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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-03-06 Council Minutes - Work SessionKENAI CITY COUNCIL WORK SEBOXON MARCH 6j 1997 REW CITY COUNCIL CMUISER0 7!00 P,X* mmiLnuaws Swarner, Measles, Smalley, Bannock, Moore, Bookey and'Williams. ,ETM, ,p owl, Freas, Ross, Semmens and Degorest Onlas PRZ@E,s Ethel Claussen, Jon Little 81 XRQ D_=GjM W01M _ e,ZOOtoNet Council set budget work sessions for April 10, 170 24 and May 1. All sessions are to be held in the council chambers and begin at 7:00 p.m. Fruit, cookies, coffee, sodas are to be available as refreshments. Council requested all packet information (for the initial packet) to be forwarded to the Clerk by April 3 and a packet be ready for council on April 4 (deliver to Police Station). City Manager Ross distributed a copy of the Borough tax ordinance to council for their information and review. Williams requested comments from council as to the process. Smalley reported he reviewed the candidate resumes twice, looking for different characteristics he felt important for a city manager to possess. He added, he looked for persons with a legal and financial background, as well as experience in lobbying and. working with the Alaska Legislature. Moore stated he ignored about half of the applicants whose resumes were in the binder either because they didnIt follow the instructions or their answers (to in-depth questions) were not was requested. He added, there were three or, four he felt qualified, but perhaps not to run the city, according to the score sheets. Bookey reported he reviewed the resumes twice and chose seven names, however, felt none were impressive. Swarner reported she picked out seven applicants which she felt answered the questions and followed the directions.. Bannock and Measles had no comments. xExa= ciTsc coviacu. woRx sEsssox MARCH 61 1997 PAGE 2 Williams stated he wrote a note to the city manager and stated he didn't want to seem short -sided, but felt there should be someone within the State to hire. He short-listed six and all -were Alaska residents. He added, some on his list he didn't think were fully qualified, but had some expertise and lived in Alaska. Bookey stated he looked for someone with managerial skills, whether in the state or not. He added, out of the seven he pulled out, three were in Alaska and four out. He left McAlpine in but was unsure whether he would choose him as he is an attorney and the city already had an attorney. Individual councilmembers then listed the names they chose from the applicants. Those named by councilmembers, along with how many of council chose the name, are below: Hugh Bevan (6) Nancy Cannington (5) Paul Day (6) David Dengel (2) Michael Lamb (2) Stephen McAlpine (6) Richard Meyers (1) Richard Widmer (1) Dennis Sparks (2) • Jim Allan (2) Williams chose: Hugh Bevan, Nancy Cannington, Paul Day, David Dengel, Michael Lamb and Stephen McAlpine. Bookey chose: Jim Allan, Hugh Bevan, Nancy Cannington, Paul Day, Stephen McAlpine and Richard Meyer. Moore chose: Hugh Bevan, Nancy Cannington, Paul Day, and Stephen McAlpine. Swarner chose: Hugh Bevan, Paul Day, Gene Green, Stephen McAlpine, Richard Meyers and Dennis Sparks. Smalley chose: Jim Allan, Hugh Bevan, Nancy Cannington, Paul Day, David Dengel, Michael Lamb and Stephen McAlpine. Bannock chose: Paul Day and Nancy Cannington. Measles chose: Stephen McAlpine, Hugh Bevan, Dennis Sparks, and Richard Widmer. Measles explained, he discounted Cannington and Day from the running because they did not meet the basic qualifications. He added, they did however, rate up with the others with experience, . etc. • • • 0 KENAI CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MARCH 6, 1997 PAGE 3 Council discussed the advertisement and what it requested for minimum qualifications. A copy of the advertisement was reviewed by council. Measles stated he was concerned there may have been people who would have applied for the position, but didn-*t meet the minimum qualifications and didn"t apply. Swarner stated she felt there were no applicants who stood out as a leader. Measles and Bookey agreed. She added, there was nothing in their paperwork that interested her. Smalley stated McAlpine interested his due to his background in legal, ports, finance and lobbying. Council then discussed the list of candidates pulled out earlier and offered comments if they felt the candidate should remain in the running. Richard Meyers -- No comments (eliminated). Gene Green -- No comments (eliminated). Richard Widmer - Measles asked his name to remain. Jim Allan -- Smalley and Bookey requested his name remain. Dennis Sparks -- Measles requested his name remain. Michael Lamb -- No comments (eliminated). David Dengel -- Smalley requested his name remain. Nancy Cannington -- Consensus was the name remain. Stephen McAlpine -- Consensus was the name remain. Paul Day -- Consensus was the name remain. Hugh Bevan -- Consensus was the name remain. Council began discussing the remaining six candidates individually. . Ric ard_Wi er - It was noted, Widmer is a Civil Engineer, graduated college in 1967, works in Estes Park, CO, 88 employees and a $22 million budget. Smalley stated he scored him at 22 points; Measles noted he had scored him at 54; and Swarner noted his application was complete. Measles suggested individual copies of the applic:ant.resumes should be made for council to review for more in-depth discussion. Discussion followed in regard to minimum requirements. it was decided to eliminate Day and Cannington because they did not meet the minimum requirements. • KENAI CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MARCH 61 1997 PAGE 4 Tim Allan - Swarner noted his application was incomplete, i.e. he didn't respond with items of controversy, etc. Even if there was nothing controversial, he did not note there wasn't HuO,Bgyan - Smalley noted Bevan didn't respond to the controversial item question either. Moore disagreed, stating he mentioned a list of projects that went amiss, and how he became the department head, etc. Individual review ended. Williams stated council should review each of the resumes and score them individually prior to a March 20 work session. Discussion followed regarding the scoring of the resumes. Council would be using the score sheets previously made available to council. Williams stated council needed to decide whether to throw out all the candidates or arrange for interviews. Swarner suggested council should make the final decision of who to hire in a unanimous vote. Bannock disagreed. Moore asked how much weight • should be placed on outside influences, i.e. comments received from residents. Williams answered, council needed to only look at what had been submitted by the applicant. Any other comments would be discussed when they whittle the group down to two or three and background checks are made. • Council requested copies to them, along with score resumes for the March 20, p.m. in council chambers. of the final six resumes be distributed sheets. Council is to score those 1997 work session, beginning at 7:00 The work session ended at approximately 8:16 p.m. Notes abed and 0 Carol L. Fread, City C red by: