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126 SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING February 28, 1985 A special meeting of the Lino Lakes City Council was called to order by Mayor Benson at 6:38 P.M. Council members present: Bohjanen, Reinert, Marier, Kulaszewicz. City Administrator, Randy Schumacher and City Clerk - Treasurer were also present. Mayor Benson explained the purpose of this meeting was to conduct the final interviews with the three Chief of Police candidates and make a selection of Chief. Mr. Schumacher outlined for the Council the process he has followed until this point: Establish criteria and advertise for applicants, received 22 applications, narrowed down to 12 people and conducted preliminary interviews; requested additional informational materials from the 12 people; narrowed to 6 people, conducted lengthy inter- view with the committee (Chief of Police from White Bear, Phil Major; Captain Hoogestraat from Anoka County MCIU; Councilman Marier and Randy Schumacher); conducted in- basket testing and psychological evaluation, intellectual tests, graded and ranked; committee met two additional times and reviewed the information along with exchanging information on the interview and narrowed it down to the three (3) final candidates. It was the goal of the committee to make a final recommendation to the Council and this recommendation was contained in a memo to the Council. Mr. Reinert asked if any of the original candidates have been noti- fied they were not among the final candidates. Mr. Schumacher said no, the reason being that if any of the final candidates were dropped the City would not have to go back and start of the process just outlined. Mr. Schumacher suggested the outline for tonight should be: request each applicant to come before Council, give a brief past personal history of themselves, explanation of their past job experience why they wanted the position in the first place and what the candi- date thought of the interview process. The City Council can then question the applicant. Mr. Craig Angerson, who is currently a supervisor with South Minnetonka police department (four city joint powers agreement department - Excelsior, Shorewood, Greenwood, Tonka Bay) explained his background in police protection. He feels he would be comfortable in this area and is interested in the community. He indicated there is a lot of potential for police growth in this area. Mr. Anderson indicated that the interview process was quite lengthy but felt it was the only way to insure the best candidate be selected for the position. The Council asked him several questions and thanked him for coming this evening.