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Mounds View City Council September 23, 2002 Regular Meeting Page 5 MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Thomas. To Approve Consent Agenda Item D as Presented. Council Member Marty commented that he did not feel it was appropriate for Staff to be asking for permission to send two Administrators to the conference when Council has asked Staff to cut costs. He then said that he felt that City Administrator Miller should attend alone. City Administrator Miller indicated she would not be attending the conference Ms. Reed would be. Assistant City Administrator Reed clarified that there is $2000 in the budget for both to attend but that is not enough for both of them to attend so the City Administrator has declined to go and she is taking her place. Council Member Stigney commented that he did not think it was necessary to send an Assistant Administrator to a national conference. Ayes – 3 Nays – 2(Marty/Stigney) Motion carried. MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Thomas. To Approve Consent Agenda Item F as Presented. Council Member Marty indicated he had an issue with approving severance pay for Mr. Longville when he has only worked for the City for approximately five months. He then suggested that the City should consider withholding his accrued vacation in the amount of $1,021.14 toward partial reimbursement of the moving expenses fronted by the City when Mr. Longville was hired. He also asked how Mr. Longville could have accrued so much vacation in such a short amount of time. City Administrator Reed indicated she received the number from the finance department and noted that Mr. Longville would have accrued two weeks for one year of service and worked just shy of half a year so the amount seems right. Finance Director Hansen indicated that the figure seemed right and confirmed that Mr. Longville would have accrued two weeks on a 12-month calendar. Council Member Marty commented that he had missed the last meeting where the discussion was held concerning asking Mr. Longville to reimburse the City for moving expenses. He then said that he feels the City should be trying to recover the moving expenses, as Mr. Longville was not even employed for six months. He further commented that it did not seem right to pay him $1,000 for vacation. Mayor Sonterre commented that he agreed it was hard to swallow that the City paid for the moving expenses and he did not stay but noted that the incident is leading to a policy change in the future. He further commented that the City did set any parameters for paying the moving expenses and has no grounds to seek reimbursement of those moving expenses. He then said that