I'd like to call this meeting to order for the Breezy Point City Council special meeting for Monday, April 28th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. I'll move forward with the roll call. Paul, present. Jensen, present.
Present. present. Scott, absent. I'll rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] All right. So, item four on the agenda is to review the candidate packet. Turning over to you. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and council members and staff.
It's a it's it's quite an honor to to again to be back here uh to discuss candidates with you. Uh we have a number of candidates that we that we're proposing today for consideration. Uh we have seven in the packet here. Uh
candidate number seven today recently told me that he doesn't know if he'll be able to advance on if invited because he might have another opportunity. uh when you look at his under when you look at his background, you'll see why uh in regards to his federal experience and so
on. So, but I wanted to share that with you now. Um but I can just go right through uh we have them broken up into tier ones and tier twos. Tier one is defined as somebody who has been in the position, doing the position, has experience in that role for a number of
years. Tier two are people that could uh have who have demonstrated skills and experience that could definitely advance them into the into that position or maybe they were in the position and they may have had an issue that came up that we just wanted to bring you to your
attention and therefore dropping them down into a tier two. But again, still candidates that we assess that could do the job. So, um Mr. Mayor and and council, if you'd like, I can just kind of go through them quickly and the tier ones first and then if you want to go
through tier twos, I'm more than happy to do that. Let's just go ahead with the tier ones. How's that sound, everybody? You guys comfortable with that? Okay, the tier ones will work. Thank you. Okay. All right. We have a total of four tier ones for you to consider this evening. Um so candidate number one because of the Minnesota data privacy
acts here um any candidate that is considered to be until they uh agree to be in the final round which is defined as with the city council then their name would become public. So that's why we have to be very trans uh sensitive to
that data. So all right so candidate number one we have uh she's currently in a position where she's an elementary school teacher and I was like well wait a second why do why what's going on here? Um then after I looked at it a little closer, she has 23 years experience as a city clerk treasurer. Um
she transitioned away from a the the role of a city clerk treasurer uh just because she wanted to try a new career field and uh it's been working out very well for her. However, she's only been in that in teaching role for about three years now. and uh they are at the point
now in their career where her husband is in a position where they no longer have to work but she wants to continue to work and they're relocating up to this region here. Uh the size of community that she has been administer as a clerk treasurer for is slightly smaller than
Breezy Point. However, the budget is slightly larger because of the utilities. So she has elections, she has audit experience, she has treasurer experience, she has um overall clerking experience. So um like I said, 23 years of experience. She also holds the
master's of municipal clerking certification from the state of Minnesota. So that's uh candidate number one. Candidate number two, uh she is an assist the candidate is a is is currently in a role where as an assistant city administrator working her
working their way up through the uh ranks in that position. Um also having a master's degree. Uh she that candidate is not in transition. She has direct experience of 10 years as an assistant administrator or um administrative
director type role. You'll see in the in the her descriptions here, it says that she was an administrator in there. That was uh mistaken. It was actually assistant administrator. It was just an oversight in the way that we highlighted things. Uh uh very strong in all of the
areas. Uh she's assisted with elections, assisted with finance, project management, comp planning, and P&Z as well. Uh currently the pos the person currently supervises two people uh in her in that role as an assistant administrator. Uh the city is a little
larger than uh Breezy Point and it's again utilities and experience that way. Uh again the draw is to be up here in the in the lakes area community. Uh family is actually within the region. Uh candidate number three uh also an
experienced administrator currently in the role as a city manager role. Uh this candidate has a BS degree not in transition uh but as a direct administrator 3.5 years uh in that role.
uh before that 14 years experience in the education environment under program management. Again, ve interviewed very very well with me. Uh expressed a really strong understanding of organizational governance. Um the desire to move from a
city manager to a city administrator is right now the commute is a long commute for him and he's trying to uh balance that with family and the work environment and still stay in the career field. uh the for that candidate again experience across the board uh managing
eleing with the elections uh because they've had a clerk that actually runs the elections but again finance management utilities so on also in a lakes community type tourist community and then we have number four
this candidate here uh has four years is it yeah four and a half years direct experience in administration ation as a city administrator. He has his law degree but does not have the license. Um the candidate is in his current community which is a little smaller than
here. Uh and the reason that they're there is because of family and um he this individual uh really really uh blossomed in that role. Uh became the administrator. He got recruited locally by the mayor to fill this role. Uh then
became on the fire department volunteer. also took over the ambulance, managing the ambulance as an EMT. Um, and the individual is again very very well spoken, manages elections, manages services, uh, does budgeting. Uh, but
the way that they're structured there, this staff, since it is a smaller staff, um, they report to the city council. So, not a lot of direct experiencing managing larger staffs. Um, but again, very strong candidate there. Uh, experience across the board. I didn't
have any shortfalls with that. Uh when we looked at all of the references for all of the candidates, they all came back positive. We just had one candidate with one little hiccup in there in regards to uh an issue that happened like seven years ago. I've explained that to a couple of the uh the staff
here about that. Um would not disqualify that person from moving forward since it's been over five years. So uh pending your questions, that concludes the tier one candidates. Any questions from council? None for me.
Okay. Are we good just with tier one or do you want him to go over tier two? What's the council's pleasure? I'm fine with tier one. I guess I think we have some strong candidates there. And um if we're looking for alternates, I did have, you know, selection.
Everybody else comfortable with that. Okay. Council member Ball. Council member Rooney. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Thank appreciate it. So, we've got those candidates. Um, everybody probably had the time to go through did their scoring. Um, so I
think probably what we can do is just I'll just go through and start. Let everybody know what mine are. We know what Brad's are. Council member Scott, excuse me. Uh, we have his so you can see those. Uh, it looks like and I'll go through his so we all have them for sure. So, he has his number one
selection is candidate three. His number two selection is candidate two. His number three selection is candidate seven. His number four selection is candidate four and his number five selection is candidate five. So I won't
go any further than that because we're thinking of top three with two alternates and if we need to we can go into the other two further. For me I have um candidate number two as my number one. Candidate number one as my number
two. Candidate number three as my number three. I have candidate four as my first alternate and I have candidate five as my second alternate. Okay. Council member Moroni, would you like to go next? Sure. I kind of uh rated uh candidate
two and three as as the first as one if you would. Um candidate number one was my second option or third I guess if you're going that way, right? Um and then uh
candidate number seven was my fourth. Our first alternate. Okay. First two was one for you. Yeah. Two and three go one. They tied. And I I kind of had that. I think if I look at my I said I could go that way. I'm going to dig my pad out.
Okay. And then you just had seven as your first alternate. Seven as my first alternate. Uh four is my second alternate. Then four is your second. Okay. Thank you. Council member Ball. Uh I think my brain works better this way. So I'm just going to read from
left to right what my rank was. Uh so one through seven on the top there is uh four one two three five six seven. Got
it. Okay. Council member Jansen. Um I had uh number two is a two. Number three is a one. Number four is a three. And one and five I just had down as alternates. Um six and seven were just
no. Okay. Okay. So you had one and five were your alternates. Yes. All right. So, if we just look down the list and I want to get my notes here
just before I advance because it looks like correct. Here we go. Let's see. Looks like five would be an alternate if anything. Yeah, that's kind of way it looks as well. Um, if we look if we just look at
Are you want to go from the bottom to the top or you want to go top to bottom? Well, let's So, we're looking at So, let's start from the bottom. Well, we can we can actually look at the top. Yep. If you look at candidate number two, candidate number two, I have three
number ones and two number twos. And I said in my notes, Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. Two and three for me could have gone either way between. Yeah. Okay. I think two and three is They were very close. Yep. Two
is maybe first and then three. Yeah, that's kind of the way I see it, too. So, number two first, number three second. Then your third is well could be four or
one. Four had two threes, a first, a second, a fourth. Yes. If you take and add up the the lowest number and divide them. Actually, just take an add the lowest the low one is going to be the number one candidate. The second one is
number one. Three. That's too easy, Jerry. That's too easy. That's too easy. It's It's number one. And then actually there's a basically a tie between number one, number four and number five as far as ratings were
concerned. So we got four so four and five would be the U. So when you look at the candidates again, I'll that if if you if you like, I can definitely talk through these number four and five real quick to give you a quick little summary on where those
candidates are. Just back up a second because I got off base when Jerry started adding stuff. So the problem is Steve didn't rank anybody didn't rank the alternates. Correct. I mean, if you need me to if you need me to rank and I didn't either. I just did first alternate, second alternate. I didn't
give certainly do that. Um, five I would give at best a six out of 10 being lower. And alternate one I would give a five for me. Five is going
to be a number six. No, it would be five actually. Let's see cuz we had See, now I'm getting God dang. Let's Let's talk about candidate number five. We had we had it ranked as uh two people ranked them as an alternate and two as number fives which
to me that sounds like we were looking at four potential interviews. So it's ranked number five. So it's fives across the board. So we were looking at four for sure total. Well three and then two alternates. Exactly. Yeah. So if we do three if
we're looking at three for definite interviews with two alternates which is what we talked about the last time. Correct. Okay. That would get us one through five, right? So there's one Thank you. If if my math is mathing,
Michael, you'd have to rank number five, too. Then what? Okay. Who do you want? Number five. Uh, six. Have to give them like a six or seven. Six. So then that would make that there. So basically, okay. So if I look at this Oh, I didn't rank I didn't do
six and seven. I think we kind of said they were um so basically I have candidate two is the number one. Am I correct? That agreed. Candidate two is the number one. Am I hearing that right? Yeah. Okay. Candidate three is the number two. Yeah.
Candidate one as our number three. Am I hearing am I everybody in agreement with that? Uh the I'm not in agreement with one is three. Um, I looked at the I was just going by the
number of the math. Yeah. No, cuz it's it's four. The math for number one would be 4 + 5 + 2 + 3 + 7. Four + five. Oh, there we go. Yep. Two. That's what I got for nine 16. That's
21. Got it. Yep. Okay. 19, I think. Under four. Four. Three. 6 11. 6. See, I got 21 on that. So, I don't know what I got wrong there. 3 three four five four three
three four Okay, that's all right. So then So then we we got the first and the second. So then the third is going to be candid four. Is that what I'm Are we right on that? I'd agree with that.
Yeah, agree. Okay. Okay. So third is canid four and then our two alternates are one and five. Correct. Yeah. Okay. And the ranking of those uh one and five uh when I look at them from a priority wise, if one of them backs up,
if one of the top three back out, uh that would be number one. I think number one would be the first one I would call. Yes, it would because they have the lower. Okay. All right. So, in sequence again, if I may,
Mr. for Mayor and Council. Um, I'm just going to like like what like what Councilman Ball said. Um, I'm going to just read it across the top. So, 1 2 3 4 5. It's 4 1 2 3 5. Yes. Okay. All right.
Okay. Yep. Okay. So, we we selected the candidates. Now, talking about setting times for interviews, all of you received a email from administrator uh Bone Bones regarding the potential of possibly switching our interview times to the
afternoon. Did anybody have any conflicts with our interviews being on the afternoon of that day? Council member Rooney, are you good? No. Yes. Yep. I already uh canceled the work conference and cleared my whole day for that day. So, you're good. You're good. Council
member Jensen, you're good. Council member Ball, I'm good with the afternoon times. So, I would say let's plan to set the interviews for the afternoon on the day of May 14th. Okay. Your first one would start at 1:00. Yes,
that's correct. Okay. And we will coordinate the the rest of that. Yep. And Brad will be there will be there. Yes. And so he did confirm. That's nobody did not. Nobody responded
to me that they couldn't they couldn't do it. So it was based on his Yes, it was. Availability. Yes, it was. I feel like we want him there. If we're going to switch the times, he should be there. Absolutely. I agree. Otherwise, we should do it. I will send him an email tomorrow just uh telling him that we've
set for sure y in the afternoon to accommodate his schedule. And I know he will be zooming or teams in. So we'll have to set that for him. He won't be here in person. Okay. So we'll have to make it so that he can zoom in or teams
in because he's going to be gone. But he was open in the afternoon. [Music] We'll make it work. Well, even if he can get the audio, he can still hear. So if we if you can
give a laptop to the person that's interviewing. True. With the video. Yes. In front of them. That would work. Y if the camera is pointing towards him, I guess we'll work out some ideas. We'll be good. Yeah. Council member I'll I'll
leave that in your good hands to help them with that. Fantastic. We have internet. We'll It's easily doable. All right. So, yes. So, we'll start interviews at 1:00 on the afternoon of May 14th. That will be when the
interviews take place. Um, any other comments from the council? I think we had good candidates. Um, I was pleased with them. Um, very optimistic. I agree. I am too. So, let's keep our
fingers crossed that we get most of them to the finish line with us. So, I'm going to move tomorrow morning first thing. All right. Sounds good. All right. Hearing no other business to come, I call for a motion to adjurnn. So move. I have a motion from Council Member Moroni. Do I have a second? Second. Second from Council Member
Jensen. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I.