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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION – JANUARY 13, 2025 12 fine. If the full review is completed towards the end of January, we can discuss a Special Meeting at that time. Councilmember Weber said since Council cannot ‘reply all’ to emails, he wondered if Staff will compile Council comments and send those comments to the entire Council before DDA. Mayor Grant said you would send your comments to Director of Public Works/City Engineer Swearingen and Interim City Administrator Jagoe. They would have to compile them, make changes and send it back to Council. Councilmember Weber understands that. His point is he would like to see the comments the other Councilmembers have prior to it being sent to DDA. Councilmember Monson said she is not interested in writing job descriptions as a policy maker. She doesn’t remember having this conversation surrounding any other role. She thinks this feels a little like micro-managing. Knowing what was shared at the meeting tonight will be incorporated into the job description is sufficient for her. Councilmember Holden doesn’t believe they are writing the job description. She said that since this person is going to implement policies, we want to make sure that it is in the position description so that they will be able to do that. Councilmember Monson said that Council has succinctly directed Staff what should be in there. Councilmember Rousseau thought this was a good conversation, so Council knows what the expectations are and how Director of Public Works/City Engineer Swearingen thinks this fits in with the overall planning with the City’s resources. Mayor Grant said he has read a number of job descriptions during his time on the Personnel Committee. Our job it not to write the descriptions but to make sure we are hiring the right talent. Council does approve the job descriptions. Assistant to the City Administrator/City Clerk Hanson said we have presented job descriptions to the Personnel Committee. With their blessing, the rest of the Council generally defers to their approval. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said usually Staff will present the job description with the request for authorization to recruit. The full Council would see the job description to give that authorization. The back and forth with writing a job description has historically been facilitated through the Personnel Committee. She suggested we could use that same process in this case. Mayor Grant said we could do that, unless the entire council wants to review it. Councilmember Monson is fine with that. Councilmember Holden said she would like to look at it.