We have a successful system here of soliciting private donations and sponsorships for city sponsored programs and facilities. In fact, in 2008, the City of Eden Prairie was the recipient of over $570,000 in cash gifts and sponsorships in the Parks & Recreation sector of our operations alone. I won’t go into a long list [...]
Category Archives: Community
How Many Times Do We Have To Tell You?
February 17, 2010 – 3:26 pm
The City and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) live by an agreement called The Final Agreement that regulates the operations of Flying Cloud Airport. One of the more important provisions of the Final Agreement for the residents of my fair city is the provision that sets out the voluntary noise mitigation program. The program is [...]
Who Taxes You?
February 11, 2010 – 11:36 am
The State Legislature is back in session in St. Paul so that means the talk of taxes is in the air. The State collects too much or not enough, depending on your point of view. Income taxes. Property taxes. Personal property taxes. Corporate taxes. Excise taxes. Gas taxes. The list goes on and on.
The tax [...]
Recognizing Successful Progress
February 9, 2010 – 2:10 pm
It’s not uncommon for us to hear some form of the following “observation/allegation” each year when property owners receive their annual property tax statements:
“I know a guy who knows a guy who has a house in Woodbury (or Burnsville or Bloomington or Shoreview, etc.) with the exact same valuation as my house here in Eden [...]
You Just Never Know
February 5, 2010 – 12:46 pm
There is a story in today’s Star Tribune – click here for the story – about an arrest of a property owner who leveled a shot gun at a forestry contractor who was inspecting a diseased tree in her backyard. The Strib story is mostly correct, except that the contractor wasn’t there to remove the tree. [...]
Eden Prairie Reads
January 22, 2010 – 3:38 pm
The City of Eden Prairie is a proud sponsor for the Eden Prairie Reads organization/event. We’ve been a sponsor as far back as I can remember. Former Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens was an early and strong supporter of Eden Prairie Reads. You can click on the link to read more about what’s happening with this year’s [...]
Valor in the Council Chambers
January 20, 2010 – 1:51 pm
The City Council met last night. They had a number of important items on their agenda. Some were easy. Some were not. Some were unanimous. Some were not.
But the item on last night’s agenda that I am pretty sure the Council enjoyed the most was the Award of Valor presentations to the residents who put [...]
Friday Report for January 15, 2010
January 15, 2010 – 9:25 am
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 [...]
Sooner Than We Think?
January 14, 2010 – 9:11 am
Who would have thought that when former Gov. Jesse Ventura began his term as our Governor on January 8, 1999, that we would be riding a new light rail train connecting downtown Minneapolis to the Mall of America just five years later?
OK, five and half years later. The Hiawatha line opened for business on June [...]
Pickleball
January 8, 2010 – 8:00 am
Do you know what Pickleball is? If you wanted to know what Pickleball was, what would you do? Google it, right? That’s what I did. I found a link to the USA Pickleball Association’s website: USA Pickleball. Yes, the USAPA.
If you want to see an interesting report about Pickleball, check out this link to the [...]
Off and Running in a New Year
January 6, 2010 – 3:54 pm
The City Council held its annual organizational meeting last night. The annual organizational meeting is typically a quick one, and last night’s meeting was no exception – 35 minutes. The Council uses its organizational meeting to make a number of decisions that are somewhat, but completely, perfunctory. For example, the Council adopts a policy that [...]
Economic Review and Preview
January 5, 2010 – 2:06 pm
I am a member of the Eden Prairie A.M. Rotary Club. Each week we gather together on Tuesday mornings for breakfast and a program. This morning’s program was an economist from a Twin Cities investment adviser who gave us his view of what’s in store for the economy in 2010. Next week, we will hear [...]
Un-Unallotment
January 4, 2010 – 11:15 am
Ramsey County District Court Judge Kathleen Gearin gave Governor Tim Pawlenty an unexpected and unappreciated surprise last week when she declared that his decision to unallot budgeted funds from a particular state government food program was unconstitutional. You can read more about the decision in this link from the Star Tribune: Judge Rules Against Pawlenty [...]
Water, water everywhere? No. It’s not.
December 14, 2009 – 3:56 pm
There is an interesting op ed article (at least I think it’s op ed) in today’s Star Tribune business section about water. Read it at this link: Water, water everywhere? Not anymore. The title of the article is a paraphrasing of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The relevant lines [...]
Friday Report for December 11, 2009
December 11, 2009 – 1:01 pm
For today’s post, here’s my December 11, 2009 Friday Report to the City Council.
Enjoy!
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OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER½Friday Report
DATE: December 11, 2009
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Scott H. Neal, City Manager
RE: Friday Report for December 11, 2009
1. Brief Special Council Meeting – We have a number of liquor license renewals that have come in since [...]
