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Mounds View City Council Page Four regular Meeting _ __ _ _ -- - -_ October 13, 1992 Oman suggested that the City should look for ways to streamline various duties in order to maintain a smaller municipal government. Mayor Linke responded that the City has looked into streamlining various duties and not expanded personnel. Mayor Linke compared the City of Mounds View and its number of employees to those communities in the Metro area with the same or smaller square miles and have more employees than Mounds View. Linke further offered that of the 39 full time employed by Mounds View, 15 of these employees are police. The City has not expanded its number of employees. The only increase of personnel will be to add a police officer and if the City doesn't hire one it will put at risk the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the community. Orduno stated that the criteria used for reclassification of a position are: 1) have the duties and responsibilities of the position substantially changed in terms of degree of complexity and scope of diversity or, 2) are the duties and responsibilities of the position consistent with the complexity, diversity and accountability of a higher ranked position. There was one position that requested reclassification that did not meet the criteria and was not reclassified. Richard Oman asked that the reclassifications change the pay scales and are these change in pay scales budget for? ~rduno stated that in the past cities could pull pay scales out of the air. In the past there was no basis for pay equity. Two categories are considered when considering pay scales -- the market value and the internal comparison. This is state law. These categories impact how people will be paid. Councilmember Rickaby stated that when the Maintenance Secretary was hired a year ago the argument was made that some of her duties were being performed by the Public Works Foreman and other Public Works employees. The statement was made that it would be better to hire a lower paid person and let the Public Works employees do other work that needed to be done. Part then of the reclassification of the Public Works Foreman's position is that he then, by hiring the Maintenance Secretary, had one more class to supervise. Orduno stated that reclassifications are not based on who supervises who and how many one supervises. The reclassification has to do with the complexity, scope of diversity and accountability of a higher ranked position. If a person is kept in a position that does not clearly not reflect what they actually do, a person could appeal this to the Human Rights Department if the work performed did not meet their job or position description. Councilmember Wuori stated that the word bureaucracy had been used a lot to describe government.