E DEN P RAIRIE ✹ J ANUARY 13, 2011
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Vol. 46, No. 2
In the Community, With the Community, For the Community
EP overcomes travel problems to post win PAGE 23
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EP city manager search down to three finalists BY PAUL GROESSEL SUN NEWSPAPERS Three finalists for the Eden Prairie city manager job were selected Saturday, Jan. 8, after City Council members and the Rick Getschow mayor interviewed six candidates. The finalists are all current city managers. They are Rick Getschow (Hopkins city manager), Steven Mielke (Lakeville city manager) and Ryan Schroeder (Cottage Grove city manager). Getschow has been the Hopkins city manager since January 2005, and prior to that he
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was city administrator at the city of Lauderdale and city administrator at the city of Hector, Minn. Getschow entered the Hopkins City Manager spot after Mielke vacated it in June 2004 to take the Lakeville City Manager position. FINALISTS: TO PAGE 21
Final elementary schools map, start times released
(Above) The 2011-2012 City Council: Sherry Butcher Wickstrom, Ron Case, Mayor Nancy TyraLukens, Brad Aho and Kathy Nelson. The 2010 election winners, Lukens, Nelson and Wickstrom, were sworn into office Tuesday, Jan. 4. Nelson retained her Councilmember seat, and Lukens and Wickstrom are returning to previously held posts. (At right) Incoming Eden Prairie Mayor Nancy Tyra-Lukens talks with Case (middle) and Aho before the group photo was taken. (Photos by Paul Groessel • Sun Newspapers)
The final elementary school boundary map and school start times were released on the Eden Prairie School District website Monday. The final version followed a draft that was released in early October. An administrative task force met last spring and summer to create the draft map, and the School District administration made the final changes.
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• FINAL BOUNDARY MAP – PAGE 16 • SCHOOL START TIMES – PAGE 17 The draft map would have relocated an estimated 1,100 elementary school students district-wide. According to information provided by the School District, the number will remain nearly the same, with an estimated 1,065 students relocating to a new school. SCHOOLS: TO PAGE 17
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