We launched our internal Charitable Giving Campaign today. Our campaign, like those of many employers, seeks to inspire employees to donate a portion of their every-other-week payroll check to local charities. We organize our campaign around three specific non-profits: Community Health Charities, United Way of the Twin Cities, and PROP.
PROP, which is [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Charitable Giving Campaign
October 31, 2005 – 5:10 pm
New Carpet
October 27, 2005 – 7:49 am
This is an extreme close-up of a selection of our new carpet here in City Center. We’ve been in the midst of a new carpet installation project for about the past month. You’ll see this pattern and color in our atrium and in private offices. I would describe it as blue, grey, [...]
Snow Plowing 101
October 25, 2005 – 9:36 am
This is NOT who you want to see in the driver’s seat of a snow plow coming down your street. It’s me, Scott Neal, City Manager behind the wheel of that snow plow. If you see me on your street this winter, you can assume the City is having a very significant snow plow [...]
Best 9-1-1 Call of the Week
October 20, 2005 – 7:29 am
This a photo of a computer monitor in our Police Department displaying the actual text of a 911 call we received on Friday, October 14. This is exactly what the police officers would have seen on the monitors of the laptop computers they use in their cars while on patrol that day:
Yes, it says, “Dead [...]
Environmental Protection
October 19, 2005 – 12:50 pm
Environmental protection comes in many forms. Some are grand, like the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Some are a little less than grand, like this ordinary piece of orange drainage fabric that the City requires developers to install in new storm sewer intake grates while land grading is still [...]
Eden Prairie in China
October 18, 2005 – 12:49 pm
I’ve got our Communications Division staff busy on a project to create a short video profiling Eden Prairie that will accompany Eden Prairie School Superintendent Dr. Melissa Krull on her trip to China next month. Dr. Krull is going to China as part of Governor Pawlenty’s 200-person trade mission team. We’re going to [...]
2005 Fire & Police Open House
October 17, 2005 – 8:15 am
We held our annual fall Fire & Police Open House on Saturday. It was a beautiful autumn day in Eden Prairie. Sunny and 70. Absolutely perfect. Here are some photos I snapped of the event.
The open house is designed to appeal to kids, and their parents. It’s our way of [...]
Old Anderson School
October 13, 2005 – 9:46 am
This is the Old Anderson Schoolhouse:
The Old Anderson Schoolhouse is an example of the old one-room schoolhouses that dotted the Midwestern United States less than 70 years ago. This schoolhouse served Eden Prairie kids of yesteryear. It is currently sitting on private property that is about to be developed into high-end lakefront residential [...]
A Town Meeting
October 12, 2005 – 7:45 am
The City Council and the City’s Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Advisory Commission met last night in joint session to host a Town Meeting for citizens to learn more about the upcoming parks & recreation bond referendum scheduled for November 8, 2005.
I think there were about 50 people in the audience to hear the presentation [...]
494-169 Improvements Delayed
October 10, 2005 – 7:59 am
This is an aerial plan map showing proposed improvements to the intersection of I-494 and highway 169. For those of you that drive through this intersection, especially those of you that are northbound on 169, you know it is a perpetual snarl. A freeway intersection with traffic signals. Not a good idea.
Those [...]
Liatrus Lane
October 6, 2005 – 12:22 pm
This is the view of the Minnesota River Valley on an overcast, blah day from the new public park area at the south end of Liatrus Lane in the Hennepin Village development on the south side of Eden Prairie. If you catch this view on a nice sunny day, it is stunning.
This is the [...]
Teamwork
October 5, 2005 – 1:46 pm
This is what greeted me this morning when I came into the office this morning. This is the work space of my Executive Assistant Lorene McWaters. The excessive rainfall we experienced last night found its way through our roof and through our insulation and through our ceiling tiles and into her cube. [...]
Meeting Peter Bell
October 4, 2005 – 9:11 am
This past Friday morning Eden Prairie hosted a meeting of southwest metro elected officials and city managers to hear a presentation on the Met Council’s 2030 Regional Development Framework plan from Metropolitan Council Chair Peter Bell. That’s Peter Bell seated in the brown sport jacket.
The 2030 Framework is, essentially, the Met Council’s strategic plan [...]
