This award recognizes an individual, a family, or a business who has made an outstanding contribution to Eden Prairie's Historic Resources.

Helen founded the Eden Prairie Historical Society and served as president till 1989. ... She is also the author of the book Eden Prairie, the first 100 years. This book was published in 1979. This was the first educational book on the history of Eden Prairie and continues to be the most valued.

Paul has had a great love for Eden Prairie, and he is the highest ranking elected official in Eden Prairie modern history by winning statewide races for the Minnesota Supreme Court.

This award is really about my mother, not about me. She It's really about her.

He served 22 years um in both the appellet and the Supreme Court, 19 years on the Supreme Court. when you um are appointed, you have to then run. And so he ran three times statewide elections. So he's the only born and raised Eden Prairie uh citizen resident to have run statewide races and won. That's huge.

We in Eden Prairie had our requests in the bonding bill to include along with our uh police department renovation um something that was not part of the by intention was not part of the original plan... a garage that would house equipment that was regional equipment... we wanted um $2 million to build that additional attached garage...

Eden Prairie Mall has been for a couple years going through some um efforts to renovate... we might want to participate uh in g having a tiff tax increment financing component to that renovation project. Uh we had one approved um up through that expired uh what later on this year and we wanted it extended two years.

Many housing proposals that were out there um that many cities were playing defense on that were a threat to city zoning authority. And um there were several proposals that were out there that that were that were very concerning to our city and many many cities um that are many other cities and none of those proposals passed.

We really owe a huge uh debt of gratitude and thanks to our three legislators who carried at least two of them. Um we owe thanks to all three, but uh Carly Cotza Watun uh carried our bills in the House and Senator Steve Suisenski... he carried our bills in the Senate. ... Representative Alex Falconer, who represents Eden Prairie north of Valley View, was just a tremendous support both in his vote, but also in his lobbying.

We are thrilled as a park and recck team to keep update you and also the community about the Cedar Hills bike park. Uh we've been working on the planning for a little over a year and it's really starting to take shape and come to fruition here in the next few months.

It's a facility with various humanmade and natural obstacles such as rollers, jumps, BMS, ladder bridges, and pump tracks. And it's designed to help riders of all skill levels practice and improve their bike handling, balance, and riding techniques in a fun, safe, controlled, and accessible environment.

One of our greatest concerns is we do see a lot of mountain bikers um and Richard T. Anderson and Riley Creek big woods. Beautiful areas. I can see the attraction to ride a mountain bike through these spaces, but it's causing ruts and erosion and things like that. Um, so we're looking to provide a designated space for mountain bikes to help conserve and protect our beautiful conservation areas.

We are not planning to cut any trees for this project. Only if there's really a hazard tree.

We don't want people on mountain bikes to enter into the conservation area, which is currently a problem.