Success Stories

  • Transportation improvements due to the passage of the wheelage tax (2007) and the transportation sales tax (2015)
  • SCALE University, began 2011 (now under a different name)
  • Scott County/Prior Lake IT collaboration:  began 2009
  • Economic Gardening, began 2013  
  • Social Host ordinance, passed 2009
  • Unified Transit Management Plan, 2005 (updated 2011), leading to SmartLink and BlueXpress (merged with MVTA in 2014)
  • Shared crime analyst, started 2017
  • Treatment Court, started 2017
  • Readmobile, launched 2018
  • Mobile crisis response team, launched 2018
  • Collaborative citizen engagement on 13/21, 2017 – 2018
  • IRTS, launching 2019
  • Academies of Shakopee, began 2018
  • FAST TRACK business competition, since 2017