Archive: June 2011

I’ve written here a number of times about the City’s interactions this year with Southdale Center’s owners Simon Properties.  Typically, a business’s ups and downs are necessarily the fodder to feed a city manager’s blog.  However, when a business asks to remedy its …
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The preliminary results of the 2011 Quality of Life Survey (QLS) results are in.  Staff are reviewing them today. I will be sending them out to City Council Members early next week.  Later next week, we will release them to employees …
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There is a nice story in today’s Edina Sun by Katie Mintz that talks about the analysis the City is having completed of its golf enterprise operations.  You can read the story at this link:  City golf study. The City’s …
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We kicked off the City’s next budget preparation process at our June 7 Work Session with the City Council.  One of the Council’s priorities in this year’s process:  public participation.  How to do it?  That’s the question. I think the …
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I get together with a group of my city manager peers a couple of times during the year in an informal group to discuss matters of mutual interest and concern.  We met yesterday for lunch at St. Louis Park City …
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Yes, the City of Edina, Minnesota is on Facebook.  We launched our City Facebook page yesterday.  See it here:  facebook.com/edinamn Cities do lots of interesting interactive things with their Facebook pages.  We want to do that too.  If you’ve got …
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Over the past week I’ll bet the City has received around 100 emails from around the country asking (and sometimes demanding) that the City of Edina do one or more of the following actions:  1. Stop trapping coyotes with steel-jaw …
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Over the next two days we will interview six finalists for our Human Resources Director position and six finalists for our Assistant City Manager position.  Human Resources candidates are here today.  Assistant City Managers are here tomorrow. I mentioned in …
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Minnesota is sort of an oddball when it comes to liquor laws.  Some cities are allowed to have municipal liquor stores.  Some aren’t.  Wholesale beer distributors have their sales areas protected by state law.  The state controls who can serve …
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The City offers what I call an “email push” news service called City Extra.  You can sign up for City Extra at our website:  Cityofedina.com.  You can sign up for the service which will then “push” news to your email …
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