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. . . ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MINUTES APRIL 8, 2002 9 Councilmember Aplikowski stated this was an issue rcgarding money and job responsibility between these two positions. Mr. Lynch pointed out that the education, expcricnce and skills for both of these two positions were thc satDe. Councilmember Aplikowski stated the bottom line was that they had 23 people on staff with nine in the Operations and Maintenance category. Shc stated almost half of thcm reported to one person and the rest reported to anothcr person. She asked how the City functioned now; how often they met with staff, etc. Mr. Lyl1Ch replied currcntly they met on Tuesdays with Mr. Moore, Mr. Post, Mr. Scherbel, Mr. Pan-ish, and occasionally the Recreation Program Supervisor one-office support personnel, and thc Deputy Clerk. He stated thcy also had a management meeting on the Tuesday following the Council work session including himself, Mr. Post, Mr. Moore, and the Deputy Clerk. Councilmember Aplikowski asked if that would continue with the new structure. Mr. Lynch replied he would continue to meet with the Directors on the Tuesdays after the Work session and he did not see any change to the meetings they had after the Council Mectings. He stated this was a good time for each person to discuss general City issues among other members of the staff instead of just dcaling with their own department. He statcd the biggest change would be in the functional area. Councilmember Grant indicated neither of the two organization charts focused on Councilmember Aplikowski's concerns. He statcd he was fine with a Dircctor of Maintenance and Operations; however, on the Dircctors of Administration side as a goal to reduce the numbcr of staff that reported to thc City Adl1linistTator, he was not surc he supp0l1ed that. Hc stated he understood the City Administrator wanted to have pcople in place when TCAAP was ready, but he indicated this could take possibly two years, so the hiring of a person for that position was premature. He indicated this was one of his initial concerns, and that was why he did not vote in favor of it when it was originally presented last year. He stated he would support the creation of that position if TCAAP was going to bc a reality in the near future, and while he would like to see that, realistically that was not going to happen anytime soon. Mayor Probst stated on one level he thought there seemed to be a lumping together the communications and supcrvision needs, and they were different. He stated that given the size of the staff, it did not seem to him to be reasonab Ie to have 8 director reports out of 22 people, and because of TCAAP this was exactly the reason they needed to proceed on this. He stated in the course of the last seven working days, he had spent 12 hours in mcctings on TCAAP. He stated this would require a lot of time in the near future, and he expected that at some of the high level meetings, the City Administrator would bc the City representative. Hc indicated this made sense to him at this time. He noted they were on the vergc of a lot of things starting to happen, and unless Council was going to have somcone else take a lead role, thcre was going to be a huge time commitment for the City Administrator. He stated hc strongly believed it made sense to go down this path at this time and he would continue to support this. Councilmember Rem stated she had spoken with the City Administrator last week, and from her perspective, shc did not see why the Director of Administration was needed at this time. She indicated she was not convinced that they needed that position. She stated she would support the