Division Managers, Department Directors, and I met with the City Council last night in a 2 � hour special workshop to continue the Council�s discussion about its budget options for 2006. While the Council approved a tentative budget for 2006 at its September 6 meeting, there have been continued discussions since then at Council meetings [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2005
New Employee Bus Tour
November 28, 2005 – 10:18 am
These are the “new guys” and the “new gals” that work for the City. They’ve all joined us within the last year. Each year we get as many of our new employees together as possible and give them a bus tour of Eden Prairie. Less than half of our city employees live [...]
Streaming Video
November 23, 2005 – 7:16 am
Each month the City’s Communications Division staff produces a 30 minute television show about Eden Prairie that we call “Life in the Prairie”. The show airs on EPTV-16 which is the City’s local government cable channel. The show is very well done. If you’d like to watch it on EPTV-16, it runs [...]
Anderson Lakes Parkway & 169 Is Open
November 21, 2005 – 4:22 pm
The lights are green and the intersection of Anderson Lakes Parkway and Highway 169 is now open. Actually, it’s been open for a week or so. I used it for the first time just last week.
This is the view going down the entrance ramp to the south bound lanes of 169. If you’re [...]
Police Department Annual Meeting
November 17, 2005 – 7:34 am
Chief of Police Dan Carlson has been our Chief now for just over three years. One of the new traditions that Chief Carlson has started in our department is the Annual Meeting.
The Annual Meeting provides a chance for the various factors that make up the Police Department to come together to hear about [...]
CERT Graduation
November 16, 2005 – 2:22 pm
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a program of our Fire Department that trains citizens how they can be helpful to emergency service providers during times of public emergencies. The objective of the program is to increase the number of citizens in the community that can be helpful to not only the City during [...]
We’re Ready for Snow
November 15, 2005 – 12:25 pm
That’s salt on the left and sand on the right. Put’em together in just the right proportions and you’ve got a mixture of elements that I think our Street Division employees will be dipping into later tonight or very early tomorrow morning.
Our first snowfall of the 2005-2006 winter season is on the way.
We’re ready.
Residents Win
November 9, 2005 – 7:40 am
Eden Prairie voters approved three of the four questions in yesterday’s special referendum. The results look like this:
Question 1. Shall the City improve the Community Center by expanding fitness center, adding indoor track and a gymnasium?
Yes: 3,899
No: 3,669
>>> Question 1 is approved.
Question 2. Shall the City deepen [...]
Spotlight on Eden Prairie Business
November 8, 2005 – 9:02 am
There’s an interesting, and now profitable, small business located in our Golden Triangle Industrial Park called MakeMusic. The company produces software used by composers and in the music education field. There was a story in last Friday’s Star Tribune about the recent rise of the company’s stock by 200% during the past 10 [...]
Time To Vote
November 7, 2005 – 8:02 am
Eden Prairie citizens will have the opportunity to vote tomorrow (Tuesday, November in a special referendum. Voters will decide the fate of four individual proposals that would add to the City’s system of parks and recreation amenities and increase property taxes to finance it all. You can find detailed information about where [...]
EP Girls Are State Champs
November 4, 2005 – 7:09 am
Congratulations to the Eden Prairie High School girls’ soccer team for taking the Class AA state championship last night with a 2-1 shootout win over Woodbury in the final.
For more on the game, check out today’s Star Tribune sports section by clicking this link: Eden Prairie girls are state champs!
Mayor’s Comments on the 2006 City Budget
November 3, 2005 – 7:50 am
Eden Prairie Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens offered the following opinion piece in the Thursday, November 3 edition of the Eden Prairie News about the proposed 2006 City budget. It is a clear statement of how the Mayor feels about the proposed City budget for 2006.
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Commentary: Response to questions about city budget
By Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens
In the [...]
Flag Etiquette and Protocol
November 2, 2005 – 7:37 am
This is a view of our American flag at half-staff this morning in front of Eden Prairie City Center. The flag was lowered to half-staff pursuant to the City’s new flag etiquette and protocol, which was adopted by the City Council at last night’s Council meeting. The flag was lowered today at the [...]
Suburban Deer Management
November 1, 2005 – 10:39 am
There was a short story in the Sunday, October 30 edition of the Star Tribune regarding the practice of deer management in the Twin Cities suburbs. The story does not get into the issues very deeply, but it does describe the particular contractor that we hire to conduct our annual deer management program in [...]
