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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April 24, 2023 Page 16 thought it made sense to have a separate application for reappointment that specifically gets to questions that relate to reappointment. Mayor Roe asked if there was any objection to looking at a separate application procedure for reappointment. The Council agreed with that. Mayor Roe suggested using the questions that were used during the interview process for reappointment. He thought it would be appropriate if staff drafted a reappointment application and brought that back to the Council for approval. Councilmember Strahan stated it would be nice for the reappointment application to have separate questions, shorter questions, and speak to what the applicant learned or highlight accomplishments. Councilmember Schroeder indicated while looking at the procedure statement of reappointments in the document, it says that if the person wants to reapply, those most recent applicants being longer than three years will be asked to submit a new application. She wondered what would happen if the person only served two years. Mayor Roe thought this could be amended. He also thought the application process related to if there are not two times the number of openings worth of applicants could be amended. He noted there is always the option to not reopen the position, but he wondered if it made sense to retook at the policy and maybe amend it to be instead of two times the number of applicants, to be two more than the number of vacancies. He wanted to give the Council some more flexibility instead of always feeling boxed in and thought that slightly relaxing the standard might make sense. Councilmember Etten felt that the Council has the discretion to do that, if needed. He indicated he was not ready to get into special calculations or anything like that. Mayor Roe asked if there were any comments on the front end of the process. Councilmember Etten would like to see questions within the application itself for new Commission applicants that have changed from a year ago. He noted there was a question in the application before that was very helpful to him when people were answering it. He would like to look back and compare those. Councilmember Strahan explained she would also appreciate having input from Assistant City Manager Olson on the application process as far as making sure the questions would be appropriate to ask a job applicant. There are certain things in a job application that should not be asked because that information could be seen as discriminatory if the person was not selected. She would like to make sure that the