For today’s post, I will share my Friday Report for August 31, 2007 that will be distributed later this afternoon to the City Council and City staff. Enjoy:
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OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER½Friday Report
DATE: August 31, 2007
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Scott H. Neal, City Manager
RE: Friday Report for August 31, [...]
I went over to the Senior Center yesterday with our Parks & Recreation Director Jay Lotthammer to visit the folks that use the Senior Center. The purpose of my visit was not merely social. I was there to get an ear-full, and I went away with two ear-fulls.
I was there to tell the seniors about [...]
Before I start today’s post about the City’s first hybrid vehicle, I want thank my guest bloggers from last week: Brenda Uting, Luke Fischer, Andrew Sullivan, Lorene McWaters, and Steve Sinell. They did a wonderful job. Thank you!
The City’s 20-40-15 energy conservation program has two primary components: increasing the energy efficiency of our buildings and [...]
My name is Lorene McWaters and I am City Manager Scott Neal’s executive assistant. I’ve worked for the City for nearly 8 years, which means Scott inherited me when he joined the City 5+ years ago.
I think we make a pretty good team – in a ying-yang way. Scott comes in whistling at 7:00 a.m., [...]
I came to work in Eden Prairie on October 3rd, 1978 as an appraiser and I was appointed the City Assessor in 1984. My education background includes a BS in Business Administration with Finance Concentration from Mankato State. As the City Assessor my job is to make sure the annual assessment for property tax purposes [...]
My phone is wireless, my pager is wireless, and so is this shiny new macbook I am typing on…so why not 18,000 outdated water meters? As it turns out there was no reason at all water meters couldn’t be wireless. Matter of fact, the benefits and cost savings were so significant we had no choice! [...]
Some of my friends are interning in Washington D.C. this summer. They are working for congressmen, senators, various departments and lobbying firms. They were called to make the voyage half-way across the nation in hopes of impacting public policy in some substantive way. Perhaps they have. They ask me what I am doing and I [...]
Hi, my name is Brenda Uting. I am the Administrative Assistant for the Parks and Recreation Department. My number one job is customer service. I’m usually the first point of contact when you call our office or stop by. I receive a variety of phone calls ranging from questions about trees to where is the [...]
I have a surprise next week for all of my loyal blog readers: Guest bloggers. I am making way all next week to give some other folks around here their shot at blog-immortality. I think that it will be nice for readers to get another voice out of this blog. A different point of view. [...]
The City’s Budget Advisory Commission (BAC) wrapped up its work after a four hour meeting on August 9. The BAC approved a list of twenty recommendations for the City Council and staff to consider. I will be presenting the BAC’s list of recommendations to the City Council at their August 21 Workshop. When I make [...]
Eden Prairie was among several communities this past weekend that suffered public and private damage due to heavy winds. The wind storm blew in during the late hours of Friday night and wee morning hours of Saturday morning. Hangars were damaged and a couple of airplanes were flipped over at the airport. Trees, picnic tables [...]
During the early design discussions for the Community Center remodeling project we gave some serious consideration to including a “green roof” dimension to the project. We built specifications for a “green roof” into our bid documents hoping that we could attract a reasonable bid for one. Alas, the additional cost to add a relatively small [...]
For those of us that come to 8080 Mitchell Road everyday, our life has changed. We’ve started a parking lot rehabilitation project for the parking lot immediately in front of our main entrance door. Most of this lot is used by C.H. Robinson employees. The spots closest to the building, however, were our Visitor Parking [...]
This is the a graphical depiction of the Hydrologic Cycle. It hasn’t been working this way in Minnesota this summer. We need it to. Our water plant is working at full capacity right now and it’s just able to keep up with demand. It’s a struggle, but we’re doing our best with what we’ve got. [...]
There are many people that read this blog that don’t live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Some that don’t live in the Minnesota. This morning the only news in the Twin Cities is the collapse of the I-35 bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. It is a terrible, terrible tragedy. I’ll defer to [...]
