Today’s Excellence Behind The Scenes person is Katharine Caliri. Katharine is an Accountant, and a darned good one. That’s Katharine in the photos above (or to the left) in her natural work habitat: reviewing paper documents, working on electronic spreadsheets, helping her Finance Division co-worker Barb Baer, and participating in a meeting with her co-workers [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Scott Demko
October 30, 2006 – 11:43 am
I composed a week long series last year for my blog that I called Excellence Behind The Scenes to highlight some of the truly excellent people who work for the City of Eden Prairie that our residents will probably never meet. These employees work behind the scenes to support the work of our more [...]
Waffles, Anyone?
October 26, 2006 – 6:58 am
We kicked off our annual City employee Charitable Giving Campaign 2006 last week. The photo to the left is one of the promo photos for this year’s campaign. One of the incentives (if you want to call it that) for this year’s campaign is the chance to win (if you want to call it that) [...]
Redux: Eden Prairie Home Prices and Values
October 25, 2006 – 2:12 pm
I work with a lot of smart people here at the City of Eden Prairie. I’m fortunate that many of them read my blog. I’m even luckier that they’ll give me constructive criticism on my posts. I got a good dose of constructive criticism yesterday about the posting I wrote on Monday, [...]
Eden Prairie Home Prices and Values
October 23, 2006 – 10:56 am
I get a lot of email. I’m on a lot of email listserves. I don’t mind that. It allows me to catch breaking news and get many perspectives on the news. For example, I got an email update last week from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors updating me on the current residential real estate [...]
Last Night’s Council Meeting
October 18, 2006 – 7:58 am
The City Council had a short agenda last night for their final regular meeting prior to this year’s Council elections. Mayor Tyra-Lukens is retiring from her position on the Council at the end of this calendar year. Just prior to last night’s meeting the Mayor had the opportunity to call three new pieces of fire [...]
Shaun Sullivan To The Rescue
October 17, 2006 – 9:01 am
The Mayor got a wonderful letter about one of our Facilities Division employees, Mr. Shaun Sullivan. That’s a photo of Shaun to the left. I have included a PDF copy of the letter in today’s posting. Take a minute to click on it and read it. I’ve taken the name off the letter to preserve [...]
A Successful Open House
October 16, 2006 – 10:04 am
The City hosted a very successful Open House event this past Saturday. It was a wonderful day. We had a beautiful blue sky and a bright sunny sun. It was a little cool and a little windy, but not cool and windy enough to damper the 1,000+ residents from showing up and checking out what [...]
City Open House
October 13, 2006 – 10:13 am
The City is hosting a big Open House event tomorrow here at City Center, 8080 Mitchell Road. The event starts at 11:00 am and runs through to 2:00 pm. You can learn more information by clicking here: Citywide Open House Event Information.
Looks like we’ll have some partial sun and cool temperatures. I hope anyone reading [...]
The Ejector Pump
October 12, 2006 – 4:58 am
It may not look like it, but that’s environmental protection equipment in the photo to the left. What is it? It’s the electrical and alarm panel for a new sewer ejector pump at the City’s Outdoor Center adjacent to Staring Lake.
After many years of discussion and planning the ejector pump is now operating at the [...]
Big News in Eden Prairie Business
October 11, 2006 – 8:16 am
CNS is an Eden Prairie company. They are located in the Golden Triangle industrial area. The company made the front page of Monday’s Star Tribune Business section with the announcement that it has agreed to be purchased by Europe’s largest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline for $566,000,000. You may not know the name, but you probably know [...]
Flat Taxes
October 6, 2006 – 5:19 am
My staff and I have been working on some statistical analysis of the City’s property tax policies and practices over the past four years. The City’s has taken a couple of metaphorical punches lately that our property taxing behavior has been out of the mainstream. Well, when I want to determine if anything is out [...]
Eaton Prairie
October 5, 2006 – 6:05 am
Mayor Tyra-Lukens and I attended an event yesterday at Eaton Corporation’s Eden Prairie facilities to see three new hybrid vehicles that have been developed by Eaton right here in Eden Prairie. The hybrid vehicles are part of a public-private partnership among Eaton, The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United Parcel Service (UPS), International Truck [...]
Prospect Road EAW
October 4, 2006 – 5:38 am
At last night’s City Council meeting, the City Council authorized staff to proceed with the preparation of an Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) for the proposed Prospect Road project. Part of Prospect Road already exists. It currently intersects with Spring Road south of Grace Church. It is the primary access road for one of the [...]
Tax Burden
October 3, 2006 – 11:53 am
A few weeks ago I wrote about the hypothetical tax burden for a $414,000 home in a selected number of Hennepin County cities. I got some good feedback from that posting. One of the replies I received asked what the tax burden would be if the hypothetical property were a business rather than a home. [...]
