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April 29, 1999 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: May 3, 1999 City Council Work Session i We have several items the council is familiar with for Monday's work session. Here's what's coming: Item 1 - Further Discussion of Tax increment Financing: To follow-up on the April 19 discussion of TIF, I thought the next logical place to give consideration is to review the programs . and commitments the city has been making for the use of its tax increment funds. This would include the housing and economic development programs and debt obligations. It also raises the questions of what should the city be doing with the rest of the funds. This seems to be the key point for much of council members comments and resident comments in the recent past. If it is to be dealt with,the council will need to address it and that perhaps can be the objective of the discussion for Monday night. Item 2 - Hiring Administrative Assistant: Cari will be present to discuss this item Item 3 -Personnel and Administrative Policies: This item received some discussion a number of weeks ago. Two years ago staff began to review the variety of personnel related policies the city had in different areas and formats in an attempt to codifiy them into one official document. Due to changes in personnel however,this was not completed nor has staff been able to revisit "` the policies. This would be this council's introduction to the official policies as we think they exist. As we found with the telephone bill discussion, the latitude of management to affect written or unwritten policies may be something the council will want to keep in mind, in other words not everything may need a policy. The council may want to give further consideration to other personnel policies that have been • heavily debated as well,particularly pay plans and pay equity issues. I contacted each of you this week stating that my position on the assistant city administrator position is to retract the proposal sensing the deeper division that the issue exposed at the meeting last Monday. These longer term concerns should really be addressed and hopefully a consensus of the full council could be arrived at prior to awkward public debates that may do more to damage the organization then help it. It would seem that some discussion of what the acceptable nature of personnel administration should be, expectations from it, and a realistic correlation to budget and work ti, loads should be reviewed. The policies are only a part of it, but the concerns seems to be much deeper and perhaps should be addressed in the interim. Item 4 - Discussion of Knollwood Green Townhouse Association request for Rehabilitation