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Mounds View City Council Page Three • ular Meeting October 13, 1992 Councilmember Rickaby asked what the duties of the maintenance receptionist were because arguments were made at the Work Session for reclassification of this position was that the duties were greater than those of the City Hall receptionist. Ric Minetor, Director of Public Works/City Engineer, stated that the duties of the maintenance receptionist were: phones, scheduling work for the Public Works workers, schedule final readings, computer entry including accounts payable, work accomplished reports, fuel usage and other various reports, all secretarial work and correspondence including filing. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, reviewed the duties of City Hall Receptionist as being: accepting and transferring of phone calls, very minimal work with animal licensing, no typing or secretarial duties as far as correspondence, and relaying information to staff members. Minetor stated that the maintenance receptionist position is actually more like a division secretary's position. Orduno explained that there are criteria that have to be met in order to reclassify a position. The positions, when compared, have to have similar duties, tasks and responsibilities in order to be reclassified to comparable positions. Inotherwords, if they walk like a duck, they should 41Fcalled a duck. Minetor explained that the present Public Works Foreman position is more like a supervisor's position because he supervises many classes of people. This position is responsible for supervising personnel in streets, water department, sewer department, and the division secretary. This position also works on a maintenance budget and sets maintenance project schedules. The Public Works Foreman supervises the maintenance division and is given main guidelines from the Director of Public Works/City Engineer. The Public Works Foreman position is comparable to a Maintenance Supervisor in the Stanton schedule. CouncilmemberRickaby—asked—Minetor what— positions-he-supervised-Minetor responded: supervises personnel in the Planning Department, the Building Inspector and the Building Department Secretary. " Councilmember Rickaby stated that maybe the City didn'tneed a full time engineer. This was discussed some time ago and Rickaby stated that the argument was that this position would be too difficult to replace as too many other people would have to be hired to replace this position. Rickaby stated that if the Public Works Foreman was doing supervisory work now, that perhaps the City should look at turning the City Engineer's position into a half time positionand not having this type of bureaucracy where a supervisor is supervising a supervisor. 41,chard Oman, 8205 Groveland Road, offered that when services expand ersonnel shouldn't be expanded to create a bureaucracy.