06 City Council Mtg Min 12-11-06

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Regular City Council Meeting December 11, 2006 Page 13 with Council Member Freelen and said there had been a lot of progress in the last two years. He said the issue pointed out was communication, that they should work with Tony and Tony should work with the Council Members that feel communication is an issue. Council Member Wilson said they need to give direction to correct the shortcomings. He stated the purpose of evaluations was to give directions and give a time frame for an employee to correct the problem. Tony told Council he wanted to do a good job and that he wanted to be better tomorrow than today. He informed Council he had checked with other cities to find out how they addressed communications. Tony said some City Managers send out written reports with the Agenda on the status of items Council had inquired about. He said he would like to start doing that. Tony said he was open to suggestions. Council Member Wilson thought that he should put everything in writing. Council Member Ray stated that communication was a problem a year ago and stated something should have been done about it a year ago. Mayor Manning agreed with Council Member Ray. Council Member Freelen said Tony was doing a goodjob. He further stated he would not want an employee who had to call his boss every time he had to do a job. He said they paid Tony do to run the City and they couldn't say he wasn't doing a good job. Council Member Ray said streets and sewers needed to be repaired. Council Member Wilson said that the City had not put money in infrastructure in years, because of financial problems. He further stated that the City was now in better financial shape. Mayor Manning said after going over the budget this year, they were able to add three more firefighters. He wanted to know where the money came from. Council Member Wilson said it was money that was going to go into reserves. Mayor Manning said that should have been brought out at the first budget meeting. Council Member Fendley said the money was in the budget from the beginning, but that it was in reserves. Council Member Ray made a Motion to terminate the City Manager at the end of the month - the last day of the month, and to make it a suspension effective at the end of the meeting. Council Member Gray seconded the Motion. Tony Williams asked for written charges and a public hearing as allowed under Section 22 of the Charter. Mayor Manning said there was a motion and a second on the floor. Council Member Wilson asked for discussion. Council Member Wilson said earlier in the year, Council Member Ray had an item on the Agenda that asked for appointment of an interim City Manager. He said he later learned that an employee of Public Works, Mr. Brunson, had been offered the City Manager job prior to that meeting. Council Member Fisher wanted to know who offered him the job. Council Member Wilson said one ofthe Council Members. Council Member Wilson asked the other Council Members if anyone offered Mr. Brunson a job or visited with him about it. Mayor Manning said he visited with Mr. Brunson, after Mr. Williams said he was resigning. Mayor Manning said he did not offer the job to Mr. Brunson, but discussed it with