These are our 2007 EPy Award Winners were announced yesterday at our annual spring employee recognition event. That’s them in the photo. Click on the photo to get a better view of these fine folks. They are, L-R, Cliff Cracauer, winner of this year’s James G. Clark Award for Teamwork; Chuck Schaitberger, winner of this [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
A Fair-er Tax
March 20, 2007 – 5:36 pm
The State Legislature is well, well underway with their 2007 session. With the DFL controlling both the House and the Senate, there are some new issues getting some hearing over in St. Paul this year. An issue that always gets play each year is the attempt to make our system of taxation more fair. In [...]
Interviews
March 19, 2007 – 3:40 pm
I spent most of the day on Friday in interviews. We were interviewing five candidates for our upcoming vacancy in our Director of Parks & Recreation position. After 29 years of loyal service to the citizens of Eden Prairie, Parks & Rec Director Bob Lambert is hanging it up on Friday, March 30.
We included most [...]
NLC Day #3: Wrapping It Up
March 14, 2007 – 12:32 pm
We finished up our National League of Cities (NLC) trip in Washington DC yesterday with a morning conference session with Senators Norm Coleman, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Joe Biden as the speakers. Senator Coleman spoke to the conference as a former Mayor. He gave an excellent speaker and got a standing ovation from the [...]
NLC Day #3: Busy Day on The Hill
March 12, 2007 – 1:07 pm
It was a beautiful sunny busy day for us on Capitol Hill today. We started the morning at the conference headquarters to hear an address from National League of Cities President Bart Peterson, who is also the Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana. We also had a chance to hear about half of the morning’s keynote address [...]
Sunday in DC: Politics and Parades
March 11, 2007 – 4:01 pm
In my post yesterday I said it wasn’t Washington DC unless you could see someone protesting something somewhere in town. Today, I need to substitute the word “protest” with “parade”. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I caught a little bit of the DC area St. Patrick’s Day parade.
It was a great parade. I snapped [...]
2007 NLC: Day 1
March 10, 2007 – 7:16 pm
You know, it’s just not Washington DC unless somebody somewhere is protesting something. Today’s protest: Free Tibet. I snapped this photo of a Free Tibet protest in DuPont Circle.
Today is a Day of Infamy for Tibetans. China invaded Tibet in 1950 and quickly subdued it and incorporated it into The People’s Republic of China. On [...]
Ribbon Bustin’ Time At Station #4
March 10, 2007 – 5:25 am
I am composing this post from our nation’s capital. I’m in Washington DC today attending the National League of Cities’ annual spring legislative affairs conference. I’m in a pre-conference session all afternoon today. The conference itself kicks off tonight followed by more conference sessions tomorrow, Sunday. Then on Monday and Tuesday, we hit The Hill [...]
Council Member
March 8, 2007 – 6:36 am
We’re getting ready to change our nameplates in the Council Chambers. I’ve seen the new ones. They look great. It will be a big upgrade from the plain ones we use now that people can’t read because they’re too small, but that’s enough about that…..
So as staff began the process of ordering the nameplates the [...]
Communication is the Key
March 7, 2007 – 6:18 am
It’s standard process for employees here at the City of Eden Prairie to set up annual goals in consultation with their supervisors. I’m not different. I propose my goals to the City Council during my annual performance review, which is typically completed in the April/May time period. During my 2006 performance review, I proposed a [...]
Y2K7 Bug?
March 5, 2007 – 2:11 pm
Is there such a thing as the Y2K7 Bug? Are all of our electronic devices going to hiccup to a halt because of the change in the start date for Daylight Savings Time? i actually hadn’t given this much thought until we discussed it in a staff meeting this morning. Here is an email note [...]
Inclement Weather Policy In Effect
March 1, 2007 – 8:02 pm
The City of Eden Prairie has established an inclement weather policy that governs what services the City will provide during time of inclement weather. This policy then dictates which employees must come to work and which ones may stay home. The employees that must come to work are those providing “essential” services. Essential services include [...]
