Agenda - Council Work Session - 02/15/2022 - Special

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IV. FIRM QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING This section presents our qualifications to conduct projects of this type and describes the staff to be assigned to the search. A. Firm Qualifications Mercer Group Associates is an independent management consulting consortium operating nation- wide and providing exceptionally high -quality management consulting services to state and local governments, "joint powers" entities, state municipal leagues and special districts. Specialty practice areas include: executive recruitment, organization and operations analysis, productivity improvement, strategic planning, management systems, compensation/classification studies, government consolidation, organization development, privatization, budget evaluation, training, and general management consulting. Our key consultants have conducted successful searches and studies for hundreds of public sector organizations nationally and we can offer numerous references as testimony of our work. (Please see www.mercergroupassociates.com for more information about our firm.) B. Resume of Lead Associate Jim Miller, Senior Associate - Minnesota Office Mr. Miller will undertake and be responsible for all aspects of this recruitment. He retired in July, 2015 after 22 years as the Executive Director of the League of Minnesota Cities. The League represents over 850 cities providing training for elected and appointed officials, legislative representation, research, insurance, and investment pooling among other services. It has over 100 employees, with a $20 million operating budget and combined assets of about $1 billion including its insurance and investment programs. Previously, Mr. Miller was City Manager of Minnetonka, Minnesota for thirteen years. He has over forty-five years of local government experience and has worked in seven cities in five states, including: Eau Claire, Brown Deer, and Janesville, Wisconsin; Phoenix, Arizona; Monroeville, Pennsylvania; and Des Moines, Iowa. He has served on numerous Boards of Directors including the National League of Cities and as chair of its Risk Information Sharing Consortium, a membership association of state league sponsored risk sharing pools in 34 states and two Canadian provinces. He is also a Past President of the League of Minnesota Cities. In 1991, then Governor Carlson appointed him to the Minnesota Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. He holds a BA degree (University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire) two MPA degrees (University of Pittsburgh and Nova Southeastern University) and a DPA degree (Nova Southeastern University) and was awarded a Bush fellowship to attend the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard University. 8.