Yes, there is a New Chief in Town. Chief Reynolds formally assumed his new job yesterday. Rob is only the fifth Chief of Police in Eden Prairie’s relatively short history as an incorporated city. He follows in the footsteps of Chief Jack Hacking, Chief Keith Wahl, Chief Jim Clark, and, most recently, Chief Dan Carlson [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Friday Report for January 26, 2007
January 29, 2007 – 5:21 am
I’ve written before about a report I prepare each Friday for my City Council which I call the Friday Report. Yes, I know. Not a very creative title. Maybe that’s because it’s not really all that creative of a report. I’ll be there are lots of city managers that produce something akin to a Friday [...]
Mosquito Control
January 26, 2007 – 8:09 am
The Twin Cities is served by one of the foremost mosquito control agencies in North America. It’s called the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District. The MMCD serves the 2.9 million people living in an area covering 2,800 square miles in the seven county Twin Cities metropolitan area. MMCD services include the following: survey for and control [...]
Ways & Means
January 25, 2007 – 9:18 am
John Gunyou is the City Manager of Minnetonka, a nice little town that borders Eden Prairie on the north. John is the former Finance Commissioner for the State of Minnesota He served in the Governor Arne Carlson administration. John speaks and writes about local and state government finance. Earlier this week, John testified before the [...]
Eden Prairie without a map
January 24, 2007 – 9:18 am
I don’t often link to other blogs. I’m not sure why. I guess I want people reading my blog to focus on what I’m saying. But today, I am linking to a blog at the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper. The blog posting is called “Eden Prairie without a map“. It’s a blog posting about traveling [...]
Attention All Citizens: Help Wanted
January 19, 2007 – 3:39 pm
These seven Eden Prairie citizens are involved in their city government. They serve their fellow citizens as the City’s Conservation Commission. Citizen advisory commissions are an important way for citizens to help shape their community. The City would be less interesting if citizens did not participate in their local government through our citizen advisory commissions. [...]
State of the City – Today
January 18, 2007 – 12:54 pm
Today is the day of my annual State of the City address. In my four previous State of the City addresses (2002-2006), I delivered the address at the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce’s January membership luncheon meeting. This year we’re changing it up a little. Instead of delivering the address at the January membership luncheon [...]
Bent Creek
January 17, 2007 – 8:46 am
The City has been engaged in a process over the last 10 months to clarify its land use regulations for the four golf courses within our corporate limits. We started that clarification process in 2006 for two basic reasons. First, we were seeing examples of marginal golf courses going through redevelopment from golf courses into [...]
Position Available: City Manager
January 12, 2007 – 11:19 am
Let me be clear: My job is not available. I enjoy my job very much. I like the work. I like the people I work with. I like the pay and benefits. And, with the exception of the one time each year when I help serve the annual employee appreciation holiday luncheon, I don’t have [...]
The OCM Managers
January 11, 2007 – 6:19 pm
In our organization, I have organized the key organizational support services under my direct leadership in what we call the OCM (Office of the City Manager). Key organizational support services include such disciplines as finance, human resources, IT, facilities, and communications. These services are centrally managed, but supplied de-centrally to our five operating departments: Fire, [...]
Connectedness with Commissions
January 10, 2007 – 1:33 pm
This is the City’s Parks, Recreation & Natural Resources Commission. Most of the time we refer to them as the “Parks Commission”. They are, from L-R in the front row: Randy Jacobus, Lee Elliot-Stoerling, Geri Napuck, Michale Moriarity, and student commissioners Jennifer Dworak and Elise Garton. In the back row, L-R: John Brill, Ian Mackay, [...]
Swearing
January 8, 2007 – 2:02 pm
We held our first City Council of the year last Tuesday night, January 2, 2007. The most important event of the evening was the swearing in of our two new City Councilmembers and our new Mayor.
In the photo on the left is our new Mayor, The Honorable Philip Young. Also pictured with Phil are his [...]
Podcast and photos: Dan Carlson retirement party
January 7, 2007 – 5:02 pm
Last Thursday, the City of Eden Prairie held a retirement party for Police Chief Dan Carlson. (See the album of 30 more party photos.)
I captured the audio of four speeches. Click play to listen. Drag the slider to the segment you want to hear.
Deputy Police Chief Rob Reynolds0:00 to 4:50 (Rob’s speech got [...]
What Do The People Say?
January 2, 2007 – 1:05 pm
In 2006 the City Council and City staff began to talk about new ways that we could bring public input into the front end of our 2008-2009 City Budget preparation process. The Council thought it would useful to gather survey data concerning what our residents think about our type and quality of City services. I [...]
