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Hagen was in her contact list. She asked if she wished she hadn't sent a text at one something in the morning, and answered, absolutely, she wished she had not sent that text. She stated she maybe ought to stop trying to work 24-hours a day because it is not getting her very far. Councilmember Specht stated he appreciated the information. He stated it was well rounded and helped fill in some gaps and questions, which was great. He stated he appreciated Administrative Services Director Lasher taking responsibility for the time and thanked her for that and for the information. Councilmember Musgrove asked Administrative Services Director Lasher if she also agreed that the minutes of the Administrative discussion meeting ended with a pause on the process until they got further information back. In other words, everything was the same until the Council was able to come back to have a discussion until after the results came back. She believed the minutes will reflect that the hiring process was put on pause waiting for those results until they could have a further discussion about it, look at those results, and once again as a Council come to a decision. She stated that is part of their role as the body and direction. She stated her understanding was that they all left that meeting that night and the hiring process was on pause. There was no more calculating who was going to go forward, who was not, it was on pause. She asked if Administrative Services Director Lasher would say if that is an accurate reflection of the end of the meeting and that is what the minutes also show. Administrative Services Director Lasher replied she would say if they looked at the 30 seconds on the tape that may be assumed to be correct. She stated she stands by the fact that this recruitment was put on pause only for Mr. Hagen to be able to get in and have an additional test. That is the truth. She stated a policy could be developed that texts don't go out past 5:30 p.m. or something like that, but that is the truth. She stated she simply followed through on her word because if someone has gone through the entire process, how draining that is. She stated frankly they put him through the wringer because they are very thorough. She repeated she as just following through on her word. She stated she made a bad decision to send a text,but a text does not warrant asking for her dismissal. Councilmember Musgrove stated part of the situation that ended in that discussion was we had a City Administrator who is a candidate, it was our former City Administrators last day that part of this was transpiring, and they tried to address some of the concerns with the Attorney. She stated her thought in bringing that forward was her best, and she admitted she is not the greatest at it, attempting to bring it to a Council discussion. She stated her fellow Councilmembers said there is nothing to see here and there are a lot of other things that they are trying to do instead of looking at the issues and addressing them. She believed they did herself and Councilmember Howell a disservice instead of saying as a Council they can make a decision-making process which didn't help because she thought people attributed motives instead of looking at an issue and saying someone felt like it was not accurate or right, they sent out emails after looking at it again after it was brought to their attention. She stated that happened to be City Administrator who did that on his last day. Mayor Kuzma stated he concurred with Administrative Services Director Lasher that when the Council left that meeting, they were on pause for Brian Hagen. Mr. Korin was out, there was no City Council/May 24, 2022 Page 12 of 21