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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MINUTES APRIL 8, 2002 10 . position of Director of Maintenance and Operations. She stated that they had discusscd about gctting consultants doing some of the TCAAP work, and while it would take somc organization, it was not expected that staff would take alJ of the rcsponsibility. She statcd she did not see there was a need to hire someone. Council member Larson statcd hc was in favor of going forward with the Plan. He indicated it was his belief that TCAAP was taking off and the planning work was beginning. He stated this platUling would involve a whole fange of activities. He pointed out that Guidanl was also coming up. He stated there was a whole range of things thc City had put on the back bumer because they did not have the capabilities and expertise. He stated the largc part of the Director of Administration position was working on TCAAP and economic development and not just administfative supervision. He statcd there were all kinds of things that staff could not do because they did not have sufficient people. He stated someone was going to devote a lot of time to TCAAP at some point in the future. He indicated this made sense to bring on atl additional person at this time. Councilmcmber Aplikowski stated she might agree to hire a Director of Administration if she believed 11l0re wholly that TCAAP was going to happen in the next 6 - 10 months, but she did not have that feeling, and again she stated they hired the Administrator to nm thc City and she would rather see him do that. She slated she would be much happier if the City Administrator stayed as is, and they bifed a specialist when they needed onc. She stated she was not convinced they needed someone at this time. She stated she wantcd the City Administrator to run the City. . Mayor Probst indicated he understood Councilmember Aplikowski's view, and he too wanted the City Administrator to fun the City and he believed Mr. Lynch was doing a very good job of doing that. However, he indicated, after having participated in all of the meetings in the last two weeks, he was convinced they were on the brink of making TCAAP happen. He slated thcre would be huge implications with this in terms of contracts and monitoring everything. He stated the City's senior executivc should be the person to take care of this. He indicated he did not want a "hired gun" to represent the City's intcrest. He believed the City Administrator should be the representative for the City. He indicated the City Administrator would be directly responsible to the CounciL He stated it was not possible that the Council members cover evcrything. Mayor Probst stated there were mechanisms in place now that might move things along very quickly. He stated thefe would bc countless hours involved in planning meetings and attending meetings. He stated thc rest of Arden Hills would not be abandonedjust to move TCAAP along, but his personal experience was that this was going to take an incredible amount of time, and reducing the City Administrator's supervisory responsibilities would aJ10w him to dedicate more time to the issues coming up. . Councilmembcr Aplikowski stated she did understand how much time this was going to take. She asked, however, if they should hire someone who was just responsible for TCAAP. She suggested they not makc any decision tonight and to put this issue on the next City Council's agcnda to give her the opportunity to have her discussion wilh the City Administrator.