Project Blogs Update | Edina Citizen Engagement

Three project blogs done, one active

By Griff Wigley, on May 31st, 2012

The Edina Citizen Engagement project blogs for the 2012 Budget, the Grandview District, and Southdale Center are essentially finished, though it’s always possible that new items might get posted.

The indoor athletic facility (AKA sports dome) blog will likely become quite active in the coming weeks and months as Phase Two (site location study) ramps up.

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Indoor fireplaces at Centennial Lakes Park to switch to natural gas (1)
- Griff Wigley: Edina City Manager Scott Neal blogged about the issue of wood smoke yesterday.
October Q&A now live for all four projects (1)
- Griff Wigley: I’ve shut down Google Moderator for now. We didn’t have many questions or votes. And I was...
Can these do.town mayors get citizens to groove? (1)
- Griff Wigley: City Manager Scott Neal published a do.town blog post today. Nice photo of the Mayor!
Elected officials taking a public position before a vote, online or off: Is there a middle ground? (1)
- Griff Wigley: There is a discussion on this issue occurring on my Wall post to the Politics in Edina (P.I.E.) page on...
2011 Quality of Life survey results presented to City Council (1)
- Griff Wigley: July 25 Edina Sun Current: Survey: Edina defines quality of life When a new research firm pitched its...
Advocates present a recreational domed facility to the City Council (1)
- Griff Wigley: This July Strib article was mentioned in the meeting: Cities, counties make the case for recreation...
Getting the City Council members up to speed about Edina Citizen Engagement (2)
- Griff Wigley: I met with both Mayor Jim Hovland and Council Member Joni Bennett last week. Alas, I neglected to get a...
- Griff Wigley: I had long and interesting phone conversations today with Council members Ann Swenson and Josh Sprague....
Edina Citizen Engagement featured in Edina Sun Current (2)
- Griff Wigley: Thanks, Chris. I’m pleased that the GrandView Small Area Plan Process is ‘engaged’...
- Chris Rofidal: Excellent launch of a new and exciting way to interact with our local government. As mentioned in the...
Teaming up with the Grandview Small Area Guide Process (1)
- Griff Wigley: The Grandview District blogsite is now live.
City of Edina’s Facebook page: now ready to be liked (1)
- Griff Wigley: Although this Edina Citizen Engagement (ECE) project currently has its own Twitter account,...
Participation guidelines page now up (6)
- Tom LaForce: We have a few local politicians as members. Only one has been an active commenter.
- Griff Wigley: That’s pretty close to what I do on our Northfield community blog, Locally Grown. Nobody likes to...
- Tom LaForce: There are 4 potential things that happen. The best is when other community members gently ask the person...
- Griff Wigley: Tom, I agree, real names is a non-issue with Facebook. That’s why many blogs are using the new...
- Tom LaForce: Our rules over at PIE are in this note. Click on any of the five photos at the top of the PIE page to...
Subscribe/follow (4)
- Griff Wigley: Tom, yep, I’ve been watching PIE ever since they appeared in a Strib article last fall: Putting...
- Tom LaForce: Griff, I’m guessing you are aware of it, but just in case you aren’t. PIE might be able to...
- Griff Wigley: Tom, we will be teaming up with the City of Edina’s Facebook page to interact with its 5,000+...
- Tom LaForce: Looks like an interesting project. Might want to consider adding a Facebook page. Like it or hate it, it...