OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER Friday Report
DATE: January 15, 2010
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Scott H. Neal, City Manager
RE: Friday Report for January 15, 2010
1. MLC Regional Breakfast Meeting – The annual Municipal Legislative Commission breakfast meeting for west metro cities will be held on Friday, January 22 7:30 – 9 am. If you wish to RSVP for this event, please contact Lorene.
2. State of the City 2010 – Mayor Young delivered the debut of the 2010 State of the City address at the Chamber of Commerce’s January luncheon meeting this week. The presentation was videotaped. We will do some editing and then get it into frequent rotation on EPTV-16 next week.
3. Advisory Commissioner Recruitment and Selection – We are in the midst of receiving applications for our advisory commissioner selection process. The key dates for Council Members to keep in mind are: Application Period Jan 11-Feb 12; Interview Night Feb 23; Appointment Night Mar 9; and Orientation Mar 25.
4. Prairie View Liquor Store Opening – The new Prairie View Liquor Store will open for business on Monday, January 18 at 9am. The staff will be complete the transfer of inventory from the current store to the new store by Sunday. The Grand Opening for the store is scheduled for 4pm on Thursday, February 11.
5. Development Revenue Data – We are seeing the start of a potential turnaround in development revenue for 2010. In 2009, the City received $12,457 in development revenue in the period Jan 1-Jan 13. For the same period in 2010, we received $20,518.
6. Art Center Cost Recovery – We are pulling together our unaudited financials from 2009. For the Art Center, our cost recovery expectation (CRE) was 30.0% for 2009. It looks like its actual cost recovery for 2009 is going to be right around 61%.
7. Employee News – Fire Chief George Esbensen was appointed by Governor Pawlenty to serve on the Governor’s Fire & Rescue Shared Services Task Force. The task force will hold its first meeting on January 27.
8. JAZB Meeting – The next Joint Airport Zoning Board meeting will be at 4pm on Thursday, January 28. Staff plan to meet with the City’s representatives to the board (Council Members Aho and Duckstad) next week to discuss the City’s position on several issues that will be discussed at the meeting.
9. Cummins Grill House Agreement – Staff are working with representatives from the Eden Prairie Historical Society on an agreement that would transfer working control and management of the Cummins Grill House to the EPHS. I have tentatively scheduled this agreement to be reviewed and potentially approved by the Council at your February 16 Council meeting.
10. Police Blog is Recognized – An organization called Careers in Criminal Justice has recognized our Police Department’s blog as one of the Top 50 Criminal Justice & Criminology Blogs in America.
11. Conservation Commission – Commissioner Dan Trebil has resigned from the Commission. We can fill this extra vacancy during the upcoming selection process.
12. Goose Management – The final Goose Management report for 2009 is out. Our program collected 205 geese in 2009 – down from 392 in 2008 and down from a high in 2005 of 792. The cost of the 2009 goose management program was $13,764.
13. MLK Holiday – City Center offices are closed on Monday, January 18 in observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday.
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