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000098 May 12, 1980 The next item is dealing with engineering. Mr. Schumacher felt that this City should have more than one engineering firm for consultation an various items. He felt that no one engineering firm has in -house staff to handle all the various needs this City has. Mr. Schumacher felt that the City would get a better quality of work and there would not be the question of conflict of interest. Mr. Schumacher has discussed this with the current City Engineer and he has no problem with this proposal. Mr. Schumacher has researched some engineering firmas and would recommend to this Council the firm of Orr, Schellng Marian - OSM to work with the City on projects where additional expertise is needed or a conflict of interest may arise. This firm has a very diverse staff including gas utilities. Mr. McLean asked if this firm has a hydrolagical engineer and Mr. Schumacher felt they did not, but he felt that Barr Engineering would be requested to assist in that field. This firm would be consulted only by Council direction. Mr. McLean moved that OSM be listed as additional consultant for engineering. Seconded by Mr. Kulaszewicz. Motion carried unanimously. The next item was to consider ending the City Administrator's probationary period. Mr. Kulaszewicz so moved. Seconded by Mr. McLean. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. McLean noted that a salary consideration was to be made at the end of this probationary. This salary would increase from $25,500 to $27,000 per year at the end of that period. Mayor Gourley moved to approve this salary increase to become effective May 1, 1980. Seconded by Mr. Kulaszewicz. Motion carried unanimously. The next salary item on the agenda was the consideration of the Clerk's adjustment for 1980. Mr. Schumacher explained that when the other ad- justments were made he had requested additional time in order to make a more clear definitions between the duties of the two offices. He also pointed out there are no parallels to be drawn as to Clerk's salaries. He recommended a 9.5% salary increase retroactive to Jan 1, 1980. This 9.5% that includes the 5% that had been given at the first of the year.- Mr. Schumacher noted that the Clerk receives $20.00 for H &W - he recommended this be added to the salary. ..Mr. McLean moved to approve this salary in --- crease with the $20.00 to be added to the salary. There was some discussion on the payroll tax on this money. The motion was seconded by Mr. Kulaszewicz. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Schumacher presented the matter of a intern for this City. The person he had interviewed lives. in Brainard, goes to school in St. Cloud, he will need to move down here for a period of 10 to 12 weeks. Mr. Schumacher asked for some ideas from the Council as to where this person could live for that period of time since there are no apartments in the City. There had been a expense figure of $200.00 mentioned at a previous Council meeting. Mayor Gourley asked they think about this matter. Mr. Schumacher felt that a study of the current fees of the City and the recommendations for up- grading would be one of the areas where this person would work, also in maping out the City owned properties. 1 1 1