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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Item No: 11 <br />Meeting Date: May 5, 2003 <br />Type of Business: Worksession <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: James Ericson, Acting City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Community Development Staffing Options <br /> <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />As the Council knows, we have been without the services of a Planning Associate since Jim <br />Atkinson vacated the position in November of 2002. Instead of immediately filling the <br />position, we decided to reassess our needs to ensure we would operate in the most effective <br />and efficient manner possible. That analysis has been completed. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />During the six months that the position has been vacant, it has become apparent that the <br />position should be more involved in the various City inspections programs, taking the lead on <br />zoning code inspections and lending support toward nuisance code inspections and <br />enforcement. It also became apparent that the vacancy causing delays in processing <br />resident requests and applications and subsequent inspections and other department <br />activities. In December of 2002, the Community Development Department acquired the <br />services of a temporary inspector two days a week to provide much needed assistance. <br />The temporary inspector however has since received a full time position elsewhere and the <br />department is once again in a position where we are unable to provide the level of service <br />that the community has come to expect. <br /> <br />We have explored the options of sharing a planner with other communities, and while that <br />remains a possibility, nothing was solidified. One Community offered to share a planner with <br />Mounds View but that offer was withdrawn for reasons specific to their own situation. Our <br />needs are such that an intern simply would not suffice and we cannot wait and see if an <br />opportunity to utilize another city’s planner would ever materialize. If the City hires a <br />Planning Associate based on a revised, more entry level responsibilities, that would not <br />preclude Mounds View from sharing our staff with another community. <br /> <br />Compensation: <br /> <br />The City’s 2003 pay plan for the planning associate position articulates the five steps as <br />follows: <br /> <br />Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 <br />$37,539.84 $39,886.08 $42,232.32 $44,578.56 $46,924.80 <br />