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9.d) Staff Report-Public Works Director� J SCANDIA Staff RepoVt Date of Meeting: April 21, 2015 To: City Council From: Kristina Handt, City Administrator Re: Public Works Director Resignation, Job Description and Hiring Process Background: Tim Kieffer submitted his letter of resignation on April 15th. He is required to give a 30 day notice so his last day will be May 15th Issue: Should the Job Description for the Public Works Director be updated before advertising the position? What is the hiring process? Proposal Details: A copy of the resignation letter is included in your packet. The Council should first accept the resignation. A copy of a proposed updated job description is in your packet. The changes can be found on the last page. I'm proposing to update the qualifications to meet some of the new sewer requirements the City has taken over since Tim started. Also, some preferred qualifications are suggested to help improve the candidate selection process. It is typical that a public works director would have some level of higher education. I've also included some additional qualifications (tree inspector) which Tim has and we have had to use over the last couple years. Lastly, it was updated to reflect the additional maintenance worker that was added last year. I would propose the following hiring timeline/process: April 24, 2015: Advertisement posted on City and LMC websites May 2, 2015: Advertise in local paper May 22, 2015: Applications due by noon Week of May 25: Administrator narrow applicants to top five, interview, and select top three to take Wonderlic pre-employment tests* Week of June 1: Council interview three finalists June 16, 2015: Council approve hire contingent upon all background checks and drug/medical tests Early July: Start date for new hire *Wonderlic is an online assessment tool used to help evaluate applicants' cognitive skills, writing skills and other abilities. The City of Forest Lake uses their services. The cost for personality, motivation, cognitive and writing skills testing would be $625 for this vacancy. A copy of the proposed job advertisement is included in your packet. Recommendation: Accept Kieffer resignation. Approve updates to job description Approve hiring proposal