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City Administrative Staff Chapter 7 • This chapter explores the duties of various city ficer. Other positions most cities have are the-ad- officials, the requirements for qualifying for of- ministrator, librarian, liquor store manager, fice, and the problem of incompatible offices for recreation director, street superintendent, elected and appointed officials. Topics are: engineer, and utilities superintendent. Small cities often hire several people on a part-time basis, or A. Appointed Officials and Employees one or two full-time people to perform many B. Qualifying for Office duties. Sometimes they share services of an C. Incompatible Offices employee with other small cities under the joint D. How this Chapter Affects Home Rule powers act. Charter Cities While these positions are common to large and A. Appointed Officials and • small cities alike, the actual duties of some employees often depend on the size of a city and Employees the complexity of its organizational structure. A supervisory administrative official may or may not Statutory city councils have complete freedom devote part of his time to direct participation in to create whatever positions they find necessary in the functional activities of the department.For ex- addition to those the statutes require. They may ample, police chiefs in smaller cities may spend a assign duties to these officials as long as such ac- major portion of their time working in patrol cars, tions promote the public welfare and are consistent devoting only a few hours per week to supervisory with state law. This may also be true in a home activities. rule city, depending on its charter provisions. Statutory Appointive Offices Non-elective officers and employees in cities fall -� into two groups.The city often hires officials such The statutes require cities to hire people to fill as the attorney, health officer, auditor, architect, several positions. and others as consultants. Their compensation is frequettly on a retainer, a contract, or some other Assessor fee basis. Other officials are full and part-time employees to whom the city pays either a salary or Cities of the first class and cities with a popula- a wage. Some cities employ these officials on the tion of 30,000 or more, which are.in counties not basis of a merit system or under civil service. having a countywide assessment system,must have Non-Statutory Offices a city assessor. The assessor performs both the duties of a local assessor and county assessor, ex- Although the law does not require it, most cities cept that the county assessor retains supervisory duties. 1 appoint an attorney, police chief, and health of- Handbook for Minnesota Cities Page 125