An organization called Careers in Criminal Justice has a website and that website has a blog called Justice City, USA which has named the Eden Prairie’s Police Department Blog one of America’s Top 50 Criminal Justice and Criminology Blogs! It’s a very nice recognition of the effort our Police Department makes to communicate with our [...]
Category Archives: Employees
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 [...]
Police and Fire Fighter Training
December 21, 2009 – 1:11 pm
I had the opportunity last week to attend the debriefing session of a recent police training session at the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility. The South Metro Public Safety Training Facility is a facility in Edina that is owned and operated jointly by the cities of Eden Prairie, Edina and Bloomington and the Metropolitan [...]
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 [...]
2010 City Budget
December 2, 2009 – 11:30 am
The City Council approved a new budget for 2010 at their meeting last night. This is the message that I shared with City employees this morning about the new budget:
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The City Council approved a new budget for 2010 at its meeting last night. The new 2010 budget holds the City’s 2010 spending and taxing flat [...]
Preparing for the Pandemic
November 5, 2009 – 7:58 am
What would city government in Eden Prairie be like if 1/3 of our staff were sick with the flu, another 1/3 were home taking care of a family member sick with the flu, and another 1/3 were well and able to work? What would we do? What services would we continue to provide at their [...]
Mall’s Tax Appeal Backfires
October 29, 2009 – 8:12 am
There was an important story in yesterday’s Star Tribune written by Susan Feyder titled “Malls tax appeal backfires.” If you’ve got a couple of minutes, read it. It tells a rare story. The first line of Ms. Feyder’s story really says it all: “Maybe it would have been better to just leave well enough alone.” [...]
Not Ordinary Elm Trees
August 27, 2009 – 2:16 pm
These are not ordinary elm trees growing at the University of Minnesota horticulture and agricultural station over on the St. Paul campus. These elm trees are being grown as part of a program sponsored by The U and the Minneapolis Parks Board to develop a Dutch Elm Disease Resistant variety of elm tree. This would [...]
Personnel Management
August 26, 2009 – 10:06 am
It’s difficult not to look at what’s happening in Waconia right now and shake your head:
Minneapolis Star Tribune: “Bar is raised for Waconia to fire public utilities chief”
The question is: What would you be shaking your head about?
Would it be that the City hired and employed for 25+ years a convicted sex offender? Or, would [...]
Social Distancing Strategies
August 20, 2009 – 10:31 am
“Social Distancing Strategies”. What does that mean? It sure doesn’t sound very friendly, that’s for sure.
I came upon the phrase in the first draft of the City’s Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). We’re working on the COOP in preparation for the potential uptick in the upcoming flu season. Social distancing strategies refers, I think, to [...]
Friday Report on Monday
August 17, 2009 – 12:16 pm
I know it’s Monday, but here’s my Friday Report from last Friday. Enjoy!
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Friday Report: August 14, 2009
1. Cummins-Grill Crash Site Update – The NTSB has completed the removal of the plane wreckage from the Cummins-Grill property. The area will now be considered a hazardous materials site until the aviation fuel spilled in the crash is [...]
Tragic Plane Crash
August 13, 2009 – 12:01 pm
There was a tragic plane crash in Eden Prairie yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the two people in the airplane who died in the crash. The plane crashed just a few feet from the Cummins-Grill House in Staring Lake Park, which is right across the street from Flying Cloud Airport. [...]
Jobs Well Done
August 12, 2009 – 7:24 am
I’ve written many times before about the feedback that I receive from residents about City staff performance. I like to share this feedback because I want the world to know that we’ve got a lot of good people that work here. I also want the world to know that it’s OK to let us know [...]
2010-2011 Budget Season Is On
July 29, 2009 – 1:37 pm
Finance Manager Sue Kotchevar and I presented the 1st draft of the City’s proposed 2010-2011 budget to the Budget Advisory Commission last night. The budget making process is highly truncated this year because of our goal to flatten our spending and taxing practices in the next two year budget. That policy choice means that our [...]
Minnesota Elections Are Pretty Good
July 27, 2009 – 1:20 pm
Not to brag or anything, but elections in Minnesota run pretty well. I heard from our City Clerk today that a post-election analysis of the ballots of the 2008 General Election showed the accuracy of the ballot count of the statewide races was 99.9%. For absentee ballots, the count was 99.5% accurate. I thought this [...]
