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. [...]
Category Archives: Environment
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Gift or a Burden?
December 10, 2009 – 11:15 am
There are times when it is difficult for those of us in city government to figure out what’s what. The City is currently interacting with a local property owner who wants to give her home and property to a local watershed management organization. Good thing? Bad thing? Gift or burden? It’s hard to say. There [...]
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 [...]
Best Hikes in the Twin Cities
September 22, 2009 – 4:40 pm
I happened upon a very nice story on the radio this afternoon. The story was Minnesota Public Radio’s Tom Crann hiking the Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area in Eden Prairie with local writer Kate Havelin. The pair posted photos of their hike at the Minnesota Public Radio website: MPRnewsQ.
The Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area is [...]
The Rest of the Story
September 11, 2009 – 12:45 pm
There was a good story in yesterday’s Star Tribune about an erosion problem along the north bank of the Minnesota River along our City’s southern border. Here’s a link to the story: “Help enlisted to diagnose erosion along riverbank.”
It’s a good title. The City and the Lower Minnesota River Watershed District have joined together to [...]
The Flying Cloud Drive Trail
September 8, 2009 – 11:54 am
Back in 2005 Eden Prairie voters authorized the City to issue $2,000,000 in new general obligation bonds in order to finance the completion of a number of trail projects around the community. One of the big ones – along Eden Prairie Road north to the Crosstown – was completed in 2008. The big one this [...]
Outlot Maintenance
September 1, 2009 – 10:08 am
An outlot is a remnant piece of land that is left over after a developer has surveyed, planned and developed a new subdivision. Outlots are left over because they may not fit nicely into a particular lot or perhaps has a swamp on it or some other unique environmental feature on it. Sometimes a storm [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Comments To My Blog
July 15, 2009 – 7:01 am
While I have not enabled the function on my blog that would allow open comments and dialog, I do receive and read emailed comments from readers every week. Once in awhile I like to share them. Today is one of those days. Enjoy!
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SUBJECT: Turtles
I am writing to say that I strongly disagree with the explanation [...]
