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• Memo May 30, 1997 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: June 2, 1997 City Council Workshop Monday evening's meeting should not be too difficult. Here's what we have: Item 1-Highway 10 Design:Pam will present this item as a follow up to the Council's discussions of the U of M Design team study. Connected to this is Item 8 - Liveable Communities Grant which could be utilized towards achieving some of the hopes of the ring road concept. Item 2-Temporary Help in Community Development: Pam and I have discussed this and I have concurred with her assessment of the department's work load. This plan as outlined is not intended at this time to resolve work load problems permanently, but should give Pam and myself some time to give further assessment to the work load of the department as we develop the 1998 budget discussions. At this time, I am not comfortable to addressing the long term work load without more understanding of acceptable budgetary levels for 1998. This item does not normally need Council approval as a personnel item, but may considering the use of contingency funds to assist. I will be checking into this prior to the need for formal Council action. Item 3-City Hall HVAC:Mike will present the status of the HVAC bidding and the rest of the City Hall improvements we have discussed at past meetings. Item 4-Pay Equity Compliance: The City has been notified that it is now in full compliance with pay equity requirements. Apparently we were out of compliance during our last compliance check in January of 1996. As stated in Lynette Morgan's memo, not only is the City now in compliance, we must note acknowledging this for the state. Item 5-Next Step with MAC: I have been in touch with Mark Ryan of MAC on when to get going again on the airport issue. He has indicated that MAC will likely get their public hearings going in July on their plan amendment. If this is the case, I would like to briefly discuss getting our group together with our legislators and organizing with our sister cities prior to those hearings starting. Item 6-Review of Council/Staff Team Building: I thought our team building session went well last Wednesday evening. Since this is our first meeting after the team building session, we should probably take a little time to review it for the public. There did seem to be some interest in the Council subcommittee concept and maybe we can talk about this some more too. The subcommittees I think would break down well as community and economic development, finance and personnel administration, golf parks and recreation, public works, and police. The groups would be called together by the department head and would deal with issues that are more effectively dealt with when staff and council can confer prior to going to a regular meeting. This would mean some discretion