City Council Member Brad Aho, Fire Chief George Esbensen and I are heading off to Washington DC this weekend for the 2008 National League of Cities Congressional Cities Conference. The conference is important, but we have also scheduled meetings with a number of Minnesota’s federal elected officials to discuss policy issues that are of particular importance to Eden Prairie. On Monday and Tuesday we will be meeting with representatives from the following offices: Senator Klobuchar, Senator Coleman, Representative Oberstar, Representative Kline, Representative Ellison and Representative Ramstad to discuss the following issues:
1. Clean up of the environment contamination at the WAFTA site.
2. Gaining better access to the Minnesota River Valley from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
3. Full funding of the Community Development Block Grant program.
4. Increased transportation funding for roads and LRT.
5. Cooperation and financial support of our local homeland security efforts.
I’m bringing my computer and camera along, so I’ll update my blog from there are share our progress from day to day.
