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City Council Minutes Page 3 <br />January ~ 9, 2010 <br />plow trucks. ]He noted the Building Maintenance Division has a pickup with a plow, Elk <br />River Municipal Utilities has afront-end loader, and the Street Division has another plow <br />that could be rigged economically, He further stated this could allow the plow trucks up to <br />30 additional hours on the streets. <br />Mr. Thompson stated the Street Division appreciates the assistance the other departments <br />have been providing, <br />The Council noted the following comments: <br />® They appreciated the efforts of staff during the unusual stc~ especially when they <br />had to give up their Christmas holiday in order to keep ~~es safe in their travels. <br />They wanted to know the work did not go unnoticed ~~d Dave received positive <br />comments from citizens. <br />Staff should be given more latitude on overt when it comes ~~ h.ealth and safety <br />issues. They noted this is an important sc.~~~~ for citizens. <br />~: <br />Tt was noted the city would no longer be invol~~ .nth ass~.~~g the County Highway <br />Department for plowing county roads during the i~~ ~~1~ morning plowing. <br />b.~. Publ~e works DiL•eetoar,,U date <br />Ms. Johnson presented the staff reps <br />for the public works director positio <br />p Re-advertise <br />Re-evalu tl~e p <br />® Leave~~~~~.on op~ <br />Review ~~~a~ <br />Consider an~h <br />Sl~~ ~rher ha~~ ~'s imps <br />cent projects. <br />position <br />~.~n descrip <br />~~r awhile <br />dog tl <br />~d st ~e Maue has declined the job offer <br />e nab ~~ ~1~~~~~ng options, <br />cil may wish to consider <br />~~ for the city to have an engineer as soon as possible due to <br />cilmember Ma~ suggested hiring a consulting engineer and to let the public works <br />~r position re~~~~ open for awhile in order to re-evaluate city needs. He suggested <br />~~ ~.~~til sprin~`~~ammer. <br />Mayor r~~~~g concurred and suggested scheduling the March worksession to discuss this <br />issue and the ~rgani~ational structure, <br />Ms. Johnson stated a decision should be made regarding the handling of current engineering <br />needs. <br />Councilmember Moon stated he was fine with using John Anderson for current projects but <br />would prefer to go out for bids for any new projects, <br />MOVED BY COUNCIL~IEMBER MOTIN AIVI~ SECONDED BY <br />COUNCILMEMBER GUMPHREY TO CONTINUE UTILZING THE <br />SERVICES OF JOHN ANDERSON ON CURRENT ONGOING <br />ENGINEERING PROJECTS. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. <br />