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<br />Councilmember Specht commented if they were in a contract with Stillwater they wouldn’t be able <br />to recruit Tim if they were in that last round with Ramsey, so it could go both ways. He would <br />still like to try to do it internally before investing money into it, even if it would mean hiring an <br />interim, then they could see what people are interested in. If after a few weeks they aren’t getting <br />the quality candidates needed, it would push the time back a bit but he felt the short timeframe <br />would be worth the savings. <br /> <br />Mayor Kuzma asked for a show of hands vote for going in-house versus outsourcing. <br /> <br />The majority Council vote was to do an internal recruitment. <br /> <br />Councilmember Heineman stated that recruiting is big and the elections are big also so anything <br />outside of those two things that are taking Administrative Service Director Lasher’s time, if <br />resources could be allocated to that so she could focus on these things and do them well would be <br />appropriate. <br /> <br />Administrative Service Director Lasher replied, not at this time, there is a lot going on. <br /> <br />Mayor Kuzma stated for the record that he feels like outsourcing recruitment should be done but <br />was willing to give it a chance and see how it goes. He has concerns about overloading. <br /> <br />Councilmember Howell asked if development of what they are looking for is going to be done <br />together or is Administrative Service Director Lasher going to be sending out what has been done <br />in the past and send feedback. <br /> <br />City Administrator Ulrich recommended using the current criteria used and have it on the Work <br />Session agenda for next week. <br /> <br />Councilmember Riley commented that he didn’t support the idea of throwing it out and see what <br />happens, because this is not a try, it is a do. If it is going to be done internally, it has to be done <br />right. He stated it shouldn’t be do it internally and see what happens and then find out if it could <br />be done another way, it has to be done right. He reiterated what Councilmember Heineman said, <br />if there are duties that need to be reallocated then this Council has made the decision that needs to <br />happen. <br /> <br />Administrative Services Director Lasher replied she takes a lot of pride in recruiting. She stated <br />she didn’t want to outsource when recruiting for Deputy City Administrator Hagen and she was <br />glad they didn’t as she is happy with the outcome even though it was a tremendous amount of <br />work. She stated that going into recruitment after Tim left, they had decided that they would <br />interview everyone who met the minimums because everyone has a different opinion. She <br />believed they did 21 first interviews and that was a tremendous amount of work and Staff <br />resources. She stated they will have to talk about how to manage that as there were evening <br />interviews and was a lot to manage with phone calls, scheduling and questions. She stated that the <br />number one suggestion in an effort to streamline the process is to try to not interview 21 people. <br />As far as redistricting and the elections, there is not a lot of room for making mistakes. She stated <br />City Council Special Work Session / February 15, 2022 <br />Page 6 of 31 <br /> <br />