http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal Scott Neal, Eden Prairie City Manager Thu, 15 May 2008 21:46:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The is the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial in St. Paul. The memorial is dedicated to the lives of the men and women who have dedicated their lives to keeping the peace and enforcing the laws in our communities. I am including this photo in my blog today because it is May ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1520/ It's not hard to see references to Eden Prairie businesses and residents in the Business section of the Star Tribune. I see it almost everyday. This past Monday there wasa very nice story about Eden Prairie resident and business owner Kelli Hueler (that's her photo) and her company Hueler Associates. ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1517/ I attended the Eden Prairie A.M. Rotary Club's annual Strive Banquet today at the Community Center. The banquet is the Rotary Club's chance to recognize the participants of the Strive program which is a mentoring program sponsored by the Rotary Club at Eden Prairie High School. The banquet give a ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1514/ I attended the funeral today of Officer Jeff Berg at St. John's Lutheran Church in Chaska. Jeff passed on last Tuesday after a long struggle against cancer. There were many family members today at the service, including almost every officer, records clerk and 911 dispatcher in our Police Department. ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1505/ May is Senior Awareness Month in Eden Prairie, as so declared by the Eden Prairie City Council. The Council has recognized Senior Awareness Month every year since 1993. It's a good idea for every city to take stock of the importance of their senior population, at least for one ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1502/ I had my annual performance review with the City Council last night. The Council hires an outside consultant to facilitate the review. The consultant seeks employee input, blends that with Council input, and then adds my self-assessment input. The consultant presents the full report to the Council in a ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1495/ That's Kristi Luger. Kristi is the new City Manager for the City of Excelsior. She started there on Monday, April 21. I went up to Excelsior today to take her out for lunch to welcome her to the Twin Cities. Actually, it's really more like welcoming her back to ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1492/ I had the opportunity this past Friday to spend a couple of hours fighting crime with Officer Chris Fietek. To be honest, she fought crime. I observed her. During our two hours together, we responded to a medical call of a resident who thought he was having a heart ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1487/ The State Auditor conducts an annual review of the profitability of municipal liquor stores each year. They do this as part of their "watch-dog" role over local governments. They want citizens to know if their local municipal liquor stores are losing money or are creating a drain on local ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1484/ I drove by the Windsor Plaza development today. If you have had the chance to drive by this site during the past few weeks, you've seen four plain looking concrete towers. Those are the elevator towers and stairwells for the new development. They've been sticking out of the ground ... http://edenprairieweblogs.org/scottneal/post/1483/