Last week was Records Management Week in our organization. It is a week set aside each year in which we clean up our files. We also take the opportunity during this week to clean up our work stations, keyboards, telephones, electronic files and other office equipment.
This year we added a theme [...]
This is Teresa Timmerman of Media Rare, Inc. She has been working with my staff to create a training video for the Customer Focus module of a new City of Eden Prairie-focused training video series called “Eden Prairie On Track“.
This video is just one of many projects being coordinated by our new Training [...]
Each year the Eden Prairie School District’s Community Education Department organizes an annual Partnership Breakfast. The group includes representatives from the School District, City, County, Faith Community, Non-Profit organizations, and interested citizens from around the community to discuss a theme. The breakfast was held this week at Pax Christie Church. It was sponsored [...]
That’s my son Turner on the left. He is 17 years old and a high school senior. He will be graduating from high school in about six weeks. Immediately following graduation, Turner will be going to spend three weeks in Lahr, Germany in the home of the kid on the right. [...]
Every year the City holds a recognition banquet to honor the citizens that serve on our various advisory boards, commissions, committees, and task forces. We honor the time, energy and effort that our citizens devote to help make Eden Prairie a great community. In short, we honor their citizenship.
The photo below shows, from [...]
In December 2002 the City and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) entered into an agreement that we call the “Final Agreement”. The Final Agreement came about from years of discussion between the City and the MAC over the future development of Flying Cloud Airport.
I think it’s fair to say that the City [...]
April 10- 16,2005 is recognized as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
This is Jim Schedin. Jim is one of the City’s Public Safety Telecommuicators. I snapped this photograph of Jim this morning just after 7:00 a.m. He came into work this morning at around 1:00 a.m. to fill in for a co-worker [...]
L-R: Rick Williamson, Stu Fox, Tammy Wilson, Shaun Sullivan, and Ray Olsen. Not pictured: Jim Schlossmacher and George Esbensen
We held our big Annual Employee Recognition Event this morning in the Council Chambers in City Center. Each year the City recognizes employee service and performance with annual awards. We recognize employee years of [...]
The City Council met in joint session last night with the two Hennepin County Commissioners that represent Eden Prairie at the Hennepin County Commmission. In the photo above the Council is seated at the long table on the right. The County Commissioners are sitting at the small table on the left. At [...]
The Star-Tribune has good story this morning on page three of their Business Section on an Eden Prairie company that is near and dear to us here at City Center: C.H. Robinson Worldwide.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) is one of the largest third-party logistics companies in North America. They got their start as a [...]
There’s been talk in the community and around City Center over the past few weeks about whether or not there is a cougar in or around Eden Prairie. If you haven’t heard this story yet, check it out at this link to the Eden Prairie Sun Current’s story. They did some nice reporting [...]
This is a view of several of our service counters here at City Center. The City designed its City Center service counters in the early 1990’s at a time when the development of the community was going a full throttle. The counters were designed for a higher level of walk-up traffic [...]
This is the 7901 Building. It is located at the corner of 494 and Flying Cloud Drive. This building is slated to be demolished, perhaps as early as tomorrow. If you drive by the 7901 Building today, you’ll see the last stages of building salvaging going on.
Here’s a guy throwing [...]
Sunrise over the intersection of Anderson Lakes Parkway and Highway 169.
Starting later this morning this intersection is going to be the focus of significant construction activity. You’ll see a lot more of this kind of vehicle:
Later this morning a private construction contractor working for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) will remove the traffic signals [...]
That’s Minnesota 3rd District Congressman Jim Ramstad at the podium in the Council Chambers here in the Eden Prairie City Council Chambers:
Congressman Ramstad held a Town Meeting in our Council Chambers earlier this week on Tuesday, March 29th. Congressman Ramstad holds several Town Meetings each year and we are usually lucky enough to get [...]
