6.4. SR 02-14-2005 - Laserfiche WebLink

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MEMORANDUM TO: Pat Klaers, City Administrator FROM: Terry Maurer, City Engineer ~ DATE: February 10, 2005 SUBJECT: February 14, 2005 Engineering Discussion At Monday evening's worksession under the Engineering Discussion, I would hope to get a chance to make a brief introductory presentation to the City Council. My thoughts on the content of my presentation would be as follows: 1. A very brief update of my 27 -year association with the City of Elk River - As you are aware, I began work for the City of Elk River in the fall of 1978. During my tenure here, I have been associated with three different consulting firms. 2. A more detailed discussion about how the montWy retainer program has been working since the Council authorized entering into this arrangement in June of 2004. As you are aware, I moved up to the City Hall fulltime the last week of May 2004 and have been a fulltime resident here since. In the last 7 - 8 months I have worked to extract myself from as much developer review work as possible so that the City will get the biggest "bang for their buck" on the monthly retainer. John Anderson from Howard R. Green has been spending several days a week at City Hall also, and has taken over much of the developer review, coordination, and construction administration. This has afforded me more time to take over items that were previously done by personnel from Howard R. Green, such as maintaining and updating the City's Municipal State Aid System, more in depth involvement in City-initiated projects such as the King Avenue parking lot, and the 2005 street reconstruction project, hands-on management of activities at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, and being much more available for other staff and citizens who have questions or need engineering involvement in issues of the day-to-day nature. As you aware, I track the hours billed to the montWy retainer on a project-by-project basis per month, so that the Accounting Department can assign these costs to the appropriate projects. Each month since its inception, the number of hours charged to the montWy retainer has increased to most recently-when it's been approximately 105- 120 hours a month.