City Council - 11/10/1998 - Workshop APPROVED MINUTES
EDEN PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP
ELECTRONIC VISIONING
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1998 5:00 - 9:00 PM, CITY CENTER
HERITAGE ROOM IV
CITY COUNCIL: Mayor Jean Harris, Councilmembers
Ronald Case, Ross Thorfinnson, Jr., and
Nancy Tyra-Lukens
CITY STAFF: City Manager Chris Enger, Parks &
Recreation Services Director Bob
Lambert, Public Works Services Director
Eugene Dietz, Community Development
and Financial Services Director Don
Uram, Lieutenant Dan Carlson,
Management Services Director Natalie
Swaggert, and Council Recorder Dona
Rowland
OTHER: Rhonda Blatti of D. S. Griffen &
Associates
I. CALL MEETING TO ORDER
Jean Harris Called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm. Councilmember Sherry Butcher-
Younghans and Public Safety Services Director Jim Clark were absent.
H. REVIEW OF PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
Rhonda Blatti summarized the two previous Council/Staff workshops. She said the
group's goal for this session was to get through the strategic framework. Five key areas
had been previously determined:
A. ENVIRONMENT
B. PUBLIC SAFETY
C. LEISURE SERVICES
D. HEALTHY BUSINESS CLIMATE
E. TRANSPORTATION
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III. TEAM SESSIONS
The group was instructed to break into teams to develop strategic statements for their
assigned area. (Team list is attached). The teams worked from data collected in three
previous electronic visioning workshops.
Blatti challenged participants to think about three points,which she described as the keys
to peak performance; passion,vision and action. Commitment to change must include
passion,vision and action, or the resistance to that change will be great.
Blatti outlined the method for teams to gather information in their focus areas. Is it
important? Can we do it?These are the most important questions to ask in deciding
which actions to include in the strategic plan.
The group worked in teams for two hours to develop a strategic framework.
IV. SHARE TEAM INFORMATION
Blatti reassembled the teams into one group to review information gathered within each
group. She described the concept of Primal Polarity: Fear or love are the only two
motivators.
Each team shared their strategy statments and answered the two most important questions
in deciding on a strategic plan:
1. Is it important?
2. Can we do it?
A. ENVIRONMENT-BOB LAMBERT AND RON CASE
B. PUBLIC SAFETY-DAN CARLSON AND JEAN HARRIS
C. LEISURE SERVICES- CHRIS ENGER AND NATALIE SWAGGERT
D. HEALTHY BUSINESS CLIMATE/ECONOMIC GROWTH
STRATEGIES -NANCY TYRA-LUKENS AND DON DRAM
E. TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES - ROSS THORFINNSON,JR
AND GENE DIETZ
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V. CRITIQUE AND CLOSE
Blatti said we will further narrow down the information the next time the group meets.
She said there is a range of energy from high to low. The group wants to be at the high
end,but not the stress state. Fear and negative energy-burn out. Energy draining. Flow
state is high energy with love. Reprioritize when energy is not positive.
The meeting adjourned at 10:15 p.m.