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Lake Elmo Agenda Section: Administrator No. 11B. City Council January 17, 2005 Agenda Item: Begin hiring process on Assistant City Planner and Engineer. During the Budget process for 2006, four new positions were planned for and budgeted. Those positions are Fire Chief, Engineer, Assistant City Planner and Code Enforcement Officer. Each of the positions Iisted below have been identified during the budget process as clearly needed: based on the current workload vs. current staff allocations and/or needed service delivery capacity. Some of the positions will rely on savings from budgeted allocations while others are dependent upon fees collected. Additionally, all of the positions added in the 2006 budget process anticipate future growth. As it will take some time to get through the process, I am suggesting we move forward to begin the process on the following positions Assistant Citv Planner Anticipated Hire Date 5/06 The planned development for the next 25 years, as ordered by Met Council, as well as the need for staff to accomplish/achieve workloads and mentor a future replacement have been the driving goals for adding this new position. In addition, fees currently received and anticipated will fully fund this new position. Citv Engineer Anticipated Hire Date 5/06 Since Lake Elmo became a city consulting engineers have provided the city with the service needed to accomplish the defined annual tasks. A number a years ago, as the city became dissatisfied with a consulting engineering firm that represented LE, a decision to change resulted in the city loosing years of project documentation. Cities rely on the memory of good documentation when planning future changes and understanding the present day. Our current consultant TKDA does maintain good documentation in their office. The existing growth, anticipated growth and current investments into building and replacing infrastructure and associated engineering costs, it is planned a portion of the engineering fees paid and workload could be redirected to an in-house engineer. It is anticipated that the full time hired engineering skill would also be used to set up the LE Engineering office, moving all documentation on -site and also work closely with the PW Department. This position will be fully funded by redirecting fees and workload to the new engineer. We are anticipating an entry level engineer to fill this position at this time. Person responsible: Action Items: Motion to begin the hiring for the Assistant Planner and Engineer. Martin Rafferty, City Administrator Attachments: