City of Eden Prairie spends taxpayer dollars to lobby for Flying Cloud Airport  expansion in Washington D.C.  without public disclosure, discussion

How Eden Prairie's elected officials and city staff betrayed the public.


  • City never responds to both local Newspapers to refute or to confirm that they are going to "market" the airport.
  • State of the city address does not reflect the city's intent to lobby for federal funding for Flying Cloud Airport nor its "new positive relationship with MAC."
  • At no time from January 2007 until March 2007 was there any council discussion of using taxpayer dollars to lobby for :federal funds to expand Flying Cloud Airport ".
  • That means there was absolutely no public disclosure or discussion about the city changing what was a long held position against the expansion.
  • The city manager's Blog, written during his trip to Washington D. C., never reveals that his letter to federal legislators, presented to the FCM Commission members on March 8th, states that the city "requests federal legislators support administrative and financial efforts to improve and expand Flying Cloud Airport ."
  • In all the city council proceedings, workshops and council meetings where the Legislative Agenda, MAC sewer system, maintenance improvements at the airport were discussed publicly, never did support and lobbying efforts for the expansion of Flying Cloud Airport ever come up.
  • When the council voted to support the items mentioned above, they did not vote to support expanding the airport because those words were never used.


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