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Minutes of the Arden Hills Council W=ksession/Budget Hearing, 11-19-90 Page 3 BUlXiEl' (Cont'd) -<lUestioned rationale f= a new staff position. . Council explained the new position is that of an Accountant am. in reviewing the position it was determined that the City is missing significant investment opportunities by utilizing a part-time Treasurer versus a full-time acco1.ll1tant. It was also determined that the aa::ountant will review operations am. possibly suggest methods of ac:corrplishing tasks in-house, which will be more efficient am. cost effective than utilizing outside cXlflsultants. Council informed the residents that the process of examining b..1dget requests am. determining b..1dget reductions is conducted over a two months period; it was also noted that citizen connnittees are utilized to study not only rodget requests, rot other matters affecting the operation of the city, am. make reccamnendations to Council concerning these matters. Members of the audience requested more infonnation regarding the city operations, staffing, proposed pro;raros for streets am. other matters be published in the Town Crier. Council encouraged all present to participate in the citizen connnittees, which will provide them an OPp:lrtunity to offer suggestions am. input regarding the J:udget am. other prograros. Counci11nernber Hansen axrived at 8:10 p.m. Mayor Sather asked f= further corrrrnents from the floor. ihere was no response am. the public hearing was closed at 8:25 p.m. . Mayor Sather explained the Council has significantly reduced the original J:udget proposed f= 1991 am. it is the consensus that the information presented this evening reflects the hard work of the members to maintain a reasonable level of services for citizens am. keep operatirq costs at a m:in:i.mum. Malone moved, secorxied by Mahowald, to adopt the 1991 Budget Doclnnent as suJ:mitted. Motion carried unanimously. (5-0) PROPOSED PERSONNEL Council was referred to the proposed ordinance amending ORDINANCE AMENI:MENT Chapter 19 of the city Code relating to personnel p:llicies . '!he Clerk Administrator advised staff has made revisions originally proposed by Council and deleted repetitive information. Council1nembers Mahowald and Malone agreed they would prefer to review future documents of this nature with the old language deleted by crossing out and the new language inserted by underlining, rather than trying to compare the old and new documents in separate format. '!he following revisions were recommended by Council: Sec. 19-4 (C): Reaular Part-Time EnlPlovee: Define schedule as follows: "... is employed on a schedule of 20 hours or less per week." . Sec. 19-4 (I): Probationarv Period: Delete the word "means" in the secorxi sentence and add the word "is".