
We held our State of the City/Spring Employee Recognition event today. We gave our employees a presentation on the upcoming parks referendum, reviewed some highlights from the last year, and recognized employees who have achieved certain tenure threshholds.
The event culminated with the annual performance awards, a tradition we started here just last year. We named the awards this year “The EPys” (you know, like “The Oscars”). This is the group shot of our 2004 crop of EPy winners. I’m going to name them from left to right.
Sgt. Randy Thompson works in our Police Department. He won the 2004 Jean Harris Award for Excellence in Community Service to his home community - Minnetonka. Randy has a long history of serving on community fund raising committies, cub scouts, and coaching in youth sports.
Sandy Mitchell also works in our Police Department in the Records Division. She won the 2004 Jim Clark Award for Excellenece in Teamwork. Sandy is one of those people who will drop her own work to help you finish yours.
Karen Kurt in our Human Resources Manager. Karen won one of three 2004 City Manager Quality Awards recognizing her high level of productivity and success over the past year. Karen has tackeled some tough projects this year and has come through them quite nicely.
Leslie Stovring is our Environmental Services Coordinator. She also won a 2004 City Manager Quality Award. Eden Prairie is still a developing community. Leslie keeps us legal and proper when it comes to our compliance with state and federal environmental law. That’s important.
John Carlon won the 2004 Jean Harris Aeard for Excellence in Community Service for Eden Prairie for his years of service and dedication to the Eden Prairie Wrestling Club. John is a supervisor in our Outside Utilities area of our Water Division.
Brenda Uting is the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Parks & Recreation. Brenda won the 2004 Carl J. Jullie Award for Excellence in Customer Service. She’s excellent. A great example of how excellence in customer service looks, day in and day out.
Kevin Cassady also works in the Outside Utilities area of our Water Division in our Public Works Department. Kevin won a 2004 City Manager Quality Award for his work with citizens and in mentoring our new utility operators. Kevin works successfully with homeowners in many difficult situations.
We’ve got a great group of employees at the City of Eden Prairie. It’s hard to choose those who are worthy of winning awards. We do it though to provide the rest of us (and I do mean us) with examples of what we mean when we say “teamwork” or “customer service” or “community service”.
Congratulations to our 2004 EPy Winners!










