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Special Meeting of the City Council <br /> August 24, 2004 <br /> Page 4 <br />City Manager service, by e-mail and voice mail, but hadn’t heard from them as <br />yet. <br />He said the cost would be $55.00 per hour with travel pay and they were flexible <br />as to the number of hours. Councilman Guest suggested making it a job. It was <br />decided to make it full time and cut back if needed. Councilman Guest made a <br />motion to authorize the Mayor to contact the service and get a full-time Interim <br />City Manager. The motion was seconded by Councilman Poston and carried 7 <br />ayes, 0 nays. <br />Mayor Fendley called consideration, discussion and possible action or direction <br />to City Staff regarding the results of recent salary surveys associated with filling <br />current employee vacancies. He said the only position which wasn’t discussed at <br />the last meeting was that of Lindsey Harper, the Main Street Coordinator. Mayor <br />Fendley reminded the Council that she was pregnant and would be leaving in <br />October and wouldn’t return after the baby was born. Finance Director Anderson <br />said he would have the results of the salary survey by next week. Mayor Fendley <br />indicated that the position of Main Street Coordinator would be addressed next <br />week. <br />Mayor Fendley said the position of Library Director needed to be posted, also. <br />Interim City Manager related that the position was already posted and wondered <br />if the Council wanted to change the salary or grade of that position, also. Mr. <br />Townsend said it had been suggested to make that Grade 40, with a starting salary <br />of $40,000.00, topping out at $48,000. It was decided to re-post the position and <br />do interviews at the new pay level and grade. <br />Next the Council discussed the Community Development Budget with Lisa <br />Wright, Director of Community Development. Ms. Wright said she had more cuts <br />to the budget that she had figured. These included cutting batteries to $100.00, <br />zeroing out Line item 0352, reducing electronic data processing to $500.00, and <br />zeroing out maintenance agreement. <br />On the Main Street budget, Ms. Wright proposed cutting postage to $250.00 and <br />special events to $15,000. On the MIS budget, she cut communications and <br />telephone to $100.00. On a question from Councilwoman Wilkerson, she said <br /> <br />