[0:03] so the next item is uh the parkboard update and i a f or ly which one of you

[0:09] guys want to cover that I can go um a couple of the simple ones first

[0:15] um first update I have is uh one of the park board members got a lead on some

[0:20] high tables and chairs um it would be three tables at

[0:24] the cost of 25 each and then nine chairs at the cost of $40 each for a grand

[0:30] total of $435 the park board did feel that this

[0:34] was um a good option um a lot of the golfers and other customers do like the

[0:39] high tables better so I'd be looking to um get approval to purchase those I

[0:45] think and I the high tops I think do work pretty good out there people like

[0:48] getting higher off the ground so it's a good idea so uh three tables nine chairs

[0:53] uh $435 total if I could get a motion for

[0:57] uh purchasing those for the clubhouse I'll that

[1:00] Shar makes the motion actually Gary you second it okay so all in favor say I I

[1:07] opposed motion carried Lyn the second thing we talked about um was in the

[1:12] Legion Park back here um the cement border that needed to be put around the

[1:16] playground area um we talked about that it's probably a good idea to put that

[1:22] out for bids versus you know just awarding it to somebody um I know it it

[1:27] meets the requirements that we don't have to put it out for bids but I think

[1:30] it's a good process everybody gets the chance to do it to to put in you know

[1:36] for what they bid it at yep so we would just need Eric to you know create a

[1:39] scope and then put it out there okay um if I could get a motion for that

[1:47] make a motion here makes a motion I'll second is there a second a motion all in

[1:51] favor to say I I opposed a motion Carri the third thing is the approval of

[1:57] positions um the park board um Review Committee did um meet and we have um a

[2:05] candidate that we feel would be best for the supervisor role um

[2:12] Parker how do you say his last name Laura Clark CLA Clark

[2:16] CLA um is the candidate that we would recommend um we would recommend starting

[2:22] him at 58,000 um and then at his six-month

[2:29] review which would be after the golf season

[2:33] ended if everything went well um and he was doing well we would recommend

[2:39] increasing it to 59,000 um that does fall into the budget

[2:47] range that we were

[2:50] given let me know when you're done I'm done with that one okay so as far as

[2:54] with parkerland so is you're saying that there's there's any that is is it

[3:00] there's no other additions like any benefit changes or um yep um the other

[3:05] thing he did negotiate um would be starting at tier two um in terms of the

[3:10] PTO which would amount to 40 hours of additional PTO so does that does that

[3:16] PTO does he ACR PTO as well as getting the 40 hour of PTO or is that just it

[3:21] for the first year so he would start at tier two so he's not making more than

[3:26] the 59,000 it's just he's getting two weeks of pt versus one you follow me I

[3:32] do right so so he'll he'll start out with uh one week right away and then

[3:37] he'll acrew a week as he goes or you AC it no matter what well you work as you

[3:42] work so so I guess my question is what happens if he uh leaves in two months do

[3:48] we have to pay that PTO that we give him to him no because he has to acrw it as

[3:53] he works got it okay so we wouldn't be out anything that way so instead of

[3:57] getting 12 okay no I like that's 17 days right

[4:02] okay yeah it's not costing us anymore right yeah right no I understand that so

[4:07] that's good so then then he'll acrew it just like everybody else does you're

[4:11] just going to acrew at tier two instead of tier one right okay so um I guess uh

[4:18] how I look at it is uh myself it's and I I did send out an email last week uh

[4:26] stating that uh I would like to meet meet with them and also I feel that the

[4:32] other council members uh should have the opportunity to uh meet with uh uh Mr

[4:39] Claire uh as well um this is a it's a relatively big decision for the city and

[4:46] also uh we're adding we're opening up the the golf course going 18 holes and

[4:53] it obviously we want this to be a success we want to make sure that uh

[4:58] he's the right candidate and um I would like to have the opportunity to meet

[5:04] with him um myself personally or with or with another council member and then

[5:10] give the opportunity for the other council members uh to meet with them now

[5:14] we can do either we could do a closed door or a closed session meeting or we

[5:19] could set up like we did with uh with Laura um like a meet and greet so we

[5:24] could have the person here and then uh um we could come in at our leisure and

[5:29] talk to him just set up like a three-hour three-hour meeting great are

[5:34] you saying you want this before we take a vote on his I would great I would Gary

[5:40] I mean and if we have to call if we have to call a special meeting we don't have

[5:44] to wait two weeks if we want to do it next Monday we can do it next Monday too

[5:48] I I guess I can understand where you're coming from but the hiring committee's

[5:51] already went through the process and we're bringing we're going to bring it

[5:55] to a vote tonight um I guess that's that would be my proposal we want to get this

[6:01] ball rolling and to put it off any further I don't think is

[6:06] necessary yeah so I get so the I my rationale I'm just going to I took a

[6:11] couple of notes so I just uh for for sake I'm just I'm not sure that you know

[6:17] that I'm sure the candidate's a good person I'm sure he's likely qualified

[6:21] but I'm uncomfortable on the hiring process and the guidelines that were not

[6:25] voted on that were utilized the guidelines of hiring uh the compensation

[6:30] package uh um I asked but was not given the opportunity to meet with the

[6:35] candidate for me and the balance of the council members uh in addition I feel

[6:40] for this position the importance like I stated to the Future the success of the

[6:43] golf course uh we need a full Council vote and

[6:48] um what and and I think you guys know if anything happens in the city whether I'm

[6:55] involved with it or not it comes back to me right and I feel very uncomfortable

[7:01] voting for this person when I have not even met the person cuz people are going

[7:05] to come back to me and say well what do you know about this guy well I I don't

[7:09] know anything about him then why'd you vote for him for well we we have a a

[7:14] committee for this the hiring committee um you should be able to trust the

[7:18] hiring committee to get the process done we followed the process we hire the guy

[7:24] uh within our hiring parameters so there there should be no

[7:28] question whether or not we should bring it

[7:31] tonight or not so Gary and you were you went through the hir process with Laura

[7:36] and this person obviously isn't at the level of Laura but they're not at a

[7:40] level of like uh a Bradley either so they are a supervisory person they're

[7:45] going to be out in the community I you I I know I don't have to explain to you

[7:48] understand all that um but when we when we went when we had uh something set up

[7:55] with uh hiring Laura I actually went to the council

[8:00] um and a motion was made by Don Bowski and seconded by Jackie Johnson to allow

[8:06] me to make an offer and state the wages for the new city administrator the

[8:11] motion was carried unanimously nobody gave anybody permission to actually put

[8:17] in an official offer or take an acceptance of that position from that

[8:21] person I looked through all the minutes so is that not the hiring committee's

[8:25] job is to make the offer to this the park board is an advisory commit to the

[8:30] but we're bringing it to the meeting tonight yeah it was contingent on

[8:35] Council we should have went we should have had a meeting and decided what that

[8:40] was not the parameters John it never was the parameters were the park board was

[8:44] to interview and come back with a candidate that was qualified and to fit

[8:48] it within the the budget range I'm just I'm just saying you guys we're all

[8:52] independent thickers that's what I love about this Council uh I I uh if we don't

[8:58] table it um I will give my I'll give my reasons

[9:02] uh why um I'm not going to vote for the person but I think it's really uh it it

[9:09] would be really good to have everybody on board uh with the hiring because it's

[9:13] not going to set a good tone going forward but if you guys don't want to

[9:18] give us the opportunity to meet with them it's not about the opportunity John

[9:21] it's it's a trust thing also you you gave us this J so Len you told me you've

[9:26] never voted against the park Council while you were on the Council before say

[9:30] that again have you did you ever vote against the park Council when you were

[9:34] par Council what do you mean on the Park Board V on the park absolutely but it

[9:39] came to a vote and that was my vote so you should have the opportunity to vote

[9:42] Yes or No told I just told you I'm going to vote and that's fine but you're

[9:46] saying you know you're coming back and some of your things are saying that we

[9:49] weren't following the guidelines that were given yes we were did we vote did

[9:55] we vote on saying that you could you had the authority to make an offer to him

[10:00] well how do we know he'd even take it if we don't make an offer that's what we go

[10:03] the I the idea was to bring a couple of candidates forth to the council let the

[10:08] council talk to them but you know I'm not going to it's it's miscommunication

[10:13] so I'm not I'm not I'm trying to work this out reasonably and if you guys want

[10:19] to my suggestion is to table it so Donnie and Sarah have a have a chance to

[10:24] at least ask the person a couple of questions but if if you guys want to

[10:28] make a motion um uh and I'll just call for a I just I'm going to call for a

[10:34] roll call vote and then we can give her I guess give her reasons why and um uh

[10:40] but I think it's crucial that the mayor of the town of peers uh would have an

[10:46] opportunity to meet uh that candidate before uh we vote the High room I just

[10:51] think it makes sense and I actually asked it isn't like I never asked to

[10:55] meet the person I was actually uh basically denied the opportunity to when

[11:00] was that when I sent that email to Laura and then you called me well I didn't

[11:04] deny it you said you wanted to and I said I was bringing it to the meeting

[11:07] tonight he said I didn't have to cuz you're bringing it to the meeting I said

[11:10] I'm bringing it to the meeting so that's what I'm doing well I don't see that's

[11:12] where it needs to be I don't see I don't see him here I would have loved to have

[11:15] met him tonight well because I said I was going to bring it to the meeting to

[11:20] anyway so that's my suggestion so you guys uh um I will make the motion to

[11:26] approve the hiring of Parker player um starting at

[11:32] $58,000 um at six-month interview going to

[11:35] $59,000 he is more than qualified for this position and he would be a great

[11:40] asset to our community as well as the golf

[11:45] course I second that okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to uh call for

[11:51] a roll call vote and um uh I'll actually take the lead first um and uh put the

[11:59] first first vote in uh since I'm kind of the in charge a little bit here so uh

[12:05] what I'd like to say is that uh not long ago actually a person sitting in here a

[12:10] particular citizen told me as the mayor I should know everything that happens in

[12:15] the city of peers that is what I'm actually trying to do I'm trying to do

[12:19] in this position I'm trying to know what's going on as the mayor

[12:23] representing the people as well as you guys I'm not voting no because of the

[12:28] candidate I'm voting no because as mayor the buck ultimately stops with me I

[12:33] haven't seen the hiring offer that's another thing we have I'd like to see

[12:37] the hiring offer we should all sign off on the offer before it's presented

[12:41] presented to them um I haven't seen a hiring offer nor um has the council

[12:47] given the authority to anyone to extend any offers in addition I'm not having an

[12:52] opportunity to meet the candidate uh to ask my own personal questions so

[12:58] therefore uh I'm casting the first vote of No and then I'm just going to start

[13:02] with Sarah and then I'm going to move my way down no I thought about it and I'm

[13:07] okay with it I mean I trust the hiring board they've

[13:13] done this before and I mean I guess it was a different

[13:18] situation with Laura

[13:21] and I mean I just I guess I don't remember any precedents where

[13:26] we've had you know even the other super supervisors go through a process like

[13:32] that I mean the hiring committee was put there and I guess you have to make an

[13:39] offer to know if the person is interested before we can approve and

[13:42] that the person that you um offered to they do know it's

[13:47] contingent if the council doesn't approve then they don't get the job

[13:50] anyway so I mean I'm okay I go I vote Yes yes

[14:00] yes okay so we have it's uh three uh for and one against so um that

[14:08] would gives you the opportunity to extend the offer for his acceptance I

[14:12] guess that's how it work l so okay okay uh then we don't have claims I'm still

[14:17] not done John oh I'm sorry I wanted to do each one separate oh okay um in terms

[14:22] of the assistant supervisor um we would recommend the hiring of Mark hoisel for

[14:27] that position starting out at 1950 an hour um we would do a three-month review

[14:33] if he was doing well we would recommend extending or moving him up to $20 an

[14:38] hour that would be a six-month job um with no benefits and and I I know Mark

[14:46] personally he's a nice person and um he's been he's part of our community so

[14:51] um he also would be a great asset he would be a great asset

[14:54] absolutely so I would make the motion um to approve approve hiring of Mark hoisel

[15:00] for the assistant supervisor position at the clubhouse Helen makes motions Gary

[15:05] seconds it all in favor say uh n uh motion carried and then the

[15:11] third is the team lead position um we currently do not have anybody that has

[15:16] accepted that position um I would ask that we could post for that

[15:21] position and then look to um the hiring committee to um do interviews and then

[15:28] come back back to the council um for

[15:33] approval I'll make a motion to post for the

[15:37] position of Team lead and then you know have the hiring

[15:43] committee do interviews and all that s makes a motion I'll second that Gary

[15:49] seconds the motion all in favor say I I oppos the motion carried that's all I

[15:55] got okay so then we don't have claims we don't have a Treasures uh report um

[16:01] Department updates the only thing I have is a request to uh approve the invoice

[16:09] that came from League of Minnesota cities for our workman's comp it is $

[16:15] 3,756 for the year is 3,756 yep

[16:21] okay if I could get a motion for approval of insurance for three League

[16:25] of cities I'll make a motion to accept that or to make that payment why don't

[16:30] we give Gary the motion and then Sarah seconds the motion that's okay all in

[16:35] favor say I I opposed a motion carried

[16:43] La okay so uh that is it I don't have anything unless anybody else has

[16:48] anywhere any updates at all I'm good ah I do not okay so if I could get a motion

[16:53] since D isn't here if I could get a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to

[16:58] adjourn at 625 p.m. Sarah makes a motion to adjourn second I G second a motion

[17:04] all in favor say I I opposed uh motion carried

2-10-25 City Council Meeting

Transcript