Minutes - Council Work Session - 05/10/2022

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Councilmember Heineman commented he thought they were all ready to hear it so he would be okay with that. Councilmember Musgrove commented part of it has to do with the hiring process for the new City Administrator so she would want to be sensitive to that and so is looking for City Attorney direction on whether candidate Interim City Administrator/Community Dev. Director Hagen should be present. Interim City Administrator/Community Dev. Director Hagen offered to step out. City Attorney Knaak replied he didn't know if there was a reason one way or another, it's up to him. Interim City Administrator/Community Dev. Director Hagen stepped out. Councilmember Musgrove stated she sent the email and has paper copies. She asked if Administrative Services Lasher Director wanted one. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied yes please. Councilmember Musgrove stated she was sorry if she didn't send one to Administrative Services Director Lasher. She asked if everyone was able to open the email. She wanted to bring this up because it is the first Work Session since the last meeting. She stated the Interim City Administrator is a candidate involved with this discussion so she couldn't bring it to him. The HR Manager is part of the subject of the discussion so she didn't feel comfortable bringing to her but she felt like it needed to be part of the public record. As a Council, she needed to know who she should be speaking to. As a Council, she wanted to be able to come to that decision about, if they have questions and concerns about the hiring process who do they go to. She stated that is part of her reason. She stated she basically has it presented out with the information which one candidate received which was different than another candidate, which lead one candidate to send an email saying "I'm not going to. And I'm basically thanking you." And then the prior City Administrator did the right thing in a corrective action and sent out an email and so she has questions about the City Administrator did the right thing,was there Staff discussion that warranted this response. Did the Staff and the City Attorney have a discussion on how to resolve this and are there any potential legal issues with what happened. Mayor Pro Tem Riley interrupted to state he is still reading the email. Councilmember Musgrove apologized. Mayor Pro Tem Riley stated he needed to do her a service, he couldn't listen to her and read this. He didn't mean to interrupt. The Council took time to read the email. City Council Work Session/May 10, 2022 Page 26 of 32