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Mounds View City Council April 14, 2003 Regular Meeting Page 2 determine whether a replacement is warranted and will hire beginning with the City 1 Administrator’s position. 2 3 Mr. Jahnke indicated he also has an issue with the amount of money the Community Center is 4 costing the City and asked if anyone is looking into other options for recreation. 5 6 Mayor Linke explained that Council started looking into other options including eliminating the 7 YMCA and running a parks and recreation program with City employees. 8 9 Mr. Jahnke commented that city government is like a family that just keeps growing and growing 10 and he would caution the City to carefully evaluate whether it would actually be cheaper for the 11 City to run the program itself. 12 13 Mayor Linke indicated Council would be researching and reviewing the options before making a 14 decision. 15 16 Council Member Marty clarified that the money Ms. Haake was referring to comes from the 17 franchise fee and Council was talking about using those funds elsewhere but it was determined 18 that it is not possible to do so. 19 20 Council Member Quick asked the City Attorney for an interpretation as to whether the franchise 21 fee could be used for other City purposes. 22 23 City Attorney Riggs agreed to look into the matter. 24 25 Doris ________ of 3034 Ardmore Avenue commented that she is concerned with raises given to 26 City employees because at the last meeting someone got a $2.00 per hour increase and that does 27 not happen in the private sector. She then commented that bonuses are gone as are raises and the 28 City needs to look at the state of the economy and budget constraints when it comes to salary 29 increases. 30 31 Duane McCarty of 8060 Long Lake Road indicated he was before Council to seek clarification of 32 a matter privately and not as a member of the Police Civil Service Commission. He then 33 indicated that it has been the opinion of the City Attorney as well as Attorney General opinion 34 that Police Civil Service Commission law prevails over the Charter and the clarification he 35 would like to make and request is on the appointments of the clerk typist and administrative 36 assistant in the police department. 37 38 Mr. McCarty indicated the two individuals were internal candidates and the Commission made 39 an internal promotion. Everyone can apply but the Commission could not see where sworn 40 officers or supervisory staff would be interested in the administrative positions. 41 42 Mr. McCarty indicated that from his point of view the Police Civil Service Commission acted 43 appropriately and the internal promotions once done by the Commission are a done deal under 44