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<br /> <br />Item 5.5. <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Pat Klaers, City Ad~~t~ator <br />March 14, 2005 ~ <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Community Development Director Update <br /> <br />The City Council last discussed the community development director position at the February 14, <br />2005, worksession. Attached for your reference are the minutes from this discussion. <br /> <br />At the February 14 meeting, the City Council decided to hire a professional executive search fIrm for <br />the community development director position and that this executive search fIrm should not be <br />Brimeyer and Associates. In this regard, I obtained information from the League of Minnesota Cities <br />on executive search fIrms that have been recommended to the League by cities that have used these <br />fIrms. This list of fIrms is attached for your information. From this list I contacted Personnel <br />Decisions, Inc., Sathe Executive Search Firm, and Springsted and verbally requested proposals for <br />the Elk River community development director search. Attached for your review and consideration <br />are these three proposals. <br /> <br />Services provided by executive search fIrms do not come cheaply; however, as discussed at the last <br />worksession this may be money well spent by the city. Funding for the executive search will likely <br />come from the City Council Contingency fund and from some savings in the 2005 budget by having <br />the position start slightly later than originally planned. This position is in the budget based on the <br />assumption that it would begin around mid-July. Each week that the starting date is delayed amounts <br />to a budget savings of approximately $1,775. Accordingly, if the position does not begin until <br />around Labor Day, a good share of the executive search fee will be covered by this savings. <br /> <br />Also at the last worksession, Councilmember Farber provided some comments regarding the <br />position description. Attached is this same position description for your review (no changes have <br />been made yet). Staff will be getting back to the Council in the next month or two regarding some <br />changes to the position description. Additional Council comments on the position description are <br />welcome. <br /> <br />The hiring range for the community development director was approved on December 13,2004, by <br />way of the Council Consent Agenda. Attached is this agenda memo for your review. At some point <br />