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March 14, 1985 TO: Lake Elmo City Council T V1 FR: Patrick D. Klaers, City Adminsitrator RE: Informational Memo for March 19, 1985 City Council Meeting 1. Attached for your information is the most recent City Newsletter dated 3-12-85. This newsletter edition highlights articles on the request for pumping at Sunfish Lake and the Council appointed Office Space Committee. 2. For your information, the City staff is somewhat shorthanded this month as Deputy Clerk Kathy Crombie is on call for jury duty. She has been coming in early, but has been called out of the office frequently during the middle part of the day. 3. Attached for your information are two articles on the Comparable Worth Law One article is from the Washington County Bullet nand discusses the County's situation in complying with this law. The other article is from the Minneapolis Tribune and discusses local cities efforts to comply with this law. The City staff is in the process of revising the job descriptions for the City employees to insure that they reflect the work that is actually being accomplished. We will then proceed with some discussions with the City Council on the most appropriate method to comply with this State law. At this point, I believe, we should go with the job match program with the state government positions. This is the simplest of all the procedures to follow. 4. After the 16 inch snowfall that we rececived on Sunday and Monday, March 3 and 4, the City received very few complaints and we actually received some compliments on our snow removal operation. This was the heaviest snowfall of the season but overall the amount of snow has been somewhat light. However, the snow removal equipment has been hit hard because of the large amount of scraping of ice that is required and the frequent amount of small snowfalls requiring snow removal duties. The replacement of the blades on the City trucks is a typical annual expense but this year we seem to have gone through more blades than usual. 5. Attached for your information is a memo from Washington County regarding Tornado Awareness Week . With the resignation of Dave Wisdorf, the City has no Civil Defense Director on staff. Either the new Maintenance Foreman should assume this position or we may need some City Council discussions on whether or not the Fire Chief should assume this position and responsibility. Currently, if we had a disaster such as a tornado or a truck load full of chemicals overturning on the highway, the -Fire Department would be the lead agency with mutual aid, Washington County and EMS involvement. There is no doubt that adequate procedures and steps would be taken to insure the safety of the area if a disaster took place. Note that the Tornado Awareness Week calls for a mock tornado drill on Thursday, 3-21-85.