The City Council held a special workshop last night to continue deliberating on the proposed 2008-2009 City budget. I led off the night with a presentation of the newest version of the budget, which we call version 1.8. Version 1.8 looks like this:
City Services: City service levels in v1.8 are similar to the City’s current [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Budget Moves Closer to Completion
October 31, 2007 – 5:32 am
2007 Police and Fire Open House
October 29, 2007 – 4:32 am
It’s Monday, October 29 today and yet I’m writing about something that happened on Saturday, October 6. I should have written about our annual Police & Fire Open House back then, but I misfiled my photos of the event and moved on to other things. But I found the photos this morning, so we’ll take [...]
New Community Center Progress Report
October 25, 2007 – 4:50 am
I’ll give a short update today on the status of the Community Center remodeling project. If you haven’t drive by the Community Center are lately, you’re missing a big construction project. The new baseball stadium is essentially completed and waiting patiently for the Boys of Spring to give it a go next year. There is [...]
New Water and Sewer
October 24, 2007 – 10:25 am
If you drive by the SW Station area in Eden Prairie this week, chances are you are going to slow down and dodge a little bit of late season construction action. This is a photo of the work being done in Technology Drive. This is a good thing. The SW Transit station, Culvers and the [...]
Rest In Peace: Max McGee
October 23, 2007 – 12:54 pm
This is a photo I took of former Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens and Max McGee, former Green Bay Packer great and Twin Cities businessman. The photo comes from the grand opening of Eden Prairie’s The Original Pancake House. The Original Pancake House restaurant is just one of many business interests that McGee maintained in the Twin [...]
The Things They Carried
October 22, 2007 – 4:33 am
The Eden Prairie Reads book this year is “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. The annual Eden Prairie Reads community event is tomorrow night at St. Andrews Lutheran Church. The agenda for the night looks like this:
Book discussions - 6:00-6:45 p.m. Vietnam vet panel - 6:45-7:30 p.m. Lynn Elling, WWII veteran presentation [...]
More Budget Talks
October 17, 2007 – 4:58 am
City staff and City Council continued our discussions yesterday about the shape of our 2008-2009 City budget. Laurie Blake wrote a short piece about the meeting in this morning’s Star Tribune: “Eden Prairie Weighs Budget“.
We held our discussion yesterday in an extended Council workshop format. We typically start our pre-Council meeting workshops at 5:30pm, run [...]
Congratulations Kim!
October 12, 2007 – 9:07 am
The Athena Award is presented annually by the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce to a man or woman in the community who demonstrates excellence, creativity and initiative in their business or profession, provides valuable service by contributing time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in the community, and actively assists women [...]
Thump. Stop.
October 10, 2007 – 5:12 am
I happened upon this sight (you can click on the photo for a larger view) a couple of Friday afternoons ago. I was giving a new employee tour of Eden Prairie. This photo was taken at the intersection of Co. Rd. 62 and Dell Road, right at the border of Eden Prairie and Minnetonka. The [...]
Snow Shoveling
October 9, 2007 – 12:19 pm
On the way into work this morning I heard the news: “Light snow in Bemidji today…..” Yes, it’s only October in Minnesota, but snow will soon be finding its way into the Twin Cities from Bemidji, and we need to be ready for it. At our City Council meeting last week, the Council approved first [...]
Sour Grapes?
October 4, 2007 – 6:09 am
There’s a pretty good article in today’s Star Tribune by Mike Kaszuba that talks about the protest that is being filed by the construction companies that did not get the contracts to rebuild the I-35W bridge. Click here to read the article: “Were savvy firms duped or outsmarted?” So which would you you rather be [...]
Ray Mitchell
October 3, 2007 – 9:59 am
This is Ray Mitchell. Ray was the City of Eden Prairie’s first Fire Chief, past president of the Hennepin County Fire Chiefs and former Director of Buildings and Grounds for the Eden Prairie School District for over thirty years. Ray passed away Sunday evening. Ray was, and always will be, an important part [...]
Sarah Schewe
October 2, 2007 – 12:02 pm
This is Sarah Schewe. She is an Eden Prairie resident and senior at The Blake School. Sarah is the 2006-2007 recipient of the American Planning Association’s (APA) High School Essay contest. She wrote an essay titled “Affordable Housing Plan for Eden Prairie, Minnesota”. Her essay proposed a plan for the conversion of vacant land into [...]
