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ITEM NO. 5.6 of MEMORANDUM River TO: Mayor & City Council FROM: Pat Klaers, City Administrator DATE: June 5, 1995 SUBJECT: Consider Proposals for Planning Positions There aze a number of employee issues in the Planning and Building and Zoning departments that need to be "cleaned up." These issues include replacing the planning intern with a full time city employee and updating the job description of the plauning assistant. Staffwill be asking the City Council to approve a number ofintemal changes along with the advertisement of a vacancy for a new position. Please see the attached material from City Planner Steve Ach, Building and Zoning Administrator Steve Rohl; and Assistant City Administrator Lori Johnson on these employee issues. In general, the city has lost its planning intem, Troy Langer, to another city. Troy was • hired to help City Planner Steve Ach with work associated with the Comprehensive Plan update and with some general planning duties. Since Troy has left the city, staffhas felt the need for another employee to help both Steve Ach, in general phuuvng work, and Steve Rohlfwith code enforcement activities. If the Council concurs with hiring an additional employee, we would like to restructure some duties. The duties of the new employee are proposed to be essentially what Gary Schmitz used to do under the title of `recycling coordmator." When Gary became the zoning assistant he was, in theory, 50 percent planning and 50 percent recycling and environmental. When Troy was hired, he was to be all planning. In reality, Gary has been about 70 percent planning and 30 percent recycling/environmental and Troy spent his time in a similar fashion towazd planning and code enforcement issues. What is now desired is to have Gary work almost 100 percent for Steve Ach on planning activities. The new employee would work approximately 70-80 percent his/her for Steve Rohlf in environmental, recycling, solid waste, and code enforcement issues. Whatever time is left would then be applied to general phmning activities under Steve Ach. It is anticipated that at least 20 or 30 percent of this new employee's time would be dedicated towazd planning. The new employee would be doing very similar work to what Gary did a few years ago. Recently Gary has become much more involved in planning as recycling and solid waste activities have needed less ofhis time. However, $ is anticipated that this new employee would still dedicate the majority of his/her time to Buildmg and Zoning • activities due to a need to increase our code enforcement efforts. 13065 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 490 • Elk River, MN 55330 • (612) 441-7420 • Fax: (612) 441-7425