Gee, it was a busy week this week. It’s been a long time since I have gone a week without blogging. Among the things that I was involved in this past week were the following:
- Prepping for an important meeting between the City’s Heritage Preservation Commission and the Eden Prairie Historical Society. (The meeting is on Monday, April 19th.)
- Prepping to present the City Council with my recommendation on the program implementation for the City’s Clean Air Task Force. I am scheduled to present the proposal to the Council on April 27th.
- I had several atypical employee matters this week. Fortunately, Karen Kurt (our HR Manager) resolved them all, but not without my counsel and contribution.
- I performed the annual performance evaluation for the Chief of Police Dan Carlson. It was very good. He is doing an outstanding job as our Chief.
- I met with Mike Barone, the Assistant to the City Manager, to review two studies that he is very close to completing. One is an evaluation of the performance of our criminal prosecution attorney. The other is a salary study of elected officials in comparable cities.
The biggest thing for me this wee, however, was that the City Council performed my annual performance review. It was a 360 degree review. Input was gathered on my performance from the Council, my peers in local organizations, my direct reports, and a large group of employees (33 of them, I think). The performance review was coordinated by Mr. Harry Brull of PDI.
Humility is important to me. The review, however, was very good. The Council likes my work. My employees like my work. That is important to me. I like working in Eden Prairie. So, it looks like I’m set for another year here.
Good.
