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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORK SESSION DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 3 DATE : June 8, 2020 4 TIME STARTED : 8:40 p.m. 5 TIME ENDED : 9:50 p.m. 6 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Stoesz, Lyden, Ruhland, 7 Cavegn and Mayor Rafferty 8 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 9 Staff members present: Human Resources Manager Karissa Bartholomew; Public Safety 10 Director John Swenson 11 12 City Administrator Position – Human Resources Manager Bartholomew outlined items 13 that staff would ask the council to discuss: 14 15 - The type of City Administrator position that the council is offering to Ms. Cotton; 16 there has been discussion of certain restructuring that would have Ms. Cotton 17 continuing to perform the high level Finance Director duties; 18 - Establish details of an employment agreement. 19 20 The council had received information on wage possibilities as well as a proposed 21 employment agreement. 22 23 Mayor Rafferty remarked that the council has recently discussed the possibility of Ms. 24 Cotton maintaining some of the duties of the Finance Director and has heard from Ms. 25 Cotton the type of restructuring that she envisions would make that work. That 26 restructuring would include some positions changes that would be permanent. He is 27 concerned about being thoughtful about the impact on Ms. Cotton of making the 28 Administrator position perhaps too large. He remarked that it may be appropriate to fill 29 the space that needs to be filled (Finance Director) and thus allow the City Administrator 30 to fill their role without the added responsibilities. 31 32 Councilmember Stoesz asked if the council intends to consider officially approving the 33 recently reviewed Keystone compensation study/wage plan. Ms. Bartholomew indicated 34 that was going to be one of her questions to the council, if they would like to see the 35 compensation matter before them again at a work session or consider it as part of 36 upcoming budget discussions; moving on a compensation plan would require formal 37 council action at some point. Councilmember Stoesz said he envisions discussion as part 38 of budget consideration. He added that he thinks that the working model of City 39 Administrator and Finance Director that currently exists is preferable at this time. Being a 40 City Administrator is Ms. Cotton’s goal and he wants to assist her in anyway in being 41 successful. 42 43