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Mounds View City Council May 24, 2004 <br />Regular Meeting Page 12 <br /> <br /> 1 <br /> Ayes – 4 Nays – 1(Stigney) Motion carried. 2 <br /> 3 <br />H. Resolution 6256 Adopting the City Values Statement 4 <br /> 5 <br />Mayor Linke read the values statement. 6 <br /> 7 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Marty/Stigney. To Waive the Reading and Approve Resolution 6256, a 8 <br />Resolution Adopting the City Values Statement. 9 <br /> 10 <br /> Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 11 <br /> 12 <br /> I. Resolution 6257 Adopting the City Rules of Conduct 13 <br /> 14 <br />Mayor Linke read Resolution 6257 outlining the rules of conduct for the City. 15 <br /> 16 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Linke/Gunn. To Approve Resolution 6257, a Resolution Adopting the 17 <br />City Rules of Conduct. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Council Member Stigney indicated he has a question on rule number 8 and he would like to 20 <br />delete it. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Council Member Stigney said he believes in open and honest communication and does not feel 23 <br />that in public you should state that they did an excellent job and then correct them in private. He 24 <br />then said that there was open and honest communication in a previous Resolution and there are 25 <br />some state statutes that require discipline in private so he feels this adds nothing. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Mayor Linke indicated that if he is going to criticize he does that privately and would not praise 28 <br />the same person for that item in public. The idea is, if there is a problem, you bring that to the 29 <br />person’s attention privately rather than in a public forum because doing so publicly belittles that 30 <br />person and you for doing so. He then said that he also believes in praising persons for doing a 31 <br />job well and that should be done publicly so that they get the recognition they deserve. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Council Member Marty said he would like to have number 8 remain because he appreciates not 34 <br />being publicly criticized and he feels others should be treated that way as well. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Council Member Gunn commented that she looks at these rules as rules of etiquette between 37 <br />Council Members. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Council Member Stigney indicated that he is fine with that interpretation but would have a 40 <br />problem if persons were publicly praised but privately criticized for the same thing. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Council Member Quick indicated he would still like the hard cold truth from the Staff. 43 <br /> 44 <br /> Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 45