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-3- G. Ziebarth I would suggest that if the Charter Commission wants to improve the position of administrator you should look at the advantages of a council-manager form of government. Please keep in mind that I am not advocating a change but if you have your heart set on change then put something into a charter that will allow the administrator to grow with the city. Once this type of position is set into charter language it is almost impossible to change by the very fact that the re-education processis so d ficult to accomplish. By implementing a clerk-coordinator type of position you set the city operation, expertise and efficiency back ten years not to mention the time it will take to correct the mistake. If you insist on this cDe. Co)atip.4.)1410 type of change you should write the requirements down to the level of a secretary or similar position because you will be paying far more than what you can expect in the way of a 441=t: No experienced, knowledgable administrator is going to come into Mounds View and fight with department heads he has £K pta-�'c 3 C no authority over. No council is going to hire the ei you want in some sections if they can't also use the administrative expertise which you don't want. In practice, I will predict what will be the effect of this chapter. NOTHING WILL CHANGE. The council will continue to operate the same way1only they will make sure that they take all the credit. The admi igtrator will still get fired for the same reasons it's just that the quality of adminstratmr will_be less because the good ones won't put up with all the coordinating hAss1s , de ____ , In the end we will have paid for an administrator too less than "11.444.4 ) what he does now and for no apparent reason except that the last one appeared ( o0611*. to run the city better than the council which bothered some members of the community. The obvious but incorrect choice was to blt.'ame the administrator rather than the council. The other alternative is to hire a manager and let him appoint his department heads so that he shoulders the blame when something happens. It puts the pressure on the department head to perform because his immediate swpervisor, the marker is directly in charge. The administrator is directly responsible to the council and he has no excuses in this situation.