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June 26, 1978 Page 3 <br />Mr. McCarthy asked why the City couldn't use their own engineer. Councilmember <br />Ziebarth replied that the Engineer has an extremely busy schedule and that for <br />the past week had been working with the Maintenance Department preparing for the <br />festival, among other things. <br />Mr. McCarty asked who gets first chance at the engineer, the single property <br />owners or developers. Engineer Hubbard replied that he has an extremely busy <br />schedule since he is administrator of the public works department, and gives <br />direction on a day -to -day basis, as well as a week -to -week basis, is in charge <br />of preparing the budget and expenditures for that department, and in charge <br />of the storm sewer, water and maintenance duties, as well as the engineering <br />department. He added that he is responsible for written reports to the Council, <br />which have deadlines, works with the Task Force and spends time during the week <br />preparing for his meetings with them, conducts studies in the field, checks <br />surveys and plottings, as well as studying problems around town. Engineer <br />Hubbard added that many of the deadlines he has to meet were established some <br />time ago and cannot legally be broken, such as preparation for public hearings. <br />Mr. McCarty stated he was sure there were subordinates who could take some of <br />the work load off Engineer Hubbard so he could be freed up to work with the Task <br />Force. He added that the Council should honor their commitment to the Task Force <br />of having the engineer available to work with them, and that developers should be <br />told to wait. <br />Administrator Achen replied that Engineer Hubbard is not working only for developers <br />and that he was hired to accomplish all the things that the maintenance director <br />could not. He added that he was hired for his technical background, with the <br />intent of relieving the maintenance director of some of his many duties. Admini- <br />strator Achen added that Engineer Hubbard works an incredible amount of hours each <br />week, often on Saturdays and Sundays and is on call. <br />Mr. McCarty replied that the City Engineer should put the citizens first before <br />developers. Administrator Achen replied that the Engineer has spent 90% of his <br />time working on problems that are not development related, and that Mr. McCarty <br />is implying that Engineer Hubbard is working for the developers first, and that <br />they could check with any developer in the City to see what they have to say, <br />since the City sets very rigid standards for all developers to meet. <br />Councilmember Rowley added that Engineer Hubbard prepares technical reports for <br />the Council to advise them of each development, which is a necessity to the Council. <br />She added that there is a limit to the amount of time the Engineer can spend with <br />the Task Force. She also pointed out that the Council is prepared to hire an <br />Engineer that the Task Force will be able to work with. <br />Barb Haake stated that as a citizen, she was concerned with what she was seeing <br />happen between the citizens and Council, with the friction and disagreement. She <br />suggested that if another study is to be done, the Task Force could suggest different <br />firms and work with them to come up with solutions to the problems, or even hire <br />a couple civil engineers, on a temporary basis of a year or so and put them on the <br />City payroll. <br />Mayor Pickar stated that Mr. Notaro's problem would be discussed at the next agenda <br />session. <br />