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to be done, for example, are the people that report to the council have to have performance appraisals. To the best of his knowledge, he has never participated in performance appraisals. It is my understanding that we have not routinely given a performance appraisals. I would oppose having two people reporting to the Council instead of one because it puts additional burden on the Council to manage those people directly and secondly I don’t feel it is an effective management structure. We talked about reorganizing the Fire Dept. to make it more orderly and straight forward and think we should take our own advice. I feel quite strongly that this is a bad way to go. We have been 15 mos into the process, we made the decision that we are going to conduct the search, committed $20,000 to conduct the search, the search is almost complete, look at candidate in just a few days, and now we are going to change direction. Briemeyer – But Dean that is the piece that I should write that out, like the performance appraisal, maybe the CA should still do the performance appraisal on the planner, that doesn’t prevent the planner from reporting to the Council, that doesn’t prevent the performance appraisal going to the Council. Johnston: I understand that and I am speaking against it. DeLapp: I support the initial proposal, and support the comments that I understood from Council member Dunn. I am a strong believer in having as flat an organization as possible and low cost organization and an empowered one. I think everybody has prven right ow that over these 15 mos. that with a few bugs, like the fence, grabs ahold ofhings and tried to get things downon their own, they don’t need tohave two people do everything somebody looking over everybodys shoulder. If we get a working administraotor who actually has work to do, rather than sit there and tell Sharon how to do her job which she would have to tell them, no that isn’t how we would do it. We are short a position. I thought that position would be better as as asst planner, I would support it as a higher level finance person that could also deal with personnel issues with the idea that we wouldn’t have to hire out for that portion of the work. Probably woult have tohiare out for planning issues at that point. Anything to do to flatten things out. I don’t even like the title CA, rather have personnel director. Breimery: You can have it flat, but you have to assign responsibiities. Siedow: Hange the scope of the city admin job we should not be doing it per Sidow. We are just bakstepping and am totally against it. I don’t even like the title of CA, rather have Dunn thepriarmy atribut4es finane, personnel, different tasks are still cross funitonal doesn’t hafe aproblem with that scenario. Briemery ca positon has the responsibility to hire positions. YUou ofculd hagve eafh ep heards eafch report to the council. If you go this way,k rewrite the profile and draft it by the Council and Chuck and ten go to the candidates and see if this is on it works. Johnston said we have to look at what we need to do to keep that organizational hat need to be done. Performance appriasial he undersnad hae not been done. Feel strongly this is a bad way to go.