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Special City Council Meeting Thursday,July 18, 2013 Page 18 ager position, intended to also address and incorporate HRA communication needs. Mr. Trudgeon opined that it was anticipated that it would take some time to achieve overall collaboration between and among the City's various depart- ments and communication efforts. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Trudgeon confirmed that it was the intent that by reorganizing all City communications for all avenues currently being provided, the City could better take advantage of branding city-wide through communication programming. In response to Councilmember McGehee's preference, Mayor Roe opined that it may be more realistic that some communication content may be generated by spe- cific departments, yet follow a general city-wide template and format. Mr. Trudgeon responded affirmatively, noting that the Communications Manager would coordinate communications more formally, even though some of the de- partment specific relationships were already established. Specific to the Communications Specialist position, Mr. Trudgeon advised that he was not sure how much time would be required for assisting the Communications Manager, and suggested additional duties be incorporated or transferred into that position (e.g. agenda packet preparation) or other duties; and anticipated no net levy increase, totaling2 FTE's. Specific to increasing the existing Senior Office Assistant position from 3/4 to full- time, Mr. Trudgeon advised that this would provide more consistent customer service, as well as assisting the Human Resources function until a better solution was implemented; and advised that the incremental cost for increasing hours would be need to be levy supported at this time. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Trudgeon was amenable to the position also being considered as a job share position; with Councilmember McGehee supporting a job share option. Mayor Roe concurred, provided that option was properly managed to provide the preferred consistency. Councilmember Laliberte suggested that, if the Communication Specialist had additional time for other work, she would argue that the City had the need for and could fill that time with communication efforts alone rather than filling in the time by working on agenda, with a full-time Senior Office Assistant position now al- lowing time to perform that agenda function.