It took me awhile, but I was finally able to negotiate the necessary permission to profile one more member of the City's administrative professionals staff as part of my blog tribute to recognize the contribution that administrative professionals make to city government here in Eden Prairie. So, filed under the headline of "last, but certainly [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Podcast episode #1: soccer, China, administrative assistants
April 28, 2006 – 4:11 pm
City Manager Scott Neal and I launched the city's podcast today. Topics covered:
The World Cup
The Mayor's trip to China
Recognizing administrative assistants
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Carri Haberle
April 28, 2006 – 5:28 am
This is my final profile this week of the members of the City’s administrative professional staff. I don’t have enough days this week to profile them all. I picked five of them that I think are representative of the entire group. Today’s profile subject: Police Department customer service assistant Carri Haberle.
Carri works the front customer [...]
Katie Carleton
April 27, 2006 – 5:27 am
This is Katie Carleton. Her computer is booted up and she's getting her telephone headset on and ready to take calls again, ten seconds after walking in the door from her lunch break. Katie is our front counter reception person at the Eden Prairie Senior Center. I'm profiling Katie today in my continuing series to [...]
Ikram Ibrahim
April 26, 2006 – 5:10 am
This is the service counter at the Eden Prairie Community Center. And right behind that counter is the smiling face of Ikram Ibrahim. I want you to meet Ikram today in my third installment in a series of profiles I'm writing this week about the City's administrative professionals during Administrative Professional's Week.
Ikram has been with the City [...]
Wendy Schmitz
April 25, 2006 – 7:00 am
That's Wendy Schmitz at our main reception desk here in Eden Prairie City Center. Wendy is not the only administrative professional to work the front desk, but she probably works more hours at this front desk than anyone else that works here.
Wendy has worked for the City for 18 years. She started working for the City [...]
Mary Zilka
April 24, 2006 – 5:34 am
It’s Administrative Professional’s Week this week. To recognize the many administrative professionals that work for the City of Eden Prairie, I thought that I would profile five of them this week. One each day. Today, Monday, April 24, we’ll start with Mary Zilka.
Mary Zilka is the Administrative Assistant in the Community Development Department. That's her working [...]
Community Ed Partnership Breakfast
April 20, 2006 – 3:39 pm
I attended the annual Community Education Partnership Breakfast this morning at St. Andrews Lutheran Church. The partnership breakfast is organized each year by the Eden Prairie School District's Community Education Services division in order to bring together leaders from around the community to discuss an issue of community concern. This year's community issues is racism. The title [...]
Breaking the Ground
April 18, 2006 – 5:10 pm
We ceremonially broke the ground today at the site for our new Fire Station: Fire Station #4. That's Fire Chief George Esbensen in the white shirt in the center of the photo. Chief Esbensen has worked many hours, days and weeks to achieve this ceremonial day. The new fire station is the completion of our [...]
Spring Fling Week
April 17, 2006 – 5:30 am
"Spring Fling Week" is a gleeful sounding title that we give to our annual Records Review Week, which kicks off today and runs through Friday, April 21. It’s a special week set aside for City employees to sort through their documents, file those that are needed and “fling” (i.e. - dispose of) those that are not necessary for [...]
Happy National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
April 14, 2006 – 5:40 am
That's Jim Schedin to left. Jim is a telecommunicator in our Police Department. I snapped this photo of him this morning at around 7:15 am at his post in our dispatch center. Jim is working the 6am-3pm shift today, but like his colleagues in the dispatch center, he will work a variety of shifts throughout [...]
Anderson Lakes
April 13, 2006 – 6:21 am
Anderson Lakes are two of our city's most important and visible natural assets. Together, the two lakes (Northwest Anderson Lake and Southwest Anderson Lake) are just over 290 acres in size. You can see them clearly out your window as you drive through Eden Prairie on I-494 and on Highway 169.
But like many Minnesota lakes, [...]
Town Meeting Recap
April 12, 2006 – 5:37 am
We had a pretty good Town Meeting last night at Forest Hill Elementary School. What made it pretty good? Well, I think it was pretty good for a number of reasons.
First, we had a nice turnout. I counted at least fifty people in our audience. It was a beautiful spring evening last night and the [...]
Town Meetings
April 11, 2006 – 6:32 am
I had the privilege of hearing Congressman Jim Ramstad address the Eden Prairie A.M. Rotary Club this morning. I am a member of that Rotary Club. Congressman Ramstad gave our club a general update on issues he is working on in Congress on behalf of the 3rd District. Congressman Ramstad recognizes himself as a moderate, [...]
Fit City
April 7, 2006 – 6:51 am
Eden Prairie was recently designated as a “Governor’s Fit City” by the Minnesota Department of Health and Governor Pawlenty. The designation was announced by Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens (left)during a special ceremony at the Community Center on March 30. She was joined at the ceremony by several participants of our "Girls on the Run" program - [...]
