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27 WEST ALLEN STREET WINOOSKI, VERMONT 05404 (802) 655-6410 CITY OF WINOOSKI (802) 655-6414 (fax) KATHERINE R. DECARREAU CITY MANAGER MAYOR SETH LEONARD COUNCILOR NICOLE MACE sleonard@winooskivt.org DEPUTY MAYOR BRIAN CORRIGAN CITY COUNCIL COUNCILOR ROBERT MILLAR COUNCILOR BRIAN SWEENEY bcorrigan@winooskivt.org Agenda Monday, July 11, 2016 6:00 p.m. Claire Burke Council Chambers I. Call To Order II. Pledge of Allegiance III. Public Comment IV. Consent Agenda a. Approval: City Council Minutes of June 28, 2016 V. City Update VI. Agenda Review VII. Regular Items: a. Approval: CCTA Board Representative – Seth Leonard b. Discussion: Interim City Manager – Seth Leonard c. Discussion/Approval: City Manager Hiring Process - Seth Leonard VIII. Adjourn: MINUTES The meeting was called to order by the Mayor at 6:00 p.m. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Deputy Mayor Corrigan. Members Present: Mayor Seth Leonard Councilors: Brian Corrigan, Brian Sweeney, Nicole Mace, Robert Millar Officers Present: Katherine Decarreau, City Manager; Carol Barrett, City Clerk; Ray Coffey, Community Services Director, Ethan Hausman, Park & Rec. Coordinator Others Present: Maura O’Neill, Raghu Acharya III. Public Comment: The Mayor read the following statement in Support of the Police Dept. See attached. There was no other public comment. IV. Consent Agenda MOTION by Councilor Mace seconded by Councilor Corrigan to approve the City Council minutes of June 28, 2016 as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. V. City Update July 11, 2016 minutes Winooski City Council The City Manager said there were 45 police officers including every member of the Winooski Police Dept training at the school today learning about verbal de-escalation. VI. Agenda Review The Mayor said we will be moving item b to item c. He said item b will require executive session. VII. Regular Items: a. Approval: CCTA Board Representative Mr. Acharya is interested in becoming a CCTA Representative. He said he came to the U.S. in 2010. He is currently serving his community “Bhutanese” for the last 5 years. I am proud to be an American Citizen. The position will fill the remaining term of Robert Millar which will expire in June of 2017. MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Millar to appoint Raghu Acharya as the CCTA now know as GMTA representative for the remainder of Robert Millar’s term which will expire in June 2017 as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. c. Discussion/Approval: City Manager Hiring Process The Mayor said this is a discussion and potential approval of the City Manager hiring process. He gave an overview of the process. He said if this is looking like its going in the right direction that we could put together the nominating committee and not lose a week of time and have that group working on putting together potential candidates for the search committee. We will also have this reviewed by our Attorney. We also included the briefing and Julie has had a lot of good suggestions in this process. A great suggestion is having an attorney come in and do a debriefing for the search committee on what the process looks like. He also said if this is approved there is a likely hood that we would need to amend this at some point as we go forward, such as the schedule for the days. Councilor Mace said this looks very good and thankyou for all the work you put into it. She had a question on the timeline. The Mayor said the expectation is around 6 months, being realistic. From a search committee perspective the hard part is the scope of the search. If they want an international search it would take a longer time to get that out and to receive applications back. He said realistically the search committee is a 2 to 3 month minimum investment of time The Mayor said if we can get to the point where we can bring a slate of candidates back as early as July 18. If we are able to do that, that would be absolutely ideal to get things going as quickly as possible from a support perspective. What I have heard back and the discussions we have had from a couple weeks a go it seems we are capable of doing that. I will have a meeting with the Attorney after this. Councilor Millar said this is a pretty good process. There are a lot of opportunities for input from a lot of different parties. The Mayor said the other piece would be selecting council participants which we could do tonight. Is anyone interested in moving forward and selecting a nominating committee of 2 people in the search of committee members? Councilor Corrigan said he is comfortable with moving forward with this document Councilor Millar said he is interested but what sort of commitment do you anticipate with the nominating committee. The Mayor said it is at least a couple of conversations about who we think are most qualified. Councilor Mace would be happy to work on the nominating process. MOTION by Councilor Millar seconded by Councilor Sweeney to appoint Mayor Leonard and Councilor Mace to the nominating committee for the City Manager search. Motion amended to include the approval of the City Manager Search and Hiring Procedure as presented. Voted and passed 4-0. b. Discussion: Interim City Manager The Mayor read the following interim focus. See attached. Councilor Corrigan said he likes this document. The Mayor said Ray has had a lot of impact on this draft. MOTION by Councilor Corrigan seconded by Councilor Sweeney to go into Executive Session at 6:35 p.m. to discuss Interim City Manager and to also invite Julie Hulburd in and that no other business will be conducted except to adjourn. Voted and passed 4-0. MOTION by Councilor Millar seconded by Councilor Mace to adjourn City Council meeting at 7:11 p.m. Voted and passed 4-0. ATTEST:__________________________ City Clerk July 11, 2016 minutes Winooski City Council