Governor Pawlenty announced yesterday the State’s latest financial condition forecast. In short: It looks pretty good. The State is projecting that it has a taken in $2.17 billion dollars in tax revenues than it was expecting to receive. In the government business, we call that a “budget surplus”. There’s a front page article in today’s [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Town Hall Meeting
November 29, 2006 – 6:07 am
The City Council held its second Town Hall Meeting for 2006 last night at Summit Place Senior Campus. Summit Place is a beautiful senior living campus here in Eden Prairie. It is owned and operated by SilverCrest Properties. SilverCrest owns and operates similar quality senior living operations in Minnesota and Iowa. The Summit Place property [...]
Football
November 27, 2006 – 6:27 am
I’ve been on a brief “bloggatical” (a blogging sabbatical, if you will) for the past week or so. I’ve been getting my home ready for a big Thanksgiving Family Feast. There was lots of cleaning and cooking and hosting to be done. Now that’s done so it’s time to get back into the swing of [...]
Windsor Plaza
November 16, 2006 – 6:58 am
This is a big deal. This is an architectural rendering of the proposed Windsor Plaza development. The development is proposed for a site on Flying Cloud Drive (T.H. 212) west of the Eden Prairie Center mall, between Singletree Lane and Regional Center Drive. This area is currently occupied by some older two and three story [...]
A First and a Final
November 14, 2006 – 1:23 pm
This is a photo of Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens that I snapped on Saturday at the City’s first official Veterans Day memorial ceremony. The Mayor presided at a ceremony that included the presentation of colors by a Color Guard from the Chanhassen VFW and local Boy Scouts; a presentation by the group leading the drive to [...]
In Other Election News…
November 9, 2006 – 8:51 am
While there appears to have been a tangible wave of change in the United States Congress and in many state legislative offices across this country and here in Minnesota, Eden Prairie’s slate of state and federal leaders stayed largely intact.
Eden Prairie’s three incumbent state legislators were all reelected. Incumbent State Senator for state legislative district [...]
2006 City Election Results
November 8, 2006 – 1:53 pm
And the winner of this year’s election to become Eden Prairie’s next Mayor is……..Councilmember Phil Young. With 100% of the vote counted from yesterday’s election, Councilmember Young prevailed over Councilmember Ron Case by a total vote count of 12,696 to 11,196. There were 63 write-ins. There were 6 Overvotes, which means that 6 people voted [...]
Document Imaging At Work
November 7, 2006 – 9:00 am
To the left are project files in the City’s Planning Division office area. To the right, that’s Gretchen Laven hard at work. In front of her is her computer monitor. To her right is her scanner. Files, computer and scanner. That’s all Gretchen needs to do her job.
Gretchen is helping us with our Document Imaging [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Sandy Mitchell
November 3, 2006 – 9:04 am
This is my final installment in my second annual Excellence Behind The Scenes blog series profiling City employees whose excellence work you, as a member of the general public, will likely never come across directly because the work is performed Behind The Scenes and used by other more visible City employees to provide you the [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Dave Brazil
November 2, 2006 – 6:22 am
Today’s Excellence Behind The Scenes profile is of Dave Brazil. Dave is a Mechanic Operator at our Water Treatment Plant. He has worked for the City for over 19 years. Dave is married to his wife of 20 years, Patricia and they have two daughters: Clair, 14, and Sophie, 11. In addition to coaching his [...]
Excellence Behind The Scenes: Julie Bergstrom
November 1, 2006 – 12:39 pm
Today’s Excellence Behind The Scenes subject is Julie Bergstrom. Julie is a Records Technician in our Police Department. She has worked for the City for the past 23 years. Julie is married to Jim “Bergie” Bergstrom, a recently retired Police Officer from our Police Department. She has one daughter, Jena, and two bonus kids: daughter [...]
