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Mounds View City Council March 24, 2003 Regular Meeting Page 12 Council Member Stigney asked if the City Attorney had any issues with the proposed settlement 1 offer. City Attorney Riggs indicated he had no issues with the proposal. 2 3 Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 4 5 Interim City Administrator Ericson indicated he had placed a resolution from the City of 6 Andover on the dais for consideration and it is a resolution in response to the activity of the 7 legislature to show that cities want to preserve local government control. 8 9 Mayor Linke asked that the resolution be placed on the work session agenda for discussion. 10 11 City Attorney Riggs indicated that very few employees are covered by the handbook because they 12 are covered by union contracts. He then said the general contents are not effective as to 13 discipline. He further commented that the City can go back to an at will employment situation 14 but that will not affect 90% of the employees. He also commented that the handbook is used to 15 fall back on when items are not specified in the union contract. 16 17 Council Member Stigney said he thought the City could not have at will employees that they 18 must be just cause. 19 20 City Attorney Riggs indicated the City created a just cause situation when it adopted the policy 21 and the recommendation was to leave it as an at will situation. He then said that there is now a 22 standard of how to treat employees and his recommendation based on what the administration 23 told him was to have it be consistent that employees are all covered by the same standard. 24 25 Mayor Linke asked that the matter be placed on the work session agenda for discussion. 26 27 Interim City Administrator Ericson indicated there were some issues with the broadcast quality 28 of the cable channel and explained that after an investigation it was determined there was a bad 29 hub in Shoreview causing the problem and that has been corrected. 30 31 Council Member Stigney indicated that the replay of the Council meetings is being cut off prior 32 to completion and said he had mentioned that to Mr. Gammel. 33 34 Council Member Stigney asked if there was anything in the cable contract to prevent large 35 increases in the fee. 36 37 Mayor Linke indicated that matter was discussed at the cable commission meeting but the City of 38 Mounds View had no representative there and gave up its voting rights. 39 40 Council Member Stigney asked Staff to review the cable contract to determine whether a simple 41 majority rules at the cable commission meeting. 42 43