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Item No: 5 Meeting Date: Sept 6, 2016 Type of Business: Work Session City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Review Proposed Revisions to the Public Service Officer Job Description Introduction: The person who had been serving as the City’s Public Service Officer (formerly known as the Community Service Officer) has resigned and taken a job in a different community. When positions become vacant, it gives management the impetus to review the position description and make any updates as may be appropriate. Discussion: Police Chief Harder has reviewed the position description and is recommending a change in focus from the existing position starting with the name of the position. Most police departments that have a similar non-sworn position call it a CSO—Community Service Officer. While the position would still provide similar services as the previous PSO position, there would be an effort made to “groom” the person as a potential future police officer candidate. Given the challenges in recruiting high-performing, qualified patrol officers, many cities are drawing candidates from their CSO employees. While no assurance can be made that a CSO candidate would eventually be hired as a patrol officer, the training provided by the City would perhaps give the internal CSO candidate an advantage over other candidates. Due to the numerous changes made, we are not providing a red-lined version of the job description, but instead the original position description for the PSO and the newly revised position description for the CSO position. Because the nature and extent of the duties and responsibilities are not changing, there is no need at this point to conduct a HAY Point analysis or compensation study. The salary is proposed to remain as currently budgeted, with one exception concerning how the position is funded. In previous years, twenty-five percent of the personnel costs were paid from the Community Development Department’s budget, in reflection of the anticipated amount of time that would be spent doing code enforcement activity. Over the last year, however, the PSO position did not spend an appreciable amount of time on code enforcement, thus the full cost of the position will be paid from the Police Department budget although code enforcement will still be listed as a peripheral responsibility.