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V' City Council Minutes Febmary 14, 2005 Page 5 technicians also work on plans, for instance, for building a tennis court or resurfacing of a park trail. Mr. Maurer stated that it would be his suggestion to build the department from the bottom up, that is starting to hire technicians that would be qualified to take over activities previously performed by Howard R. Green staff. He stated that if mote than one technician were to be added and one of them was proficient at AutoCAD then we would greatly reduce tl1e cost of preparing plans for City-initiated projects, such as, annual seal coating, assessment overlay projects, or the 2007 pavement reconstruction project. These items could all be done in-house. His only concern would be that we would defeat tl1e purpose of starting to build an engineering staff if tl1eir time was consumed by working on development related activities. Mr. Maurer stated that the City Engineer's Association does an annual salary survey and he could submit tlus information to Council. He felt that currently $19.00 per hour for an engineering CAD technician is reasonable. He stated tl1at we could have two technicians with one more experienced, whereas the subordinate could learn from tlUs experienced technician. Mr. Maurer will put information together and the Council was agreeable to look at tlus for budget discussion tlUg summer for the budget of 2006. Mayor Klinzing stated her support for starting an Engineering Department "from the bottom up". Councilmember Motin asked to see figures as to what we are paying currently and what would be saved. Mr. Maurer will put information togetl1er on what was paid on past projects versus what we are paying now and also measure tl1at against what we would save by lUring City technicians. 6.4. Zoning Ordinance Text - Government Offices and Buildings/Facilities Regulations Director of Planning Michele McPherson reviewed with tl1e Council the proposed changes to regulations for governmental offices and governmental buildings and facilities. Staff is suggesting tl1at governmental offices be allowed as conditional uses in all districts except for tl1e C4, Neighborhood Commercial District, and that governmental buildings and facilities be conditional uses only in tl1e Commercial and Industrial/Business Park Districts. She also stated that as an alternative, the Council could establish a PI or Public/Institutional District. It was tl1.e consensus of Council not to put a PI District into place but to mov~ forward with tl1e proposed changes to governmental offices and governmental buildings and facilities regulations. v 6.6. Discussion on Community Development Director Position City Administrator Klaers reviewed the background of the Community Development Director position. Staff is now looking to Council to make a decision on how we are going to proceed witl1 the selection of tlus individual. Council needs to decide whether we wish to have a professional recruitment firm and, if so, whether tl1e City wished to use the Brirneyer Group or seek proposals from other firms for tlus work: It was the consensus of the Council to hire a professional recruitment firm to help the City attract, interview, and select tl1e top two or three candidates for tl1is position with Council conducting interviews and making tl1e final decision. It was also felt that tlUs would be a difficult position to hire since there may be several internal candidates and it would be difficult to be objective. Since Mr. Brirneyer has worked with staff closely in the past, it was felt that we should get proposals from other firms.