Here’s a Star Tribune story from today’s paper that is meaningful to those of us in the government business in Minnesota:
State budget gap ‘likely to grow’
By PAT DOYLE, Star Tribune
January 30, 2008
State Economist Tom Stinson said Tuesday that a predicted $373 million state government budget gap is “likely to grow” because early indications [...]
Let me begin my blog today by telling everyone reading this that I am not a financial genius or wizard. I don’t give stock tips. I do not make investment decisions for the City. Now, with that clearly understood, I’m going to try to explain the U.S. economy….
Not really. But I will try to explain [...]
Tomorrow (Saturday, January 26) the City is hosting an Open House event at the Community Center. The Open House starts at 8:00 am and warps up around Noon. You will be able to tour the new fitness center, which is up and operational right now, and get a preview of the rest of the facility. [...]
At our City Council meeting last night the Council had a brief discussion about the proposed Art Center. I recommended the Council ask the City’s Arts & Culture Commission to study the concept in more detail and report back to the Council within 60 days. The Council unanimously approved that recommendation.
The Arts & Culture Commission [...]
Department Directors and I (and my trusty assistant Lorene) met with City Council on Saturday morning, January 19, for our annual Council Planning Session. The purpose of the planning session was to have some conversation on some City foundational issues, such as our vision, mission, key objectives and core beliefs. We also planned to talk [...]
At our 2008 State of the City event last night Mayor Phil Young made a very special announcement. The owners of this building, the Sampson family, have offered to give the building and land to the City for use as a community arts center.
The building is located at 7650 Equitable Drive. The building was built [...]
It’s time once again for the annual State of the City address. Last year the City joined the School District and the Chamber of Commerce for a joint State of the City event. It was very well received, so we’re going to do that again this year. The event is scheduled for Thursday (tomorrow), January [...]
WCCO did a pretty good story comparing community centers to YMCA’s to private fitness centers in the Twin Cities. The story uses the Eden Prairie Community Center as one of the examples. You can read the text of the story and see the video of the story at this link: WCCO.com
I think our Community Center [...]
Mayor Young, Council Member Aho and I joined a group of 20+ other members of the Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce Business Leaders Roundtable on Friday at the Hilton Garden Inn for a meeting with 3rd District Congressman Jim Ramstad. We had a good meeting with the Congressman. He covered five topics in detail that [...]
The biggest news in Eden Prairie today happens to be the recent media attention to the Eden Prairie School District’s decision to investigate and suspend students at the high school for photographic evidence on Facebook which allegedly showed the students consuming or in close proximity to “illegal substances”. You can read more information about the [...]
The City Council kicked off a new year at last night’s Council meeting. The first meeting of the year is always reserved for organizational issues, such as selecting the City’s official bank, newspaper of record and appointing Council Members to assignments with external organizations where they will represent the City.
For example, Council Member Duckstad will [...]
There were two good stories written by Star Tribune report Matt McKinney in yesterday’s (Sunday, January 6) Star Tribune about Supervalu. For those of you who don’t know, Supervalu calls Eden Prairie it’s corporate home. They have a beautiful corporate headquarters on the lake front of Bryant Lake. They have been busy these past two [...]
What is that occasional pink stuff in your toilet, shower, pet’s dish or in your teen aged son’s bathroom sink? It’s most likely a bacteria called Serratia marcescens bacteria.That’s a lab dish full of it in the photo to the left.
Each year, a few customers call the City of
Eden Prairie ’s Water [...]
The City of Shorewood is out of the municipal liquor business. In 2007 three of the five members of the Shorewood City Council examined the future of the City’s municipal liquor operations and decided it was not a lucrative enough venture for the City to continue to be involved in. Laurie Blake has a story [...]
