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Item No. 7A <br />Type of Business: CA <br />WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; <br />CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Givonna Reed, Assistant to the City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 5553 Approving a Golf Course <br />Seasonal Position <br />Date of Report: April 2, 2001 <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />In January the Golf Course Manager approached the City Administrator, City <br />Attorney and me and indicated that the individual who had held the seasonal <br />Apprentice PGA Professional position had filed for unemployment in past years <br />and would be filing for unemployment again this year. The Golf Course Manager <br />suggested that the City consider bringing back this individual as a regular full- <br />time employee in lieu of paying unemployment and due to his past relationship <br />with the City and the cost savings that would be realized by having this individual <br />on staff as a regular employee rather than a seasonal employee. <br /> <br />The individual in question was put on payroll as a regular full-time employee with <br />benefits effective February 12, 2001. Shortly thereafter staff realized that the <br />decision to put the individual on payroll as a regular employee was premature <br />and invalid without the approval of the City Council. <br /> <br />In past communications I indicated that at the March 26, 2001 City Council <br />meeting I would ask the Council to review the classification of the Apprentice <br />PGA Professional position. This item was on the March 26, 2001 <br />agenda for consideration, however, at the March 26, 2001 HR Committee <br />meeting direction was given to table this item until the Golf Course feasibility <br />study had been reviewed by the Council. <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />Over the last week staff has become aware that, based upon information from <br />the Department of Economic Security, the City had never paid unemployment for <br />the individual in question until January 2001. Further, it appears that it may not <br />be fiscally prudent over the long term to make the Apprentice Professional <br />position a full-time regular position. <br /> <br />I have conferred with the City Manager and City Attorney regarding this issue. <br />The consensus is that because the original recommendation to the Council to