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City council makes changes in police chief job description |
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By Charlie Warner
Argus News Editor
In an effort to ease any confusion or controversy in the future, the Caledonia City Council unanimously approved a revision in the police chief job description. The action was taken during the Jan. 28 council meeting.
The council approved the revision of the seventh item under “essential functions” for further clarity.
•Changed from: “Undertakes or effectively recommends the full compliment of personnel actions including interviewing applicants,, hiring, transfer, regarding, and promotion, training and assigning and prioritizing work, coaching, and performance evaluation; and recommends actions such as discipline/suspension/discharge to the city council.”
•To: “Effectively recommends hiring, transfer, regard and promotion, and discipline/suspension/discharge to the city council.”
•And to: “Undertakes training, assigning and prioritizing work, coaching and performance evaluation and participates in interviewing applicants.”
The city council and City Attorney Tim Murphy felt the language change was needed in the police chief’s job description after Caledonia Police Chief Randy Shefelbine and the city had a difference in the interpretation of the job description. Shefelbine felt his job description gave him the authority to promote one of his officers to the rank of sergeant, while the city council did not.
In other council action:
Mercury minimization plan
The Council approved an estimate from Davy Engineering of La Crosse to conduct a state-mandated mercury minimization plan.
The plan, which must be submitted to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in May, will include the following:
•To include a brief discussion of the wastewater treatment plant and any changes to the facility, operations, and users in the past five years;
•A summary of mercury influent, effluent, and bio-solids monitoring data;
•Identification of existing and potential mercury sources and loadings to the WWTP, including industrial, commercial, medical (dental, hospital, veterinarian), schools, and residential.
•Evaluate WWTP operations to determine operating procedures that maximize mercury removal;
•Summary of past mercury reduction activities implemented in the past five years;
•A description of proposed mercury management and reduction measures to be implemented in the next five years.
The estimated cost of the plan was less than $5,000. The city council approved moving ahead with the plan and having Davy Engineering conduct it, with the stipulation the cost not exceed $5,000.
City EDA modifications
The council approved a motion to increase the number of members of the city’s economic development authority (EDA) from five to seven members. Two of the seven members must be from the city council.
Commissioners will be appointed for initial terms of one, two, three, four, and five years respectively, and two members for six years. Thereafter, all commissioners shall be appointed for six-year terms.
Persons currently on the city’s EDA include Mayor Mike Morery, Councilman Randi Vick, Todd Roesler, Kathy Nelson, and Mike Werner. Exofficio members are City Administrator Bob Nelson, and City EDA Director Joyce Iverson.
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