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. . . ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES APRIL 8, 2002 ~.. (, y" 'f. II 9 issue. Mr. Lynch replied the cost for thc Director of Administration was an estimated amount, and it did not mcan they would bring someonc in at that amount. He stated they did not have to bring somcone in for $60,000.00. He stated they were waiting for a study to compare to what thc market was with respect to salaries. Hc indicated they could always adjust the salary at some time to make them more equal. Councilmembcr Aplikowski stated this was an issue regarding money and job responsibility between these two positions. Mr. Lynch pointed out that the education, experience and skills for both of these two positions were thc same. Councilmember Aplikowski stated the bottom line was that they had 23 people on staff with nine in thc Operations and Maintenance category. Shc stated alrnost hal f of thcm reported to one person and the rest reported to another person. She asked how the City functioned now; how often they met with staff, etc. Mr. Lynch replied currently they met on Tuesdays with Mr. Moore, Mr. Post, Mr. Scherbel, Mr. Parrish, and occasionally thc Rccrcation Program Supervisor one-officc support personnel, and the Deputy Clerk. He stated they also had a management rnecting on thc Tuesday following thc Council work session including himself, Mr. Post, Mr. Moore, and the Dcputy Clerk. Councilmcmber Aplikowski askcd if that would continue with the new structure. Mr. Lynch replied he would continue to meet with thc Dircctors on thc Tuesdays after the Work session and he did not see any change to the meetings they had after the Council Meetings. He stated this was a good time for each person to discuss general City issues among other members of the staff instead of just dealing with their own departmcnt. Hc statcd thc biggcst changc would bc in thc functional arca. Councilmember Grant indicated neither of the two organization charts focused on Councilmember Aplikowski's conccrns. He stated he was fine with a Director of Maintenance and Operations; however, on the Dircctors of Administration sidc as a goal to reducc thc number of staff that reported to the City Administrator, he was not sure he supported that. He stated he undcrstood the City Administrator wanted to have people in place when TCAAP was ready, but he indicated this could takc possibly two ycars, so thc hiring of a pcrson for that position was premature. He indicated this was one of his initial concerns, and that was why he did not votc 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 ncar future, and while he would like to see that, realistically that was not going to happen anytimc soon. Mayor Probst stated on one level he thought there seemed to bc a lumping togethcr thc communications and supervision needs, and they were different. He stated that given the size of the staff, it did not seem to him to be rcasonable 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 scven working days, hc had spent 12 hours in meetings on TCAAP. He stated this would requirc a lot of time in the near futurc, and he expected that at some of the high level mcetings, the City Administrator would be the City representativc. He indicatcd this made sense to him at this time. He noted thcy werc on the verge of a lot of things starting to happen, and unless Council was going to havc someone else take a lead TOlc, there was going to be a hugc