How do I do this blog? I get this question a lot. Not as much as I did four or five years ago when I first started it, but probably once a month anyway. Here’s what that question typically looks like:
Hello Scott, I am researching the various cities that have blogs and would
appreciate your feedback [...]
I attended the League of Women Voters candidate forum last night for candidates for the two open City Council positions. There are four candidates for the two positions. All four candidates were at the LWV forum last night. Sherry Butcher and Brad Aho are running for reelection. The other two candidates are former long time [...]
The Minnesota Tekne Awards honor people and companies who positively impact the technology sector of Minnesota’s economy. This year’s awards banquet is October 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
There are eleven categories on Teckne Awards with a total of 45 nominees. As always, Eden Prairie is well represented on this year’s list of Tekne Award [...]
U.S. News & World Report released its list today of its picks for the Top Ten Best Places to Retire. May I have a drum roll please…..Eden Prairie made the list! Eden Prairie is one of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Places to Retire. I read the article this morning. It makes a pretty [...]
The City Council is the entity established by Minnesota State Law to make the important policy decisions that make our City work. The City Council makes its decisions by listening to City staff, listening to residents and by talking with each other. The discussion the Members of the Council have with each other is often [...]
In 2007 the City launched an energy conservation initiative that we call 20-40-15. The goal of the initiative is to increase the energy efficiency of the City’s buildings by 20%; of our vehicle fleet by 40%; and complete both goals by 2015. 20. 40. 15.
We launched the first phase of the 20-40-15 initiative earlier this [...]
The City of Eden Prairie is about to embark on a public education campaign to help our residents understand the City’s concern with Inflow & Infiltration into the City’s sanitary sewer collection system. It’s a complicated subject to explain, but I’ll give it a try.
The City’s sanitary sewer collection system collects sewage from Eden Prairie’s [...]
I’ll keep today’s blog short and sweet. I got a very nice note emailed to me last week that commended the Eden Prairie Police Department for its exceptional service. I couldn’t agree more.
Enjoy!
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Dear Mr. Neal,
I am one of the 300 grateful ATK employees who benefit regularly from the extraordinary professionalism of those who wear the [...]
At the City Council meeting on August 19, the Council formally accepted a gift from Eden Prairie resident Mr. Mike Garvin representing the Tom & Kathy Miller Foundation. The gift was a check for $134,369 to help fund the renovation of the Miller Park playground into a modern “barrier free” playground. The playground, which complies [...]
Have you ever had one of those “aha” experiences where you discover something that you think is interesting and unique, but then later found out that everyone else already knew about it, and it’s actually not all that interesting and unique? For me, it was my “discovery” of Swedish Fish, but that’s a story for [...]
This has been a particularly busy week in the EPPD. About a dozen of our officers have been directly involved in providing security at the Republican National Convention this week in St. Paul. In order free up those officers to work in St. Paul, we’ve had to alter our shift structure; suspend voluntary absences (i.e. [...]
