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<br /> <br />City of Elk River <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Agenda Section Meeting Date <br />Truth in Taxation December 4, 2006 <br />Item Description <br />Bud et Amendment to Fund Part Time Recreation Assistant <br /> <br />Item Number <br />5.l. <br /> <br />Prepared by <br />Bill Maertz, Parks and Recreation Director <br />Reviewed by <br />Lori ohnson, Ci Administrator <br /> <br />Introduction <br />On September 11, 2006 the City Council approved the creation of a parks and recreation administrative <br />coordinator position. Responsibilities of this position include Pinewood finances, Recreation Division <br />fInances, grant writing, recreation programming and assisting the Director with project management. <br />This position was filled internally by promoting one of the two part time recreation assistants. This has <br />caused a 24 hour per week deficit at the recreation assistant position. The recreation assistants are the <br />primary customer service people and serve as front desk receptionist at Lions Park Center, answer <br />phones and handle the majority of registrations. Unlike City Hall, Lions Park Center does not have any <br />back up clerical staff. <br /> <br />Upon review of the staff report requesting this position, it has become apparent that staff did not <br />adequately communicate that the creation of a full time position, along with the internal hire, would <br />require a replacement for the part time recreation assistant position. <br /> <br />Discussion <br />Staff has prepared four different options with varying degrees of budget impact. Options two, three and <br />four will have impact on customer service. <br /> <br />Options <br />1. Replace part time 24 hours per week Recreation Assistant. <br />2. Hire 12 hour per week Recreation Assistant to give phone and front desk coverage to 2:30 PM each <br />day and have professional staff cover phones and front desk from 2:30 to 4:30 each day. <br />3. Budget funds to have the existing 20 hour per week recreation assistant to work an additional 5 hours <br />per week in order to work till 1 :00 PM each day. <br />4. Do not replace recreation assistant and have the marketing coordinator, recreation coordinator and <br />administrative coordinator cover phones and the front desk 24 hours per week. <br /> <br />Financial Impact <br />2007 Budget Impact <br />Options <br />1 $21,000 <br />2. $11,000 <br />3. $5,000 <br />4.0 <br /> <br />C: \Documents and Settings \ tallard\Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files \ OLKF\Rec Assistant.doc <br />