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	<title>Scott Neal, Eden Prairie City Manager</title>
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day everybody! It&#8217;s going to be a beautiful day for a parade in St. Paul today. 60 F and sunny in March in Minnesota. What could be better?
For those of you new to St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, you can click on this link for more information about this special day for those of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2395/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Filling up fast&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening with our summer Parks &#38; Rec programs.  Online registration opened up last night at 12:01 am.  Between the hours of 12:01 am and 5:00 am our online system signed up over 500 registrations for summer programs.  These are registrants who, five or seven years ago, would have been lined up at City [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2385/</link>
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		<title>Paycheck Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting story coming out of the University of Minnesota today:
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Calendar quirk will cost U of M $41M in payroll
by Tim Post, Minnesota Public Radio
March 11, 2010
St. Paul, Minn. &#8211; Because of a once in a decade quirk in the calendar, employees at the University of Minnesota will receive an extra pay check in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2384/</link>
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		<title>Liquor Store Sales Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the results are in&#8230;for 2008. The results I&#8217;m referring to are results listed in the State Auditor&#8217;s annual Analysis of Municipal Liquor Store Operations for 2008. Yes, 2008. The results are a little stale, but that&#8217;s the best they can do, I guess. Anyway, here are some of the notable findings about our operations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2382/</link>
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		<title>A Lost Decade?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s Peter Harkness. He founded a magazine in 1987 called Governing. I got my first job as a city manager in 1988. Mr. Harkness is still doing his thing at Governing. I&#8217;m still doing my thing as a city manager, except I&#8217;ve moved three times since then. He hasn&#8217;t.
Governing is a good source of balanced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2377/</link>
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		<title>Liberalized Fishing Rules in Eden Prairie?</title>
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has opened four lakes in Eden Prairie to what they call &#8220;Liberalized Fishing.&#8221; The lakes in Eden Prairie that are included in the DNR&#8217;s announcement are Staring, Duck, Rice Marsh and Smetana.
Liberalized fishing is allowed when a fish population is endangered due to the lack of oxygen available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2371/</link>
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		<title>The Forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State Economist Tom Stinson and the Commissioner of MN Management &#38; Budget Tom Hanson held a press conference today to tell us that the State&#8217;s budget outlook improved slightly since their last forecast in November. In what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;February forecast,&#8221; the state is projected to have a $994 million deficit for the current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2366/</link>
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		<title>Sponsorships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a successful system here of soliciting private donations and sponsorships for city sponsored programs and facilities. In fact, in 2008, the City of Eden Prairie was the recipient of over $570,000 in cash gifts and sponsorships in the Parks &#38; Recreation sector of our operations alone. I won&#8217;t go into a long list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2365/</link>
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		<title>Unfortunate News for the 494-169 Interchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got some unfortunate news yesterday from the Minnesota Department of Transportation regarding the future upgrade to the 494-169 interchange:
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 11:25am CST &#124; Modified: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:07pm 
St. Paul Union Depot lands $35M in stimulus funds
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal &#8211; by Alex Ebert Staff writer
St. Paul Union Depot will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/2361/</link>
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		<title>How Many Times Do We Have To Tell You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) live by an agreement called The Final Agreement that regulates the operations of Flying Cloud Airport. One of the more important provisions of the Final Agreement for the residents of my fair city is the provision that sets out the voluntary noise mitigation program. The program is [...]]]></description>
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