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Home My WebLink AboutCIV 1980-05-13 Minutes CIVIL SERVICE CCA~SSION CITY OF NO1~I'H RICEII,AND Nn T~ 't . MAY 13, 1980 Cha.irn~n Bob Hendersan called the meetir~g to order at 7:00 p.m. in Roan 100 of the City Hall Building. CCJN~~SSION N~ERS PRE.SENT BOB f~iDERSON, CHAIR@'1AN BILL BETI'S , VI(~ C~1AI1RNIE~N HET~ WRI(~-iT , CIVIL SERVICE SEGRETARY 0~.'i~S PRESII~T J(~T NIJODY, 4~R & WASTE WATER SUPT. PE'I'E PISZ'OI~ , STREET DENDTIS HORVATH, PARK & RECREATION SUPEItVISOR O~S AC,ENflA ITIl~I 1. Vice Chai~nan Bill Betts made a m~otian to approv+e the Minutes of April 8th and April 28th as writt~n. Chairman Bob Hendersan secanded the m~tian; mQtian carried by a vote of 2- 0. A(~P~ ITII~I 2. Request for Organizatianal Chan~es - Nir. To~ Paul, City Manager ~presented the request for organizatianal chan~es. Changes in the relative job descriptians woere reviewed. Vice (~iairmro.i Bill Betts questianed the order of approval an the organiza.tiona.l changes and discussed the procedure as to Cotmcil's appraval. Specific instances w~ere recalled where the Council approved of organizatian changes prior to the request for job description having been sent to the Carmissian for approval. The Civil Service Canmi.ssion discussed each job description timder cansideratian ane at a time. A. Mr. Paufi pointed out tha.t Pete is naw in charge of the ma.intenance progran at the Shap and ' supervises the persarmel there . B. Dermis Horvath, Park & Reereatian Director is asst~ning additiana.l duties as a Purchasing Agent. Under his supervi.sian are members of the Park Crew, persons leading the Recreatian Center, the Custodian who services the City Hall during the da.y and a raving Clerk in City Hall. Sane other duties are air canditianing in the n~w Fire Station, insurance an fleet liability. C. Allen Bronstad naw has responsibility over a11 rolling stock. He will spend m~st of his tune in the office and cantrol or inte~le the Park & Recreatian, Public Works and Utility, including use of the tractor and everything that canes in the office. Minutes r~.y is , i9so Page 2 D. Building Official is expected to atte~n.d all City Ca~mcil meetings, Plarming/7oning, and the Board of Adjustinents . The anly ch~e in organization for this positian is to add ane Clerk ~.d pull out of Civi.l Service to becaa~e a departm~nt hea.d. Chairnnan Bob Hen.dersan asked hcxa the incunbent feels about pulling out of the Civil Service. No ane laiew the answ~er , so the Chairman cautianed that ane persan may not be araund forever, there- fore w~e shauld cansider the positian itself. Vice Chairn~n Bill Betts sta.ted that he had proble~ with rearov:i~g one departm~nt head who had more than 30 ~loyees and then crea.tir~g another ane with four employees. E. When we have problens with the water punp syste~n, JoYm Nbody will naw be the persvn respansible inetead of Allen Branstad. Mr. Paul said he is ~ attesnptix~g to get the person closest to the job to be respansible for it. Vice Cha.irn~n. Bill Betts made a nntion that we tentatively apprave of the deseriptian for Street Superintendent (excluding the last sentence in paragraph three), also ~pprave tenta.tively the descri.ption of Purchasing Agent, also the descriptivn of Water & Waste Water Superintend~nt, and tentatively apprave those for the Director of Utilities; and disa.pprave of the Building Officia.l as presented; and to not approve of any salaries as presented for the follvwir~g reasan. The City Cauncil has given prior raval in my opinian, that anyone earning above~$18,000 (criteria being aur Assistant Fire C~ie~, is not tmder the Civil Service; therefore, clarifica.tian must be made regardang salary qua.lifica.tio~ri tm.der the Civil Service Systesn. Chairn~ Bob H,~ndersan secanded the m~tian; motian carried by a vote of 2- 0. Minutes May 13, 1980 Page 3 AC~A I'I'II~2 3. Salary Survey Comparisan - The Cocrmissivn agreed to post~cme this iten ~til the ne~ regular meeting or w~orksessian. Chairman. Bob Hendersan made a mc~tian to adj ourn the meeting at approxima.tely 9:45 p.m, The motion was seconded and the meeting adj wrn.ed. ~ L • , , ervice Secretary