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Accept Eagan Position
City Clerk-Administrator Thomas he got settled in at Eagan."I may like it,"
Hedges has notified Mayor Douglas Pyan he said,"and then again, I may not,but it
and the members of the St. Peter City is something I have to find out for myself
Council of his intentions to submit his
...Who knows,maybe five or ten years into
resignation in order to assume his newly the future,I may be back at St. Peter,but
accepted duties as City Administrator for from the aspect of the challenge that has
the City of Eagan.Hedges will submit his been presented to me,I have to go now...
formal resignation to the mayor and We have built the administrator's position
council at their next regular meeting on here and that is what I will again be doing
Monday, May 24. in Eagan; it will be a building process
It is anticipated that Hedges,27,will be there as it was here but I feel things will go
leaving St. Peter sometime during the fast considering the experience I have
month of July to assume his:new duties.He gamed here in four years and as fast as
completes his fourth year as St. Peter's that community is growing."
first City Clerk-Administrator this month.
Hedges,a native of Spirit Lake, Iowa, -
came to St.Peter in May of 1972 to assume !nail, 4 6+ti 19 7
the duties of the newly created City Clerk- -t �+
Administrator position. He came to St.
A Peter from the University of South Dakota i
at Vermillion where he earned his C
Master's degree in Public Administration.
His new job at Eagan will be largely one
of rebuilding that municipality's city .
government. Eagan, with a population of
19,000,is one of the Twin City metropolitan
area's fastest growing suburbs and
presently contains a total of 34 square
miles of physical area.It is situated on the
Minnesota River and abuts Bloomington, a.
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Burnsville, and Mendota Heights. Eagan ,
is governed by a city council consisting of
four aldermen and the mayor. '
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For Hedges,the decision to move on was o
a big one and one accompanied by great , -�
emotional strain, he said. "I wasn't
looking for any other outside em- , '* ' ,
ployment," he said, "but opportunity „, y
knocked at my door and I decided after a - � �
great deal of thought to accept the new . : ¢ ` S A. ,challenge. I've always had the desire to i , , x a al.live and work in a large metropolitan area lk �` ,, a fix,, 1 ..,
having come from a small rural ; i. r . �, '' ''''
background...and life is so short,I really .
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would like to try some different things - °„ *4 `i.:” r i �� ,.
while I am still young enough to enjoy such r 8 "'' ': . p ��
a challenge as this and before my roots get , _ .,' . ,... A.
too deep here ... such a decision really ��_�g,- g -'A„ ' ' cam�j,
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makes you grow inside." ,.
Hedges said he still had "a very strong
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feeling for the City of St. Peter" and that `:�'� ,, ' r
he would"always be loyal to St. Peter for Y '
as long as I live; I just can't cut the city - 4se
off. This is the first place that I have > m
worked and the many people here that I * x'' x.,,,x ° _,
have been associated with and the op- '' �:
portunity these people have given me
to
work will always be remembered." He
added,"If I had my way,I would probably
end up taking three-fourths of the city staff THOMAS HEDGES
with me because they are just so ST. PETER'S FIRST CITY CLERK-ADMINISTRATOR
tremendous." (May 1972-June 1976)
Looking toward his new job.Hedges was
not sure what his reaction would be after
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