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Mayor Kuzma replied he didn't want the Council to get in trouble. Councilmember Howell thought having a line about the applicant being a registered voter and not being a current City Councilmember was important in getting where they want to go to move forward. Councilmember Heineman commented there are obvious limitations to what the Council can control because it is a different appointing body,but theoretically under this policy someone sitting in a Charter Commission seat could run for City Council and serve on both. He asked if that was correct. Councilmember Woestehoff replied if it is part of the recruitment policy, yes. Councilmember Heineman stated if it is part of the recruitment policy the Council could disallow that, but he is saying if a current Charter Member ran for City Council they could still serve on both boards because they wouldn't go through the recruitment process because they are already in office. City Attorney Knaak replied that is correct, as long as the Charter doesn't prevent them from doing that. Councilmember Riley commented he liked the direction the draft is going but would like to see a cleaned up version with all the pages. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied absolutely. She referenced a paragraph under the heading Mid-Year Vacancy. She asked if they had that page. The Council did not. She stated she will clean the document up and email it out so they can discuss it again. She stated it was ideas Councilmember Musgrove and Councilmember Howell had about looking for a candidate that had, and she read "an interest in history, government, philosophy, law, literature, political science and further understand that wisdom and knowledge are not solely possessed by those who have acquired degrees,the City Council requires each applicant to be evaluated on their own merits and quality of application rather than necessarily hold degrees in the afore mentioned fields." She stated what this meant when application information is sent to the judge there would be a cover letter that says these are traits Council is looking for in an applicant. She stated questions would also be added to the application to try to pull that out. She asked if she stated it correctly. Councilmember Howell replied,yes. She stated the idea was to better inform the judge with things that would be relevant for someone applying for the position and not limiting an applicant who has a high school degree but has an interest in these areas to be able to serve and for the Council to be able to articulate that well. She stated she didn't want to limit anyone from applying but wanted the judge to take these things into consideration when making their choice that these things are important to the Council. Councilmember Woestehoff replied he liked the overall idea of that but thought that as part of the policy, on an annual basis, for the Council to come up with a specific 20 minute Work Session to discuss what they are looking for in a Charter Commission that year so the letter is reflective of City Council Work Session/April 12, 2022 Page 7 of 18