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District Number: 2722011-2012 Actual 2011-2012 Actual June 30,2012 2012-2013 Budget 2012-2013 Budget June 30,2013
Revenues Expenditures Actual Revenues Expenditures Projectedand Transfers in and Transfers out Fund Balance and Transfers in and Transfers out Fund Balance
General Fund/Restricted$9,181,563 $9,845,872 $1,850,342 $9,548,105 $10,053,911 $1,344,536
General Fund/Other$94,326,723 $94,459,838 $15,108,601 $92,430,128 $93,615,504 $13,923,225
Food Service $4,341,351 $4,547,627 $2,306,703 $4,565,000 $4,888,762 $1,982,941
Community Service $4,995,832 $4,814,521 $514,203 $5,206,565 $5,367,994 $352,774
Building Construction$517,053 $7,035,785 $4,340,933 $499,999 $6,073,800 ($1,232,868)
Debt Service $26,329,821 $12,794,967 $15,339,034 $12,467,492 $25,543,745 $2,262,781
Trust Fund$836,337 $990,222 $2,820,649 $715,000 $716,000 $2,819,649
Internal Service
OPEB* Irrevocable Trust($496,843) $824,708 $16,062,381 $0 $1,000,000 $15,062,381
OPEB Debt Service$783,786 $761,375 $138,744 $468,157 $900,925 ($294,024)
TOTAL - ALL FUNDS $140,815,623 $136,074,915 $58,481,590 $125,900,446 $148,160,641 $36,221,395
$86,756,928
$11,520,000
$9,862,117
$88,414,811
$103,821,986
$0
$0 $10,890.00
* Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB)
LONG TERM DEBT
CURRENT STATUTORY OPERATINGDEBT PER MINNESOTA STATUTES,
SECTION 123B.81
Financial Management1500 Highway 36 West
Roseville, MN 55113-4266
D I S T R I C T R E V E N U E S A N D E X P E N D I T U R E SB U D G E T F O R 2012 - 2013
Minnesota Statute, Section 123B.10, requires that every school board shall publish the subject data of this report.
District Name: Eden Prairie Schools
FUND
OUTSTANDING JULY 1, 2011 AMOUNT OF GENERAL FUND DEFICIT, IF ANY,IN EXCESS OF 2.5%
OF EXPENDITURES, 6/30/11$0
PLUS: NEW ISSUES
LESS: REDEEMED ISSUES COST PER PUPIL UNIT - AVERAGEDAILY MEMBERSHIP (ADM) 6/30/11OUTSTANDING JUNE 30, 2012
The complete budget may be inspected upon request to the Superintendent
Comments: The complete 2012-13 Budget is posted on our website while the District's Report Card is available on the Minnesota Department of Education Website.
SHORT TERM DEBTTOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES
2011-12 TOTAL ADM SERVED + TUITIONED OUTADM + ADJUSTED EXTENDED ADM 9,534CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS
OTHER SHORT TERM INDEBTEDNESS 2010-11 OPERATING COST PER ADM
(Published in the Eden Prairie News on Thursday, November 29, 2012; No. 3449)
BY MOLLEE FRANCISCO
Give him a corn cob pipe and a button nose and Joe Blake might as well be Frosty the
Snowman.With a flick of a switch,
Blake can make snow appear at a moment’s notice. For $296, one can have the same results as if an Alberta Clipper swept through their yard. (For $550, Blake serves up the Halloween Blizzard treatment. And for $796, one can get the ultimate Northland Blizzard.)
But, as it turns out, that idea isn’t as popular as one might think. “My friend likened it to trying to sell sunshine to someone from Phoenix,” said Blake.
And so, the Chaska resident’s snow making business, Northland Blizzards, has yet to really take off. “Timing is everything,” said Blake. “I started this and then the recession hit.”
IDEA
Blake got to thinking about making his own snow after the lackluster winter of 2005/06. “I got the kids cross-country skis for Christmas and they couldn’t use them,” he said.
Blake did some Internet research to learn how he could make man-made snow.
It was an idea he couldn’t quite shake. “There was something about not being able to control our snow destiny,” he said.
“I kicked [the idea] around that year,” Blake continued. “The next winter I got serious about getting some snow equipment.”
Blake ended up investing some $3,400 in snow making machines. And though the machines were initially purchased for his own use, he started to think there might be a way to make some of his money back.
“I thought maybe there’ll be something in this as a business, too,” he said.
Blake figured snow making would be a natural extension of his existing lawn care/snow removal business Northern Flight Service. Customers could have the snow in their yards freshened up or evened out. They could beef up their holiday displays or they could create a miniature sledding hill for the kids.
FIRST SNOWFALL
Blake’s first foray into snow making didn’t go so well. “It was a complete failure,” he said. “Everything in the backyard was coated with ice.”
Turns out the snow machine Blake purchased had its hosing hooked up backwards, creating ice instead of snow. Once the hoses were switched around,
Blake was creating the winter wonderland of his dreams.
“We had a miniature blizzard going in the backyard,” he recalled.
The snow machine is much like what ski hills use to create snow — just on a smaller scale.
“It’s really pretty easy,” he said. “All you need is air, water and cold temperatures.”
Once the mercury dips below 20 degrees, Blake is open for business. “At 20 degrees, I can make it all day,” he said.
“It’s kind of fun to be able to make your own snow.”
LET IT SNOW
Although Blake’s snow making business has yet to create a frenzy, Blake isn’t throwing in the towel.
“It hasn’t really caught fire yet,” he said. “I’m hoping it will take off.
“The story here is still unfolding.”
If there is a repeat of last year’s nearly precipitation-free winter, Blake may be able to give people a taste of winter exactly when and where they want it.
“You can have something that no one else has,” he said. “It’s fun to have a frosting of snow.”
The snow manChaska man tries to make a go of snow making business
PHOTO BY MOLLEE FRANCISCO
Joe Blake runs a snow making business during the winter months.
More informationFor more information on Northland Blizzards, visit northlandblizzards.com.
BUSINESS NEWS
Named CountryFinancial representative
Brant Fink of Eden Prairie has been named a financial representative for Country Financial.
Fink recently completed the organization’s training, which focuses on guiding clients to-ward successfully setting and achieving their goals, accord-ing to a news release.
Fink can provide clients with auto, home, life and long-term-care insurance, annui-
ties, mutual funds and college education funding options. He can also offer investment manage-ment, retirement planning and trust services.
Fink earned a bachelor’s in history and inter-national studies from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1994, and his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, in 2001. He lives in Eden Prairie with his wife, Kristina, and serves clients from his office at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Suite 100, Bloom-ington. Info: (952) 831-3911.
C.H. Robinsonintroduces Navisphere
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., one of the world’s largest transportation and logistics companies, is introducing Navisphere, “the next version of the company’s single global technology platform, which provides end-to-end visibility, consistent business processes and strategy-driven business intelligence around the world,” according to a news release.
“The Navisphere platform is C.H. Robinson’s response to increasingly sophisticated sup-ply chain requirements across shippers of all sizes. The platform is used by C.H. Robinson employees, customers, and service providers to manage transportation and sourcing activities on a global scale.”
The company is headquartered in Eden Prai-rie and has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ since 1997. Info: www.chrobinson.com.
Savvy seekingeditorial board
Savvy.mn Magazine is seeking five women to join its editorial board.
The publication is look-ing for a broad array of women to represent its core readership, ages 25-60.
Editorial board mem-bers help inf luence the direction of the magazine, give candid feedback on each edition, and pro-vide story ideas and individual expertise.
Ideal candidates are Twin Cities area women who read Savvy.mn Magazine, are not afraid to express their opinions, and can work collab-oratively in a group setting. The editorial board will meet once per month over a two-hour lunch.
The application deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28.
For an application, contact Savvy.mn Maga-zine editor Britt Johnsen at (952) 345-6387 or [email protected].
Fafi nski Mark andJohnson adds attorney
Attorney Garrett Caffee has joined the Eden Prairie-based firm Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A., as an associate in the Aviation and General Corporate and Business practice groups. Fafin-ski Mark and Johnson serves local, national and international clients in 11 primary practice ar-eas: Aviation, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Com-mercial Lending and Finance, Commercial Real Estate, Estate and Trusts, General Corporate and Business, HR and Employment, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Mergers and Acquisitions.
“Caffee comes to Fafinski Mark and Johnson from Menard Inc., where he was corporate coun-sel. He has extensive legal experience managing the intellectual property, transactional and com-mercial litigation practice groups for the billion-dollar corporation. He earned his degree from Drake Law School,” according to a news release.
Info: www.fmjlaw.com.
Savvy.mn is searching for an editorial board.
BrantFink
Can significant dollars be saved by getting people to change their behaviors regard-ing energy use? That is the question that was asked as part of an innovative pilot launched at Ridgeview Medical Center in spring 2012.
The goal of the pilot, fund-ed by the Minnesota Depart-ment of Commerce, was to test whether a systematic program to raise awareness and engage employees would actual ly change employee behavior and consequently save Rid-geview money.
Class 5 Energy, based in White Bear Lake, brought its expertise in behavior-based energy programs with K–12 schools to hospitals like Rid-geview. Ridgeview provided a team of employees and com-mitment from the leadership to support the pilot and adapt the program from a school set-ting to a health care setting.
“Ridgeview has been a lead-er in sustainability programs and has a national reputation in the health care community for their commitment to envi-
ronmental responsibility. So they were a natural partner for this pilot,” stated Amy Anderson, general manager for Class 5 Energy, in a press release. “And the great results that have been achieved with this pilot only reinforce that excellent reputation.”
To monitor the pilot, Class 5 Energy tracks Ridgeview’s gas and electric bills with its utility tracking software and provides Ridgeview with quarterly reports. For the most recent three months of tracking, Ridgeview Medical Center had an overall savings of 16 percent on its energy bills, which equated to more than $41,000 in avoided costs. Eleven of 13 buildings saw reductions, some as high as a 25 percent reduction in en-ergy use.
“This has been an orga-nization-wide effort, across all of our hospital and clinic buildings, through which all employees have been asked to see energy as a controllable cost and to do their part to re-duce consumption and improve
efficiency. These results show that their collective efforts have resulted in real savings for Ridgeview while also being good stewards of the environ-ment,” stated Robert Stevens, president and CEO of Rid-geview Medical Center.
Some successful aspects of the Ridgeview pilot include:
Recruiting an employee representative in each depart-ment known as an EPA (Energy Protection Agent) to provide education and encourage par-ticipation;
Adding automatic timers to equipment — such as copy machines and other non–pa-tient care equipment — that can be shut off during non-use hours;
Creating a steering com-mittee of cross-departmental representatives throughout Ridgeview to lead the effort and measure impact.
Ridgeview is an indepen-dent, regional health care net-work based in Waconia, with the Two Twelve Medical Center located in Chaska. More info at www.ridgeviewmedical.org.
Ridgeview cuts energy costs
