This is the SouthWest Metro Transit Commission.Pictured from left to right; Vicki Ernst, Bob Moeller, Jean Childers, Nancy Tyra-Lukens, Ron Case, Craig Peterson and Chad Dockter
The Commission is responsible for oversight of the SouthWest Metro Transit agency. The Commission is composed of one elected official and one appointed citizen from each city (Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
SouthWest Metro Transit
January 31, 2006 – 11:05 am
It’s Not Rabbit Season. It’s Pothole Season
January 27, 2006 – 7:50 am
I have a thermometer in my car that measures the outdoor air temperature. When I got into my car this morning at 6:15 am to come to work, the outdoor temperature in Minnesota on January 27 was 45 degrees - above zero. Unbelievable! But, as most Minnesotans know deep in their thawing souls, [...]
Streaming State of the City - 2006
January 26, 2006 – 7:13 am
My 2006 State of the City address is now available on the City’s website in streaming video format. It’s a little over 30 minutes long. You can find it at www.edenprairie.org. This is a great innovation.
The 2006 State of the City address is also programmed rather generously on EPTV-16. [...]
Blog Stats
January 25, 2006 – 7:20 am
These are the consolidated traffic stats for the City’s blog home page. They show the traffic at the blog site over the past three years. In year #1, most, if not all, of the traffic is mine alone. But starting in 2004, the traffic is impacted by the addition of blogs from [...]
Eden Prairie Means Business: Part II
January 24, 2006 – 12:41 pm
Eden Prairie-based business are grabbing statewide headlines all the time. Supervalu announced today that it has acquired the Albertson’s grocery store chain, the second largest grocery store chain in the United States. Supervalu is one of our highest profile local businesses.
But we also know from the results of our 2005 Business Satisfaction Survey [...]
Council-Staff Retreat
January 23, 2006 – 7:56 am
The City Council met with Department Directors and me for a Council-Staff retreat this past Saturday. The biggest topic of discussion was the process we use to prepare the City’s annual budget. I think it’s fair to say that nobody involved in that process this year came away from it satisfied. The retreat [...]
Are We Watching You?
January 20, 2006 – 7:39 am
Can you see them in the photo to the right? There, attached to the boom-arm hanging over the street. Cameras. Surveillance cameras. Are they fixed on a specific point, such as that street intersection of the crosswalk? Or perhaps they are roving cameras that can be panned and zoomed by a [...]
2006 State of the City
January 19, 2006 – 10:47 am
I started working in Eden Prairie in April 2002. Starting in January 2003, I assumed a tradition we have here of the City Manager giving an annual State of the City address in January. I gave my first State of the City address to the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce in 2003. [...]
A Big Step Forward
January 18, 2006 – 11:17 pm
This is a photo of a smiling, almost gleeful, Janet Jeremiah at this morning’s staff meeting. In fact, if I’d snapped this photo two seconds earlier, you could have seen Janet’s “happy dance”. But alas, I was too slow with the camera today.
So what, you ask, might make a Community Development [...]
Senior Issues Task Force Report
January 17, 2006 – 3:27 pm
The City Council will have a joint meeting tonight with the Senior Issues Task Force to discuss their final report, cleverly entitled: The 2005 Senior Issues Task Force Final Report. The task force was created by the City Council in May 2005 with the objective of taking the original Senior Issues Task Force report [...]
Calling All Citizens
January 13, 2006 – 8:49 am
These are the members of the City’s Heritage Preservation Commission. They are (L-R) front row: Robert Amell, Molly Gilbertson (Vice Chair), and Nina Mackay. Back row (L-R): Deborah Barkley,Ed Muehlberg, Jane Plaza, and Betsy Adams (Chair).
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It’s time for our annual recruitment drive to interest citizens in serving on one of the City’s citizens advisory [...]
Document Management in Ft. Collins, Colorado
January 11, 2006 – 7:16 am
An eight member expedition team of City staff traveled together to Ft. Collins, Colorado yesterday to do a field visit to the City of Ft. Collins to see firsthand how that city government has implemented a sophisticated document management system that we are considering purchasing for our city.
The Eden Prairie team included IT Division staffmembers [...]
More Reports
January 10, 2006 – 1:01 pm
One of my goals for the City’s newly designed website: www.edenprairie.org is that it starts to become a repository of interesting information about the City. We do dozens of special reports each year about many different aspects of city government. We complete some of the reports with our own staff. Other [...]
Former City Councilmember David Luse
January 9, 2006 – 7:20 pm
Former City Councilmember David Luse died yesterday at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina after suffering an unexpected cardiac problem. David served on the Eden Prairie City Council from February 5, 2002 through December 31, 2002. He was 50 years old when he died.
David’s term of service on the Council was relatively short. [...]
Customer Focus Standards
January 6, 2006 – 7:54 am
The start of the new year is a good time to reaffirm important organizational policies, practices and expectations. Yesterday I reaffirmed for City employees our organizational standards for Customer Focus.
These standards were developed by our Human Resources Division staff and are based on traditions and practices that many Eden Prairie city [...]
