Minutes - Council - 06/23/1975 - Special

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~;pecial Zeeting o:f: Ramsey City Counc~] June 2;5, 1975 C]71'A funds alnd /let a CETA employee, but rather get the best person avaJ. lable l:o do the job. blt. Steffen indicated that the City has fund~n~ i/or Mrs. Nelson's posit.ion for the next six months, ~:1r. Gotham stated that even though we have CETA funding, we still want the most qua].ified person for the position. . blt. Cox stated that the person in this position should be the most qu. alifJed and that if at present we do not have such a person then we better t,'et going and hire such a person. Mr. $Iickelson statect that as far ~s he knew at this. time Mrs. Nelson had not proved that st'!e is qualified and that the Council better find out whether or not she is. Mr. (;o~:ham .~ta'ted that he does not know if Mrs. Nelson is or is not qualif:iedo Mr. blickelson stated that Mrs. Nelson at this time has not accepted the responsibility but that maybe she needs more time and that someone needs l:o talk to her regarding her present employment~ bdro Cox ~';'a~qted that the person we have must be able to get the job done° We can't have anyone who is not willing to go forward. Mrs° Oliphant said that ~he ~s not in any position to tell how good Mrs. Nelson is at all hcx' job tasks. Mrs. Oliphant thinks that Mrs. Nelson does need direction; she has some reservation on moving her into blrs. Goy's position; she does think she works well under direction~ that maybe at the pre~ent she has too much free time but an administrative ~ssistant could perhaps resolve this problem. in summary~ Mrs° Oliphant feels that Mrs,' .Nelson could possibly handle a posJtio~t ot' initiative and responsibility but ~hat she would want to reserve.the final determination of this after appropriate tes'['.ing and observation, Mr, Mickelson stated that even if a person has direction if '[]~at ])erson does not have initiative then that person would not be a good employee. Mr, Gorham stated that if a person has no initiative then s~ch a person would not be a good receptionist/secretary as the C;ity i~ seeking to hire. Mrs~ Oliphant responded 'chat Mrs. Nelson has not been ~sufficiently tested to make a final determination~ b'ir~ Cox stab'Led th;~t if a person has leisure time, then he should have initiative · to ~o ahead. Mrs. Oliphant said that Mrs. Nelson does ask Mrs. Guy as to what she should do~ Mr. Gotham stated 'chat Mrs~ Nelson should be re-evaluated :i.n 30 days. That since we just asked the buildii'~g inspector/ assessor to resign, Mrs~ Nelson could act as a transition Mr~ Steffen indicated that since we were dealing with all personalities, we should also discuss Sue Thompson~ He stated that she needs '~raining in t_he bookkeeping function; that the Ci%y should either train Sue Thom-f>son. or M'rs~ Nelson in this bookkeeping area. Mr~ Gorham stated 2hat the problem of what we do with the building inspector/assessor position guide~ the other personnel decisions. He would like to see the following: (1) administrative assistant; (2) full time secretary/ rece])tJonist/bookkeeper; (3) building, inspector/assessor who would do his own oler.ical work. MF~ ~teffen doesn't feel that the City can get by with just o~-~e secretary. Ilo then a~ked about Mrs~ Nelson and what type of consensus the Council had arrived ;~i, regarding her position. Mr~ Cox stated that we should keep a t)uJldJ_n?, -in~pector/assessor as a full time position provided he does his own c].erical work. He stated that since Mr~ Thurston thinks this kind of job cz~n be done that this is a possibility. However, he indicated that the field service would be poor since the person occupying the