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Item No. 07 Meeting Date: Feb 4, 2008 Type of Business: WS WS: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; EDA: EDA Business Administrator Review: _____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Administrator Item Title/Subject: City Administrator Interview Process Attached is the interview schedule for the City Administrator position. The interview process will start on Friday, Feb 8tt in the afternoon, and recommence on Saturday at 815am. Staff will be posting the interview process as special meetings of the City Council to ensure compliance with Open Meeting Law. On the January 28, 2008, Executive Session there was some confusion on whether to cable cast the City Administrator interview process. In order to alleviate future confusion, Staff spoke with Sharon Klumpp of Springsted and the City Attorney via telephone conference on Wednesday, January 30th, to discuss the interview process and cable casting of these special meetings. The City Attorney and Ms. Klumpp stated to Staff that although the City Council could decide to have these special meetings cable casted, it is not common practice to do so. According to the City Attorney and Ms. Klumpp, most cities post the City Administrator process as a special meeting of the City Council, and not cable cast the special meeting. The public would be allowed to observe the special meeting. However, the one on one interviews, which will occur during recess, would not be public unless the City Council so chooses to allow the public such access. After the one on one interviews, the City Council would reconvene and adjourn the special meeting. In accordance with Resolution 5310 (attached), all special, regular, and work session meetings of the Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission, Cable TV Committee, EDC, and all other City advisory committees created by the City Council shall be cable casted. In order for these special meetings to be cable cast live, the City would have the Cable TV Coordinator or Cable TV Tech on staff in the city cable room and a CTV employee at Master Control. If the Council decided to just tape the proceedings and cable cast them later, then there is only the requirement of one employee in the city cable room. Whether cable cast live or taped, the City would incur additional costs in staff time.