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Mounds View City Council December 30, 2002 <br />Regular Meeting Page 16 <br /> <br />employment with the City and a sampling in between. He then explained that the review he 672 <br />made took 10 hours of staff time and the outcome was that Staff found 15 minutes so the review 673 <br />was hardly cost effective. 674 <br /> 675 <br />Council Member Stigney commented that by not looking at all of the timesheets the City would 676 <br />not know for sure if flex time was used improperly. He then stated that the Resolution stated one 677 <br />thing and Staff accomplished something else. He also indicated he had a question on the sick 678 <br />time paid out for Ms. Miller. 679 <br /> 680 <br />Finance Director Hansen indicated that sick time was paid out per the City’s policy at 1/12 of her 681 <br />ending balance of 298.64 hours. 682 <br /> 683 <br />Council Member Stigney read Section 3.35 of the policy on banked sick leave indicating 684 <br />employees with more than 120 sick days will be calculated at the rate of 1 per month additional 685 <br />and are not to be included in the calculation. 686 <br /> 687 <br />Finance Director Hansen indicated that the policy refers to 120 days and Ms. Miller had 298 688 <br />hours not days. 689 <br /> 690 <br />Community Development Director Ericson thanked Ms. Miller for doing a wonderful job given 691 <br />the circumstances and direction of Council. 692 <br /> 693 <br />Director Ericson reported that the City received an easement document exercised by the business 694 <br />park entity for the trail section by Perkins. He then indicated that the new owner of the Perkins 695 <br />property intends to remove the pine tree in question. He then indicated that Staff is discussing 696 <br />adding the trail to the County Road H2 as a change order and that would be before Council in 697 <br />January or February. 698 <br /> 699 <br />Director Ericson indicated that Council would call to order at the January 6, 2003 meeting to 700 <br />administer the swearing in and complete administrative housekeeping tasks. 701 <br /> 702 <br />Council Member Quick asked if that meets the provisions of the City’s Charter. 703 <br /> 704 <br />City Attorney Riggs indicated it would as long as the meeting is properly posted. 705 <br /> 706 <br />City Attorney Riggs indicated he had advised Council at a previous meeting to proceed to 707 <br />recover excess funds from a condemnation matter with Mounds View v. Gridley but, after 708 <br />receiving further information and a response from an attorney representing trustees for potential 709 <br />interested parties his advice has changed and he would recommend stopping the action in its 710 <br />entirety. 711 <br /> 712 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Thomas/Sonterre. To Direct Staff to Cease Action to Collect Outstanding 713 <br />Funds in the Matter of Mounds View v. Gridley. 714 <br /> 715 <br /> Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 716