The City is in the middle of a remodeling project of its City Center second floor office space. This area is visible to the public from the Planning Division counter. The goal of this project is to open up the space more and bring better light into the area. There will still [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
International Symposium on Local e-Democracy
July 27, 2005 – 8:47 pm
This is a poorly executed photograph of a fellow named Mr. Dylan Jeffrey. I snapped this photo of Dylan delivering the official welcome to the first-ever International Symposium on Local e-Democracy that was held this week right here in the Twin Cities.
Dylan is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Prime [...]
Entrepreneurial Eden Prairie
July 25, 2005 – 7:47 am
The August 2005 edition of Twin Cities Business Monthly gives out its annual awards for Entrepreneurs of the Year. Eden Prairie is well represented among this year’s winners.
2005 Entrepreneur of the Year (Manufacturing category)>> Mr. Scott Crump from Stratasys, Inc. Stratasys manufactures and sells machines that create three-dimensional plastic models from a [...]
Osprey Banding Day
July 22, 2005 – 3:33 pm
On a sunny July day, a group of researchers from the Three Rivers Park District and a guy that knows how to climb utility poles took a hike out to an osprey (Pandion haliaetus) nest that we have hosted in the Prairie Bluff Conservation Area here in Eden Prairie. The reason for the hike? [...]
Chipping and Sealing
July 21, 2005 – 9:44 am
The City is currently involved in its 2005 street maintenance program. At the moment, we’ve got private contractors busy doing “chip seal” projects. Chip seal projects involve putting a sticky black tar on the streets, dumping small rock chips on the tar, and then rolling the mixture into the street with heavy equipment [...]
Arson at Staring Lake Park
July 20, 2005 – 1:53 pm
This is an archived photo of the playground at Staring Lake Park. One of the most popular features at this park was the orange tube slide. You can see it in the center of this photograph. It was great fun for kids. It was enclosed, and boy was it ever a fast [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Mark Vandenberghe
July 19, 2005 – 7:02 pm
Mark Vandenberghe�s job is truly mission critical to the City and its residents � he�s the Electronic Communications Technician and is responsible for the two way radio system networks used throughout the City. The radios are used by 911 Dispatch, Police, Fire, Public Works, and the Water Department. But that�s not all; the City�s [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Beth Kaszynski
July 14, 2005 – 8:33 am
In city government, the need for maps is nearly insatiable. They�re used by the Police and Fire departments and their dispatchers. Public works uses maps to show plow drivers which streets they are responsible to clear. In the spring and summer, the maps are used to show which streets will have seal coating or [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Bill Sawyer
July 13, 2005 – 1:23 pm
He�s one of the people that is working to make this prairie an �Eden.� Bill Sawyer is the Park Keeper for the City of Eden Prairie, but a more descriptive title that he could be given is the City�s Horticulture specialist.
His job duties include a number of things including ordering flowers, designing [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Holly Smith
July 12, 2005 – 9:11 am
She has a behind the scenes job in a behind the scenes operation of the City of Eden Prairie. Her name is Holly Smith, and she is the liquor store manager at the Eden Prairie Liquor Store near Cub Foods. She has been working with the City of Eden Prairie for almost four [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Wayne Estenson
July 11, 2005 – 11:33 am
I’m going to do a series in my blog this week that I am calling Excellence Behind The Scenes. This series will give you an inside view of some of the City employees here who do excellent work, but because of their positions, don’t get much public exposure. Check out today’s profile of [...]
An Official Lake Excursion
July 8, 2005 – 10:44 am
This is beautiful Red Rock Lake in beautiful Eden Prairie, Minnesota. A few weeks ago I got a call from the Mayor that she had received calls from citizens who live around the lake that the lake was being silted up by silt and dirt coming into the lake from City storm [...]
News from London This Morning
July 7, 2005 – 7:09 am
This is Councillor Mary Reid. She is a Member of the Council for the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, a suburban city on the south side of the Greater London metropolitan area that has many qualities similar to Eden Prairie. I met Councillor Reid during my travels in the United Kingdom in [...]
Going To The People
July 6, 2005 – 8:37 am
The City Council gave its approval last night to two important matters. First, the Council blessed a fall referendum for Eden Prairie citizens to decide the fate of a package of proposed improvements to our City’s parks, trails, and recreational facilities. Second, the Council approved the composition of the referendum package.
What do I [...]
In With The New
July 5, 2005 – 2:59 pm
If you’ve been observing Eden Prairie city government, or reading this blog, you’ll no doubt know about the City’s change of design for its official logo. We worked out most of the logo issues in 2004 and planned to use 2005 as the year when we implemented the new logo throughout our organization. We [...]
