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Mounds View City Council June 27, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 24 1 Police Chief Sommer stated that this resolution concerns the current job opening for a police 2 sergeant position due to a retirement. He stated that they have three candidates that are on the 3 Civil Service Eligibility list for this position and at this time staff is recommending that Officer 4 Steve Menard be promoted to the position of Police Sergeant. He stated that he has met with the 5 Police Civil Service regarding the promotion and they are in support of promoting Officer 6 Menard to the position of Sergeant. He stated that Officer Menard has been with the force for 7 nine years and has taken various additional responsibilities over that time including the Safe and 8 Sober Program and recently completed his Bachelors Degree and has also taken on the 9 responsibility of the setup of the new squad cars. He stated that at this time staff is 10 recommending the promotion to Sergeant. 11 12 Mayor Marty stated that he does a good job with community relations noting that he has 13 observed Officer Menard working out in the community. He stated that he is a good steward for 14 the community and it is a good recommendation. 15 16 Council Member Stigney stated that he is all for appointing Officer Menard adding that he has a 17 question with step 3. He stated that Officer Menard is not coming in as a new hire, this is a 18 promotion and asked if it is valid to have Officer Menard start at step 3 and progress to step 4 in 19 six months. He noted that it also states that this is consistent with past practice and asked for 20 further clarification. 21 22 Mayor Marty asked if this is in the personnel policy and suggested that if it isn’t then they could 23 possibly do it in twelve-month increments. 24 25 City Administrator Ulrich explained that this would have to be covered by the Sergeant Labor 26 contract and asked if the contract has this specific language included. 27 28 Mayor Marty referenced the last two Sergeants that were promoted and expressed concerns that 29 this would place him back into a probationary period. 30 31 Chief Sommer referenced the last two promotions noting that they followed the same pattern. He 32 stated that there is a six-month probationary period for this position. 33 34 Mayor Marty agreed that with promotions they would have to remain consistent. 35 36 Council Member Stigney asked staff to verify the language in the contract. 37 38 Mayor Marty referenced the article on the front page of the Focus News regarding the Mounds 39 View/New Brighton team up for enforcement stating that while he has the Fire Chief available he 40 would like to commended the Fire Chief and Public Safety Director Jacobson with the City of 41 New Brighton for their great work on this issue. 42 43 Chief Sommer stated that they are also planning a spot enforcement program with the assistance 44 of State Patrol in residential areas very soon. He explained that they would have ten troopers 45