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. . . City Council Meeting July 26, 1993 Page 6 Russ Anderson, Fire Chief, stated that he felt if a Fire Marshal hired, this position could be a full time position. He indicated there are many commercial and industrial businesses which should inspected by a Fire Marshal. He further indicated that training fire prevention are also important and would be duties assigned to Fire Marshal. were that be and the After further discussion, it was the consensus of the Council that the City include in the 1994 budget a Housing Inspector who would work under the direction of Steve Rohlf and inspect apartments and residential rental units for both fire and building code safety, and further, that this person have a Class 2 Building Inspector license so as to assist the residential Building Inspector, if necessary, during the busy months of the year. It was further indicated that if issues arise during apartment inspections which require the direction of a Fire Marshal, the City's Fire Chief would be contacted. It was further indicated that the Fire Chief would start a commercial and industrial inspection program and that he start inspecting as many units as is possible. The Council indicated that the issue of Fire Marshal would be revisited in another year, and, at that time, Russ Anderson could give an update on how the program is progressing. Planning Intern - Mayor Duitsman indicated that he was not of hiring a Planning Intern at this time as he feels that should be given time to adjust to the City Planner position. the consensus of the City Council to not take any action on Intern, however, to allow the flexibility so that it may be the budget to hire an intern to start in the fall of 1994. in favor Steven Ach It was a Planning added to Personnel Director Mayor Duitsman indicated that he is not in favor of hiring a Personnel Director at this time. The City Administrator indicated that if a Personnel Director were hired, he would request that the Director act as part time Personnel Director and part time Administrative Assistant. Councilmember Dietz suggested that with more hours being given to the Finance Department by the addition of an employee (Brenda Ebner), he felt that Lori could pass some of her work on to Joan Frick and, therefore, free up her time to take on some of the personnel duties. The City Administrator indicated that there are many personnel duties which need review including the ADA law, insurance benefits, an employee safety program, comp worth, employee training, etc. The City Administrator further indicated that the City is in need of one person to coordinate all personnel issues. Mayor Duitsman stated that distributed among the current he would like to see how decision on this issue. he would like to see the personnel duties employees. Councilmember Farber stated the budget works out prior to making a