Monthly Archives: June 2008

Doing Work Differently

Utah governor declares four-day work week for many state agencies.
Utah’s Spectrum (6/29, Van Deusen) reported that Gov. Jon M. Huntsman (R) will put “many state government agencies” on a four-day work week, beginning in August. Huntsman, who noted that “[t]his is something that has been done at a local government level,” said he would like [...]

Swapping Jobs with Rena

That’s me (R) and KARE-11 TV reporter Rena Sarigianpoulos. Rena does the field and feature reporting at KARE, the Twin Cities’ NBC affiliate. She does a weekly feature called Job Swap With Rena in which she trades jobs with someone in the community. In today’s edition of the feature, she traded jobs with me. You [...]

City Manager Question Time: Day 5.3

I suffered some technical difficulties on Friday. Regrettably, I was not able to provide you with the special free blog post I promised. Not to worry. It may be Monday, June 23. It may be the start of a new work week. But nonetheless, here is your Friday installment of City Manager Question Time.
Question [...]

City Manager Question Time: Day 4

Here’s my contribution for City Manager Question Time: Day 4. For those of you scoring at home, I had to skip Day 3 yesterday. I’ll give you a free blog tomorrow to make up for it.

Question #4: Our company is located on Wallace Rd. in Eden Prairie. We have a person living in Victoria [...]

City Manager Question Time: Day 2

It’s Tuesday, Day 2 of City Manager Question Time Week. Here is an actual question, and an actual answer, from earlier this year:

Question #2: Dear Mr. City Manager, I am a resident of Eden Prairie. Recently, more people tend to concern consumption of healthy food (organic food and food safety, etc.), and we are [...]

City Manager Question Time

I get questions every week through my blog from residents and non-residents alike wondering about all kinds of different things about Eden Prairie. About half of them require a response. The other half just want to tell me something about the community, or make a comment about the blog itself. For this week’s series of [...]

Citizens League

I spent the first two hours of my morning today in St. Paul at an event sponsored by the Citizens League. The event was a planning meeting for the Citizens League’s Regional Policy Conference, which is scheduled for September 23 in Chaska.
The event today wasn’t billed as a focus group, but that’s sort of how [...]

A Blue Creek

This is a photograph of a stream in Eden Prairie. It was taken two weeks ago. It is a real photograph. It is untouched by Photoshop or any other kind of Internet fakery.
It’s blue. More accurately, it’s Smurf-Blue. The reason it’s blue is that the foolish employees of a painting contractor working on a project [...]

Automated External Defibrillator

This is an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). It is attached to the wall near the main reception desk of the building where I work, Eden Prairie City Center. I’ve been trained by the Eden Prairie Fire Department how to use the AED safely and effectively in case one of my coworkers or a guest to [...]