That’s what’s happening with our summer Parks & Rec programs. Online registration opened up last night at 12:01 am. Between the hours of 12:01 am and 5:00 am our online system signed up over 500 registrations for summer programs. These are registrants who, five or seven years ago, would have been lined up at City [...]
Category Archives: Parks & Recreation
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Celebrate 2009 National Therapeutic Recreation Week
July 14, 2009 – 12:10 pm
July 13-19 is National Therapeutic Recreation Week. The City of Eden Prairie has a robust therapeutic recreation (TR) program. The purpose of our TR program is to use treatment, education and recreation services to help people with illnesses, disabilities and other conditions to enhance their health, functional abilities, independence and quality of life.
If you’re interested [...]
Round Lake Tennis Courts
June 23, 2009 – 12:34 pm
Do you remember the Round Lake Tennis Courts? That’s them in the photo to the left. They’re gone. History. Poof.
The tennis courts were in rough shape. The City is engaged in a project right now to reconstruct them. We hired a construction company to remove the old courts, reshape the soil, and to build new [...]
City’s 2009 Budget Is Approved
December 17, 2008 – 8:02 am
The City Council approved the City’s 2009 Budget last night. The vote was 4-1. Many people (and I’m one of them) see the City budget as the most important single action taken by the City Council each year. The budget tells the community what the Council values. The budget tells the community what the Council [...]
Proposed Arts Center in the Media
February 7, 2008 – 1:10 pm
There was a very nice article in the Star Tribune on February 5 written by Laurie Blake titled “Eden Prairie may get arts center.” I thought she captured the story well. I was glad that she went into a bit of detail on Roger Sampson. I’m sure people will be interested in the man whose [...]
Guest blogger Brenda Uting: Parks and Rec
August 20, 2007 – 10:02 am
Hi, my name is Brenda Uting. I am the Administrative Assistant for the Parks and Recreation Department. My number one job is customer service. I’m usually the first point of contact when you call our office or stop by. I receive a variety of phone calls ranging from questions about trees to where is the [...]
Good Things Happening at Round Lake
June 15, 2006 – 6:19 am
There are some good things happening at Round Lake Park right now. Specifically, there are some very good things happening to the environmental health of Round Lake. You can read a good feature story about Steve McComas, Lake Detective, in today's edition of the Eden Prairie News.
As far as Round Lake is concerned, Mr. McComas [...]
