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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Case #2: Assistant to City Administrator Update City Administrator Schroeder stated that he is recommending interviewing five of the applicants fo]r the position of Assistant to the City Administrator. He included an additional five applicanB for Committee perusal should they feel that more should be interviewed. He inquired what process the Committee would like to follow. Councilmemb_. er Beahen felt that five was a good number. Mayor Hardirl stated he had not looked through the applications, but that he is comfortable with five also. Councilmember Beyer noted that the consensus was to grant an interview to five of the applicants. Consensus o~ the Committee was to conduct the interviews on Wednesday, March 22, 1995, beginnihg at 4:30 p.m. Discussion ensued regarding calling in an outside panel to assist with the interviews. Mr. Schroeder suggested having City Administrator/Personnel Director types. Councilmembe~r Beyer agreed but cautioned that too many people is intimidating. Consensus of the Committee was to invite a couple of extra people in the human resource field. They als0 suggested that the entire Council be offered the opportunity to interview. Case #3: Temporary Staffing City Administrg. tor Schroeder stated that the City has started hiring the part-time summer help. The position in the streets department has not yet been filled. We will have two people come o~ board early in the parks as a reaction to the requests/complaints by RYAA. Also budgeted (Vas two interns; Kendra Lindahl has started as of today. CouncilmembeV Beyer inquired if Council doesn't have to approve of these people. Mr. Schroeder replied no, the positions are approved at budget time; it's basically the same each year. Case #4: COPS FAST Grant Police Chief Au~pos stated that Ramsey was recently notified of a preliminary approval for one police officelr through the United States Department of Justice COPS FAST Program (COPS). This p~ogram will provide 75 percent of the wage and benefit cost, not to exceed $75,000 over a t~hree-year period, of a police officer. He explained that in Ramsey, it is expected that acceptance of the funding will commit us to an expenditure of $10,088.25 over the first 12 ~onths. This increases to an estimated $10,941.75 for the second year and $30,386.00 ~o.r the third year. The total cost to Ramsey is estimated at $50,966. It appears that only~the fa'st year of the funding is secure. Subsequent years are subject to the same budget shills as any federal program. The COPS grant is requesting funding for a 1996 patrol officer when such was not projected within the staffing plan. However, it is probable that hadiwe known at the time that the projected $40,353 cost could be reduced to $10,088.25, a different decision would have been made. Chief Auspos continued that the 1995 officer start~ work on February 27, 1995. Hence, we experienced a budget savings of approximately ~;6,700 due to this delay. However, a different wage and benefit expense Personnel Committee/March 14, 1995 Page 3 of 4 O/