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