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Mayor & City Council Page 3 December 15, 1995 - Additional involvement with Market Place Morning Talks. These are areas of expansion that have been formally discussed to -date, and there is the potential of more to follow. However, implementing these requires time. Much of that time needs to be put in during the day, as opposed to the evenings and weekends when most of the youth activities occur. * Several new youth activities have been offered in the past couple of years, along with changes in existing programs. Some of these were a direct result of Michelle's input from her experiences with programs in other cities that she has worked for. With her working for us on a full -time basis, I am confident that we would have the staffing necessary to accomplish the offering of even more of these youth activities, plus being able to further enhance our existing programs. * There presently exists many other areas that I would like to see have Department involvement. For example, we have been requested by the School District to have someone from the Parks & Recreation staff be on the Community Education Advisory Committee. This would, in part, involve attending additional meetings. As you can see by the documentation of hours worked by the present staff, I do not have the time and both Jack and Michelle are already exceeding the ten hours per week that their salary is based on. In my discussions with them, even with additional compensation, neither of them has any extra time available to work for the City. I feel the hours by themselves that are presently being worked by the Parks & Recreation staff more than justify the hiring of Michelle on a full -time basis and that is what I base my recommendation on. However, there are other points that should be considered in addition to the ones mentioned thus far. * Jack has given notice of resignation at the end of 1996. * Maple Grove Parks & Recreation (where Michelle is also working) is budgeting for an additional full -time position to begin sometime in 1996. Michelle is a very probable candidate for that job, and would not be able to work for Little Canada in her present capacity if she accepted that job. Considering these two points, the best case scenario would be that we will have to replace Michelle at an unknown time during 1996 and also replace Jack at the end of 1996. If we chose to replace both of them with the same number of employees, employment conditions, and amount of hours, it would be advantageous, and I Page 3