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~ . ~HILLS Approved: 7/31/06 CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION JULY 10,2006; 8:52 P.M. ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS CALL TO ORDER Mayor Aplikowski called the meeting to order at 8:52 p.m. Present: Mayor Aplikowski, Councilmembers: Brenda Holden, Gregg Larson, David Grant and Vincent Pellcgrin. Absent: None Staff Present: City Administrator, Michelle Wolfe; Assistant City Administrator, . Schawn Johnson; and Recreation Supervisor, Michelle Olson. Operations and Maintenanee Department Orl!anizational Strueture City Administrator Michelle Wolfe provided the City Council with an overview of four different organizational charts that are being proposed for the Operations and Maintenance Department. Chart A illustrates the structure that preceded the current structure. The Chart A structure allows more focused attention on parks, trails and recreation due to the separation from public works. The wcakncsses of this structure are that you lose flexibility from your labor pool; it adds another management position and department to the City structure which includes added costs, and potentially weakens the ability to pool resources as needed. Chart B illustratcs the current structure. Strengths of this structure include increased flexibility from the labor pool, operating and cost efficiencies, less management overhead, and cross training opportunities. A potential weakness is the concern that some areas ofthe Operations and Maintenance Department may not be maintained as efficiently. Chart C illustrates somewhat of a hybrid between Charts A and B. It contemplatcs splitting out some of the Parks and Recreation activities from O&M and changing the name of the department . back to Public Works. However, it maintains the labor pool concept for maintenance of parks and trails and other related activities. Parks planning and recreation activities would be managed -----