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She asked if it was biased to email him sooner than the other candidate, and answered absolutely not. She had Mr. Hagen's contact information in her phone and she sent him a very quick text. She stated she went home, had to look up Mr. Korin's contact information,which was public since he was a finalist. She stated she fell asleep. She stated she woke up in the middle of the night, as she often does stressing about work, and said to herself"oh I didn't follow through on my word." She stated she was tired and should not have sent the text at that time. She wished she had not. She stated she stood by the content of her text because in her mind 100% he was not being considered for the City Administrator position, he was being considered for a part-time consultant role referred to by Councilmember Heineman as "a defacto part-time position to use his skill to give guidance and balance the books until Mr. Hagen got established in his new position." She stated that is in the minutes, that is in the audio that is stored in the City's LaserFisch site, if you go to City of Ramsey.com click on documents, click on meeting audio, it is there. She stated Councilmember Heineman also stated at that time that he would only consider Mr. Hagen if candidate Mark Korin was allowed to serve as an Operations Advisor. She stated Councilmember Heineman also stated he felt that creating a part-time position that reports to the City Council would be an asset to Mr. Hagen and to provide on-going mentorship but not authority over Staff. She stated the minutes go on and on. She stated there was no circumstance where candidate number two would have passed the Council vote to be appointed. She stated she made a chart sitting in her recliner at home and under every circumstance the motion would have failed. Hire candidate Mark Korin flat out: four no's, three yes's. Hire Brian Hagen flat out: three yes's, four no's. Hire Brian Hagen if he showed growth on his test with candidate Korin, again that would not have passed. There was one suggestion, potentially, to hire one candidate first and then three years later hire another candidate. That did not gain any ground. She stated the only thing that was clear to her, and anyone who wants to listen to the audio because it is on the site for complete transparency, was that the recruitment was being put on hold to allow time for Brian Hagen to go and take an additional test and then the conversation would be resumed. If Brian Hagen was deemed not to be appointed, they were reopening the recruitment. She stated she had referred to the minutes quite a bit with Councilmember Heineman's statements and asked him if there was anything she had said that was not true. Councilmember Heineman replied, no what Administrative Services Director Lasher said was accurate. He stated he thought the thing that, as they discussed, came to light is there was not a path forward for Mr. Korin. He had said he would vote for Mr. Hagen after giving him the opportunity to retest and improve because over the last six months there was growth that could be shown in that report and that would be the best to show their due diligence. He stated, no that was the summary. He admitted things moved a little quick after that meeting with Mr. Korin writing the email and the response that the City sent back to them, especially while he was gone for some military training. When the conversation happened that was a clear representation. He stated he didn't see that at first to be honest. He thought that was very strange at first,but later on he realized that was correct and that was the way it played out. Administrative Services Director Lasher stated will all due respect, she didn't feel like this is policy. She stated to be sitting in a public meeting on May 10, 2022 and have a handout distributed because she followed through on her word and updated a candidate on their status at an agreed inappropriate time of the day, to propose dismissing her is very hurtful. To imply that she has favoritism to Brian Hagen because of the time the text was sent is ridiculous. She repeated Mr. City Council/May 24, 2022 Page 11 of 21