Minutes - Council - 07/08/1976 - Special

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... I Special Meeting C/July 8, 1976 'l?~,:Je.13 Mayor Cox asked Mr. Walker if he felt the Personnel Committee has not spoke candidly with him. Mr. Walker said on a man to man basis he could not relate that. On first display (their first recommendation coming the night of the Council meeting and that being my first look at it) it was uncandid, it was poor and I informed them so. felt the last most recent one was handled Jrore properly. was a session of , accusation, not of counseling and help. He said he had a talk session with the 'Mayor and he (thE! Mayor) thanked him and .toldhim. he.is doing a good job. Mayor Cox replied that he had complimented Mr. Walker on specific jobs he is doing well. He said he makes comments only on specific jobs to all employees whenever I feel that they have perJrormed well. Mr. Walker said that he was relating to the Mayor that he had been candid wi th . him. and has:~ never told him that:he did a bad' job. Mayor Cox: We both had strongly at You (Mr. Walker, and I have gotten into heated discussions. strong feelings in regard to the situation and we talked quite · each other. I intended to make my point clear. Mayor Cox: AnYJrore questions? Councilwoman Oliphant: How will we proceed? t M:r;. Walker will respond next. ~;g~~~ Mayor Cox called the meeting back to order. Councilwoman Oliphant: I have additional comments, but not appropriate at this. time. It maybe appropriate to give citizens a chance to comment. Mayor Cox said Mrs. Oliphant's statement may be a chance for her to make points ,however, we decided we would hear all sides of this. He said that citizens willJrost certainly pe heard if not tonight, they may speak at a continued meeting. Councilman Gorham said wait and see what comes .of this tonight, we plan to end the meeting at 11 :00 p.m. Mayor Cox said he has some dissatisfaction in his mind about the report and wants questions answered. No 4 is. the one the Personnel Commi ttee said there were primarily concerned about, Mr. Walker has not proven leadership qualities, this is the important item. Councilman Gorham replied that was correct. Mayor Cox said he would like clarification on why the Personnel Committee feels he has not proven leadership. What prompted No.3? Councilman Gorham: As Council, we had a decision to make to go to Assistant Administrator position and we talked about it at many Council meetings, Mr. Reimann and myself felt we needed leadership abilities in the City Hall. We felt the thing to do 'at the time was to go to Asst. Administrator because we needed leadership ability at City Hall and as I pointed out earlier that No. 3 and 4 were important parts of this report.", But No.4 is a vital reason why we fought so hard to have an Asst. Administrator for the City of Ramsey, instead of what we were doing at that point and we still hqVe tasks not being done on time. The Building Commi ttee mailing, newsletter on the tree sale, Bicentennial parade, C6uncil minutes not out on time. NO..response after one, two or three requests. No.4, as far as leadership quality,~e lacked most strongly of all. First time this was brought out was when Council decided we would keep the minutes of the Personnel Committee meeting. Mr. Walker decided what the full Council did was not right and did show those minutes to employees and does not prove leadership qualities. Mr. casper's probation periOd, this situation probably made the Council look bad. I asked Assistant Administrator Walker if we should give him a raise and got no answer, and on the assessing, once the assessor makes a mistake and it is brought to the attention of the Asst. Administrator in the office it shouldn't happen the second time. We could n. -h,IF.:! :;) v If)