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REQUEST FOR HRA ACTION <br />Date: 03-20-07 <br />Item No: 8.b. <br />Staff Approval: Agenda Section: <br />CB/.iS Action Items <br />Item Description: Consideration of future staffing alternatives. <br />1.0 Background <br />1.1 At its regular meetings on Januaryl6 and February 20, 2007, the HRA discussed <br />alternatives for its continued staffing needs. <br />1.2 At those meetings, three specific options were provided by the Acting Executive <br />Director Cathy Bennett and Community Development Director John Stark Those <br />options included: <br />1.2(a} Option �: Continuing to employ Cathy Bennett as the Executive Director; <br />1.2(b) Option 2: Creating a Housing CoaxdinatorlHRA Executive Director position <br />with the City's Community Developn�ezxt Department, and; <br />I2(c} Option 3: Having the Community Development Director serve as the HRA <br />Executive Director with additional Conlinunity Development staffing to help <br />support the HRA and its housing programs. <br />13 As directed by the HRA, a comparison of the costs and dedication of hourly services <br />to the HRA for each of the above three options has been prepared. Based on the <br />assumptionsmade in preparingthis comparison, a11 three options fall withinthe HRA <br />budget for 2007 personnel costs. <br />1.4 In discussions with City Manager Bill Malinen, his preference for future HRA <br />staffing is Option 3(utilizing the CD Director as the Executive Director with <br />additional support staffing). <br />1.5 Options 2 or 3 would require subsequent actions by the City Council to create new <br />positions in city staffing regardless of whether that staffing was financially supported <br />by the HRA. <br />�3:�k Ft7U_rr_Sri�� �{�_0; �- Page 1 of 2 <br />