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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 18, 2019 Page 17 Councilmember Groff indicated he would like discussion on this. He stated he was fine with reopening the process for the Finance Commission but the problem he sees with the HRIEC is that he has never seen, in any documents that the City has put out, that if there are only two applicants the process is reopened. The res- idents are not aware of this so if the City is going to do that, it needs to be put out there so people understand the process. Councilmember Groff stated the other problem he sees is that the HRIEC already has had two months without a quorum and if it goes two more months without a quorum, in his opinion, the City has two qualified candidates. But if in two more months the vacancies are still there, then there is an issue with a quorum on the Commission. Councilmember Willmus stated one of the considerations he has looked to is hav- ing at least two applicants for a position. He thought that was important and would treat it the same way had there been one application for the Finance Com- mission for example. He would be looking to extend that so the City can get the greatest pool of applicants as possible. He thought that was very important. He stated for each position, he wants to see and have the ability to choose from a pool of applicants. Councilmember Groff stated he would understand Councilmember Willmus' point if the candidates were not qualified. If that is what the Council is saying, then he thought the Council needed to be straight forward and indicate to the pub- lic that the candidates are not qualified and to reopen it. The other thing is that if the City is going to do that, then it needs to be put in the advertising so people are clear that if the Council does not like someone who comes in and applies for a po- sition, the Council is going to reopen the posting to wait for someone the Council likes. Councilmember Etten stated in his six plus years he has been on the Council, he has never had this happen. He thought Councilmember Groff might have a point to make a policy going forward. For him, hearing this discussion, he does want to see a pool of candidates for each position. He was struck that everyone else can- celled and was not interested. He would want to interview a larger group of peo- ple before he would be comfortable making a decision on that. Mr. Trudgeon stated there is a policy that stated it was the goal to have twice the number of applicants to the vacancy. He was not sure how strong the language was regarding that but his experience has been to always try to do that in the past. Councilmember Laliberte stated she was comfortable having this conversation because she did recall that understanding and how that has been communicated to the public is up for debate. She did not think that anyone is saying that the two people interviewed are not qualified. She just wanted to say if that is Coun-