We finished our day on Friday with the Loudi, China delegation with a press conference at the Eden Prairie High School Performing Arts Center at which we signed agreements with them pledging future cooperation and exchanges in the future. They verbally invited a group from Eden Prairie to visit them in May. We’re thinking about [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Loudi Day
February 25, 2006 – 4:21 pm
Friday, February 24, 2006 was officially designated as “Loudi, Hunan, People’s Republic of China Day” in the State of Minnesota by Governor Tim Pawlenty. Former State Senator (and current Habitat For Technology Board Member) Roy Terwilliger was instrumental in presenting the request to the Governor’s office to honor our guests from Loudi in this way. The [...]
Banquet at Bearpath
February 24, 2006 – 2:32 pm
The Habitat For Technology Board of Directors, of which I am a member, hosted a very nice event last night at the Bearpath Country Club here in Eden Prairie for our Loudi guests called the “Community Leaders Banquet”. The Loudi delegation spent their morning in a business seminar meeting with Eden Prairie’s business leaders. The [...]
Our Chinese Guests Are Here
February 23, 2006 – 2:58 pm
This is what greeted our Chinese guests from Loudi, China when they reached the baggage claim area this past Monday night at 11:25 pm. “Welcome to Eden Prairie” in English and Mandarin. That’s my son Ethan holding the left side of the banner and the City’s Communications Manager Pat Brink is holding the other end. [...]
Rental Inspection Program
February 22, 2006 – 6:16 pm
The City Council met last night (Tuesday, February 21) and, among many things, approved a new rental housing inspection program. The new program is one aspect of a four-pronged strategy to maintain and improve the overall value of our community housing stock.
The first prong was the Council’s adoption of an exterior maintenance code for all [...]
President’s Day
February 20, 2006 – 12:45 pm
It’s President’s Day today. City offices at City Center are closed today. You may not get your mail on President’s Day, but you can access most of our city services today. Our Police are working. Our Fire Fighters are working. Our Parks are open. Our Community Center is open. [...]
New blog platform
February 16, 2006 – 8:28 pm
I’ve installed the blogging platform WordPress here for Scott’s weblog and imported all his previous entries from the past three years.
Let me know if you discover any glitches.
Note that he has a new RSS feed.
I’ll gradually be changing the theme, colors, and sidebars over the next few days. And hopefully this will resolve the infamous [...]
It’s Your Community Center….
February 15, 2006 – 12:35 pm
As a result of Eden Prairie citizens’ vote of approval in the November 2005 referendum, the City is beginning to plan some exciting new improvements to the Eden Prairie Community Center. Step one in the process of improving the Community Center was the passage of the referendum. The next step in that [...]
Translation, Please
February 14, 2006 – 12:45 pm
If you take a short trip to the City’s website at www.edenprairie.org, you will notice this logo in the bottom right corner of our front page. The logo is an activated button that allows a person viewing our website to have the site translated into a language other than English. Click on the [...]
Gander What?
February 10, 2006 – 7:31 am
Seen this building? It’s on the north side of Technology Drive, right across the street from Rosemount-Emerson. Right down the street from Costco. It’s a flat, ordinary industrial building. But, like many comparable buildings in Eden Prairie, change is coming.
The City’s Planning Division staff is reviewing a proposal from a Twin Cities [...]
The Sunshine Fund
February 8, 2006 – 1:01 pm
We have to be careful in city government how and what we spend public money on. A few years ago the State Auditor took a Minnesota city government to the proverbial woodshed for a making a number of financial misappropriations, including one where the city spent public dollars to send flowers to the funeral [...]
What people are saying about a 3rd rink.
February 6, 2006 – 7:23 am
As many cities do in Minnesota, we operate a municipal indoor ice rink. We have two sheets of ice in our Community Center. For a long time now there has been a desire/demand in the community for an additional sheet of indoor ice. Recently the City Council has expressed some interest in investigating [...]
Goodbye Sam Goody
February 2, 2006 – 8:12 am
According to an article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, Musicland Holding Company (the company that owns, among other things, Musicland, Sam Goody and Suncoast Video stores around the country) is going to close 341 underperforming stores, including their Sam Goody store in the Eden Prairie Center mall. Other Minnesota store closings are in Duluth, [...]
Building Permit Revenues
February 1, 2006 – 7:56 am
Minnesota cities charge user fees for many different city services. Recreation programs. Park shelter rentals. Ice arena rentals. One of the more common user fees charged by cities is building permit fees.
But while cities are allowed by State law to charge user fees, cities are also required by Minnesota State [...]
