We kicked off our annual City employee Charitable Giving Campaign 2006 last week. The photo to the left is one of the promo photos for this year’s campaign. One of the incentives (if you want to call it that) for this year’s campaign is the chance to win (if you want to call it that) a Belgian waffle breakfast cooked for your work team by me and the Department Director staff.
For the next two weeks, our Human Resources staff will be collecting pledges and donations to benefit PROP, Greater Twin Cities United Way and Community Health Charities of Minnesota. Last year, City of Eden Prairie employees raised more than $10,600 during our charitable giving campaign and this year our goal is to increase participation and try to increase that number. We encourage all City employees to participate and urge them to remember that a contribution of any amount makes a difference!
For the waffle breakfast competition, we divided our City staff into 13 teams:
Team 1: Parks Maintenance/Forestry
Team 2: Recreation/Parks and Recreation Administration
Team 3: Community Development
Team 4: Engineering
Team 5: Streets/Fleets
Team 6: Utilities
Team 7: Fire/Building Inspections
Team 8: Finance/Liquor Operations/Communications
Team 9: IT/Facilities/Support Services/HR/OCM Administration
Team 10: Patrol: Munro/Wyffles/Good
Team 11: Patrol: Wood/Staaf/Vosbeek
Team 12: Investigative Operations/Office of the Police Chief
Team 13: Police Support Operations
The team with the highest percentage of pledges will win the breakfast! I’m not sure who to root for in this competition. I am hoping the most tolerant team with the least amount of collective taste buds pulls it out in the end. Our charities will be the real winners. I’m really rooting for them.
