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Mounds View City Council December 9, 2002 Regular Meeting Page 22 maximum of 16 hours in a two-week pay period. Use of Flex time must be approved by the employee's supervisor prior to its use. Recording of Flex time should be accurately maintained be each employee. Mayor Sonterre indicated he had asked the Finance Director to make a determination as to whether or not the administrator and/or assistant administrator have been utilizing comp time that is inconsistent with past practices. He then indicated he had asked for a review of past practice usage for the former police chief, former public works director, former community development director, and former economic development coordinator. He further commented he had asked that if it is determined that past practices have set a precedence the amendment be specific to that. Council Member Stigney said he does not care what the practices are as those would be an exception to the policy as it reads. Council Member Stigney indicated the policy seems self-explanatory to him and, if an exception is being made, it is time to correct that. City Administrator Miller indicated she had questions concerning how flex time was used when she first came to the City and it was explained to her that it was the net of what you gained and used was the practice and, when she questioned that, she was told that because people were • accruing a number of hours during a given week they would not be able to use it and it would continue to accrue over time. City Administrator Miller indicated that this has been the practice since she has been on staff and she finds it interesting that the City has had 7 males that left employment with the City, including two former employees that were terminated, and the question of their severance payout or use of flex time was never raised. She then commented that Council Member Marty had thought that the former police chief should have been paid higher but female use of flex time seems to be an issue. Council Member Stigney commented that gender has nothing to do with it and, when it was brought up by Mr. Linke, he decided it should be looked into. He then said it baffles him as to why the City Administrator is not following the policies. Mayor Sonterre asked if there are any legal impacts to the City in terms of past practice. City Attorney Riggs said that it depends and it could give someone a cause of action and the City could run afoul of the law. He then said that he is not sure that the policy really states what has been occurring so it is Council discretion on how to administrate. Council Member Marty commented that, according to the papers, this Council and this administration has been cleaning up past practices and making the City and employees get everything in order so it would seem that this should continue on. He also commented that when the police chief left dunng his last month or so before he left he wanted to use some flex time