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PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS Value to the City Budgets are tight. Residents are looking to Staff and Council to make decisions that improve quality of life while being fiscally responsible. TKDA is the right choice to provide for your City Engineering services. We will: 1. Build on the already - established processes to continue to reduce fees. 2. Continually search for ways to more efficiently deliver services without compromising quality. 3. Utilize City staff to assist the engineering department with tasks such as administrative mailings, permitting, and infrastructure oversight. 4. Propose TKDA staff that is most cost effective to meet the project requirements. 5. Tap into relationships locally and regionally to better serve the community. -' Approach to Communication Effective communication is the key to a successful relationship between engineering staff, City Council, Administrator and Staff, the public, and the media. Jim will continue to use effective methods of communication including face to face, telephone, and emails, along with technical review memorandums, -- engineering studies, and construction documents. Reports, memorandums, and letters will be used extensively to document key decisions for future reference. Weekly staff meetings are a critical and effective tool for the provision of cost effective and efficient public services. Staff meetings between the City Engineer and the City staff including the Community Development Director, Planners, and Building Officials are held weekly to review engineering staff priorities and to get direction on project issues. These meetings help to ensure that the engineering department is working only on necessary assignments that cannot be handled by other City staff. TKDA ENGINEERING • ARCHITECTURE • PLANNING Jim is also responsible for preparing Agenda Statements for Council meetings. When making presentations to City Councils it is important to provide the appropriate amount of information to assist them in making an informed and educated decision and to preserve the official record for the matter being decided. Presentations must be carefully executed to help the City Council make decisions, being careful to stay high level and focused on key points adding detail only as support. An example of a weekly engineering update used for the City of Lino Lakes is included at the end of this Proposal. Surface water improvements in Lino Lakes, MN City of Lino Lakes 1 City Engineering Services 14