All right.

Good evening, everyone.

I will call this Tiger City Council and local contract review board meeting to order.

Deputy City Recorder Bartholomew, would you please conduct a roll call?

Mayor Who?

Here.

Councillor Robbins.

Here.

Councillor Schlack.

Here.

Councillor Shaw.

Here.

Council President Wolf?

Here.

Councilor Anderson.

Here.

Councilor Gaducey?

Here.

Yes, Councilor Halleck.

Here.

Thank you.

Well, everybody please mute your mics and join me for the pledge of allegiance.

Council and City Team, do you have any non-agenda items?

Seeing none, let's move on to recognition, which is presentation of police unit commendation award.

Commander Sitton will introduce the members of our commercial crime unit who are receiving the department's unit commendation award.

Good evening, Commander.

You guys just gonna stand behind me.

That's nice.

Okay.

That's not intimidating.

Um Mr.

Mayor, Council.

It's my honor tonight to present the uh unit accommodation award to our commercial crimes unit.

Uh Detective Sergeant Dan Swain, Detective Jordan Welch, Detective Nelson Massey, and Detective Kyle Henderson comprise our commercial crimes unit.

The award tonight is for commendable achievement that went above and beyond their normal assigned work duties or responsibilities that brought great credit to the department and the law enforcement profession.

The commercial crimes unit simultaneously investigated two serial burglaries that were complex and affected both the business and residential tiger communities.

The investigations require numerous hours of surveillance, follow-up, search warrants, and coordination with countless law enforcement agencies across the Pacific Northwest region.

At one point, the commercial crimes unit synchronized three different tactical teams along with several other search warrant executions spread out over hundreds of miles to safely take the suspects into custody and gather evidence of the crimes under investigation.

Tens of thousands of dollars of stolen property was recovered and returned to the victims.

The suspects are ultimately indicted on numerous felony charges, including burglaries, kidnappings, robberies, and racketeering.

This commendation acknowledges the hard work and tenacity displayed by them all.

Their actions exemplify the Tiger Police Department's core values of attitude, leadership, integrity, service, and teamwork.

So I have a certificate for each one of you.

And the unit accommodation pins.

And I'm sure the council wants to maybe take a picture.

Is everybody?

Let's move on to the next section.

Item on the agenda, which is public comment.

Public comment period provides an opportunity for members of the public to address the city council.

While it's not a dialogue, either I or staff will follow up to address the issues brought forward in these comments.

The calling number is 503-966-4101, and those wishing to comment should call now to get into the queue.

Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the front of the room.

Those call calling in for agenda items number six or number seven shall wait until that item is announced and then call in.

First uh is public uh written comment.

Um there were three written public comments received by the Monday noon deadline about funding for full-time park ranger precision, concerns with camping ordinance enforcement, and a request for utility bill fund size to be increased.

Let's move on to uh in-person public comments.

And I have uh one person sign up.

Uh Matt.

Welcome, Matt.

Yes, please come forward and sit uh take a seat and then uh turn on the mics, please.

No, it's not on right now.

So yeah, so after you state your name and what city you live, uh you have two minutes.

Hi there, I'm Matt Rotolski.

I live here in Tiger, uh, just off from Dallas Street here.

Um I'm calling coming here uh about the uh home situation over at the water district.

Um if we're it seems like things were going great there for like until like maybe a couple months ago.

Um and it looks like I I mean I work right across the street from there, so I was able to see that the police are going out there every morning around nine o'clock in the morning.

Make sure everything got cleaned up, um, at least for the most part of it.

Um but then ever since then for some reason that just hasn't been enforced at all anymore.

And the garbage is all over the sidewalks, people can't walk by.

Um I'm sure it's not doing great things for the uh resale I mean uh uh real estate values around here.

And uh it's just like for some reason the police have not just been taking care of their situation.

And when I called them, I've called them like three times already, and they they either said, Oh, yeah, we'll we'll totally take a look at it, and I don't think anything's already been done.

And uh last time I called, they said, Well, you should need to go talk to the city council because for some reason uh they're just allowing this to happen and we can't do anything about it.

It's just like okay.

I mean, I thought that was a police enforcement type thing.

So basically I'm just curious about what why it's not being enforced.

I mean, I'm sure that sidewalks are not supposed to be cluttered like that, so people can't walk by.

Um I mean I'm all for this the rule, the laws that say they can camp there overnight.

I think that's great because they're right there.

I mean, you know, if if anything goes wrong, you know, there's no they can't do fires, and we people can watch what they're doing basically, so they're out in the open.

So I think that's great.

I think the law is uh awesome, but when it's not being enforced and they're not cleaning things up in the morning like they're supposed to be.

That's where I'm like been having a little issue with the situation.

So just curious to find out what can be done about that.

Maybe if there's anything else that needs to be enacted or uh something else to be to be done.

So thank you.

And uh you may want to stay around a little bit for the city manager report.

You might get some answer from there.

So but thank you for for coming today to express your concern.

All right, so anybody else who want to uh make public comment and have not sign up.

See none, let's move on to phone or in video uh video comment.

Uh Mr.

Vang, are there any callers in the queue for phone or video testimony?

No callers, Mayor.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Van.

Uh let's m move on to the next item on the agenda, which is city manager report.

Actors act acting city manager Rager will give a brief report.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Uh as we move into the month of April, I want to highlight a vital community initiative led by the Tigert Police Department.

April marks child abuse prevention month, a time dedicated to the safety and well-being of our youngest community members.

To honor this, you will see a display of blue pin wheels.

You saw them when you walked in here uh out along the city hall lawn and along the drive there.

Uh these serve as a visual reminder that preventing child abuse is a proactive community-wide effort.

Our officers work year-round with schools and local partners to identify risks and support families, ensuring every child in Tigert has a safe environment to learn and grow.

By staying aware of work and working together, we are building a healthier future for all of our children.

By staying aware of work and working together, we are building a healthier future for all of our children.gov slash vacancy.

The last thing on my list tonight, Mr.

Mayor, is uh uh to talk about the uh an update of regarding the houseless camping at the public works lawn.

Uh everyone has noticed that over the last several weeks the number of campers has increased.

And in many cases, large amounts of uh personal belongings are there during the daytime, staged on the sidewalk along Hall Boulevard.

So there are some changes uh that we're in the works and are in the works regarding managing the situation.

So there's three things I'll report on tonight.

First, uh the police department has begun a more intensive enforcement effort.

Uh specifically, all officers have been instructed to uh pull over and address issues if they notice that there is a violation there and they see it, uh they need to pull over and address it.

Uh before that, there were really two officers dedicated to that, and the bandwidth just wasn't there for them to see all things all throughout the day.

So that's that's one um one change.

And I would say probably the more common offense is the blocking the sidewalk.

They need they need to leave open 48 inches of clear space to allow for people to walk by or a wheelchair to to roll through there.

Uh that's one of the one of the challenges out there.

So coupled with the additional enforcement, there will be more uh a more liberal approach to um exclusions from the campsite.

Finally, on that, on this point, uh you will soon see a uh proposed change to the time, place, and manner code uh related to the storage of personal belongings and uh on city property and in the right-of-way uh during the daytime.

So that should be coming your way uh for the April 21st meeting.

So with that, that's the end of my report.

Thank you.

Any questions for acting city manager Rager?

Uh okay.

Yeah, I thank you.

Thank you for that update.

Yeah, I yeah, we we've been noticing more personal belonging piling up on the sidewalks, and we are hearing more community concerns.

So I thank you for for addressing that and bringing up uh future updates to the time place manner before the council.

So I really appreciate it.

Uh no.

So let's move on to consent agenda.

The consent agenda is used for routine items.

Information on each item is available on the city's website in the packet for this meeting.

These items may be enacted in one motion without separate discussion.

Council members may request that an item be removed by motion for discussion and separate action.

Tonight we have two consent items, both our contract.

One is for utility building, which uh including printing, mailing, barcoding services, and the other item is for citywide janitorial services.

Um is there a motion uh for uh either discussion separately or approve them?

Mayor, I'm excuse me.

I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Thank you.

Second the motion.

Thank you.

The motion be moved by Council President Wolf and second by Councillor Shaw.

Is there any further discussion?

See none.

Uh though all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say nay.

The consent agenda is adopted by unanimous vote of the council.

All right, so let's move on to the next item, which is legislative legislative public hearing, ordinance to amend Tiger Municipal Code Chapter 11.08 alarm system.

And I will open the public hearing.

Uh anyone may testify by phone, video, or in person, and may call now to getting the queue by calling 503-966-4101.

Please, confidential executive assistant Upton and Commander Siddon will give the staff report.

You're back again.

Good evening again, Council.

Mr.

Mayor.

Tonight I brought our executive assistant, Liz Upton, who's basically going to give you the report on the alarm system.

So go ahead.

Our current alarm system has uh outdated software.

We worked with the city to uh get the EPL software, the current software that we use for permitting for um uh uh permitting for other locations and planning and whatnot.

Um so we've implemented that, and in that we needed to update the ordinance to align with the new system.

Um and then uh we also updated the language.

It hadn't been updated since 2014, and there was uh some new technology and modernization in the language, and then we added an appeal process uh which matches other agencies and jurisdictions in this area to have an official appeal process for false alarm calls.

So is there any questions?

Any questions, comments?

All right.

Uh do we have anybody signing sign out for the public comment?

While uh deputy city recorder is getting sign up sheet, I will ask Mr.

Van Are there any caller into queue to testify on this item?

No callers.

Thank you.

Okay, nobody sign on in person to testify.

So there's no response necessary.

Okay.

I will close the public hearing.

So this council conservation on ordinance number 26-08.

Is there a motion or the discussion?

Go ahead.

Mayor, I move to approve ordinance number 26-08.

Thank you.

Second.

Thank you.

The motion be moved by Councillor Robbins and second by Council Parson Wolf.

Is there any further discussion?

Seeing now will the deputy city recorder read the number and title of the ordinance.

Ordinance number 26-08, an ordinance amending chapter 11.08 of the Tiger Municipal Core Code, Alarm Systems with updated and additional language.

Will the deputy city recorder please conduct a roll-code vote starting with the youth counselor for an advisory vote?

Youth Councilor Halleck?

Yes.

Mayor Who?

Yes.

Councilor Robbins.

Yes.

Councilor Shaq Schlack.

Yes.

Councilor Shaw.

Yes.

Council President Wolf?

Yes.

Councillor Anderson?

Yes.

Councillor Gaducy.

Yes.

All right.

Ordinance number 26-08 is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council.

Thank you.

Have a good evening.

Council.

All right.

Let's uh move on to the next item on the agenda, which is public hearing adopting hiring standards criteria for process and process for city manager.

And I will open the public hearing.

Anyone may testify by phone, video, or in person, and may call now to get into the queue by calling 503-966-4101.

Maybe we're a little bit too early.

Okay, so maybe I'll just should we wait or move on to and come back?

Okay, two minutes.

Okay, we'll wait two minutes.

Just way too efficient without time.

Okay, yeah.

Hi, Clef.

Oh, you're on mute.

Yeah, would you can you hear me now?

Yes.

Would you mind introducing uh yourself to the council and the Tiger community?

Well, thank you, Mayor, for the opportunity to visit with you.

Uh good evening, uh Council and staff and community members there in the room or or who may be watching.

My name is Cliff Moore.

I am a consultant with Profman, the executive recruiting firm working with the City of Tiger on the recruitment for your next city administrator.

Uh just as a brief background, I'm a former city manager myself.

I was city manager in Yakima, Washington.

I was also county manager in Thurston County, Washington, where the state capital is, and a longtime department director in Thurston County as well in community development.

So a lot of years in the business.

And then also uh with the uh a group depart a group of department directors as well.

So I'm getting well schooled in in Tiger and the things that you're looking for in your next city administrator.

Uh we've provided a schedule uh for the for the process, and and I'm happy to to go over that or or answer any questions you may have.

Yeah, thank you.

It was uh pleasure talking talking with you last week and uh I know you talk with all yeah, as you mentioned, you talk most of us city council one-on-one.

So and here comes uh H.R.

Director Gomez.

So perfect timing.

So even what an inference.

Yeah, we're about to try to end.

Yeah, we're about 20 minutes early.

So Cliff gave us yeah, Cliff gave us an introduction.

So that was great to know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep, there we go.

Um good evening, Mayor and Council.

For the record, my name is Laura Gomez, and I am the city's HR director.

I am here tonight to continue the discussion.

Um that was initiated during council's meeting on February 10th regarding the process for hiring a new city manager.

The meet uh meeting resulted in council creating a subcommittee to select a recruitment firm.

And the committee um selected Prothman company.

So you've met Cliff.

Yes.

He is joining me this evening.

Um and staff request council's adoption of the hiring standards, criteria, and process for city manager.

Um the purpose of the evening's public hearing is to present the scope of services, the workflow, and proposed schedule, and solicit input from council and the community.

Adoption of these items is the next step in beginning the formal recruitment process.

Um provided for you ahead of time and to assist with council's decision making was the scope of work, the job description, and the workflow process.

Staff recommends proceeding with um the city manager recruitment as described in the workflow process, and would like a point of contact from council for input as we move through that workflow.

Any questions?

Yeah.

So council members, uh, you you all have received documentation relating to the you know scope and of work and and timeline, etc.

Any questions or comments for H Director Comes.

No?

Um I'll go after.

Oh, go ahead, Council Schlack.

Thank you, Mayor, and um thank you, Director Gomez, and good to see you again, Cliff.

I'm very excited to uh begin this process, and I had an excellent one-on-one with you both to talk about some of the things I'm interested in looking for for Tiger's next city manager.

Um two points.

Um regarding um section 3.2 in the um personal services contract, which is the candidate presentation.

It says we would select the top two to five candidates to be selected.

I'd prefer to just bump that up to three to five and just have some more options of folks that we can meet in person just based on uh previous experiences I've had on the council.

I want to make sure that we have uh a good amount of options moving through each one.

So minor point there.

And then um regarding the point of contact request, I would suggest that Mayor Who be the point of contact.

He is engaging in um one-on-ones with every council member every two weeks at this point.

He's very in the loop on the process, and I think it just structurally makes sense that he be the single point of contact since we're all able to provide him with feedback that we have on a regular basis one-on-one.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other oh, Councilor Shaw?

Yeah, thank you, Councillor Schlag.

I agree with the point of contact.

I think that makes sense for efficiency purposes, and we have been meeting with the mayor, so he's quite in tune with uh our preferences.

And um I'm fine with the top three to five.

I thought two is fine just because we've had a lot of candidates in the past, which I'm hopeful we'll have many more, uh, but I'm fine with three to five, and just want to echo my thanks to both um both the acting city manager Rayer, City Attorney Rahal, our HR Director Gomez, and also um Cliff for just all the hard work you've done.

So thank you very much.

I know it's been on the ex expedited time frame, so thank you.

Yes.

My pleasure.

Oh, Council President Wolf, please.

Um again, thank you both, and Cliff really appreciate the opportunity to chat with you.

I my question is just a clarifying question on when we get to the finalists on the background checks.

We talked about that decision, and I noticed in the timeline it might be Prothman or the City of Tiger doing that finalist review.

Is that a decision we determine later on, or is that something that doesn't have to be done tonight?

Okay.

That was my question.

I added that in uh to the contract.

It wasn't originally there, but we um they were Prof was very generous to let us offer that option to council when we reach that point.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um so we have we see no recon written comments for this item by new amanda.

Uh Mr.

Van is there any callers in the queue to testify on this item.

No callers.

Thank you.

And WT City Recorder is checking to see.

No, nobody sign up.

So um no staff response needed.

So I will close them uh hearing on this matter.

Uh so we are here for further discussion.

Is it our motion?

Mayor, I move to adopt the city manager hiring standards criteria and process as presented.

Second the motion.

Thank you.

Uh the motion has been moved by counselor Schlack and second by counselor Shaw.

Is there any further discussion?

Yes, I believe it actually should be amended because you wanted to change it from two to five to three to five.

So it should be as amended.

Oh, good point.

So uh that's we you can move uh move to amend the motion the motion.

Uh can I just withdraw the motion and restate?

You can thank you.

Uh, I would be responsible.

I would withdraw the motion and I instead move to adopt the city manager hiring standards criteria and process as amended.

I'll second the motion.

Thank you.

The motion as amended has been moved by counselor Schlag and again and uh seconded by Councillor Shaw.

Any further discussion?

Go ahead, Councillor Shaw.

And just to confirm, I know um Councilor Shaw and I express support for uh the Mayor Huyu being the point of contact.

I just want to confirm that there's majority support for that.

I guess I assumed if we were all approving with no comment, that would be implied.

So uh absolutely makes total sense.

My support.

Okay, any further discussion.

All right, those all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed saying nay.

The motion is that adopted by unanimous bob of the council.

Thank you so much.

Great, thank you.

Thank you, Cliff.

We'll talk later.

That's good to work.

Exciting.

Very exciting.

Good night now, thank you.

Thank you, Cliff.

All right.

So that's a move on.

To the next one.

Yeah, the next one.

I have my breath now.

Take a deep take a deep breath.

All right.

So next item is review policy for acting city, acting city, and elected officials.

And it's a request by Council Schlack and myself.

And City Attorney Rihala and I would leave this item along with our HR director Gomez.

So I can start.

We start with two policies, though.

Which one would you like to start?

So we'll start with the um reporting policy.

So the city of Tiger is committed to providing employees and volunteers with an environment that encourages and enables reporting of known or suspected improper public officer and public official conduct.

The city is also committed to ensuring people who report their concerns are protected from retaliation.

A documented policy and procedure that establishes clear reporting procedures and ensures persons who report are free from retaliation would foster and promote a safe and respectful and professional environment.

Council requested a documented process for reporting the improper public officer or a public official conduct.

Additionally, council was provided a memo approved by a council subcommittee regarding the compensation and administration and process for the city manager, city attorney and municipal court judge positions in May of 2025.

Council expressed desire to clarify the compensation process for the position of the assistant city manager that is not considered a city officer when serving in the role of the acting city manager.

So the first action that we're requesting regarding the policy for reporting improper public official conduct is that council requested this, and because of this policy applies to members of council as well as employees who report directly to council.

The request is for the city council to approve the public officer reporting policy as opposed to the city manager who would normally approve this policy.

Are there any questions about that policy?

So we're talking about the public public officer reporting policy.

Any questions or comments?

Go ahead, Council Codusi.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I want to start by acknowledging the intent behind the policy, and I love everything that we're trying to create the safe, transparent environment in order to allow the reporting of concerns.

I know that we're trying to have that sort of separation of powers and having the city council report to HR.

Um we may be unintentionally delegating some of the responsibilities that the charter reserves for council overall.

Councillor Goodisi, I'm not sure I entirely understand the conflict.

I don't have a copy of the charter, but I was reading it over, and one of the things in it was talking about some of the reporting policies for council and trying to have counsel basically within ourselves.

If there are any issues and concerns, address that.

I don't have it.

I don't have it.

I think this is dealing with employee who have issue with council.

Now council member have problem with the that was my mis So this is an employee having an issue with a counselor.

Is that the intent of this?

Then I misunderstood this regard.

So the ground rules, I think, is what your thinking.

So the charter authorizes the ground rules and the ground rules are what provide for the current uh process about how conflicts are handled.

So council always has the ability to amend the ground rules without touching the charter, and this is separate from both of those things and is attended to address potential issues of a city officer or an elected official.

Got it.

Thank you for the clarification.

Certainly.

Oh, counselor Robins.

Thank you.

Um I question is this is for the reporting, like we just clarified of employees or volunteers, an employee, public officer, public official, or volunteer who recently believes can report.

What about just a regular person from the public?

What did they do?

So it would depend on what the the alligation was.

So like in the situation of the city manager, city attorney, if the allegation was a potential tort, like the city manager assaulted somebody or the city attorney assaulted somebody, um, that would be through a legal process or that would be both either through a criminal or a tort claim legal process.

Um if it was something about rudeness, uh that doesn't need an official challenge channel necessarily.

That would be something that anybody could come to council about.

Um so I guess it depends on what the specific charge would be.

There isn't a specific process built in.

It's broad enough that uh it would depend on the specific situation.

Okay.

Thank you.

And for council members member public have problem with this, they can vote us out, I guess.

So I was more wondering, like one of them, one of the examples is like gross misuse of funds.

So say I took that trip to Denmark to learn about transit, right?

And then somebody from the public felt that that was inappropriate, which you know, whether or not it is, would they?

I guess just write a letter to council or yeah.

I mean, we we they city manager and city attorney directly report to us, so it's our responsibility to right so to make sure those uh issues are addressed.

So if it was a if it was like that example, there's always the ethics commission that would oversee those types of things, police obviously for criminal matters, elections division for election violations, so those state entities also maintain their roles.

That makes sense, thank you.

Yeah, this this meant this is meant as uh another way for a city employee feel comfortable to report any concern they have about elected and and city officers.

So all right.

So any other question about this policy.

Nan see now let's move on to the um compensation um addendum about uh are there any more presentation or uh or okay so uh all right.

So uh so the the addendum was dated April seventh.

Talk about um assistant city manager job duty include acting as city manager, but um uh the the three member subcommittee could award supplemental pay time off of up to 40 hours uh when the acting city manager uh finished his or her duty.

And then if a city employee other than assistant city manager is asked to serve in the row acting city manager, then a three member subcommittee will also be able to form a subcommittee to determine out of cost compensation for an amount not to exceed five percent of the employing base salary.

So any comments or d questions about that particular addendum?

Council President Wolf, please.

Um thank you, Mayor.

Um yeah, my only comment I appreciate all the work that's gone into this process is um I do disagree somewhat on the assistant city manager's job duties um for I I mean like the the two weeks for being out of class, I totally understand that.

But I wonder if it's an extended period, let's say it's beyond two months or three months.

I do think that that um is a range that maybe requires, you know, um an additional thought on compensation.

Um because part of me feels like as acting city manager, you aren't necessarily directly managing council and managing um the department heads.

So I do my opinion is I do feel that there is an added layer of responsibility, and I think that it should be a while, but if for the circumstance goes beyond a quarter or whatever that time is, that seems justified in my opinion.

So I was gonna I appreciate the the comment and the clarifying question.

I'll take it as a clarifying question.

Um and looking at this uh addendum, there are different sources that we were considering.

Um and those are pay practices, policies, uh what current city policies we have, what is an equitable process.

Um and what I would like to say is I did some math.

Um I thought this might be asked.

But in the event that the acting um assist the assistant city manager is in the acting role as the city manager, even for three months, up to 40 hours of uh PTO time or that extra hours is more than a five percent um base.

Yes.

Yeah.

So it actually if it extends beyond that, I would uh it would be closer to six months, which would be not customary or out of the ordinary.

And I would like to remind you that this is the council's decision, and if council wanted to revisit, revoke or revise it, you're always welcome to do so.

But because the the timeline, yes, there is an expectation of two weeks, three weeks, I can understand that.

If it does extend beyond two or three months, it is still more advantageous to get 40 hours of PTO than it would be to get a five percent work out of class.

Uh council Robins.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I do agree that um I think anyone taking the job is uh uh assistant or deputy city manager, you know, the job description says and serve for as a city manager when they're out, but I think typically the expectation would be out for vacation or six leave sick leave or something with a defined end point.

And so um and until very recently I think we we never really had to tackle anything like this.

But when it when we have a longer period of time, like Council President Wolf said of two to three months, or in this case even longer, or something that kind of doesn't have an end, I do think that should be treated a little bit differently because I just don't think most people who accept the job of acting of assistant city manager would expect to be doing a higher level job for for kind of an undefined amount of time.

Um I I actually just sat down and done the math and 40 hours is that's 2% of the whole year, not like 5% of the three months.

Okay.

All right.

So I guess if I clarify the math from from what you just said, because one out of fifty-two, that's two percent of the whole year.

But then if you condense that to three months, I get it.

I get the math.

But you didn't I was never mind.

Never mind.

But I wonder if we shouldn't have the ability to say up to 40 hours for X amount of time or 80 hours for if it goes longer than three months.

Yeah.

For six months we give two weeks, or for nine months, three weeks, something like that, where it's defined because 40 hours of PTO for two or three months is is great, but 40 hours of PDO for nine months is not quite as attractive, I think.

I was also gonna offer that um in the past um when city manager wine left the city, uh Kathy Nyland, who is the assistant city manager was asked to um act as the interim city manager, and when council appoints the interim city manager at that time uh compensation is usually renegotiated for that time frame or the duration of something that's longer.

And so that's also an option that council has when they appoint an interim city manager to renegotiate salary.

Okay.

Yeah, and um that makes sense.

And I guess just most recently we had this issue where we we chose not to appoint an interim and just had an acting, so then we were kind of stuck in this kind of limbo.

Um the other question I have and is that since this says that the assistance manager's job duties include acting city manager for this reason.

It said that oh for the purposes of this discretionary conversation addendum, when the assistant city manager is serving in the role of acting city manager, the acting city manager is not considered a city officer under the Tiger Municipal Charter.

So that sounds to me like then the acting city manager does not report to council because it's it's again it's like this weird limbo.

And so I'm wondering who the acting city manager does report to, because everyone should have a boss and the boss is gone, right?

So now he's the acting boss, so who does he report to?

Because it it just feels a little weird.

So the acting city manager does report to city council, city council decides as you'll do tonight to ratify the delegation of authority to that person.

So yeah, the city manager, the acting city manager does report directly to council.

But it's not a city officer.

Right.

For purposes of the charter, so like the non-interference clause of the charter, um, some of the other things are slightly different, but in terms of reporting authority, that stays that council is the a supervisor.

And does that contradict with the part of the the charter and our charge that we are not really supposed to deal with anybody except for the city officers?

So some charters specifically address an acting city manager and put limitations on that person.

Ours does not, ours is silent on that.

So there is that flexibility within the terms of the existing charter for council to to manage as it sees appropriate.

Okay.

Thank you.

Council Shaw.

Yeah, I appreciate Council Robbins you bringing that up and um having served on the charter committee.

Charter review committee.

Thank you.

I knew I was missing a word in there.

Um we wanted the council to have the flexibility.

And so that was um we had looked at other charters, but that was meant to be ensuring that the council flexibility.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um just a clarifying question.

Is the uh assistant city manager represented by the SEIU?

No.

No.

All right, just checking.

Thank you.

Any other question?

Oh, Council President Wolf, go ahead.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Um so in terms of um, or thank you for clarifying.

So I mean, I I did kind of land in the six-month range.

Um I don't know if that needs clarification.

What I would hope if we have a consistent six-month period and um that an interim uh was defined.

I don't know if that needs to be in language or just left open.

I just um just trying to make sure that's tight on how we move forward.

But I um have less of a concern.

I should have done the kind of return on the two, and I didn't think about that.

Um but so I don't have as as big of a concern regarding the benefit of taking on that additional uh responsibility.

So thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah, thank you.

Um as as uh HR Director Gomez point out that you know if council if they are an usual situation coming up late again, which I hope not.

The council always had the option of revisiting this policy, but for now 40 out 40 hours is you know it's for almost six months, right?

Yeah, so for f include equal to five percent base pay for six months.

So um so I have no concern about this policy the the addendum as it is written at this point.

But uh counselor Schlack, you have to no question.

I just wanted to um take a moment as one of the requesters of this agenda item to thank Director Gomez, City Attorney Rahala, and and you, Mayor, for the collaborative collaborative process in which this um my uh request was addressed.

Um when I first requested the um compensation annual merit increase process last year, it was really to create roles, responsibilities, and timelines so everyone understood what the process was and how it would work because it was pretty ambiguous beforehand, and I think um this addendum is in the spirit of that to make sure the council, uh any uh acting as city managers and um the public understand what the process is for adjusting compensation for city officials in this case.

So I'm in full support of the um addendum as written.

Thank you.

Any comments, questions?

No.

No, go ahead, Council Shaw.

Thank you, Mayor.

I also just want to uh thank the council, but also um city attorney Rahala and Dr.

Gomez for putting assisting putting together the reporting in proper conduct.

I think that's very important.

Um I would hope that our employees know that this is something we take very seriously, and I'm very pleased to see this, and um I just want to say thank you very much.

Yeah, thank thank you for bringing that up.

And next week we will have the respectful work training.

Finally, it was moved on February.

So yeah, I'm looking forward to that.

So that's really council's strong commitment to to make sure that um our city teams are treated with respect and dignity and they feel empowered to do the best work they can for for the people of Tiger.

So yeah, so thank you for this.

And your commitment has been well received.

Yeah, thank you.

So um are there is there any motion to adopt both policy?

Mayor, I move to adopt the reporting policy and compensation process for acting city and elected officials as presented.

I'll second the motion.

Thank you.

The motion be moved by counselor Schlack and second by Councillor Shaw.

Is there any further discussion?

Hearing none, those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say nay.

The motion is adopted by unanimous vote of the council.

Thank you so much.

I have one question.

Yes.

With acting um city manager who is not the assistant city manager.

Rager, uh, how would we like to proceed with selecting a subcommittee for this compensation?

Yeah, so that's first r ratify.

We're gonna do that first.

Okay.

Yeah, let's do that first and then we talk about compens compensation.

So uh so as uh everybody knows, uh deputy city uh manager Trish uh has uh requested personal leave.

So uh we don't we are looking forward to her return, but we don't know when that will be.

So in the meantime, I've asked uh uh um public work director Rager to step in and thank goodness he said yes.

Uh as everybody knows, he has uh many decades of experience with City of Tiger and he's managing one of the largest uh departments of City Tiger.

So I have so I'm so glad he said yes, and I have full confidence in his uh ability to hold down the force so to speak as acting city manager in the meantime.

And um so um so uh right now I just will uh uh would like the council asked the council to rectify my action of delegating Brian Rager as a duty of acting city manager until further notice.

So I will entertain a motion for that Mayor, I moved to ratify me your mayor whose action delegating to Brian Rager the duties of acting city manager until further notice.

I'll second the motion.

Thank you.

Uh Councillor Robbins uh move the motion and second by council goodusi.

Is there any further discussion?

Seeing none, those in favor say aye.

Aye, joyfully.

Opposed.

Say nay.

All right, the motion is adopted by unanimous vote of the council.

Thank you, Brian.

Thank you.

And Mr.

Mayor, thank you, Council.

Yeah, so let's move on to appointment of subic subcommittee of council, uh, pursuant to pursuant to the newly adopted policy to consider compensation for Mr.

Rager for his role as acting city manager.

So any three council members want to volunteer as the subcommittee member.

Councilor Shah, thank you.

Councilor Schlack.

I've never done it.

Okay, Councilor Goodusi.

He's been voluntary.

So uh so those three committee members was uh determined compensation once uh I think once we have the city manager in place, right?

So yes, thank you.

Thank you three for your service.

All right, so uh there being no additional item on the agenda, this meeting is adjourned.

Good night, Tiger.