up to $1 million in low -interest loans offered by the state as an incentive. The new building, which will be more than 250,000 square feet, will be located on the Sperry campus off Pilot Knob Road, south of the water tower. The building will contain ad- ministrative offices and sales and marketing support services. The Sperry computer center may also move to the building, according to company spokesman Jack Nichols, who said he didn't know the cost of the proposed building. When the building is fully • operational, it should house about 1,000 employees. The workers will be consolidated from other Sperry locations, including Sperry's other.- two buildings in Eagan, and won't create new jobs but will move a number of employees into the city, Nichols said. About 5,000 Sperry employees work in Dakota Coun- ty, the majority in Eagan. "(The facility) will consolidate employees in Eagan. That will mean they will be buying housing in Eagan and will stimulate the whole economy," Hedges said. He added that local businesses and shopping centers will benefit from the facility. "The council has acknowledg- ed that Sperry has been a core porate citizen in Eagan since the 1960s. They have made a strong commitment to the city. Never have they asked for a thing from us. They have provided a lot to the city through public -private support. They have been a very neat corporate citizen, and (tax increment financing) is an oppor- tunity for the council to make a statement back to Sperry," Hedges said. *. Hedges said tax increment financing was created to lute development in areas where, tit may not occur without any incen- tives. In an area like Eagandale Industrial Park, the financing may not be necessary. However, the land that the new facility will be built on is part of the Sperry campus, which is compariy- owned. Chances are, if Sperry didn't develop the area, it would not allow any other business•to' build on its site. So, this may .be one of the city's few chances to in- crease the tax base of that site, Hedges speculated. • Sperry plans to begin construc- tion of the building within a few weeks, providing that all building permits and plats are approved. Estimated completion is late fall 1987, Nichols said. • ti arket'o;,iac nt se • errs p.wers. or outdated factory ut no buyers emerge By Steve Gross Staff Writer and needs more .orders for. chips. Despite repeated requests for inter When Sperry Corp. 'began occupy- views,; Sperry"officials have•refused ing,its new semiconductor. plant •in • even to confirm that the plant.is for Eagan • in 1983, it was considered a', sale,•saying only that it is seeking a • major technological step forward , partner' in the operation. However, .for the:company, Sperry has told both_ the. leadership . of St..Paul-based Local 2047 of the Built as. part , of a -$200 -million .ex- International Brotherhood of Elec-: ; . pansion. program, `the 235,000- trical Workers,•the union represent - square -foot building was to. develop • . ing about 30 maintenance workers and -produce.. custom .computer .at the plant, and the Eagan City chips; 'Called :semiconductors, for Council that the plant is for sale. In the mainframe computers Sperry • addition, a U.S. business unit of Sie-' manufactures in Roseville:: Sperry mens A.G., a', West- German elec- . Vice President Donald Neddenriep, tronics company, • said that it had in a speech 'to employees in early turned down Sperry's offer to sell it 1984, said the company had made a I the semiconductor plant. . very large investment in order to . ' , , "develop leading -edge technology." .The company did issue a statement in which it • said, "The Burroughs - 'But by 1985, Sperry apparently ,had Sperry • merger has introduced •given up .on its semiconductor ments which warrant additional in-, . plant,. which was operating at less 'vestigation. In this•regard•there are than capacity and reportedly • was ' cooperative fact-finding efforts on - losing money. The firm began a- going between the. Eagan and (Bur - series of, layoffs that would reduce - roughs), facilities to explore alterna , • employment from a peak of • about fives. No decision has, been made'at 1,500 to about 850 today. . this. point." • ' , It also put the •plant up for sale, Behind the abrupt decline in the' asking about $80 million. for a plant Eagan plant's fortunes are several that cost $183 million to construct. technical and Industry factors., that and equip, insiders say. The plant's make the facility difficult to sell, work force; it was. planned,. would . sourceslamiliar with the plant say. , go with the.plant. But after a year i • of trying to find a buyer, Sperry has Foremost•among these is -the plant's cut its asking price to around $40 outdated 'manufacturing technol- million, insiders say. ogy. It is capable of manufacturing computer chips containing tiny bits , Buyer or not, the plant's future is of circuitry with a width ranging looking dimmer all the 'time, from 3. to-5 microns, or 000117 to sources said. Following the • an- 0.000195 inches, insiders said. But nouncement in May of Sperry's ac- in the future there will be "no mar- quisition• by Burroughs Corp. of De- • ket for that, or at least a diminish- ; troit,.theEagan plant appears to be , ing market;" they said. a needless duplication of an exist- . ' ing Burroughs semiconductor plant 'About 80 percent of new computer in Rancho Bernardo, Calif., . near. chip designs, for computers, to be San Diego. The Burroughs ,plant, 'introduced overAhe next few years, according to industry, sources, also • • • is operating at less ,than capacity - Sperry continued on page 10M • • Minneapolis Star Monday August 11 / 1986 white elephan , the riiakirig of:..a computer chip t :Insiders say Sperry's semiconductorplant in 'Eaganlis outdated because design problems , make it incapable of producing:chips with the tiny -.circuitry that future computers will use. Computer•chips are made in varying ways. 1) The circuitry is drawn on a, large:sheet of paper by a , computer and the chip's design is checked;. 2):The image,'of:the circuitry is converted to .a special photographic negative. - 3) The image is projected on dozens of small, squares contained' on a circular piece of silicon called a wafer. • - 4) Aftercheniical treatment, the.wafer is broken apart andeach square becomes a computer, chip. Each .chip is, placed in a, package; that linkis the chips circuitry° to` like electrical'connectors.' • 5) The electrical connectors plug into a circuit board, which in turn will be placed .' inside a computer; • , Star and Tribune graphic/Glenda Haut'; But in general a computer circuit is imprinted on the chip in somewhat the same way a photograph is printed: Light shines through a negative and leaves an image on Tight- sensitive material. Typical steps include: • • is 4 ar 'ir�sii isi :Photographic Minneapolis Star and Tribune/Monday/August 11 / 1986. ;ill'sol ercial real estate r amicable separation. from the -Streeter-Andrus. Realty agency. that he co-founded in 1957. The 'chair: lenge of helping set up :a new •divi-,- sion "prompted me to get involved, with Edina," he said: "I was very comfortable as a one-man shop, but I 'wanted to • get involved,. in some- thing more exciting. • "Edina has done so well in residen- tial that they think they've reached the point where they probably can't grow too much more there: They've got a good share of that market," he said. The commercial and indus trial markets -"looked- to be an op- portunity for further growth.", • Andrus said his first project as head of the division• was to find himself an office. "It's been hard to'operate without one," he said. "We're'oper-. sting .now in three different loca- tions." The division, which, to start; will employ four commercial -indus- trial' specialists,, ;will move into of-. faces in the Northland Plaza office building in Bloomington in early September. The Twin Cities market "probably . has an oversupply in just about ev- ery: category ,of`commercial :real estate," Andrus said. "It's not ex- trenie, .but. if ...the ..oversupply be- comes,.much greater, brokers':.will • be needed more than, ever, by;the sellers:, The eversuPply 'is an oppor. . tunity rather:-than`a drawback:" • He said the division .has no plans to . expand .into development of com- - '..me'rcial and -industrial projects. ' "We'll operate strictly as. a broker- - age house and, leasing business,",he said. "There are so. many capable •developers; in the -Twin Cities al- ' ready." • Andrus said the key to, competing with the major .commercial -indus- trial ' real estate companies such as Coldwell Banker;.Towle'and Robert Boblett is to attract good, experi- enced agents. "It all begins with the agents," he'said. -"I know .most'of the people in the business 'and I have hopes that three or four Hof the old pros would be interested in an opportunity like this." J Staff Photo by Steve Schluter Bud Andrus: "Edina has ... reached the point where they Probably can't grow too much more there" In residential real estate. , ■ Eagle Drugs, Inc., Eden Prairie, elected • two new directors: .-Lowell:! Anderson; owner • of Falcon Heights; Pharmacy and Belaire `Pharmacy,.;: St. Paul; and Ron Johnson,'owner Bober Pharmacy, Lloyd's Pharmacy;;'. and Arden.Plaza Pharmacy; St. Paul. ■ Judith Larsen, senior research; • scientist for Cognos Associates; _ . Calif., lias been elected a director 'of^: Lutheran Brotherhood, Minneapolis• . q� • Ted Adams, ,vice president for re-;; search and development for Eli • ly's cardiac pacemaker subsidiary, ;.. has • been elected a director of;:i ) Chem Industries, Inc., Edina.. �" ■ Pierson Grieve, -chairman and chief executive of- Economics Lab- ' oratory; Inc., St. Paul, received the: Wall Street Transcript's gold award, as the "best chief executive in, the 1' specialty. chemicals industry." • ';,• Honors/ Elections/ is Frank Larkin, president- of the ii .Metropolitan Medical Center, Minae- • ;apolis; was elected to the Council of v:. • ' • Regents, the legislative, body. of the American'. College of . Healthcare Executives. son, vice president for estimating, was named executive vice president, and David Olson was promoted to chief financial officer and treasurer from controller. Moving up/.. • Norwest Corp., Minneapolis, has named ' George Milligan regional president of tt§ Iowa banking group;' succeeding Harry Benson, who, will retire in 1987. Milligan will continue to serve as chairman of 'Norwest, Bank Des Moines. Lewis Orans' was. named vice president and director of compensation and benefits at Nor - west. He was director of•compensa- tion and benefits • at .Drava Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa. • • Lee Data Corp., Eden Prairie, has. promoted G. Dennis Bingham to corporate controller from headquar- , tern controller: - • B.• Dalton Software; etc., ,a divi- sion of B.-Dalton Bookseller, has..pro-• moted Bob Ponzetti to' president from senior vice president., . . • 1 • J. -Joseph L'indsley was elected • Park Nicollet Medical Center has -' named William Costello senior vice president forclinical management. He was senior vice president for af- filiated health care providers.•• II John Brill, director for -corporate engineering at Economics Laborato- ry; 'Inc., St. Paul, was named corpo rate engineering vice president at the company's chemical _engineering,; center in Eagan. • Ronald Bach was named partner - id -charge of Touche Ross's Bloom-, ington office. He has: been -a -partner since„1969: ■ Gary Van House has been promot- ed to chief executive director of the Columbla Park Medical Group. He was chief administrative director. _ ® J." Thomas'Brown, vice president for operations at.. Centel Business Systems, Chicago, - was appointed vice president of its Minnesota/Iowa president of': regional banking for ■ Max Hintz, vice president, has FirstBank System. • been named regional manager of the Minneapolis regional office of Wells Fargo Realty Advisors, Los Angeles: :■ Grant. Thornton, an accounting firm, has admitted, Larry Shelton and John Heinmiller' into partner- ship: Both work out of the Minneapo- lis office. ■ Hagen Systems, Inc:, Golden Val ley, has promoted Steve Peterson to vice presdent for ; operations; from director for the: travel management systems group. Robert Bierwagen has been named vice' president for sales. He ,was .director for the print- ers management systems group: • • • S.E. Nelson Advertising, Inc.,. Minneapolis, has named two , vice presidents: Jude Poseley, director of client seivices, and Carol Nelson, director of finance and administra- tion: ' . 'On the move/ ` • Norwest Bank- Minneapolis •has named Richard Westergaard senior • vice• president and head of ,its nation- al department. He a was vice presi- dent at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., N.Y. ■ Louis Clark was named vice presi- dent for human resources ,at First' Minnesota Savings Bank. He was senior manager of human resources at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Eagan. 1 • Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eck- -hardt, Inc., Minneapolis, has :ap- pointed 'James : Ciokey .>'vice ,.presi- dent, director of research and mar = ' keting strategy. He most :recently worked .in the personal products di- • ;vision -of Lever, Brothers . Co., New York. Directors/ ■ Poly -Tech, Inc., Bloomington, has • elected three new ' directors: John Luchsinger, retired president of the polyolefins division of Union Carr • bide; John McCauley,. president 'of. American National Bank, St. Paul,, and N. Rolf Engh, an attorney with Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis. ,,1 • • Susan ,Terteil, department head, business and economics; at the Min- neapolis Public ,Library- and Infor- mation Center, was elected president of the Minnesota chapter of Special Libraries Association. ■ 'Robert Roskopf, president - of;: Rieke Carroll Muller Associates, Hopkins, ,was' elected president of the Central States Water Pollution Control Association. -- ■ .The technical advisory committee ,' Of the. Minnesota' Pollution Control ; • Agency elected William McCombs chairman: He -.is -president of McCombs -Knutson Associates, --Inc.; Plymouth: . • Sue Ann Gruver, a librarian at Immaculate Heart 'of ;Mary 'School, Minnetonka, was elected , president of the Junior League of Minneapo-• lis. ' ■ Pattie. Murphy Bukowski, a;. -change: management coordinator. at Toro Co.,. Bloomington, was elected - president of the Key!Wakota charter chapter of the American Business Women's Association., • . ■ Darrell Hewitt, general manager of Grace -Lee Products Co.; Minne- apolis, was' elected a director of the' International Carwash Association. • • :••.,` Film the cover/ • P- ontinued,from'page 1M jY} l 1 have smaller bits of. circuitry, 2 mi- rens wide or less, the insiders said. t that smaller size, twice as much' . omputer circuitry can be squeezed nto a chip as is possible with the thchnology 'used at the Eagan plant.."; • thhdse chips will be .both- cheaper in rrns of computing power per ;chip-: • 4ndfaster because of differences, in. . they:amount of electric current re- uired. - _ Sperry's plant' can't manufacture kmiconductors with line widths be- 114, 2 • microns \ because it doesn't nave the necessary cleanliness, the siources•said. The reason, they said, k that a poor design of .the• plant ' impairs its ability to keep the semi- . conductor manufacturing area free • cif dust. At the tiny size- of computer, hip circuitry, bits of dustare larger.' an the circuits and can ruin whole • batches of chips unless the manufac= toting area- is • kept many times' cleaner than the outside world. • Pobi.'air-flow patterns fail to • keep diist from collecting in the, manufac- - turing: area, the ' sources said. Air comes into the manufacturing area Staff Photo by Donald Black from vents in the walls'. rather than ' • . from- vents in the ceiling, as it does Sperry Corporation's semiconductor plant In Eagan. Insiders say it lost millions of dollars last year. ; in better semiconductor manufactur- ' . ing plants. • mon Brothers New York, .. -crucial•'problem business' • in Under anagreement signed last year • 5-micron technology "is, old stuff, • which profitability often m is linked to with ,Hitachi, Ltd., 'a 'Japanese corn another problem is the system of very outmoded." Chips with -circuitry .high -volume production. Because' of puter maker, Sperry bought a main - pipes that bring 'in the nitrogen,. oxy- . • 2 microns wide or smaller +is, what . that; -the plant employs about twice : frame that it will introduce ' in the gen and hydrogen gases used in mak- will sell in the future," she said. . - as many people as it should for the future, ,said Jack Nichols, a Sperry ing semiconductors. -The gas' picks up roughly $30 million in annual reve- spokesman in Eagan too many dirt particles while passing through- these pipes; insiders said, contributing to a' general lack of. cleanliness. . . ,. . 11,2,oreover; the plant's' vibration dampening system, needed -for mak- ing' delicate chip . designs, doesn't work properly, the sources said. The plant uses a giant shock absorber consisting of a 1,500-ton slab held up by 64 concrete pillars, each• floating on( -two air -filled rings similar to in- • ., Drew Peck, a semiconductor Indus Hues it reportedly generates, insiders try analyst • for Gartner Securities ,said. • - One -Eagan plant insider said the loss Corp., a computer -industry 'market of the order for the mainframe's research firm based in Stamford, While the Sperry semiconductor. chips "meant there never was any .Conn.,'said that "the 3- to'5-micron plant,doesn't;sellon the open'market more semiconductor volume com- stuff is no longer relevant to leading- - in, competition with other semicon- ing." Future mainframes, he added, edge computers. If that is the limit of • ,ductor manufacturers, computer were unlikely to be able to use, the their .plant then there's no- question • chip buyers for various Sperry: com-. limited chip' technology the plant that it has to be phased'out."' '. \ ' puter projects were free to buy.the • had to offer. Sperry's acquisition by. • . cheapest chips-they,could find,•'and' Sperry said in its statement that, -often those were chips made by oth- "We have a state-of-the-art facility in er companies, insiders .say. 'Sperry's' Eagan which is in every way pres- . chip buyers got another incentive to- ner tubes. But, insiderssaid, the air- • ently capable of producing at 1.25 . • buy from other; 'suppliers • last , year filled, rings' keep breaking. Added • microns. However, developing this when a recession in the'semiconduc- ` one source, "It's a one -of -a kind sys- type of technology is an expensive tor industry reduced chipmakers' tem that doesn't work." - business, and thus. Sperry is actively revenues by well over 20 percent ,-,. ` seeking a relationship which will ' and sent chip prices plummeting.. ",The plant is a mess," said one insid- spread the cost over a larger base • erg. "You can fix those things, but it :where it makes sense and 'where At the same time, technical prob-' costs an enormous amount of money. Sperry can be assured of a continued lems with a new Sperrymainframe It's almost cheaper to build a new supply of needed. technology. This . computer in effect robbed the Eagan. plant." . _.' . • business objective remains un- . semiconductor plant of vital chip or- 4r changed." In addition, --Sperry .said, ders,• insiders say.- Unable to solye • Semiconductor industry analysts, "Our analysis of alternatives such as - technical problems with . the 'new w.§ile.hot familiar with the specific procuring technology from the•mer= mainframe-so•it'could be introduced technology used at Sperry's Eagan . chant: community (semiconductor on time, Sperry officials .realized plant, said that if the insiders are companies)•.shows us in a very com- . that to remain competitive, they correct, -the plant is indeed out of petitive position.".. , • . would - have to buy •a mainframe date. . •' from' another company :and market Insiders say the, plant long/has been it -as their own. . ' Mona Eraiba, an analyst' for Salo- plagued with a•lack.of chip orders, a • : • because Burroughs' semiconductor plant in California is technologically superior to the Eagan plant... ' Sperry hinted shortly after the acqui- sition by Burroughs that it was wait- ing to see ;what its new parent com- pany intended. Vic Ellison, a mem- ber of the Eagan City \ Council, said the council was told this spring by Ed Michaud, director of Sperry's Ea- gan facilities, ,that "the plant is for sale and that Burroughs has a simi- lar plant and that a decision will be made in the short term as to continu- ing the Eagan facility. In early 1985; Sperry put the Eagan plant up for sale in the range of $80 million; or about .$100 million ..less than it „cent. to build-, in . the ,Yearly Minneapolis Star and tribune/Monday/August 11 / 1986' .1980s, insiders .said.iSperry was so •'anxious to sell the' plant that it prom- ised potential buyers- it would .pur- - chase $160 million worth of comput- er chips produced at the plant, they said. Sperry also offered to . rent some nonmanufacturing space in the, semiconductor building, they added - However, sources • familiar with the plant's semiconductor manufactur • ing operations said the ,offer of $160 , million,worth- of chip purchases•'was not much of an incentive, because the plant .could .not produce them Burroughs has 'further diminished - profitably: Only if a plant: buyer the Eagan plant's usefulness, he.said, • could immediately bring in• more or- ders could the plant operate at a profit. - There were no buyers for the, plant in 1985, and insiders said the' Eagan facility lost tens of millions of dollars last year — unconfirmed reports put the losses at $40 million. One source familiar with the plant said that its annual depreciation costs alone, esti- mated at $36 million, exceeded its revenues, reportedly about $30 mil- lion. Sperry, inns statement, called those figures "grossly incorrect," saying "Sperry's semiconductor operation is not a merchant facility. As a captive operation (supplying only Sperry), traditional financial measures are notdirectly applicable." The Eagan, plant. suffered another- financial- blow' when a tlong-suught Order for -computer chip§,finally,was, obtained but failed to generate any revenues. National Semiconductor • Corp., a • computer. chip ' maker in Santa Clara, Calif., asked Sperry to fill orders for semiconductor wafers: • ` which are palm -sized pieces of•treat„ ed silicon .containing dozens .of com-, , puter chips -that must be separated,' and tested. Roseann Clavelli, a' spokeswoman for National Semicon- ductor, said that although an. agree- ment was signed in 1985, "We never utilized the relationship because the market demand. began to shrink ..`: (and) , demand for• our products dropped off in 1985." Sperry • cut its asking- price for- the Eagan plant in half, in the'range of $40 million;' insiders said. "Sperry, -will take -whatever . offer they get,"' said one source. "If someone wanted• a joint venture. they'd do it. They're just out fishing for everyone ' they' can find." ' - • Trade, press , accounts of the plant ,sale have'said that two•potential buy- ers 'Siemens and Chrysler- 'Corp.; turned itdown. • Earnest Thompson, a spokesman for`• Siemens Components, Inc., a:U.S. af- ,filiate in Broomfield, Colo., said Sie mens wanted to consolidate its,semi conductor operations. on'• either the West or East coast. "We were made aware of the Sperry facility but we never really looked at it," he said. - r .:'Jerry Moore, a •Chrysler.spokesmad- in Detroit; declined to comment:-; Ellison • of the Eagan -City• Council said he isn't sure how the city would • be affected if the'plant were sold or, shut down. "The cityis; just' waiting to see what happens," he.said.,Thom- as Hedges, Eagan's city-administrai, tor, said Sperry has 5,500 employees in Eagan, including the 850 remain.-.` ing at the semiconductor plant.`' One industry source estimated, that Sperry might have to ;cut the Eagan plant's price' to. $10 million or 420,' million before a buyer could be' found. Such a price would .reflect the value of the • facility as ; a building; rather .than as a working' semicon- ductor plant. •, . i "It sounds like a .writeoff, to me,", said Peck, the Gartner Sectirities.an;' alyst. "At a time when Intel (another , large California'chipmaker) is- clos-: ing much more sophisticated-facili ties at high rate —of . speed imagine why anyone would:;liuy,Fthe Sperry plant." ' . • /• 'Contitiued.-from-page 1M • .:,Instead; he returned to the Universi- • = ty-of Minnesota to obtain a master's ' "`.degree. in hospital and health-care ,nA administration. U :▪ 'In 1951, Dresser•became.an assistant 'administrator at 'Asbury 'Methodist . . ;Hospital in- Minneapolis, the 'prede- cessor of Methodist Hospital. • ..After stints in Illinois and Wisconsin, • and two unsatisfying' years out of r;hospital administration, he returned .ito Methodist in 1966, in the midst of ' 'what Dresser "termed the era of ;''regulation." The concept- of •.. "health-. care as a ',;right of all 'Americans had been enacted in the mid-1960s under the ' leadership -.of President Lyndon Johnson ,and Vice President Hubert (Humphrey. Medicare was born from the Great Society and "for the first • '- 1 time the federal government- hadbe- •come the major single purchaser of healtli;care, ' Dresser said. While the relationship between hos- pitals and the government started ' smoothly, it soon soured as federal officials became more • and more cost-conscious. After nearly a decade - of reimbursing. hospitalsfor their • costs in treating patients, Medicare adopted a new payment plan in 1983 ',that paid hospitals fixed.rates for 467 specific ailments. vi, • Meanwhile, HMOs and independent "doctors and clinics were providing more services outside hospitals, tak- • ing : away, patients who formerly ' were. treated or underwent diagnos- • tic•tests as hospital bed patients. As a consequence, occupancy levels :at hospitals•have declined nationally, • ;;sinking to 62 percent of, capacity in 1985; well below the 73 percent ye - • corded in .1983, 'according to an •.American ;Hospital' Association study. Santry said some industry ex- �perts believe as.many-•as 1,000 of the • country's 5,800 hospitals:- might be forced to close soon. ' To fight the industry's 'common, crunch, Dresser concocted a remedy • centered on cost containment. Meth- 6 ;odist has been rated one of the most cost-efficient .hospitals in the Twin ;Cities area each of the past four years 'in a survey conducted by the • Council of tonirniinity Hospitals. ScottAnderson, president of North i !;Memorial. Medical Center in Rob- •binsdale, one of Methodist's leading 1competitors, said, "Earl. Dresser has - 'made: Methodist a leading facility, in • Born/Aug. 6, 1923 in Arlington, Minn: ''• Family/ Wife,sNeoma, and chit= dren Robert, 31,'and Donna, 28; ;: �f, Career/Administrator of Decorah ; ,,(lows) Hospital: 1950-51; assis :,. tant administrator at Asbury odist Hospital in Minneapolis 1951-56; administrator of McDon ough District Hospital in Macomb, " III., 1956-59; administrator of Methodist Hospital in Madison, Wis., 1959-64; vice president for professional relations for Wiscon- sin Blue Cross 1964-66; president of Methodist Hospital 1966 to pre-; sent.• Recreation/Cross-country ski- ing, jogging, spectator sports and reading anything not related to the health-care industry. -terms-of cost-effective 'management in the Twin Cities." Dresser was practicing cost -contain- ment long before it became an indus- try buzz phrase. He said he first saw the need to clamp down on escalat- ing costs in the early 1970s when Methodist suffered a severe drop in occupancy. Opposed to employee • layoffs, -Dresser and other adminis- trators aeMethodist decided to "look atwhat.we were doing." • From that introspection evolved a number of innovations acme_ d.at im- proving efficiency at the hospital. "Management's role is to facilitate 'creativity," he said. One of his more creative .ideas was the application of industrial produc- tivity concepts to health care. For instance, Methodist established a system in which the nursing needs of the patients determined the number totally:• unhealthy • because. it., has forced hospitals to' emphasize wise fiscal management: "We've had to learn how. to do things differently. without changing- the quality of -care for our patients," he said. , But there's a danger, .he said, that hospitals' will make decisions based primarily, on rath- er than providing the best possible care. "If you can't recoup your legiti- mate costs, it's going to have -a nega- tive impact on the quality of care," had. hip surgery just a few days be - he said. "If the screw is -tightened . fore recognized Dresser and walked any•more,-there is a real danger." up to him to voice her concerns over the pain and discomfort she had ex - In Dresser's tenure, though, health ' perienced as a result of the surgery. • care has made strides, toward im- _ - provement, he said: She was justified in her complaints, . - . • •- Dresser recalled, but as he listened • The Body Shop, a weight reduction - he could not help thinking to: him program for young people 8 through . self: "She wouldn't have even been ' 18, was started at Methodist and. has able to walk up to mel0yearsago." been marketed .in 36 states and •Aus- - tralia. of,.personnel assigned to a particular; • floor. Previously floors were staffed ■ Community outreach programs -according to .the number of patients, have evolved,• providing skilled and on a• floor, rather than the •amount of.. nonskilled domestic care to area res- • care they required. idents in their own homes. • Dresser also established a One -Day -.■ The Upper Midwest Oncology Reg - Surgery Center to eliminate lengthy, istry System. has blossomed from • costly hospital stays in cases where Methodist. The program; initiated the patient could recuperate at nine years ago, now serves 21 Upper home: Methodist, one • of the first Midwest hospitals and represents. the Twin Cities hospitals to'offer surgery largest data base for the diagnosis on a short -stay basis in 1974, corn- and treatment of cancer patients in • pleted construction on,the $2.5 mil- this•part of the country. ' ' lion building in 1983. ' • • '. Dresser is reluctant to take ' credit - Dresser said the.change'in Medicare :for the accomplishments that have and Medicaid reimbursement isn't •, taken place at Methodist in his'20 years at -the hospital, pointing in - Stead. to the people he has worked with over the. years. 'Being part of an organization like that is -what I'm . proudest of," he said. But he added, "I think leadership has to set .the tone," he said. • 'Colleagues think -highly of his admin istrative skills. Dr. Elizabeth Craig, a member of Methodist's board of gov- ernors,has known him since his days at Asbury• Methodist. She said Dress- er reminds her of a line from the Rudyard Kipling poem "I1" - "If you can keep your head about you when all others are losing theirs ..." Dresser's brother William, an oral surgeon, said the key to Dresser's success- is his "ability to make value judgments." • In retirement, Dresser, who calls himself a "spectator sport enthusi- ast," said he will be leaving a profes- sion that "gets in your blood." With two , adult children, Dresser and his wife will do some•• traveling this fall and return to their home in, Eden ' Prairie; where. -Dresser said -tie +will.' maintain some contact with -the health-care field. , • His career has been enjoyable, he said; and he has been amazed at the technology that has developed, espe- cially in the. areas of cancer and coronary treatment . N. ' He recalled -an incident. nearly 15. years ago. An ,elderly woman who -NOW OPEN t, ,I • Minneapolis Star and Tribune/Monday/August 11 / 1986 Bankruptcies/ 9/ Hereis a list of recent commercial bankruptcies filed in U.S. Bankrupt cy. Court in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The number following the4filing date is the case number. A Chapter 7 petition is for liquidation of the busi- ness; a Chapter 11 petition (or a Chapter 13 petition for small busi- nesses) allows court protection from creditors while' the business is reor- ganized.• Minneapolis/ ■ Eagle Midwest, Inc., 2500 Hwy. 88, No: 123, St. Anthony; filed 7/17/86, 3-86-2095; Chap. 7; assets, $7,500; liabilities, $89,274 .Norman P. Burrow, president. - ■ John Alfred Lamoureux Jr.; formerly doing business as Quality Construction, and Kathleen Ann Lamoureux, 10348 Wentworth Av. S., Bloomington; -filed' 7/28/86, 4-6-2209; Chap.-7; no schedules filed. ■ Nancy O. Westerlund, doing business as Shepard Trucking, Litchfield, Minn.; filed 7/29/86, 4-86-2224; Chap 13; assets, • $65,575; liabilities, $82,216. '' I ■ Roger H. Vann, as surety' for Roger Vann Ministries, Inc.; doing business -as Peace Bible Church, 725 Windemere Curve, Plymouth;: filed 7/29/86, 4-86-2225;' Chap ,..7; assets, 45143,530; liabilities, $161,856. • Robert Francis Schimmel and Su- sanne T. Schimmel, individually and do- ing business as 'Rabbi. Sue Fashions, for, merly doing business as Pretty Plus, 6494. Birkshire Lane,' Maple Grove; filed 7/30/86, 4-86-2235; Chap: 7; assets,•• $83,500; liabilities, $61,015. IN John, H. Honour VII, as 'surety for Marsan Corp., 3560i Ivy Pl., Wayzata; filed ,7/30/86, 4-86-2238; Chap. 7; assets, - $215,765; liabilities„$129,477. • Dorothy K. Evjen-Wold, as surety for Summit Seminars, Inc., 708 Oakridge Tr. NE., Blaine; filed 7/31/86, 4-86-2243;• Chap. 7; assets, $69,375; liabilities, $85,092. • ■ Long•Pralrie Ready Mix, Inc., Alexan- dria, Minn.; filed 7/31/86, 6-86-379; Chap. il; assets, $934,207; liabilities, $1,007,206. Richard A. Smith, president •i ■ Elmer Joseph Schlangen and Patricia Marie Schlangen, doing business as Elmer's -Excavating, St. Cloud, Minn.; 8/1/86, 4-86-2266; Chap.* 7; assets,. $152,149; liabilities,.$110,232. --tat - - •'hsttA ■ Bemidji Candy Co., Bemidji," Minn.; filed 7/23/86, 6-86-364; Chap. 11; assgts,• $1,046,065; est. liabilities, $655 96: - Charles Quistgard, president. • St. Paul/ • :,ouB 1t.KCi.. • Harold - O. Wees and Rath_ E. Weer; formerly doing business as Princess• Cafe, Winthrop, Minn.; filed 7/28I86: 86-2032; Chap. 7; assets, $13,774;;liabil- ities, $14,980. - - .•;-cri • • Daniel Anton Brolch and Shaton Anne Broach,.„doing business as Fabtron- ics, Chlsago City, Minn.; filed 7/30/86; 3-- 86-2045; Chap. 7; assets, $115,198;-l1-abil-' ides, $141,895. ■ Industrial Parts and• Services, ,t:., 2309'. W: Hwy. 13, Burnsville;+ d- 1/30/86, 3-86-2056; Chap. 11; aOyts; $88,414; liabilities, $125;135., == ■ Terry Frank Anthony LeiningerF,atid3 . . Dorothy Jean Leininger, also known -as Dorothy Jean Blomberg, and T&Di Auto •' Repair, Rochester, Minn.; filed 7/3111,6:• 3-86-2060; Chap. 7; assets, $2,701; lI bil 'ties, $27,852. 4011A ' • 1;14N ■ 'Odell D. Ruesink and Joan A..,Rue- sink;also known as Joan's Sewing .• Shoppe,•Goodhue,.Minn.; filed 7/31/88•$- ` • 86-2066; Chap. 7; assets, $265,670; Ilabil- ' 'ties, $173,737, . • Thomas Melvin-Dornbusch and Linda Jean Dornbusch, doing business as Tom Dornbuscli Construction, `1855 Flandrau' St., Maplewood; filed 8/1/86, 3-86-207i0;. Chap. 13;, assets,: $115,846; liabilities;;' $105,686. 1 • +' • a• ■ .R&R Trucking, a partnership consist- - • ing of George R. McNeill and Mildred IL Gittens, 7587 Argenta Trail, Inver Grove 'Heights; filed 8/1/86, 3-86-2071; Chap.`lli;•. assets, $85,000; liabilities, $83,949. / I* • Nelson Heating and Air Conditioning,. Inc., Forest•Lake; filed 8/4/86; 3-86-2097; ' Chap. 7; assets $121;023; liabilities 1362,862. 1 ■®■I•sl®■ iummo imunno _ FREE COPIE OF YOUR RESUME• You need copies of -your resume • but you have not decided what styleof paper looks' best for you. At Kinko's, we will give you two FREE COPIES of your resume on our highest' quality papers. You may .choose to have both copies on the same stock orondifferent stocks. Either way, they are FREE. We will make them for you while you wait;\ in just a few' seconds. And you do not have to buy: -. anything! 1 • Sperry to b.uildEagan office, computer center By Jim McCartney Staff Writer Sperry Corp. will build a 250,000- square-foot office and computer center at its campus in Eagan, a company spokesman said Monday. The move will consolidate a number of organizations located in short-term, leased centers. Up to 1,000 employees from around the Twin Cities will move to the new building when it is completed late next year. Most of the affected em- ployees are in white-collar jobs, such as administration, training, marketing and computer operations. The building will be constructed on Sperry's 213 acres in Eagan, where it already has two large centers. One building houses 1,000 employees in its semi -conductor development business, and another is headquarters for its de- fense products and computers systems business, which has 2,500 employees, according to Jack Nichols, a Sperry spokesman. Sperry officials said subsidies from Eagan and the state of Minnesota were' instrumental in its decision to build in Minnesota. "Sperry was looking at several loca- tions, and to our understanding, Eagan was the only location in Minnesota," said Dale Runkle, Eagan city planner. "Sperry is one of the biggest employ- ers in the city," Runkle said. "There was the potential of losing some of those employees if they decided to build elsewhere, so we got together with the state to offer a package of financial in- centives." Eagan will help Sperry prepare the land for construction and install utilities through tax increment financing, ac- cording to Runkle. The state Energy and Economic Development Depart- ment will rebate part of the state sales tax and will help Sperry recapture its capital equipment investment at the new center, he said. Community Minneapolis Star and Tribune Staff Photos by Darlene Pfister Don Giblin: "The noise just gets to you." Thomas Nikolai Wednesday February 8/ 1984 10B .. Eagan residents brought their complaints about industrial noise to a meeting of the suburb's city council Tuesday night. Eagan gives Sperry chance to muffle noise By Diana Ettel Gonzalez Staff Writer Don Giblin said he hasn't had a full night's sleep since Sperry Corp. moved into its Semiconductor Opera- tions plant at Eagan's Sperry Park last June. "I come home in the afternoon and nap for two hours to get ready for the night," he said. Even in winter, when the windows are closed, the noise from the plant bothers Giblin and his neighbors, he said. "Sometimes you go to sleep and you wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning. The noise just gets to you," he said. Thomas Nikolai, Giblin's next door neighbor, said the noise just outside his bedroom window is comparable to what a person would hear stand- ing at a busy intersection. His house borders the Sperry property line. Giblin and Nikolai were among sev- eral dozen angry residents from Ea- gan's Timberline neighborhood at a council meeting Tuesday night. The residents asked officials to hire an outside expert to recommend ways to abate the noise at the plant. Eagan council members denied the residents' request, arguing that the city should give the company a chance to try its proposed solution before hiring an expert. "I appreciate that you are not sleep- ing," said Council Member Thomas Egan. "But still, we did set down a procedural time frame. Frankly, the case isn't in yet. I have always oper- ated on the premise that a person should be given enough rope to hang himself." Sperry officials have said they will install equipment by the end of March that should solve the noise problem. The company is responding to a request by Eagan city officials last October, when the city found the company in violation of the city's nuisance ordinance and asked the company to fix the problem by this spring. After meeting with residents last fall, the company proposed installing one noise attenuator that would muffle the noisiest of six stacks at the plant, and a noise diverter on each stack to direct the sound away from the neighborhood. Residents say they aren't convinced that the solution proposed by Sperry will be enough. They said they favor k Edward Michaud hearing from an independent expert now because they don't want to risk putting up with the noise another summer. ;Last night was not the first time /Timberline area homeowners have gone to the city to discuss the Sperry ` plant. John Gustin, president of the Timberline Civic Association, said neighbors have been concerned about potential air and groundwater pollution from hazardous chemicals ;used at the plant. pc,e„,,r Residents say between 15 and 25 households are affected seriously by the noise. Property values in the entire neighborhood of more than 100 houses have been lowered by the Dakota County Assessor's Office, Gustin said. The assessors have not specified the reasons for lowering values, Gustin said, but neighbors believe that the property values have been affected by the Sperry plant. The assessor could not be reached for comment. Nikolai said that he and other resi- dents don't trust the company. Sound tests by the company and by an electronics expert hired by Nikolai have come up with different results. "We have readings that are in excess of PCA guidelines, and Sperry insists their readings are below," Nikolai said. Edward Michaud, director of facili- ties for the Defense Systems Division of Sperry, said he cannot explain the difference between the results be- cause the company did not evaluate or monitor the tests. He assured neighbors that the com- pany would take care of the prob- lem. He also said the company uses safe procedures to protect the envi- ronment and dispose of chemical used to manufacture wafer-like chip used in computer systems. Council Member Theodore Wachte asked staff members to investigate whether there are any potential pol lution problems at the plant. The cit has some wells in the area and plan' to dig more, said Council Membe James A. Smith. Egan asked the city attorney's office to prepare a report outlining what the city can do if the problem is not solved by spring. The city council will discuss the issue in early April. Neighbors want the city to take ag- gressive steps to make sure Sperry causes no more noise problems. Giblin said the city should issue a legal complaint charging the compa- ny with violating the ordinance. "I believe in mediation and negotia- tion. But we're not getting any place," he said. "I want them to abide by the law, the same way those ladies (at the peace camp) who were arrested at (Sperry's) request. I want them to abide by the same justice," he said. dal arguments riledincurt. fight over 1-35 ly Richard Meryhew staff Writer after three weeks of testimony, the atest round of a legal battle over the . :ompletion of ;Interstate Hwy. 35E in. lowntown St. Paul is almost over. • attorneys •' representing .proponents Ind opponents of the freeway pro- . ect, which would connect I-35E with nterstate Hwy. 94 on, the west side )f downtown St. Paul, argued. for • ilmost 15 days last month in U.S. )istrict Court in Si. Paul. • [hey wrapped up their arguments [uesday afternoon by filing post -trial )riefs with U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson; who is expected• to rule an the case within the next several weeks. ' the latest dispute in a decade -long aeries of',disputes on the 35E project ails west side and downtown neigh- )orhood residents against the city of 'it. Paul, the Metropolitan Council and the Minnesota and federal trans- ortation departments. i he plaintiffs, citizens who call hemselves "Residents In Protest .of 5E" (RIP 35E), seek an injunction prohibit the completion of the eeway along the Pleasant Av. cor- idor, a 1.5-mile-stretch of road `west ., f -the city that would link I-94 to I- 5E south and west of the downtown rea. • ccording to current plans, truck avel would. be barred along the . oadway, which would be designated a low -speed route ,:(less than 50 Res per hour).: . esidents, however, are skeptical., hey fear completion, of the Pleas- : nt Av. corridor would lead to truck raffic along the_ -route andcontrib- te to noise, air and soil pollution. hey also argue that alternative mites to, the Pleasant Av. corridor ere not.thoroughly researched. n presenting' the' plaintiff's..case in ederal court, attorneys argued that alternative routes were not fully con- sidered •and that the environmental impact study (EIS) did not adequate- ly address the issues of •noise, air and soil pollution. • They criticized the review and study of alternative routes, arguing • that the process was, "procedurally and substantially ,defective." • They. also criticized the EIS, stating.' that the noise standards adhered to. were' federal standards, of their propensity for hand-to-mouth activity." Citing testimony given at the trial, the attorneys wrote that there were already high levels' of lead along' the corridor and that the area could. be- come part of an "urban lead belt." They also argued that the air quality study was not conducted "in good faith, was misleading, and ignored certain life -threatening environmen- tal impacts." Attorneys representing the defen- dants argued that the study, of alter- native sites was thorough. They defended the environmental' study, saying in the briefs, that envi- ronmental .issues were well re-. searched and that the •environment along the Pleasant Av. corridor• would not be significantly impaired by completion of the roadway. - "The noise analysis is adequate and sufficiently informs the public and - decision -makers of all expected envi- ronmental changes," it read.. They said the EIS satisfactorily ad- dressed the impact of automobile exhaust on the air quality of the neighborhood, and particularly, high -risk segments of the population, such as the elderly or hospital' pa- tients. , • In addressing the soil issue, the attor- neys for the defendants wrote that there was disagreement within the scientific community "as to the rela- tionship, .if any, between airborne lead, soil lead, and health risks. Such a disagreement is not sufficient to render an EIS inadequate." . • • • Staff Photo by Bruce Bisping Why'd he do it? Because it was there After,climbing the snowbank;'Steve Witzigman had to bend over to plug a parking meter Tuesday near loth St.'and Marquette Av. S. vy, Speakers show w Irish fighting goes on Two speakers concerned about vio- lence in Northern Ireland indirectly demonstrated to an audience in. St. Paul 'Tuesday why no solution is in. sight.. • . ' - I. • Cyril Gray, a spokesman for the Brit- ish Embassy in Washington, said the violence stems from terrorists — pri- marily the Irish Republican Army — who believe killing and maiming will bring political change. Gray said that the Roman Catholics involved in the IRA are engaged in "dirty; sneaky, cowardly business." Charles, McCafferty, a St. Paul doctor and a champion of the Catholic mi- nority in Northern Ireland, said• that the British 'are responsible for the violence. • • _ . McCafferty said that the current • round of killing; which has claimed " • about 2,400 lives, can be_traced; to a civil rights demonstration in 1972 that ended .with 13 Catholics being "shot down. in cold blood" by British 'soldiers. McCafferty hinted that the solution to the problem hinges on the British people 'becoming disenchanted with having to maintain troops. in North- ern Ireland. He said that public opin- ion polls indicate rising support for - withdrawing.the troops. . Gray said he doesn't expect the Brit-. ish government to give • in to terror- ists. The solution, he said, lies in a -political compromise.- He. added- that he doesn't see such a compromise forthcoming. • Northern Ireland, which has a Prot- estant majority, is part of Great Brit- ain. The Catholic majority in the south broke away from the crown and became the Republic of Ireland in 1949.. Gray and McCafferty agreed on one • • .. Cyril Gray thing in their speeches to the St. Paul branch, of thet American Association of University Women. They both op- posed violence. Gray' said that it does no good for • Catholics to "wallow in ' antiquity," , dwelling on discrimination and injus- tice•• that goes back for. centuries.' "We have a problem today and the , terrorism just drives people further apart," he said. , • . . McCafferty said 'he was tired of peo- ple focusing on the IRA and -ignoring the "violence committed by the Brit- ish." . The program'• ended when a' , woman in the audience loudly tried .; to inform Gray -about "atrocities , _ committed by British soldiers."' i en. •14‘01‘Cf. broken. %Valle Oa ge��l was zat►ons as and � n a or9 oU• ow er r o kn um is f better cons e cos pNE 4 Al &Z l . Many . her me a6 PN San. i,19a ' companies. meanh�9 � OWN •rental rates • On into small k o eat t br eak-vP ' ompany same high belie�eth (i)$$$ t. bebeathighPoe get the rices' What's one $$$$$� �(.o��M�p�� „8e�� Stor p,ND bA buy:,ng fiat �wer..than P, Nation's Hottest New Item! New y ,,manes.. -�Compiuter Telephone.for•only Settlemei t+ demand presented to Unisys, Loral Corp.Lockheed-Martin - p kheed Martin A settlement demand totaling more than $4.4 billion has been filed in the Gundacker whistle - blower lawsuit, which alleges that Unisys Corporation, Loral Corp. and Lockheed -Martin Corporation have committed major frauds against the U.S. government in the Twin Cities area. Erik Gundacker, a software engineer from Rosemount, has alleged that the companies de- frauded the government by selling the Navy million dollar computers after allegedly falsely telling the Navy it would not be possible or prac- tical to shift programs to com- mercial devices available at about $20,000. The actual amount of the fraud and the trebling of de- mands, applied in cases of fraud under the False Claims Act, are factored into the set- tlement demand of $4.416 bil- lion;. The filing of the demand came; under the requirements of a federal court rule that di- rects the parties to engage in settlement tiscussions to see if a case can be seu<ied. According to the c omplaint, Unisys allegedly instructed software engineers to lie to the Navy and provided false infor- mation to the Navy in 1991, persuading it to pay millions for obsolete computer systems it still purchases today. Gun- dacker estimates Unisys sold the Navy 300 of the systems per year from 1993 through 1997. At $1 million each, the cost of these 1,500 systems would be $1.5 billion. The cost of the alternate systems, which could have been set up to han- dle the needed programs, is $20,000 each, or $30 million for all 1,500, according to Gundacker. By subtracting the $30 million for the substituted computers from the cost of the obsolete systems, $1.5 billion, a figure for actual damages of $1.47 billion is the result. In addition, Gundacker has alleged a range of other frauds which together represent a to- tal of $2 million. Finally, the actual frauds of $1.472 billion are multiplied by three, as per the False Claims Act, for a settlement demand of $4.416 billion. If successful, the vast majority of the funds awarded would be directed to the U.S. Treasury. The other frauds alleged by Gundacker include mischarg- ing labor costs, falsely charg- ing the government for leasing surplus computers, using falsi- fied rates in proposals, ille- gally charging marketing costs, illegally transferring contract overruns to accounts with sur- pluses and submitting false disclosures to the government. -746 )FF /C (981 / 98(D Sperry protesters convicted By CFUftTY DeJOY Four Minneapolis women were convicted of trespassing after participating in a protest April 29, 1985, at Sperry Corp., an Eagan manufacturer of defense systems. A Jury found Margaret Ann Higgins, Mary Margaret Spier- i rig, Nancy Hull Moiser and Carol Lynn Masters guilty as charged. The trial was March 31 and April 1, with District Court Judge Jack Mitchell presiding. Spiering, Mosier and Masters were previously charged and con- victed for a June 1984 Sperry pro- test. Because it was a first-time offense and in an attempt to avoid the expense of a jury trial, the ci- ty agreed to lessen the charges of trespassing from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor. The defendants then consented to waive their right to a jury trial, according to counselor Kevin Eide, who represented the city of Eagan. The most recent charges re- mained a misdemeanor and the defendants were granted a jury trial in county court. The women will appear before Mitchell May 2 for sentencing. They were given the opportunity to present a proposal to the court for community service work in place of a jail sentence or fine, Eide said. SPERRY NOISE • Sperry promises to solve noise problem by David Siegel Residents living near Sperry's new Eagan semicon- ductor plant say noise from its operation is disrupting their lives. "I haven't slept one seven - hour night since June 1983," said Don Giblin, 1498 Red Cedar Road. Giblin and about 60 other residents of the Timberline Ad - Don Giblin Inhn Dustin rAGN/1 GI/ /foil,cke: t3 , 3 Pi/ Garret Mulroone dition, located north of the plant on Pilot Knob Road, registered strong complaints at the Eagan City Council meeting Tuesday. "We sleep two and three hours at a time. We've done that for eight...months. I'm fed up with it," Giblin said. Sperry representatives guaranteed residents the pro- blem will be solved by the end of March. "Sperry will take care of the noise problem," said Ed Michaud, director of facilities for defense. Sperry will put a muffler on a basement ventilation stack and sound deflectors on five other stacks that rise about 10 feet above the plant. The stacks for steam emissions appear to be causing the noise problem, Michaud said.. The residents also complain- ed about the possibility of air and water pollution from the plant. Some hazardous chemicals are used in manufacturing the semiconductors, but they are taken care of properly, Michaud said. "We are not in a situation, nor do we ever in- tend to be in one, that would pollute the atmosphere or groundwater," he said. Sperry constructed the facili- ty in the summer of 1981 after receiving special zoning allow- ing light industry there. The dirt and dust from construc- tion caused problems with clothes, drapes and furniture, said John Gustin, 3061 Woodlark Lane, president of the Timberline Civic Associa- tion But noise has been their primary complaint. The group first approached the council late last summer. This fall the council declared Sperry in violation of the city's zoning ordinance because of the noise. Sperry represen- tatives agreed to solve the pro - This is a view of Sperry's semiconductor plant from Red Cedar Road in the blem by this spring. Representatives of Sperry and the Timberline Associa- tion and City Administrator Tom Hedges met twice to,talk about the problem. Sperry agreed in those meetings to solve the problem, but Timberline residents said Tues- day they had not received a guarantee. However, residents said Tuesday the noise problem has worsened. They asked for an independent noise analyist to be hired at Sperry's expense to check the noise level. The Timberline Association hired Robert Fulton, a Min- neapolis sound expert, to measure the noise. In a sworn affidavit, Fulton stated that his readings were from 63 to 75 decibels —a level near that of a busy intersection, said Tom Nikolai, Giblin's neighbor and one of four residents to address the council. "This is intolerable," said Nikolai. Efforts to get answers from Sperry personnel about Photos by David Siegel Timberline Addition. The six exhaust stacks are visible on top of the building. the problem have been futile, he said. "The same old bureaucratic shuffle." Timberline resident Garret Mulrooney said, "What we have here is a very real noise problem that is sincere and felt by practically all members of an Eagan neighborhood. The situation hasn't really gotten the attention of the movers and shakers in Sperry." Giblin claimed the Dakota County Assessor's Office has lowered the property values of the 105 homes in Timberline Addition substantially. "It's a criminal matter, it's a civil mat- ter. Are we afraid of this com- pany?" ' However, Bill Peterson, senior appraiser in the Dakota County Assessors' Office, said the assessed value of the pro- perty has not been lowered due to noise from Sperry. One sale has occurred in the area since the problem began, and Peter- son said the selling price was par with the rest of the homes. "There's no indication that the Sperry to address noise NOISE: from p.1 timeline to give Sperry time to solve the problem. The council asked for an Update at its April 3 meeting. "Frankly, the case isn't in yet," said Tom Egan, coun- cilmember. "We've just been trying to work within a reasonable time frame. A per- son should be given enough rope to hang himself," he said. Egan instructed the city at- torney to look into actions the city can take if the problem is not solved. Giblin said Sperry should be treated the same way it handled a group of women at a peace camp who stayed outside Sperry headquarters in St. Paul protesting the company's in- volvement in the nuclear in- dustry. The women were arrested for trespassing. Sperry should be charged with violating Eagan's zoning ordinance. "I want these people brought before justice. I think we're en- titled to it," Giblin said. Ed Michaud problem has affected the market value," he said. Peterson said his office will look at the area again in May 1984. The council agreed to follow its previously established NOISE: to p.2A TWO-FERS Margaritas and Taco Salads LaFonda is making every Monday night two-fers night on taco salads and margaritas. So join in on these South of the Border delights. Ole' 3665 Sible Memorial Hwy. (Hwy. 13 in LAS VEGAS NIGHT Saturday, Feb.18 7:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. FOOD & REFRESHMENTS Post 17 Apple Valley American Legion 147th & Pennock Apple Valley (North End of The Big Apple) 432-9080 SECTION A Vol. V, No. 7, Monday, February 13, Bringing you the news of the people, the neighborhood Sperry promises to solve a:.:.. tr.ratPri north of the Sperry, which has offices in Bloomington, Eagan, Rose- ville and St. Paul, recently an- nounced plans to construct a $20 million material manage- ment center in St. Paul. The project comes on the heels of the October opening of its $200 million semi -conductor plant in Eagan. Sperry, a computer manu- facturer, produces a large volume of defense and aero- space components. The St. Paul plant, which will be located on Sperry's Shenard Road site. is exnected Sperry to expand, move 300 workers from Eagan by Jennifer Waters to generate 300 new jobs. Ap- plant operating at full capacity Rapid growth and increased proximately 300 employees by mid-1985. earnings have enabled the also will move from the Eagan Sperry, which has 12,000 Sperry Corp. to expand once material management center to employees statewide, h a s again in the Twin Cities area, the St. Paul location, accor- become the largest employer in and further development is ex- ding to company spokesman Eagan, with close' to 4,000 pected in the near future. Jack Nichols. workers at the 2I4-acre site at The automated parts ware- Yankee D-oodleand Pilot;Knob house will become the most ef- roads, Nichols said. It is likely ficient distribution center that growth will continue and Sperry operates. It is designed the 300 workers moving to St. as a state-of-the-art distribu- Paul will not leave a void at the tion center for computer com- Eagan site. ponents used by Sperry's The expansion announce - defense systems division plants ment follows sharp criticism of in St. Paul, Clearwater, Fla., Minnesota's business climate Salt Lake City and Winnipeg, by Dick Seaberg,. defense Nichols said. The warehouse systems division president. will aid in fulfilling the $433 Seaberg censured the state as million contract signed with anti -defense and protested the U.S. Navy last year for 500 costs of unemployment insur- large-scale computers. ance and worker's compensa- Construction is expected to tion. In addition, reJatively begin after April 1 with the high income taxes create TA G A ni 61f/i5"e C 4 d'>' recruiting problems for Sperry, which employs a high number of nrnfesnal neonle. Nichols said that Sperry has urged all its employees to con- tact their state legislators to seek relief on the 10 percent in- come tax surcharge. Sperry posted an 84 percent tions cuts. profit increase in its quarter, Nichols said. A third- quarter profit of $73.7 million and a revenue increase of about $1 billion was accredited to its defense and aerospace opera - cost and companywide last Staff Photos by Darlene Pfister Don Giblin: "The noise just gets to you." Thomas Nikolai Eagan residents brought their complaints about industrial noise to a meeting of the suburb's city council Tuesday night. Eagan gives Sperry chance to muffle noise By Diana Ettel Gonzalez Staff Writer Don Giblin said he hasn't had a full night's sleep since Sperry Corp. moved into its Semiconductor Opera- tions plant at Eagan's Sperry Park last June. "I come home in the afternoon and nap for two hours to get ready for the night," he said. Even in winter, when the windows are closed, the noise from the plant bothers Giblin and his neighbors, he said. "Sometimes you go to sleep and you wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning. The noise just gets to you," he said. Thomas Nikolai, Gibl!n's next door neighbor, said the noise just outside his bedroom window is comparable to what a person would hear stand- ing at a busy intersection. His house borders the Sperry property line. Giblin and Nikolai were among sev- eral dozen angry residents from Ea- gan's Timberline neighborhood at a council meeting Tuesday night. The residents asked officials to hire an outside expert to recommend ways to abate the noise at the plant. Eagan council members denied the residents' request, arguing that the city should give the company a cnance to try its proposed solution before hiring an expert. "I appreciate that you are not sleep- ing." said Council Member Thomas Egan. "But still, we did set down a procedural time frame. Frankly. the case isn't in yet. I have always oper- ated on the premise that a person should be given enough rope to hang himself." Sperry officials have said they will install equipment by the end of March that should solve the noise problem. The company is responding to a request by Eagan city officials last October, when the city found the company in violation of the city's nuiguce ordinance and asked the company to fix the problem by this spring. After meeting with residents last fall, the company proposed installing one noise attenuator that would muffle the noisiest of six stacks at the plant, and a noise diverter on each stack to direct the sound away from the neighborhood. Residents say they aren't convinced that the solution proposed by Sperry will be enough. They sat they favor 5T7 6Z J'V Edward Michaud hearing from an independent expert now because they don't want to risk putting up with the noise another summer. Last night was not the first time Timberline area homeowners have gone to the city to discuss the Sperry plant. John Gustin, president of the Timberline Civic Association, said neighbors have been concerned about potential air and groundwater pollution from hazardous chemicals used at the plant. Residents say between 15 and 25 households are affected seriously by the noise. Property values in the entire neighborhood of more than 100 houses have been lowered by the Dakota County Assessor's Office, Gustin said. The assessors have not specified the reasons for lowering values, Gustin said, but neighbors believe that the property values have been affected by the Sperry plant. The assessor could not be reached for comment. Nikolai said that he and other resi- dents don't trust the company. Sound tests by the company and by an electronics expert hired by Nikolai have come up with different results. "We have readings that are in excess of PCA guidelines, and Sperry insists their readings are below," Nikolai said. Edward Michaud, director of facili- ties for the Defense Systems Division of Sperry, said he cannot explain the difference between the results be- cause the company did not evaluate or monitor the tests. He assured neighbors that the com- pany would take care of the prob- lem. He also said the company uses safe procedures to protect the envi- ronment and dispose of chemicals used to manufacture wafer-like chips used in computer systems. Council Member Theodore Wachter asked staff members to investigate whether there are any potential pol- lution problems at the plant. The city has some wells in the area and plans to dig more, said Council Member James A. Smith. Egan asked the city attorney's office to prepare a report outlining what the city can do if the problem is not solved by spring. The city council will discuss the issue in early April. Neighbors want the city to take ag- gressive steps to make sure Sperry causes no more noise problems. Giblin said the city should issue a legal complaint charging the compa- ny with violating the ordinance. "I believe in mediation and negotia- tion. But we're not getting any place," he said. "I want them to abide by the law, the same way those ladies (at the peace camp) who were arrested at (Sperry's) request. I want them to abide by the same justice," he said. ght over I-35E ichard Meryhew Writer r three weeks of testimony, the st round of a legal battle over the pletion of Interstate Hwy. 35E in ntown St. Paul is almost over. rneys representing proponents opponents of the freeway pro- , which would connect I-35E with rstate Hwy. 94 on the west side downtown St. Paul, argued for ost 15 days last month in U.S. :rict Court in St. Paul. y wrapped up their arguments .sday afternoon by filing post -trial efs with U.S. District Judge Paul gnuson, who is expected to rule the case within the next several Et latest dispute in a decade -long ies of disputes on the 35E project west side and downtown neigh - hood residents against the city of Paul, the Metropolitan Council I the Minnesota and federal trans- tation departments. e plaintiffs, citizens who call mselves "Residents In Protest of 3" (RIP 35E), seek an injunction prohibit the completion of the eway along the Pleasant Av. cor- m*, a 1.5-mile stretch of road west the city that would link I-94 to 1- south and west of the downtown a. ;ording to current plans, truck vet would be barred along the dway, which would be designated a low -speed route (less than 50 es per hour). ;idents, however, are skeptical. sy fear completion of the Pleas- Av. corridor would lead to truck 'fic along the route and contrib- to noise, air and soil pollution. ty also argue that alternative tes to the Pleasant Av. corridor •e not thoroughly researched. presenting the plaintiff's case in eral court, attorneys argued that rnative routes were not fully con - ,red and that the environmental pact study (EIS) did not adequate- ddress the issues of noise, air and pollution. y criticized the review and study alternative routes, arguing that process was "procedurally and stantially defective." y also criticized the EIS, stating of their propensity for hand-to-mouth activity." Citing testimony given at the trial, the attorneys wrote that there were already high levels of lead along the corridor and that the area could be- come part of an "urban lead belt." They also argued that the air quality study was not conducted "in good faith, was misleading and ignored certain life -threatening environmen- tal impacts." Attorneys representing the defen- dants argued that the study of alter- native sites was thorough. They defended the environmental study, saying in the briefs that envi- ronmental issues were well re- searched and that the environment along the Pleasant Av. corridor would not be significantly impaired by completion of the roadway. "The noise analysis is adequate and sufficiently informs the public and decision -makers of all expected envi- ronmental changes," it read. They said the EIS satisfactorily ad- dressed the impact of automobile exhaust on the air quality of the neighborhood, and particularly, high -risk segments of the population, such as the elderly or hospital pa- tients. In addressing the soil issue, the attor- neys for the defendants wrote that there was disagreement within the scientific community "as to the rela- tionship, if any, between airborne lead, soil lead, and health risks. Such a disagreement is not sufficient to render an EIS inadequate." C wvwv' •_ liC011 M,aaswn , 1$11LIC known one ester consume, M 198A. A� &� �b1es Many her Po �n �an.1 � all comPan to mean WOO 0� b into hl break-up could e break-up o e toEe w ay ` ° 011beat h P phone corn bel,e� V R'�s y°u wh�SP�E' S. firotn MENAPl.&A Bell Staff Photo by Bruce BiE Why'd he do it? Be After climbing the sn plug a parking meter 1 Sperry plant noise stirs complaints By Brian Bonner The walls of Don Giblin's house tremble at times. He and his neigh- bors complain of restless nights and say that Dakota County asses- sors have reduced the value of their property. Source of the problem is what residents call "intolerable" noise emitted from Sperry Corp.'s semi- conductor manufacturing plant in Eagan. The Eagan City Council has giv- en the Sperry Corp. until the end of March to muffle the noise generat- ed in the process of making micro-' chips for computer systems. But dozens of Eagan residents living near the plant are skeptical of Sperry's proposed solution — and they aren't going to wait pas- sively, despite having two requests rejected by the Eagan City Coun- cil. The Timberline Civic Associa- tion, formed by residents near the Sperry plant, last week asked the city to file a legal complaint against Sperry Corp. for violating city ordinances. The residents also asked the council to hire an inde- pendent expert to evaluate noise and pollution emitted from the Sperry plant. Both requests were denied by the council, raising suspicions among some residents that the council was "afraid" of Sperry, which is a major employer in the state with more than 12,000 employees. "I don't believe this body is afraid of anything in this town," said Eagan Mayor Bea Blomquist. Blomquist and council members said Sperry should be given until April 3 to lower noise levels under. a plan to spend $30,000 on noise - reduction equipment. "Frankly, the case isn't in yet," said council member Thomas Egan. "I appreciate the problem and I know it's worse than what you expected. But we didn't expect you to come in in February. If Sperry doesn't take care of tNe job, I will favor remedial action.' Please see Noise/2SW Noise ■ Continued from Page 1 SW Edward Michaud, director of Sperry's Eagan defense facilities system, assured the council that "Sperry will take care of the noise problem." Michaud said Sperry engineers believe the source of the noise irri- tant is an exhaust fan which will be outfitted with an attenuator. Noise deflectors will be installed on six of the noisier stacks. "If that doesn't take care of the problem, we'll take further ac- tion," Michaud said. Michaud said Sperry oper.tions have always complied with'.envi- ronmental standards on noise and other types of pollution. He said Sperry studies show noise levels approaching, but not violating, maximum federal standards. Timberline residents are, howev- er, planning to ask the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to inde- pendently monitor noise and pollu- tion levels emitted from the Sperry plant. Residents are also con- cerned with potential groundwater and air contamination from the disposable of chemicals used in the industrial process. Thomas Nikolai, whose house borders Sperry property, said he doesn't believe Sperry's assess- ment. He said he hired a sound spe- cialist to take readings outside his bedroom window. The specialist, Robert Fulton of Minneapolis, measured the sound at between 65 and 76 decibels — a level equivalent to noise from busy street traffic. "If those readings are correct, then you're receiving 45 to 50 deci- bels," said Dare Kelso, a noise spe- cialist with !.►e Minnesota Pollu- tion Control Agency. He said such levels border on legally unaccept- able. But he didn't need to tell Ni- kolai that. "It's intolerable. Residents shouldn't have to put up with that," Nikolai said. PA o°isc Council acts on Sperry noise problem By JEFF BURRILL The Sperry Univac noise con- troversy was addressed for near- ly two hours at the Tuesday, April 3, Eagan City Council meeting. Following a report from Min- nesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) representative Dave Kelso, there was discussion among Kelso, noise expert Robert Fulton, Ed Michaud of Sperry Univac, concerned citi- zens and council members. Eventually, Councilman Tom Egan made a motion which re- quested that city staff investigate whether Sperry Univac is in violation of the city's research and development ordinance re- garding noise pollution, then report that finding to the council for legal action to be taken against Sperry. "I'm an optimist and I feel Sperry Univac is capable of find- ing the phenomenon (it claims is causing the noise problem)," Egan said. "This (controversy) has been going on for about nine months and we've been deluged by information. I'm making this motion to pursue violations against Sperry in order to motivate the company to come up with a solution to this problem. I have great respect for Sperry, but if the (affected) neighbor- hood is getting more than negligi- ble noise under the research and development ordinance, I move the county attorney be directed to take whatever action is necess- ary to determine whether Sperry is in violation of the research and development ordinance and report back to the council." The research and development ordinance is being pursued because — according to MPCA studies — Sperry's noise emis- sion is within state noise pollution guidelines, thus it's also within Eagan's guidelines. However, ac- cording to the city's research and development ordinance, Sperry's noise emission level may be il- legal because the plant is located so close to residential areas. The bottom line is, council members are in agreement that there is a noise problem in the Sperry Univac area, and the research and development ordinance may be a way to attain a solution. Residents claiming to be af- fected by noise coming from the Sperry semi -conductor plant are from the Timberline area in Eagan. At past council meetings, they have related stories of not being able to sleep for more than two or three hours some nights because of the noise. One resi- dent, Tom Nikolai, had a sound expert, Robert Fulton, set up nearly $10,000 worth of equip- ment at his home last January. A related affidavit claimed the noise level in Nikolai's bedroom was similar to the noise level of a busy traffic intersection. At the April 3 council meeting. another sound expert, Kelso from the MPCA, reported on his studies (which are conducted free of charge to requesting city governments). On four occasions — Feb. 22, Feb. 29, March 3 and April 2 — Kelso monitored noise level decibels at the home of Don Giblin. "My findings indicate an average noise decibel level of 42, which is equivalent of a television set on at a normal level in an otherwise silent living room," Kelso said. "A quiet conversation is 35 to 40 decibels, and if I'm speaking to someone in a normal voice from two to three feet away that's 50 to 65 decibels. Forty-two decibels is within the state guidelines, but it is the low fre- quency that is causing the pro- blem." MINNESOTA POLLUTION sound expert Robert Fulton set up recording equipment during the Eagan City Council meeting. "The low frequency is what causes walls to vibrate," Fulton explained. "And that's been part of the problem causing Timber- line residents to lose sleep." At this point, the council ex- pressed concern that the low fre- quency problem was not empha- sized months earlier. "If it's low frequency that's the main problem, then it seems we've wasted a lot of time add- ressing other issues (frequen- cies)," Councilman Jim Smith related. Kelso and Fulton then played a tape of noise recorded Friday evening, March 30, in Nikolai's bedroom (with the windows open). The result was a constant hum which some council mem- bers found offensive and others Council, see page 21 K.)C T-17ACsF g 6At- --T-Hlsc.v ,C 41-67-gy Control Agency representative Dave Kelso, left, and idents in the district to find out what citi how they feel about what they know. 1 1 take place within the next six weeks expected by the end of May. That's a fi: he next step, made up of many smaller ead the word about current and proje wding in our schools. We plan to step up c efforts on this issue so you will hay( derstanding of what's going on and why ething needs to be done soon. And we m ur ideas, your concerns and your questioi to learn more about the space needs issue les published occasionally in area newsp r own Spotlight; attend board of education blic hearings or other school events; par s tours and/or attend other special events schools. ro help spread the word about overcrowd cools, I welcome your support and involy( parents and other citizens to help us d ;t to publicize the issue and with whom. We who are willing to talk with their fr ghbors, write letters or speak at inform s and meetings. 'lease call me or our district commi cialist, Ellen Ferber, at 423-9446, if you I. ns or ideas or if you want to get involved it ideas, we need your support and we c at you think. Sperry's efforts to muffle noise fail, neighbors claim by David Siegel Efforts by Sperry Corp. to muffle noise from its new semiconductor have not suc- ceeded, neighboring residents told the Eagan City Council Tuesday. Residents have been com- plaining for nine months that noise from the plant disturbs them and prevents them from sleeping at night. In response, the council in- structed City Attorney Paul Hauge to decide if Sperry is violating its research and development zoning ordinance by emitting noise that is more than "negligible." The council asked Hauge to report the results for possible prosecution for a misde- meanor. In mid -March Sperry install- ed six diverters and one muffler on stacks on top of the facility. According to testing done by sound expert Richard Van- Doeren, who was retained by Sperry, the noise level has dropped 75 percent, said Ed Michaud, director of facilities for the Defense Systems Divi- sion of Sperry. VanDoeren did not attend the meeting and Sperry officials said results of his survey will not be released. Dave Kelso of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's noise program said the equip- ment did reduce certain kinds of noise. However, "the general level that the average person perceives hasn't changed," and average noise levels have remained the same, Kelso said. Kelso took measurements three nights before the equip- ment was installed. Sperry met state noise regulations twice with readings about 42 decibels. On the third occa- sion, he responded to a resi- dent's call about midnight and recorded 52 decibels, two higher than is allowed at night by state law. The measurement taken after the equipment was installed showed little change, Kelso said. Sound measurement is a complex field, Kelso said. Because the human ear filters out low-level noise, the MPCA does not measure lower fre- quencies. However, low noise can cause vibrations and affect perception of noise. It is these frequencies that appear to cause the problem for the residents of Timberline Addi- tion, Kelso said. "As you put your hand on the wall, the houses actually vibrate," said Robert Fulton, a sound consultant the residents hired to conduct tests. Fulton played a tape recor- ding made at an open upstairs bedroom window March 30 at neighborhood resident Tom Nikolai's home. "We're prepared to give you a taste of NOISE: top. 2A OVeK -AURr) lFl�w� EK Council to review Sperry noise This is the tentative agenda for the Eagan City Council, which meets at 6:30 p.m., Tues- day, May 1, at the Eagan City Hall, 3830 Pilot Knob Road. CONSENT AGENDA •Contractor licenses •Personnel items •McCrea & Associates Inc. re- quest for redesignation of location for use of off -sale liquor license. PUBLIC HEARINGS *Vacation of drainage and utility easements over the common lot lines, Windtree 2nd Addition. •Vacation of drainage and utility easements, Knob Hill of Eagan. OLD BUSINESS • Timberline Civic Association re- quest to review noise emission from Sperry Semiconductor Operations. • Wooddale Inc., James Durning for preliminary plat, Cedar Cliff Commercial 1st Addition, re- questing an amendment to the Cedar Cliff planned development to allow more office uses. • I-35E request for extended hours of operation for grading. • Miller & Schroeder Municipals Inc. agreement for underwriting and purchasing multi -family hous- ing revenue bond programs. NEW BUSINESS • Alan J. and Baerbel C. Draen- ckhahn for rezoning from agri- cultural district to roadside business district consisting of ap- proximately .68 acres. • U.S. Home Corporation to con- sider the revision to the Johnny Cake Ridge Fourth Addition con- sisting of approximately 12.5 acres and containing 60 dwelling units. Sperry vows to curb plant noise by Tim O'Donnell Sperry Corp. representatives last week guaranteed they will decrease the noise emanating from their semiconductor plant, which has aggravated nearby residents since last summer. Sperry hired consultant Richard VanDoeren to deter- mine the sound's exact source and recommend ways to reduce it to an acceptable level. VanDoeren is scheduled to recommend sound reduction methods by May 29 to Sperry of- ficials, who will determine what action to take by June 1. Sperry's wants to implement a solution "that both Sperry and the neighboring homeowners can live with," said David Tur- cotte, vice president of semiconductor operations, in an April 26 letter to Eagan City Attorney Paul Hauge. "Let me assure you that Sperry will meet the schedule," Turcotte continued. "At that time, Sperry will implement appropriate measures to satisfactorily resolve this dif- ficult problem." And at the May 1 City Council meeting, Ed Michaud, Sperry's director of facilities resources, said, "When we identify what Sperry can do, we will do it. We want to satisfy the problem and we fully intend to do that." Despite such assurances, residents of the neighboring Timberline housing develop- ment still are not convinced the nagging noise problem will soon be alleviated. Timberline resident Don Giblin urged the council to take legal action against Sperry. He suggested the council seek an injunction against Sperry and force the company to enter into a consent decree that would order a noise abatement schedule. Another resident, Tom Nikolai, also urged legal recourse because the two sides have dealt with the problem for almost a year and Sperry wants still more time to solve the pro- blem. The "foot -dragging" delays have become almost as bothersome as the noise, he said. "The progress being made to date doesn't show up when we open up our windows and hear all the noise," he said. Councilmember Thomas Egan said he would like Sperry cited for misdemeanor viola- tion of the city's noise or- dinance. "We've reached the uncom- fortable point of where we've Noise emanating from the Sperry Corp. semiconductor plant still bothers residents of the nearby Timberline housing develop- ment. Sperry officials last week assured the jawboned enough," he said. He believes the proper incentive, such as legal action, is needed to force Sperry to solve the pro- blem. Egan said that based on Noise aggravates Sperry neighbors SPERRY: from p. Arguing for a misdemeanor citation, he said, "A continuous violation looming over their heads gives them incentive to see something is done and something suitable is done." Mayor Bea Blomquist agreed with Egan that a misdemeanor citation is the pressure that needs to be applied. But councilmembers Jerry Thomas, James Smith and Theodore Wachter disagreed and defeated Egan's subse- quent motion. Because Sperry has announced its noise abate- ment commitment to the public, they prefer the company spend its money solving the pro- blem rather than using the funds defending a court case. The council then agreed to continue discussing the matter at its June 19 meeting and see how well Sperry has solved the noise problem by then. David Kelso from the state Pollution Control Agency said enough readings have been done so that he is "relatively convinced, from our state stan- dards, that there is no (noise) compliance problem, and that's been said before." Michaud said Sperry has been in compliance with state noise control standards since the complaints began last sum- mer, "but we're not stopping there." He said that on March 16 Sperry installed noise control devices on a basement exhaust fan and on five scrubber stacks. "But that didn't cure the whole spectrum of the problem," he said. Sperry officials thought most of the sound was coming from the basement exhaust fan, but they realized other sound sources need evaluation. "All I can assure you," he told the council and Timberline residents, "is that what he (VanDoeren) recommends as a solution to the problem, we will correct it." Photo by Tim O'Donnell residents and the Eagan City Council that they will implement the noise abatement measures their consultant will recommend May 29. Sperry's track record, he does not believe the company will alleviate the problem. He does not yet want to seek injunctive relief because it is C.- Ft PO,J r C L HAY , too timely and expensive, and because he does not want "so- meone else in a black robe to set the standards and not us." SPERRY: top. 2A HANGING BASKETS INCLUDES: • Fuschia • Impatiens • Ivy Geraniur • Trailing Vert and many of SEE Kidder for a complete selection of • annuals • perennials • evergreens •shrubs •shade trees Everything for your yard! SG* oilr2 _, ,ra Towers pilasters pose letter -painting problem by Tim O'Donnell This is not an eye examina- tion, but which is easier to read? This? EAGAN Or this? E A G A N Now imagine this is printed in eight -foot letters on a water tower. Which would be easier to read? The Eagan City Council pondered those questions Tues- day as it discussed how to paint the city's name on the Yankee Doodle Road water tower. Painting EAGAN on other water towers in the city was relatively easy because they have a flat surface. But the tower along Yankee Doodle Road poses a problem: It has pilasters protruding from the surface, which would make it difficult to paint the city's name on it in three places in the standard, horizontal fashion. City staff thought the letters could be painted vertically bet- ween individual pilasters. But to obtain the same amount of visual exposure as three horizontal EAGANs, there should be four vertical designa- tions, they said, which would cost another $400. Pilasters on the Yankee Doodle Road water tower are posing a problem as city officials The council opted against the vertical lettering, because it seems too hard to read. At one point Mayor Bea Blomquist suggested, tongue-in-cheek, that taking an "A" out of the name might make it easier to paint across the pilasters. Her comment drew chuckles from Tom Egan and other coun- cilmembers. The council's solution to the problem? It would like someone on the staff to provide a sketch of what the horizontal letters would look like crossing the pilasters. If it doesn't look too bad, maybe one letter can be painted on the tower for further inspection. Nothing drastic will be done before further council review. Photo by Tim O'Donnell ponder how to paint "EAGAN" over the pro- truding structures. Sperry fledges to solve noise problem By JEFF BURRILL Timberline area residents, Sperry Corporation representa- tives and the Eagan City Council had another go around at the May 1 council meeting. The topic of conversation, of course, dealt with noise being emitted from the Sperry semi- conductor plant — nights only = causing some Timberline resi- dents to lose sleep. In a previous effort to alleviate the problem, Sperry put an at- tenuator and divertors on the of- fending Eagan plant, which com- pany representatives maintain reduced noise by up to 75 percent. •r This is a claim Timberline people don't agree with. At the April 3 council meeting, sound expert David Kelso of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) reported on four separate studies conducted in the Timberline area. His findings in- -heated an average noise decibel level of 42, which is the equival- ent of a television set on at a nor- mal level in an otherwise silent living room. "Forty-two decibels is within the state guidelines," Kelso stated. "However, it is the low frequency that is causing the pro- blem." It was explained that low fre- quency is what causes walls to vibrate, which is said to be part of the problem causing Timberline residents to lose sleep. With this new knowledge con- cerning the effects of low fre- quency, the council requested Kelso conduct additional studies dealing with low frequency and report his findings at the May 1 meeting. "As it is, Sperry is within the state's guidelines for noise pollu- tion," Kelso said. "But how do you impact Sperry's effect on the neighborhood unless you shut the plant down and access it? Sperry may have reduced its noise by 75 percent, but the frequency level of the remaining 25 percent may be such that it causes disturbance to the ears." Ed Michaud of Sperry address- ed the council next and pledged that his company was attempting to overcome the noise problem and would continue to do so. "Sperry is committed, as in- dicated on our sound reduction schedule, to solve the problem," Michaud said. "Studies of the problem are being researched by sound expert Dr. Richard Van- Doeren. It is not our intent to ig- nore the (noise) problem just because we are within the state guidelines. We will take action on what Dr. VanDoeren recom- mends as a solution to this pro- blem. We have to get the problem solved one way or another." Michaud's proclamation did not appease the Timberline resi- dents, however. Those stepping to the podium criticized Sperry for dragging its feet on the issue, Sperry continued from page lA tion Company's request for ex- tended hours of operation for the I-35E construction. There will be two nine -hour shifts, Monday through Friday, running from 6 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. (An hour and a half of that time will be used for breaks and for post -work clean- ing of streets.) This schedule is to run from May 2 to August 1. The type of work involved in these extended hours will be earthwork and grading. Approx- imately 700 cubic yards of dirt, using 10 to 12 trucks, will be mov- ed every hour. The fill will be taken from an excavation area at Pilot Knob Road and its future exchange with I-35E just south of Yankee Doodle Road. The trucks will move some fill to where Deerwood Drive will intersect I-35E, while other soil will be taken south on Pilot Knob Road to Diffley Road, then south again on Blackhawk Road to two fill sites. Completing the I-35E project on time will help qualify Eagan for national highway funding in 1985. APPROVED the 12 consent agenda items. APPROVED vacation of drainage and utility easements over the common lot lines of Windtree Second Addition. APPROVED vacation of drainage and utility easements at Knob Hill of Eagan. DENIED Wooddale Inc.'s re- quest to amend the Cedar Cliff planned development, which only allows office development on the entire tract of outlots G and H in the Cedar Cliff area. The request would have allowed for 4.59 acres of commercial development land. The motion needed four -fifths of the council's approval, but received, instead, three yeses, one no and one abstention. The motion will be brought up before the council at the May 15 meeting for reconsideration. APPROVED Miller and Schroeder Municipal's agree- ment for underwriting and pur- chasing multi -family housing revenue bond programs. which was first brought to the ci- ty council's attention some 11 months ago. Councilman Tom Egan felt things weren't moving on schedule either. As some Timber- line residents requested, Egan made a motion instructing the ci- ty attorney's office to cite Sperry Corporation and Sperry officials with a violation of Eagan City Code Chapter 11, Subdivision 18. The charge would accuse Sperry of conducting light manufactur- ing and processing at its Sperry Park plant while producing more than negligible noise. The motion also cited a violation of the public nuisance ordinance in that Sperry maintains and permits a condition which unreasonably an- noys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable number of members of the public. "I believe Sperry will comply with the request to alleviate the 1-1 A-y /y, s y noise problem," Egan explained. "But I also feel there is a need to give them the proper incentive to do so. That is why I am making this formal motion." Egan's motion was defeated 3-2, however, with Egan and Mayor Bea Blomquist voting in favor, while council members Jim Smith, Jerry Thomas and Ted Wachter voted against. Egan then moved that the noise issue be continued until the June 19 meeting, 11 days after Van- Doeren's testing is to be com- pleted. At the June 19 meeting, the council will analyze Van- Doeren's findings and recom- mendations, along with steps taken by Sperry to control the noise problem. This motion passed unanimous- ly. IN OTHER ACTION, THE COUNCIL: APPROVED Enebak Construc- Sperry, see page 3A opinlo Tax Freedom EC May 8 in Minute (The following commentary was submitted Taxpayers Association.) Taxpayers in Minnesota didn't get tc Freedom Day May 1 with the rest of the stead have to wait until May 8. A higher tax burden means Minnesotans must re an extra week to meet their tax obligat to the Minnesota Taxpayers Associatio Tax Freedom Day is the day when the would owe no more taxes if, from Jan. 1 income earned was used to pay federal, taxes. After this date, workers are frec remaining income as they choose. Tax Freedom Day represents one me tizing the individual impact of tax bud of government. The national date is c year by economists at Tax Foundatior research organization. This year the economists pointed to s taxpayers from the federal level. The l bite remains at the same level as in ] shown a decrease in 1983 and 1982. The Eagan takes action on Sperry noise By JEFF BURRILL EAGAN -- The Sperry Univac noise controversy was addressed for nearly two hours at the Tues- day, April 3, Eagan City Council meeting. Following a report from Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) representative Dave Kelso, there was discussion among Kelso, noise expert Robert Fulton, Ed Michaud of Sperry Univac, concerned citi- zens and council members. Eventually, Councilman Tom Egan made a motion which re- quested that city staff investigate whether Sperry Univac is in violation of the city's research and development ordinance re- garding noise pollution, then report that finding to the council for legal action to be taken against Sperry. "I'm an optimist and I feel Sperry Univac is capable of find- ing the phenomenon (it claims is causing the noise problem)," Egan said. "This (controversy) has been going on for about nine months and we've been deluged by information. I'm making this motion to pursue violations against Sperry in order to motivate the company to come up with a solution to this problem. I have great respect for Sperry, but if the (affected) neighbor- hood is getting more than negligi- ble noise under the research and development ordinance, I move the county attorney be directed to take whatever action is necess- ary to determine whether Sperry is in violation of the research and development ordinance and report back to the council." The research and development ordinance is being pursued because — according to MPCA studies — Sperry's noise emis- sion is within state noise pollution guidelines, thus it's also within Eagan's guidelines. However, ac- cording to the city's research and development ordinance, Sperry's noise emission level may be il- legal because the plant is located so close to residential areas. The bottom line is, council members are in agreement that there is a noise problem in the Sperry Univac area, and the research and development ordinance may be a way to attain a solution. Residents claiming to be af- fected by noise coming from the Sperry semi -conductor plant are from the Timberline area in Eagan. At past council meetings, they have related stories of not being able to sleep for more than two or three hours some nights because of the noise. One resi- dent, Tom Nikolai, had a sound expert, Robert Fulton, set up nearly $10,000 worth of equip- ment at his home last January. A related affidavit claimed the noise level in Nikolai's bedroom was similar to the noise level of a busy traffic intersection. At the April 3 council meeting, another sound expert, Kelso from the MPCA, reported on his studies (which are conducted free of charge to requesting city governments). On four occasions — Feb. 22, Feb. 29, March 3 and April 2 — Kelso monitored noise level decibels at the home of Don Giblin. Eagan ... (continued from page 2A) inary plat for Sunset Fifth Addi- tion. APPROVED J. E. Parranto Associates' request for a 20-foot side setback variance for a lot in Tiberon First Addition. APPROVED Rolf F. Ander- son's request for a two -foot side setback variance for a lot in Wilderness Run Sixth Addition. CONTINUED Countryside Builders' final plat request for Fawn Ridge. APPROVED Gabbert Develop- ment's final plat request for Westbury Addition. APPROVED Ashland Oil's final plat request for Super - "My findings indicate an average noise decibel level of 42, which is equivalent of a television set on at a normal level in an otherwise silent living room," Kelso said. "A quiet conversation is 35 to 40 decibels, and if I'm speaking to someone in a normal voice from two to three feet away that's 50 to 65 decibels. Forty-two decibels is within the state guidelines, but it is the low fre- quency that 'is causing the pro- blem." "The low frequency is what causes walls to vibrate," Fulton explained. "And that's been part of the problem causing Timber- line residents to lose sleep." At this point, the council ex- pressed concern that the low fre- quency problem was not empha- sized months earlier. "If it's low frequency that's the main problem, then it seems we've wasted a lot of time add- ressing other issues (frequen- cies)," Councilman Jim Smith related. Kelso and Fulton then played a tape of noise recorded Friday evening, March 30, in Nikolai's bedroom (with the windows open). The result was a constant hum which some council mem- bers found offensive and others said they could live with. The lat- ter were challenged to do so by some Timberline residents. It was also reported by Kelso that the state requires he take readings from four to six feet off the ground. `'But if taken higher (like from a second story win- dow) they emit a higher decibel sound," Kelso said. America Addition. APPROVED Derrick Land Co.'s final plat request for Berk- shire Ponds. APPROVED plans and ordered bids for streets and utilities for Westbury Addition. APPROVED acceptance of the low bid for painting Yankee Doo- dle Reservoir. APPROVED the petition re- questing improvement of Hack - more Drive in the form of streets and utilities. TOOK action to preserve the Lone Oak Tree, possibly by hay- ing a sculpture made from it. b Ay__() -TA 0000Ty PR/ c s lc/ gs When Sperry representative Michaud addressed the council, he maintained his company had placed noise pollution devices on the Eagan plant — an attenuator and divertors — which reduced noise by up to 75 percent. The au- dience hooted at this response. Added to this, the council ap- peared to take offense that Sperry would not release the noise pollution statistics its hired sound expert Dr. Richard Van- Doeren, conducted. "We are not releasing these statistics, should we need them for legal defense," Michaud ex- plained. Following additional com- plaints by Timberline residents, Egan made his motion, and after additional discussion among council members, it passed unanimously. The motion also stated that any violation would be a daily (separate) violation. (According to law, each violation would be a misdemeanor.) IN OTHER ACTION, THE COUNCIL: APPROVED installation of a trunk watermain along Lexing- ton Avenue from Wescott Road to Diffley Road. Cost estimate of the project is $750,100, with $522,161 coming from the trunk water - main fund and the remaining $227,939 to be assessed to parcels one -quarter mile on either side of the trunk watermain construc- tion, unless already assessed. APPROVED installation of streets and utilities within the Westbury Addition. APPROVED upgrading of streets at Coachman and Four Oaks roads. Estimated cost of the project is $275,827. APPROVED the items. DENIED Perry Kieffer's re- quest for a conditional use permit for commercial storage facilities in an agricultural zoning district at 3955 Dodd Rd. Keiffer, a collec- tor of old cars, wanted to store up to 40 vehicles outdoors. APPROVED city code update revisions. APPOINTED Roy W. Taylor Jr. an alternate member of the advisory planning commission. APPROVED Paul Holmes' re- quest for a preliminary plat on one acre for two single family lots north of Quarry Lane and Tower - view Road. APPROVED Lexington South Associates' request for a prelim - (See Eagan, p. 13A) Sperry to solve noise problem By JEFF BURRILL EAGAN -- Timberline area residents, Sperry Corporation representatives and the Eagan City Council had another go around at the May 1 council meet- ing. The topic of conversation, of course, dealt with noise being emitted from the Sperry semi- conductor plant — nights only — causing some Timberline resi- dents to lose sleep. In a previous effort to alleviate the problem, Sperry put an at- tenuator and divertors on the of- fending Eagan plant, which com- pany representatives maintain reduced noise by up to 75 percent. This is a claim Timberline people don't agree with. At the April 3 council meeting, sound expert David Kelso of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) reported on four separate studies conducted in the Timberline area. His findings in- dicated an average noise decibel level of 42, which is the equival- ent of a television set on at a nor- mal level in an otherwise silent living room. "Forty-two decibels is within the state guidelines," Kelso stated. "However, it is the low frequency that is causing the pro- blem." It was explained that low fre- quency is what causes walls to Eagan ... (continued from front page) blem. We have to get the problem solved one way or another." Michaud's proclamation did not appease the Timberline resi- dents, however. Those stepping to the podium criticized Sperry for dragging its feet on the issue, which was first brought to the ci- ty council's attention some 11 months ago. Councilman Tom Egan felt things weren't moving on schedule either. As some Timber- line residents requested, Egan made a motion instructing the ci- ty attorney's office to cite Sperry Corporation and Sperry officials with a violation of Eagan City Code Chapter 11, Subdivision 18. The charge would accuse Sperry of conducting light manufactur- ing and processing at its Sperry Park plant while producing more than negligible noise. The motion also cited a violation of the public nuisance ordinance in that Sperry maintains and permits a condition which unreasonably an- noys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable number of members of the public. "I believe Sperry will comply with the request to alleviate the noise problem," Egan explained. "But I also feel there is a need to give them the proper incentive to do so. That is why I am making this formal motion." Egan's motion was defeated 3-2, however, with Egan and Mayor Bea Blomquist voting in favor, while council members Jim Smith, Jerry Thomas and Ted Wachter voted against. Egan then moved that the noise issue be continued until the June 19 meeting, 11 days after Van- Doeren's testing is to be com- pleted. At the June 19 meeting, the council will analyze Van- Doeren's findings and recom- mendations, along with steps taken by Sperry to control the noise problem. This motion passed unanimous- ly. vibrate, which is said to be part of the problem causing Timberline residents to lose sleep. With this new knowledge con- cerning the effects of low fre- quency, the council requested Kelso conduct additional studies dealing with low frequency and report his findings at the May 1 meeting. "As it is, Sperry is within the state's guidelines for noise pollu- tion," Kelso said. "But how do you impact Sperry's effect on the neighborhood unless you shut the plant down and access it? Sperry may have reduced its noise by 75 percent, but the frequency level of the remaining 25 percent may be such that it causes disturbance to the ears." Ed Michaud of Sperry address- ed the council next and pledged that his company was attempting to overcome the noise problem and would continue to do so. "Sperry is committed, as in- dicated on our sound reduction schedule, to solve the problem," Michaud said. "Studies of the problem are being researched by sound expert Dr. Richard Van- Doeren. It is not our intent to ig- nore the (noise) problem just because we are within the state guidelines. We will take action on what Dr. VanDoeren recom- mends as a solution to this pro - (See Eagan, p.13A) p_Kcyr,4 Cov rJT v Sperry report proposes solution to noise problems By Sean T. Kelly Staff Writer The Sperry Corp. is expected to unveil a consultant's report and propose a solution to noise prob- lems at its Pilot Knob Road semi- conductor plant when the issue again comes before the Eagan City Council Tuesday. Ed Michaud, facilities director at Sperry, said a report from Rich- ard VanDoeren, a Twin Cities noise consultant, has been received, but he declined to say what the recom- mendations for a solution might be. "We're not at liberty to say right now," Michaud said. "That's under engineering review and there's still a lot of work going on." However, Michaud did say the firm fully intends to meet a com- mitment it made to residents of the nearby Timberline neighborhood in the vicinity of the plant that a workable solution would be found. "We went on public record as stating we'd address the problem. We have said we'd engineer a solu- tion that both Sperry and the neigh- borhood can live with," Michaud said. Residents of the Timberline neighborhood have complained that the plant, which makes chips and circuits used in computers, has been emitting excessive noise for a year, causing them constant discomfort and loss of sleep. Dave Kelso, a noise expert with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said the semiconductor plant uses a lot of air in the manu- facturing process, requiring use a half dozen large exhaust vents. "The neighbors are hearing the roar of those fans," Kelso said. The plant, while techically in compliance with state noise regu- lations, emits a penetrating low - frequency sound that is the source of the Timberline residents' com- plaints, he said. "It's hard to exactly describe it. It's a nuisance noise, like a drone, like the sound of an air -condition- er. There's a psyschological aspect to it, too. Because the neighbors can see the roof vents, they tend to be more aware of the noise." Sperry made an attempt to ad- just the equipment and abate the noise a few months ago, but the ef- fort failed, Kelso said. "All they wound up doing was changing the configuration, so the noise sounded different." It's not possible to eliminate the noise entirely, barring a shutdown of the plant, he said. Don Giblin, a resident of the Timberline area, said the noise problem is as bad as ever, even more noticeable now that there is a tendency to leave windows open during warm weather. "It's intolerable. It's very irritat- ing when you wake up at 2 to 3 in the morning because of it," he said. "It interferes with your sleep and with the use of your property." Sperry officials were slow to re- spond to the problem, but recently have shown an inclination to deal with it, Giblin said. "It's been going on just about a year now and at first they were dragging their feet, even denying there is a problem." However, residents met with Sperry representatives last Month and were assured that the noise matter was being studied and that a solution would be sought after the consultant had done his work, Giblin said. "They were very convincing and seemed very sincere. We were as- sured they would go to any lengths to correct it. We felt confident they would do the job," he said. Neighbors originally brought the issue to the Eagan City Council out of frustration. The council earlier rejected a move to cite Sperry for violating city noise and nusiance codes, preferring to wait until the consultant's report could produce recommendations for a solution. Eagan City Administrator Thomas Hedges said it now ap- pears that a solution can be worked out that is agreeable to both the neighbors and the firm. "They are talking and they seem to be moving in the same direc- tion," he said. 3,��rec/ ake Music in Sperry offers plan to alleviate noise problem By JEFF BURRILL It's been four months since Timberline residents first add- ressed the Eagan City Council about the noise being emitted from the Sperry semiconductor plant, located at 3333 Pilot Knob Rd. At ensuing council meetings, reports from sound experts were presented, allegations of apathy against Sperry representatives were lodged by members of the Timberline Civic Association, and promises were made by Sperry to alleviate the noise pro- blem. Early on, efforts were made by Sperry to lessen the noise, which numerous Timberline residents maintain often keeps them awake most of the night. These same residents complained that oerry's initial efforts were in- Iequate. At the May 1 city council meet- ing, action was taken by council members to readdress the noise problem at the June 19 meeting. Also at the May 1 meeting, Sperry representatives assured the council that Dr. Richard Van Doeren would continue working full-time for Sperry and would review and provide a detailed analysis of the noise problem at the plant. Since that meeting, correspondence flowed among ci- ty staff members, 'Timberline residents and Sperry representa- tives. A meeting was then held at the Sperry semiconductor operations building May 16, with Timberline residents invited to attend a presentation by Van Doeren. Also attending was Eagan City Ad- ministrator Tom Hedges, along with Dave Kelso, a representa- tive of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). (Kelso has been conducting noise surveys on behalf of the MPCA for Timberline residents.) Van Doeren's report and recommendations were present- ed at that May 16 meeting, while Sperry's plan of attack for deal- ing with the noise problem was detailed in a letter to Hedges. This letter was submitted to council members and Timberline residents, and made public at the June 19 council meeting. The letter detailed 10 individual sound sources at the Sperry plant which are believed to contribute to the overall sound level which disturbs Timberline residents. The number one concern is the scrubber stacks, followed by, in order of pertinence: (2) scrubber and basement exhaust fan stack vibration; (3) cooling towers; (4) boiler (the one on high fire); (5) purge vents 1-7 (located on the west side of the building); (6) basement exhaust fan stack (which has the attenuator Sperry previously installed); (7) purge vents 8-13 (located on east side); (8) boiler room exhaust fan; (9) east and west soffits; and (10) north scrubber room wall vibra- tion. Sperry representative Ed Michaud stated that while the scrubber stacks are the most im- portant problem, the process will progress reports to the council and to the Timberline Civic Association concerning progress being made in dealing with the noise problem. IN OTHER ACTION, THE COUNCIL: APPROVED street repairs and upgrading for Silver Bell Road. A total of $63,120 will be assessed to residents of Manitou Town- houses. Shannon Glen Condo- miniums and Briar Hill first, se- cond and fourth additions. APPROVED Woodridge Pro- perties' request for consideration of multi -family housing revenue bonds in the amount of $9.5 million. CONTINUED until July 2 Cin- namon Ridge Limited Partner- ship's request for consideration of multi -family housing revenue bonds in the amount of $12.5 million. APPROVED the preliminary plat for Pheasant Knoll Town - homes subject to the planning commission's recommendation. The developers, Dunn Real Estate Management, Inc., will also have to work with city staff and nearby property owners in deciding a second access for a road and deciding which trees in the area will be cut or moved. CONTINUED until July 2 Sien- na Corporation's request for a preliminary plat for Birch Park Addition. CONTINUED until July 2 Sien- na Corporation's request for a preliminary plat for Pilot Pointe. APPROVED Thomas Hafner's request for a variance from the five-foot sideyard setback re- quirement for a garage. APPROVED E-Z Mini Storage's request for a building permit to expand its operation. APPROVED detailed plans for the Lexington Avenue booster station and authorized advertise- ment for a bid opening to be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 13. APPROVED plans for re- construction of Silver Bell Road and authorized advertisement for the bid opening to be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 13. APPROVED Widmer Broth- ers' low bid of $93,635.50 for Con- tract 84-12 on the Rose Hill Addi- tion. not be a step-by-step procedure. "We are approaching the steps together," Michaud said. "None of what we do will be held until the lath hour." Michaud said that the time frame Sperry needs to work out the problems in the plant's 10 trouble sites will take until the end of October, a date which didn't sit well with Timberline residents or council members. "We hope Sperry will make every effort to speed the process up, as we still continue to have people losing sleep because of the noise," Timberline resident John Gustin replied. "I would also like to emphasize a speedy time frame," Mayor Bea Blomquist said. "October is a long way away." Councilman Ted Wachter supported Blom- quist's request. "As I mentioned, we are cer- tainly going to take every oppor- tunity to speed up the process," Michaud countered. Timberline resident Tom Nikolai then asked Michaud a list pv.7/9?\) I Nlsc.�EE /98.< of questions. "Considering the current sound levels which are bothering people, to what levels would Dr. Van Doeren like to reduce them?" Nikolai first asked. "One reason we are not releas- ing technical data from Dr. Van Doeren's findings is not to be devious," Michaud explained. "We're trying to be objective. Rather than giving decibel levels, we're just trying to achieve a level of noise that is not bother- some. If we start dealing in decibel numbers, that becomes the issue, not whether the noise level is acceptable." Among other questions, Nikolai asked Michaud if Sperry would consider compensating Timber- line residents monetarily for the imposition the noise level has caused. "I'm in no position to answer that," Michaud said. Michaud also stated that Sperry would submit monthly Council, see page 5A opinion Flag burni onanew I If I had been assign years ago, I would hal have looked liked this : College students wou waiting for something been a few speeches, p, two and most definit( chanted against the Vie would have been burnei the gathered crowd. Of course there woul, with slogans printed a( tattered jeans. The flag burning at th June 18 looked nothing T-shirts, no tattered je. with long hair. The group that Bath, was small, not numbe mnnri there was seri Sperry outlines noise -abatement project by Tim O'Donnell Sperry Corp. will install more barriers to quell the noise that is bothering residents near the company's Semiconductor Operations plant. But the neighbors want relief sooner than Sperry's planned installa- tion in October. Company officials Tuesday revealed their plans to the Eagan City Council and residents of the Timberline housing development, which borders Sperry on the north and west. Sperry will construct a sound barrier wall next to six air scrubber and basement ex- haust fan stacks to absorb sound and deflect it away from nearby residents. The com- pany also will reduce vibration from the stacks to the roof, which may be acting as a soun- ding board. A custom-built, noise -reduction device will be installed on the loudest scrub- ber stack. Richard Van Doeren, a con- sultant from Midwest Acoustics and Electronics Inc., found noise from the scrubber and basement exhaust fan stack vibration was about twice as loud as eight other plant noise sources combined. To reduce the other noises, Sperry will reduce air leakage from various vents and install sound - absorbing baffles. Ed Michaud, Sperry's direc- tor of facilities resources, said the noise is below the max- imum level allowed by the state Pollution Control Agency. But Sperry is trying to reduce the noise to an acceptable level, regardless of what the decibel level is. The Timberline residents want Sperry to release infor- mation on current noise levels and projected noise levels after abatement equipment is in- stalled. Michaud elects not to discuss decibel levels, preferr- ing to keep the issue subjective and reach a mutually accep- table noise level, rather than quantifying sound levels, he said. Michaud would not say how much the noise abatement will cost. The cost is an internal matter for Sperry, he said, and the public focus should be on the noise level. The noise abatement devices must be designed and contrac- tors selected before the three - to four -week construction begins in October. The time delay angers the Timberline residents. They had waited since last fall for the first round of sound -reduction equipment to be installed in March — equipment that they claim did not alleviate the problem. "I believe them when they say they'll get it fixed, ultimately," said Thomas Nikolai of 1504 Red Cedar Road. "The question is when and can they get it done faster." Mayor Bea Blomquist is urg- ing Sperry to speed up installa- tion of the sound -reduction devices. Michaud said the pro- ject would be expedited wherever possible. "I'm glad we're at this point and glad they're working with us," Blomquist said. "We'll have to play by trial and error and see what happens, the quicker, the better." Nikolai said more force is needed. "Perhaps the city should hang a sword over Sperry, or some sort of sanctions, to see that the problem is taken care of with dispatch," Nikolai said. The City Council May 1 discussed misdemeanor cita- tions or court orders to speed the noise -abatement process, but accepted Sperry's pledge to eradicate the problem. Blom- quist said experience has shown that solving such pro- blems in court can be a very slow process. Nikolai said the city seems content to give Sperry all the time it needs to solve the noise problem. But the city has a responsibility to the residents to enforce its zoning or- dinances, he said, which in Sperry's case is for light in- dustry that emits no more than negligible noise. The noise is much more than negligible, Nikolai said. In a June 5 letter to David Turcotte, Sperry's vice president of Semiconductor Operations, Nikolai wrote that, especially when there is a southerly breeze, "the roaring sound from Sperry's ventilating systems makes sleep difficult and sometimes impossible." Nikolai mentioned a neighbor who moved from his south -facing bedroom to one facing north because the noise is so loud at night and another who gave up using his patio and family room. "I continue to find the noise levels intolerable," he wrote. "I feel I have the right to be able to open my bedroom win- dows and let fresh air in on these warm evenings, yet I can- not do so and still manage to sleep." After registering his com- plaints, Nikolai said he ap- preciates Sperry is working on the problem and urges the com- pany to do so at "an ac- celerated pace." The Timberline residents have been plagued by the noise since the plant opened a year ago. "It's been very unsettling,. very disturbing, and a very frustrating year, when you know you've been put upon by a corporate neighbor and there is no relief on a prompt basis." Fg C.1-1-2601/4,J)c./_6- / ,FSl Equipment vandalized at Eagan Sperry plant At 7 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10, a male and female entered the Sperry plant at 3333 Pilot Knob Rd. and vandalized equipment, according to an Eagan Police Department representative. Eagan Police Captain Pat Geagan stated the pair allegedly' pounded on the equipment with a hammer and poured a substance resembling blood over it. "They were apprehended by the Sperry security staff and turn- ed over to us," Geagan said. "We're holding them for the FBI because it was government property which was vandalized. The FBI is also handling the investigation." In recent months, the Sperry plant has been the object of demonstrations staged by anti-nuclear protesters. • • E c 1,4 Po pu 1 C ���« � a0,15gq Sperry presents noise proposal By JEFF BURRILL EAGAN -- It's been four months since Timberline resi- dents first addressed the Eagan City Council about the noise being emitted from the Sperry semi- conductor plant, located at 3333 Pilot Knob Rd. At ensuing council meetings, reports from sound experts were presented, allegations of apathy against Sperry representatives were lodged by members of the Timberline Civic Association, and promises were made by Sperry to alleviate the noise pro- blem. Early on, efforts were made by Sperry to lessen the noise, which numerous Timberline residents maintain often keeps them awake most of the night. These same residents complained that Sperry's initial efforts were in- adequate. At the May 1 city council meet- ing, action was taken by council members to readdress the noise problem at the June 19 meeting. Also at the May 1 meeting, Sperry representatives assured the council that Dr. Richard Van Doeren would continue working full-time for Sperry and would review and provide a detailed analysis of the noise problem at the plant. Since that meeting, correspondence flowed among ci- ty staff members, Timberline residents and Sperry representa- tives. A meeting was then held at the Sperry semiconductor operations building May 16, with Timberline residents invited to attend a presentation by Van Doeren. Also attending was Eagan City Ad- ministrator Tom Hedges, along with Dave Kelso, a representa- tive of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) . ( Kelso has been conducting noise surveys on behalf of the MPCA for Timberline residents.) Van Doeren's report and recommendations were present- ed at that May 16 meeting, while Sperry's plan of attack for deal- ing with the noise problem was detailed in a letter to Hedges. This letter was submitted to council members and Timberline residents, and made public at the June 19 council meeting. The letter detailed 10 individual sound sources at the Sperry plant which are believed to contribute to the overall sound level which disturbs Timberline residents. The number one concern is the scrubber stacks, followed by, in order of pertinence: (2) scrubber and basement exhaust fan stack vibration; (3) cooling towers; (4) boiler (the one on high fire); (5) purge vents 1-7 (located on the west side of the building); (6) basement exhaust fan stack (which has the attenuator Sperry previously installed); (7) purge vents 8-13 (located on east side); (8) boiler room exhaust fan; (9) east and west soffits; and (10) north scrubber room wall vibra- tion. Sperry representative Ed Michaud stated that while the scrubber stacks are the most im- portant problem, the process will not be a step-by-step procedure. "We are approaching the steps together," Michaud said. "None of what we do will be held until the llth hour." Michaud said that the time frame Sperry needs to work out the problems in the plant's 10 trouble sites will take until the end of October, a date which didn't sit well with Timberline residents or council members. "We hope Sperry will make every effort to speed the process up, as we still continue to have people losing sleep because of the noise," Timberline resident John Gustin replied. "I would also like to emphasize a speedy time frame," Mayor Bea Blomquist said. "October is a long way away." Councilman Ted Wachter supported Blom- quist's request. "As I mentioned, we are cer- tainly going to take every oppor- tunity to speed up the process," Michaud countered. Timberline resident Tom Nikolai then asked Michaud a list of questions. "Considering the current sound levels which are bothering people, to what levels would Dr. Van Doeren like to reduce them?" Nikolai first asked. "One reason we are not releas- ing technical data from Dr. Van Doeren's findings- is not to be devious," Michaud explained. "We're trying to be objective. Rather than giving decibel levels, we're just trying to achieve a level of noise that is not bother- some. If we start dealing in decibel numbers, that becomes the issue, not whether the noise level is acceptable." Among other questions, Nikolai asked Michaud if Sperry would consider compensating Timber- line residents monetarily for the imposition the noise level has caused. "I'm in no position to answer that," Michaud said. Michaud also stated that 'N K 01- Pt Cio Sperry would submit monthlj progress reports to the counci and to the Timberline Civic Association concerning progress being made in dealing with the noise problem. IN OTHER ACTION, THE COUNCIL: APPROVED street repairs and upgrading for Silver Bell Road. A total of $63,120 will be assessed to residents of Manitou Town- houses, Shannon Glen Condo- miniums and Briar Hill first, se- cond and fourth additions. APPROVED Woodridge Pro- perties' request for consideration of multi -family housing revenue bonds in the amount of $9.5 million. CONTINUED until July 2 Cin- namon Ridge Limited Partner- ship's request for consideration of multi -family housing revenue bonds in the amount of $12.5 million. APPROVED the preliminary plat for Pheasant .Knoll Town - homes subject to the planning commission's recommendation. The developers, Dunn Real Estate Management, Inc., will also have to work with city staff and nearby property owners in deciding a second access for a road and deciding which trees in the area will be cut or moved. CONTINUED until July 2 Sien- na Corporation's request for a preliminary plat for Birch Park Addition. CONTINUED until July 2 Sien- na Corporation's request for a preliminary plat for Pilot Pointe. APPROVED Thomas Hafner's request for a variance from the five-foot sideyard setback re- quirement for a garage. Through the Ages! 1 SHADOWBOXES Sperry-UNIVAC in Roseville had an earlier sense of history in the 80s, thus began to illustrate computer technologies with a series of wall mounted shadow box displays. Harry Smuda [Management] and Dick Petschauer [Engineering] led the creation of these shadowboxes. The first has the 1953 1103 computer components, including a vacuum tube logic module. After the Burroughs buyout of Sperry in 1986; the resulting UNISYS Company kept the displays - adding new commercial computer systems were developed UNISYS management moved the shadowboxes from Roseville to Eagan this summer to preserve our history. Unisys Roseville was in operation 1964 to 2017. Unisys Eagan opened in 1987, consolidating several Sperry and Burroughs Twin Cities facilities in this facility on Pilot Knob Road. 1103 in 1953 to the IX5800 in 1996 http://vipclubmn.org/Articles/ATLASevolution.pdf The technologies within these shadowboxes are more than just pieces of hardware and informational text. The boxes represent the technologies of over 10,000 computer systems developed, manufactured, delivered, and installed since 1950. These shadowboxes also represent the 10s of thousands of current and former employees who innovated, designed, built, programmed, and supported these computer systems not only in Minnesota but throughout the world. For example, Roseville management and engineers led some 1100 series systems manufacturing in Rodelheim Germany. In addition to the 16 Systems' shadowboxes; the exhibit includes seven fiscal year shadowboxes illustrating the micro -technologies developed at the then Eagan located Semi -Conductor Facility and integrated into computer systems by Roseville engineering. to them as in the 90s. System type No. 1st unit last built gty1 1101 1950 1953 3 1102 1952 1955 3 1103 1953 1956 11 1104 1954 1959 10 1103A 1956 1959 19 1105 1957 1960 10 1107 1962 1965 38 1108 1965 1975 303 1106 1969 1976 338 1110 & 1100/40 1972 1979 455 1100/10/20/30 1975 1980 359 1100/80 1976 1985 1121 1100/60 1979 1988 2863 1100/70 1982 1987 77 1100/90 1983 1990 1318 1110 & 1100/40 1972 1979 455 1100/90Dyad 1987 1988 28 System 11 1984 1988 603 2200/200 1986 1990 966 1100/70 Dyad 1987 1988 28 2200/400* 1988 901 2200/600* 1988 438 2200/100* 1989 131 2 LAWSHE MEMORIAL MUSEUM In 2011 the Dakota County Historical Society board agreed to accept the Legacy Committee's artifacts and to establish a permanent exhibit. Lockheed Martin (LMCO) in Eagan had been providing the legacy committee working and artifact storage space. As LMCO closed their Eagan facility in 2012, artifacts, documents, and photos were transferred to the DCHS Lawshe Memorial Museum. Led by then DCHS Director, Chad Roberts, a State of Minnesota Legacy Grant and VIP Club volunteers cataloged the 1,000+ artifacts and began exhibit planning. A second MN Legacy Grant and Club volunteers then developed the 'educational posters' on display at this open house. This 2nd grant and equipment from LMCO also facilitated five workstations at the museum. Volunteers are using this area to catalogue and identify over 20,000 photos of the Legacy collection and to integrate the information into the museum's collection database. At the museum, exhibits are setup around the periphery of the great room. This early exhibit snapshot shows a space borne missile guidance computer and a desk set with components from the Athena computer that had over 300 successful missile launches from the Cape and Vandenberg AFB. Note that the 1100 series computers also played a prominent role at the Houston space center. Shuttle communications came via the UNIVAC type 1218 and UNIVAC type 418 computers, also developed in the St. Paul environs. 3 STORIES OF OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEGACY rum 1 H \ in I .o khvrd 11.uno. ,i1.1,1,.0:,.• ( .nnpw.r 11.11.11, rlaaD! ram. ,p. I. MI In 2006 the Legacy Committee began a 'Legacy Anthology' web page, inviting employees and retirees to submit their career summaries and product/project/program stories. To date over 300 people have contributed to our history, displayed for the world to read at http://vipclubmn.org/Legacy.html. These four books tell parts of our story; for example, ERA and Bill Norris are discussed in each book. SECRET IN BUILDING IHE II1/li SUB If AMEIICI•S AS11IE51 T1E I•IIU MINI CUES JIM DEBR WHEN COMPU'FEl S WENT 1Y) SEA The DigUizalian of the Untied States Naw Mid L Bests* #. t fl Build quantities extracted from papers donated to the VIP Club Legacy Committee. *Last build date after 1990. This paper created by Lowell A. Benson; UNIVAC 1960 => UNISYS 1994; BEE U of MN, 1966 - printing by UNISYS. Add Your Career Summery or Project/Product/Program Story? Send it to webmaster@vipclubmn.org VIP CLUB Established in 1980 An IT Legacy Paper 4 MORE THAN HARDWARE ARTIFACTS Foremost throughout this Legacy are the people; most now enjoying retirees' camaraderie; others still working at UNISYS, LMCO, and other high-tech companies in Minnesota and throughout the states; and so many who have passed away. 4.1 PEOPLE The founders of ERA were Howard Engstrom, Ralph Meader, William Norris, and John Parker. During WWII; Engstrom, Meader, and Norris were tied to a classified Navy unit called Communications Supplement Activity -Washington. Parker headed Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation that built WWII Army Air Corps gliders in a St. Paul, MN factory. 4.2 SPIN OFF ORGANIZATIONS Technology managers and engineers by nature look for new opportunities. This led to many companies created by people from 'UNIVAC'. This genealogical tree of Minnesota's computer companies begins with ERA in 1946! Most people don't realize that Control Data Corporation was the second Minnesota computer company led by Willian 'Bill' Norris. BTW, Seymour Cray began his computer career at ERA in 1951. 4.3 VIP CLUB LEGACY COMMITTEE The committee began at the October 2005 VIP Club board meeting. Richard 'Ole' Olson representing LMCO and Lowell representing the Club volunteered to be co-chairs. Dick Lundgren arranged a meeting with Dr. Norberg at the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI). Endowed by U of MN private donations, the CBI Director holds the 'ERA Land Grant Chair for the History of Technology.' Dr. Tom Misa, as CBI Director 2006/17, was our committee advisor for archiving and preservation. The Legacy Committee and project set three priority objectives: • to capture whatever remaining material and information we can, • to catalog and archive all the material collected, and • to publish/publicize our history and heritage in a way that could interest others within our industry and our fellow Minnesotans. In addition to the artifacts at the museum, the committee has contributed over 1,000 documents to the Charles Babbage Institute. August 2017 Community Electronics Dicomed United Software Analysts International Wiesmanlel 8 Associates Irony hemics Resca rr h Aries Corporation Mpls Scientific ( ontrols Data Management Elect ro-Med Whitehall Electronics Nut hear Data National (onnet tor General Magnetic s Data Displ.n Transistor Electronics Midwest Circ uils Datagraph Midwest Data Systems Data Central Astroc om Data Action Computer Systems CONTROL DATA UNIVAC SPERRY RAND GTON E RAv This 'Spinoff' genealogy chart scanned from a 1986 Sperry booklet commemorating ERA's 40th anniversary. Through the Ages! Open House and Legacy Exhibit September 13, 2017 — 1:30 to 3:30 PM • UMSYS 3199 Pilot Knob Road Eagan, MN 55121 1946 TO TODAY i LEGACY COMPANIES ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Remington Rand Remington Rand UNIVAC UNIVAC Sperry UNIVAC i J Sperry 1 s Burroughs Unisys Defense Systems Paramax Unisys Defense Systems Loral Lockheed Martin 2(717, UBensnn LoggLepry2 W 7.ipi Engineering Research Associates (ERA) delivered an ATLAS computer to Washington, D.C. in October 1950. "It's my belief that the ATLAS I was the first American stored -program electronic computer to be delivered - delivered in finished, working condition." observed Dr. Arnold Cohen. Titled ERA 1101 for commercial sales, existence of the ATLAS application was classified into the late 60s. This was the beginning of the 1100 family of commercial computers as well as a plethora of Defense Industry computer based systems. ATLAS 11 [also classified] was the technology base for the ERA 1103. An ERA/UNIVAC 1103A was the start of the University of Minnesota's Computer Science Department under Dr. Marvin Stein in 1958. Many of our computer systems have had 3 to 4 decades of high reliability operational use with seven' decades of software and hardware innovations and solutions to customers' problems. included peripherals and application software. Open House & Exhibit hosted by UNISYS and retiree volunteers. More than computers, systems i/'I P CLUB Established in 1980 This paper created by Lowell A. Benson; UNIVAC 1960 => UNISYS 1994; BEE U of MN, 1966 - printing by UNISYS. ©2017 by LABenson for the VIP Club file: ThroughTheAges.docx/.pdf August 28, 2017 VIP CLUB Established in 1980 An IT Legacy Paper Realization of a Dream October 21713 From ERA to Lockheed Martin: Minnesota's Computer Industry Introduction On 13 August 2013, 50+ VIP Club members and Dakota County Historical Society (DCHS) board members had a preview of a new exhibit at the DCHS Lawshe Museum in South St. Paul, MN. This August 14th exhibit opening is a major milestone in the Information Technology (IT) Legacy initiative of the Club and our sponsor companies. Harvey Taipale wrote': "In late 2005, Lockheed Martin Corporate, motivated by the realization that their current company was created from over 20 predecessors, asked the various operating units to "capture their legacy" without a real concept of what was to follow. In Eagan, Ole (Dick) Olson was tasked to respond; he formed an ad hoc group of volunteers and contacted the VIP Club Board. The group quickly realized that the history of Engineering Research Associates (ERA), continuing to the present, was a remarkable story of technological innovation and contribution to the computer industry in general and to Minnesota in particular. This story, particularly the early years, has never really been completely told; e.g. ATHENA launching missiles." At that October 2005 Club board meeting, Lowell Benson volunteered to co-chair an IT Legacy Committee with Ole; Dick Lundgren said that he'd help. The IT Legacy Committee defined three objectives: 1. Capture whatever remaining material and information we can, 2. Catalog and archive all the material collected, and 3. Publish/publicize our history and heritage in a way that interests others within our industry and our fellow Minnesotans. Ole began soliciting career summaries and artifacts; Dick contacted the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) at the U of MN for 'catalogue & archiving' advice; and Lowell began web site publicizing. During the ensuing eight years over 300 'volunteers' have contributed their time, documents, articles, and artifacts. Ole retired in 2007 and John Westergren stepped in as committee co-chair. When Lockheed Martin announced the closing of their Eagan facility in 2010 - Bernie Jansen2, on behalf of the committee, asked the DCHS to become the permanent repository of our Legacy artifacts plus to do an exhibit of our IT Legacy. Chad Roberts, then the DCHS Executive Director, toured the LMCO plant with John; understood the significance of this part of Minnesota's history; then set up the DCHS exhibit vision as an educational, historical presentation. Thanks to him and to all of our volunteers who keep supporting our objectives and 'dream' of telling the story. 2 Bernard Jansen is a DCHS Board Trustee, VIP Club Member Emeritus, and an IT Legacy Committee member. ' http://vipclubmn.org/Articles/LegacyArticleRev4.pdf, published on the web 11/07. ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 1 VIP CLUB Established in 1980 An IT Legacy Paper Lawshe Museum Exhibit The snapshot3 below shows the main Lawshe Museum display hall. The floor of this space is painted with a topographic layout of Dakota County, showing roads, lakes, and rivers. The preview of the exhibit was at a wine and cheese social hosted by the museum. The exhibits themselves are distributed around the room's periphery — they consist of explanatory posters, various configurations of the Q-70 displays, and several smaller artifacts in display cases. October 2013 Our Club's October newsletter included people snapshots. A few people to note in this photo: • In the bottom center is 2013 Club President, Bob 'RC' Hanson talking with Dick Lundgren. • Standing at the left center looking right are Club Treasurer Harvey Taipale, Club Director John Westergren, and Ghis Devlaminck. Harvey has been leading the photo identification initiatives of the Legacy committee. John, retired from LMCO December 2012, coordinated the artifact and document shipments from LMCO to the museum. • At the right bottom is Millie Gignac; the VIP Club founder, a DCHS board member, a Club Member Emeritus, the first female director at Sperry, and a very active nonagenarian. 3 Bernie Jansen and Keith Myhre took the photos used in this paper. ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 2 VIP CLUB Established in 1980 An IT Legacy Paper October 2013 LOCKHEED MARTI From ERA to Lockheed Martin: Minnesota's Computer industry attic history nrrompulers is focused on the ctaut ibuttons fruit' Silicon Valley in ('alitornia, but 14uroioI i also played an integral role in the et"mpmer industry: so much so that it could he cimsuiered SW 'Won Valley" of the 19Jts, ,Soh. and bOs Minnesota', legacy in the computer industry began with I nenroentg Research .Associates lac 11 Ra I which was d d in 1,46.'111e legacy comtinucd ixi1h 1'R,Vs ,ucreswr comtlanies, which include. Remington Kind, I;+uvac, SSncry. tinisyv. and IAs:khced Mai on,+tce t the years. the corporate Millar ul the comp.uty and the name or its Twin Citics hlanclu changed mum time',, hut in, ingenuity endured. 'these companies had a vital presence in the computer anal defense industries it 20i0, Lockheed Martin announced that it would cease almost all Minnesota Operations by the end of 2012, including its Facility in Fagan in Dakota (Aunty. This milled the end or an era for S9inu e, dews mom Alton in the computer industry. !t ith Ille c'lomitt' iacttty. a tarp: collection of artllacls - reprlienitng the trrinpatay .S legacy y was doucued to the I'taknra Cotmly Flistadcul SOCICI'. The collection contains objects from the 1444Is tip to the picsent day raw,, m all time periods in Lockheed Vlanin's history l"here are archival records lisr once sc. vet pi tasty .is al comput^r ccork,tauons. pictures olcarp• computer production, a lapaneve u-plane k:nmpmro.md mom mhrr artil.tas \tau call sec ++mr or these artifacts displayed in the great hall and learnt about the history of then coirtrniiiit: a1 die acconapamnig reading rails, e are boomed to he able to help preserve this legacy or intim aeon through the presets ation of these .iniraels and the pr .entauon nl' this exhibit. ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 3 VIP CLUB l stablished in 1980 An IT Legacy Paper October 2013 In this case on the left is a type 1824 computer model designed for missile applications. In the center is a desk set given to Don Weidenbach when he retired after 30 years in 1976. This desk set has a vacuum tube from the file computer and a transistor module from the Athena computer. This photo at the right shows three variations of the AN/USQ-70 embedded micro- processor displays. The Q-70 is the 5th generation Naval Tactical Data Systems (NTDS) standard computer. At the far right of this picture is a CP-2044 computer, a part of our UNIVAC/Sperry/UNISYS/LMCO P3C 50+ year history (more about this history with the ASW display snapshot on page 6.) ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 4 VIP CL LIB Established in 1980 An IT Legacy Paper October 2013 The Q-70 embedded computer units shown below began with a proposal in the fall of 1993. I, Lowell Benson, wrote the embedded processor section of that proposal before leaving UNISYS in 2/94. The first NTDS digital computer was the AN/USQ-17 delivered in 1958; six were built (three in a horizontal configuration and three in a vertical configuration.) In 1960 the first of the 17 'service test' AN/USQ-20/CP642 computers was delivered. In the fall of 1961, the first of 142 CP642A computers was delivered. In February 1963 the first of the 241 AN/USQ-20B/ CP642B computers was delivered. On April 21, 1969 we delivered the first of over 3,000 AN/UYK-7 processor units. On May 27th, 1983 we were awarded the AN/UYK-43 production contract. In March of 2011, the Navy and Lockheed Martin had publicized the delivery of the NTDS AN/UYQ 70 S/N 8,000 to go aboard the submarine SSN783. (Two photos from an LMCO press release.) In September of 2013, 55 years after the first NTDS unit, the Navy announced the launch of the USS Minnesota, the 3rd ship to bear our state's name. There have been thousands of engineers, programmers, assemblers, technicians, instructors, et al' who have been part of this NTDS history. ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 5 VIP CLUB Established in 1980 This display stand (right) has Memory Disk artifacts from the early 60's and a poster describing the adjacent Q-70 two screen workstation. An IT Legacy Paper October 2013 At the left is the CP-2044 computer donated from the Clearwater, FL factory. This unit represents our extended history of airborne computers going back to 1963. This unit was designed in the early 90's with embedded microprocessors to replace the CP-901 computers aboard the Lockheed P3C. The Club's portable display below provided details of that history'', shown previously at the Club's annual picnic. 4 http://vipclubmn.org/Articles/OceanSurveillance.pdf published on the web 8/2013. ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 6 Established in 1900 An[TLegacy Paper Octnber2D13 |tiomost appropriate to recognize the founders of ERA, including Bill Norris who also founded CDC. �4 � � ERA held the patents on Magnetic Drum memory, the grandfather of today's PC hard drives. ^= == .."IOU ~—'-- � �3: `"^~"°.^°^.^.x...`"^../~.".~.` 1., 0 —'^*~° (�2013, VIP Club by LABenson VIP CLUB Established in 1980 This display podium shows another Navy computer along with some identifying text. The text correctly describes that this 16-bit computer was a replacement for the earlier AN/UYK- 20 computer. As we continue to develop the museum exhibit, we do need volunteers develop story boards for the other equipments yet in the museum basement storage area. Just below is a 'lab coat' donated by one of the UNIVAC quality control inspectors! Over the decades we had thousands of assembly line workers in St. Paul before transitioning most manufacturing operations out of state. An IT Legacy Paper October 2013 One of the fun parts of the IT Legacy committee has been the reminiscing about various projects as retirees have donated their project souvenirs, note in the display case at the left is an 'Iranian Operations' ash tray. Before the downfall of the Shah, we were working on a Navy System for their four destroyers. That was just one of dozens of projects we did for international defense departments. ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 8 2013 L t[lrmon VIP CLUB Established in 1980 The Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center (ABCCC) display is a donated model and associated photos. This C130E model is a nice representation of an airborne system, initially deployed during the Desert Storm battles in the 90's. There is more about ABCCC at http://vipclubmn.org/sysairb orne.html#ABCCC. An IT Legacy Paper October 2013 Epilogue The Lawshe Museum isn't the only site of our IT Legacy information. Several palettes of document boxes were shipped to the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. Detailed cataloguing of those is underway. The Minnesota History Center in St. Paul has the original ERA prototype drum and we have some documents in the MN sesquicentennial time -capsule to be opened in 2057 for the 2058 bi-centennial. IT Legacy 1946-------> Today! Englmtring Research Asial Remington Rand UNIVAC Sperry Burroughs Unisys Paramax Loral Lockheed Martini VIP CLUB Since 1980 The exhibit at Lawshe Museum is focused on the defense industry aspects of our IT Legacy. There are many commercial computer aspects of the ERA to UNIVAC to Sperry to UNISYS history in Minnesota which are only partially merged with our web site anthologies. There are over a dozen shadow boxes showing the 1100 series technologies from the 1950s to the 90's in a hallway in the UNISYS, Roseville plant. We still have quite a bit of work to do - thousands of photos to be catalogued and identified; equipment stories to written; project relationships to write; and programs to be written for some of the Q-70 display units so that we can have dynamic education and interaction with visitors. Personally, I'm looking forward to getting the Desert Hawk artifact displayed. Yes, the rugged design of the electronics and operational software for that drone was done in the Eagan plant. Cheers, LABenson! ©2013, VIP Club by LABenson Page 9 Fot-D5 F...i•I bS