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WAYS AND MEANS COUNCIL MEETING MAY 11, 1987 The Ways and Means Council meeting was called to order by Mayor Benso at 6:05 P.M. by Mayor Benson. Members present: Marier, Bisel, Bohjanen, Reinert. Members absent: none. City Administrator, Randy Schumacher and Clerk- Treasurer, Marilyn Anderson were also present. Mayor Benson stated the purpose of the meeting is the continuation of employee evaluations. He summarized the previous meeting of the Ways and Means Committee meeting. Mr. Schumacher noted he had sent a memorandum to the Council since the last meeting. The first portion of the memorandum deals with the percent of increase for Chief Campbell. Mr. Schumacher had calculated a 6% increase in salary, however the percent is actually 5 %. The second part of the memorandum requested that the Council call him or write him a note if they wanted additional information for specific employees. No calls or notes were received from the Council. Mr. Reinert questioned Mr. Volk's evaluation regarding his performance. He had thought Mr. Volk was one of the better employees. Mr. Schumacher noted that those comments were directed toward his performance in mid 1986. That was almost a year ago. He has some personal interests that did detract from his work but since this was brought to his attention, the situation has been rectified. Mr. Reinert asked in terms of total employee availability of an employee, particularily those who are department heads, there are several who do not live close to work and if something did come up it would not be easy to get here. He asked if this was a factor in employee evaluations. Mr. Schumacher said this was not a factor. It would be if the department head were involved in life and death situations. Mayor Benson asked if it were a good practice to keep department heads close to the job. Mr. Schumacher said he did not see a problem, the biggest concern is that when there is a night meeting, that particular department head cannot go home for dinner and return in time for the meeting. However, this does leave some quality time for that department head to get something accomplished between the regular work hour and the meeting. Mr. Schumacher noted that state law is very specific in that the City cannot require that an employee live within the corporate boundry. Comparable Worth was discussed. Mr. Marier said one problem he has with this requirement is that it requires that the City pay for a particular job. It does not provide an incentive to do a good job since you will get paid what the job is worth. Mr. Bisel said he was still having a problem with the concept. Mr. Bohjanen asked if the PAGE 1