Minutes - Council Work Session - 09/03/2019 - Special

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amount of time on the recruitment and interview process. He stated that if the candidate were lost it would be a lot of time to go through that process again. City Administrator Ulrich confirmed that could be fit into the worksession. Administrative Services Director Lasher provided additional details on the recreational specialist position. She stated that interns are limited to 100 days or 640 hours and therefore cannot be kept beyond that time without developing a memorandum of understanding with the union. She stated that the part-time regular position would not be a good fit for an intern, as the person is running a program while Parks and Assistant Public Works Superintendent Riverblood completes higher level work. She noted that interns require a lot of handholding. She stated that Happy Days is a better fit for an intern as the staff person is available to provide daily direction and handholding. Councilmember Heinrich referenced the amount of time that is spent on the recruitment process. She explained that the Council that voted on decisions in the past is not the same Council that is voting on matters today. She agreed that it is not a good use of time to spend 10 weeks on something that is not approved. She stated that the Council will soon have another seat filled and the changing makeup of the Council should continue to be considered. Mayor LeTourneau briefly recessed the meeting at 7:35 p.m. Mayor LeTourneau reconvened the meeting at 7:43 p.m. City Administrator Ulrich asked for input on whether there is interest in attempting to recover additional revenue from ARAA. Councilmember Menth asked for clarification on the costs to the City to provide the service and the cost recouped from ARAA. Public Works Superintendent Riemer again provided those amounts for baseball/softball, soccer and football. Councilmember Musgrove asked the last time the rates were increased. Public Works Superintendent Riemer confirmed that the rates have remained mostly stagnant. Parks and Assistant Public Works Superintendent Riverblood stated that the rates have increased by perhaps one dollar every two years. He recognized that most of the participants of ARAA are Ramsey residents, while some participants are also from Anoka. He explained that in the past ARAA would request all of the fields to be prepared even though they may not be used. He noted that the fees were developed as a method of determining which fields actually needed to be prepared and would be used so that staff time was not wasted. He stated that Ramsey implemented the fees at the same time as Anoka in order for the two communities to remain consistent. City Council Special Work Session/September 3, 2019 Page 13 of 17