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KENAI CITY COUNCIL — SPECIAL MEETING
OCTOBER 25, 2016,12:00 P.M.
KENAI CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
210 FIDALGO AVENUE, KENAI, AK 99611
http://www.kenal.cit
A. CALL TO ORDER
1. Pledge of Allegiance
2. Roll Call
3. Agenda Approval
B. PUBLIC COMMENT (Public comment limited to three (3) minutes per speaker;
thirty (30) minutes aggregated)
C. NEW BUSINESS
City Council Interviews of City Manager Applicant Finalists. (Clerk's
Note: Council may convene into executive session to discuss this agenda
item pursuant to AS 44.62.310(C)(2)(D)(5) a Subject that Tends to
Prejudice the Reputation and Character of an Applicant; and Meetings
of the Governmental Body when Holding a Meeting Solely to Act Upon
Matters of Professional Qualifications]
D. ADJOURNMENT
Sand a odi h, M , City Clerk
Post d' ctober 22, 2016
The agenda and supporting documents are posted on the City's website at
www.kenai.city. Copies of resolutions and ordinances are available at the City Clerk's
Office or outside the Council Chamber prior to the meeting. For additional information,
please contact the City Clerk's Office at 907 - 283 -8231.
CITY MANAGER SELECTION — INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Tell us the primary reasons why you would like to be the Kenai City Manager.
2. How do you describe your management style?
3. What are Kenai's greatest assets and opportunities, as you understand them to be?
4. What do you think are the greatest challenges the City will face in the next five years?
5. What experience do you have with personnel management?
a) Supervising?
b) Hiring?
c) Firing?
d) Performance reviews?
e) Conflict management?
6. If you are hired as City Manager, what are your goals for your first year of tenure
and how would you approach achieving them?
7. Describe your government finance related experience and training.
8. Describe your experience in developing and working with budgets and dealing with
budget deficits.
9. Give an example of how you would criticize the actions of a subordinate.
10. You have personal knowledge that an employee has been inappropriately using City
equipment for personal use. How would you deal with this situation?
11. Describe the type of Council (Assembly, Board of Supervisors, etc.) you have most
liked to work for, and the type you have least liked to work for.
12. As the new City Manager, an experienced employee doesn't seem to accept you in
your new position. How would you handle this?
13. Discuss a situation in which your Council (Assembly, Board of Supervisors, etc.)
proposed a policy, procedure, or operational issue you considered to be unsound or
would cause serious problems with employees. How did you handle it?
14. Please describe your experience and approach to managing large capital projects.
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15. The City's number one capital improvement priority for over two decades has been
a project to stop ongoing erosion of approximately 5,000 lineal feet of bluff near the
mouth of the Kenai River. The US Corps of Engineers has taken the lead on the
project and will be the designer and constructor for the project if it moves forward to
completion. The project estimate is currently $43 million, but the Corps of Engineers
has communicated they have de- scoped the project and that the cost estimate may
be in the $20 -$30 million range. The project funding is proposed to be a 35% local
share (City of Kenai) and 65% federal share. The City has in -hand, in -kind
contributions, contributions from the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and cash, to
constitute its 35% share. The Federal Government is scheduled to complete the
Final Feasibility Study on or before August of 2017, at which time the project will
become eligible for Federal funding. There are a number of tasks for the City to
complete with funding it presently has in -hand, one of them is to purchase
approximately 25 parcels of private property, in whole or in part, to facilitate the
project.
16. What would you do to accomplish the following:
a) Secure federal funding?
b) Complete property acquisition?
c) Any other actions to continue moving the project forward?
17. Describe a situation where you became very angry in the workplace. How did you
handle it?
18. One morning you begin receiving numerous phone calls from angry residents and
businesses owners that woke up without water to their homes and businesses. They
are upset that they cannot shower before work or open their stores. How would you
respond to their complaints and what are the first steps you would take to begin
remedying the situation?
19. What professional work situations make you feel awkward or cause you the most
difficulty?
20. If selected to be the City Manager, how will you reach out to, and involve residents
and other community groups in City business?
21. A Council Member contacts you at your office and confides in you that he or she is
dissatisfied with another Council Member. How would you handle the situation?
22. Tell us about your experience in coordinating government policy and activities to
support economic development.
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23. Describe a personnel situation that in hindsight you should have handled differently,
the results and what you would do differently if faced with the same circumstances.
24. Each Council Member may ask questions of the candidate (limited to two questions
per councilor).
25. Do you have any questions that you'd like to ask us?
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