Minutes - Council Work Session - 03/01/2022 - Special

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Administrative Services Director Lasher stated the purpose of this discussion is to consider a detailed recruitment process and timeline for the City Administrator position. In addition, the City Council may wish to look at ways to consider a shortened recruitment schedule in order to reduce the amount of time the city functions without a city administrator. She reviewed the staff report including the advertising outlets. She stated that given Staff capacity the position has not been posted yet as outlined on the timeline in the case. City Administrator Ulrich stated he received comments from Councilmember Riley who asked if the requirements could be tightened up, the education and experience acceptable to Council in that it is really broad. He stated Councilmember Riley also asked if the number of days in the position is the number of the days that the position is advertised open enough. Councilmember Specht replied he is comfortable with the education requirement and with the timeline, as it made sense. He stated he appreciated the work that went in to that. Councilmember Howell commented that she liked Councilmember Riley’s point in making sure it is open long enough. She asked if there was a way to extend applications through the entire month of March to ensure everyone is captured. She read where it says “agreement negotiated” and there is a five day window after that between May 5, 2020 May 10, 2022 if there is a way to tighten that up to gain days on the front end. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied that negotiating the agreement would include the City Attorney and asked if the request was to shorten the negotiation. Councilmember Howell corrected she is asking if there is way to shorten the days after the negotiation when the person is actually hired. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied they have to align the authorization to hire with a Council meeting, which is how she arrived at that date. Councilmember Howell thanked her for answering her question. Councilmember Musgrove commented that she liked how the City profile was done with the use of the City photos, which was a nice way of presenting the information. She felt it was really done well. She agreed with Councilmember Howell to leave the application window open through the end of March. She cited two reasons, one being to accommodate Staff time to get all of the positions posted on the different sites acknowledging that the different sites have different deadlines; and, closing it on March 20, 2022 versus leaving it open another week would open another week that people could potentially see the ad and apply. Councilmember Heineman commented that if the process is being moved along, going from March 2, 2022 or March 3, 2022 to March 20, 2022 is still 17 days, over two weeks and is two weeks too short. Councilmember Musgrove replied the question is if the paper doesn’t publish it until a week later then how many days is that, so then its more like ten days. City Council Special Work Session / March 1, 2022 Page 8 of 15