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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 2, 1987 PACE 2 1 3. City Administrator's Work Evaluation The Council had received an informational report from the City Administrator prior to this meeting. Mayor Christ started the discussion by pointing out that he felt the 1986 City Council had provided direction to the City Administrator and that. the Administrator should advise the Council --not vice -versa. He i added that there have been several instancesinregard to the new City Hall where nobody has gotten the little things done (eg: signs) and that these items indicated that. the City Administrator should spend more time making sure that the work gets done. Councillor Armstrong also felt that some requests had not been -j followed up on within a reasonable time. She also indicated that there have been cases where the services of the City Attorney were not needed (eg: drafting resolutions). 3 City Administrator Overby responded that this was true in some cases, but that sometimes the City Attorney is the proper person to draft the more complicated resolutions or permits. a The City Administrator responded that he could certainly spend more time in this area of following up on things that need to get done than he has been up to now. It requires that he spend less time working on other tasks, or that some other work tasks be delegated to another staffperson. i ,.-,.-The Administrator_ pointed out that he has been concentrating his -�effor.ts on the high -priority work areas up to now, as noted in the background information provided to the Council for the meeting. However, there still has not been enough time during a regular work iday to get all of these duties accomplished. The best example of this is the work remaining to update Chapter 5 of the Comprehensive Plan, {as well as make some other changes required by the Metro Council. *.This work will have to be done after hours, or a part-time planner 'will have to be hired. Otherwise, it is possible that this work will inot get completed in 1987. e The City Council responded that there was no intention of its even considering a request to hire more staff, and that the City Administrator should not bring this request before them again. .i .!The City Council also felt that there has to be some progress shown on +the above issues within the next two months, before the Council can discuss extending or renewing the City Administrator's contract. A previous suggestion to extend the contract for six months to the end ,iof 1987 was not favored by the Council. IThe City Administrator agreed to make a special effort to prevent the (lack of communication or coordination between staff from getting work (tasks completed. Weekly and/or monthly reports will be considered as !part of this effort. M/S/P Graves/Moe -• to adjourn the special City Council meeting at 7:05 P.M. (Motion carried 4-0).