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City Council Minutes April 12, 2004 Page 9 Councilmember Kaester stated a concern with Human Resources, which deals directly with council, since council should be Nrmg and fmng, and she wonders how many ievels we should have between the council and this position. Council.member Kuester stated the person who is assigned that responsibility needs to be a designated pohcy person at a management or department head level Lot Johnson agreed and stated that by default that has fallen under the Finance Department. She stated that this can be accomplished by moving the responsibility out of the Finance Department and can be under this one person. Councilrnember Dietz asked if council was going to try to agree on a proposed organizational structure that would be shown to staff as council has the upcoming meetings with Bnmeyer. Mr. IClaers stated that the meetings with Brimeyer are to work on goal setting and the possibilit7 of a.governance model, and that he wasn't hired to work with organizational planning. Mayor K2inzing stated daat it was her understanding that council is going to do dzis organizational work. Once the council puts together a specific structure, dais could create opportunities. Councilmember Kuester agrees with Councilmember Dietz daat even though this may not be part of sessions wida Brimeyer, she would like to go through those sessions and see this organizational structure come together after that. Jeff Beahen stated his concerns about what the council dzinks in regards to the city prosecutor position and where it fits in this structure, currendy under the city administrator. But the administrator is not the one that gets the calls from the county, shedfPs office, etc. He feels by moving the city prosecutor further away from the Police Department it may break down conLrnunicaL(on. Counciknember Mot_in stated that we might need to discuss the rote of the city prosecutor, that this position should not be 95% working with police issues. Council felt daat they need to know the reality of the work of this position and how is the flow of communication with the police. Mr. Klaers asked what Council's fi_merable is and he will Work on the "bubble" (Finance/Administration or General Government) area. Councilmember Motto stated that we a.re moving forward on due Park & Recreation portion and doesn't like several months' delay between each new position. It was the consensus of the Coundl to have this as a June Council Work Session topic. Other Business No additional business. S tag Updates Cadaerme Mehelich informed the council that a nodce was received from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Econormc Development that a portion of our grant application for commerc/al rehab was awarded.