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Evaluation Criteria for Vacant and New Positions 1. Is the position essential? Essential positions are those that provide core public health and safety services; emergency and disaster assistance; and preservation of the essential elements of the City's financial activities. This position would be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the city's drinking water supply and the sanitary sewer system. Both are core public health services. This position would also be part of our snow removal operation and would provide disaster assistance as needed. 2. Is the position critical? Critical positions are positions that are, for example, one -position job classes or positions with duties that cannot be modified, reassigned or eliminated. Detailed responses to the following questions will be required in determining whether or not a position is "critical" to providing high -quality services to residents, business owners and/or employees: • Explain how this position is key to achieving the strategic goals identified by the City Council. This position would be key in achieving the Strategic Imperative IV "An Effective Organization" This position would be directly responsible for maintaining our water and sewer infrastructure. Under the Public Works Department Plan for 2013-2015 our responsibility to our external customers (residents and business owners) is to provide efficient and effective delivery of basic public services, such as safe and well maintained roads, clean drinking water, and functioning storm water and sanitary sewer systems. This position would help us achieve all of those requirements. • Can the duties be re -engineered or automated? Please explain. No. Most of the responsibilities of this position require physical contact to maintain/inspect our utility infrastructure. • Can the duties be reassigned temporarily or permanently? Please explain. Some of the duties could be temporarily reassigned but the majority of the job cannot. A core function of this job is daily contact with our sewer and water infrastructure. It is essential that the maintenance worker be familiar with the location of valves, manholes, lift stations, and what part of the system they service. They also need to be familiar with the SCADA system. This is a software program that monitors all of the city's wells, lift stations, and water towers.