City Council - 02/11/1981 - Special Meeting f.
APPROVED MINUTES
SPECIAL EDEN PRAIRIE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
,NESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1981 7:30 PM, CITY HALL
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Wolfgang Penzel , George Bentley,
Dean Edstrom and George Tangen
COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Paul Redpath
COUNCIL STAFF PRESENT: Acting City Manager John D. Frane; City
Attorney Rick Rosow, and Joyce Provo,
Recording Secretary
Mayor Penzel called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM.
I . PROPOSAL FROM NORTHERN STATES POWER REGARDING POWER LINE ALONG SCENIC HEIGHTS ROAD
continued from 2/3/81
Council reviewed memo from City Engineer Jullie dated February 11, 1981 , regarding
the power line along Scenic Heights Road, and requested staff to report back to the
Council on Friday, February 13 , as to further contacts with CPT Corporation.
I1 . City Attorney Rick Rosow discussed with the City Council recent developments in
the Cooley litigation.
III . Councilman Bentley reviewed with the Council the meeting held this morning at City
Hall on Tax Increment Financing, which he and Mayor Penzel attended. An Ad Hoc r<
Ccommittee of concerned persons was appointed and the Council requested that staff
cooperate in supplying information as requested by the committee.
IV. CITY MANAGER SELECTION PROCESS
Resumes 89 and 90 were not received until after the January 16, 1981 deadline,
therefore, they were unacceptable for Council review.
Questions were sent to the 25 applicants still under consideration after the
January 22, 1981 Council meeting. Applicants 35, 36 and 45 did not reply to the
questions submitted to them by the February 6, 1981 deadline, thus were automatically
disqualified. Council members went over the 22 applicants who responded to the
questions, at which time 1 , 3, 5, 6, 33, 34, 46, 61 , 69, 79 and 81 each received
a "yes" , and 21 , 22, 23, 29, 30, 39, 44, 53, 62, 72 and 75 each received a "no".
The following dates and times were set up to interview the remaining 11 applicants
with each interview to be no longer than an hour and a half: Friday, February 27,
1981 , 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM for applicants 1 , 33 and 46; Saturday, February 28, 1981 ,
9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon (break for lunch) and 1 :00 PM - 4:00 PM for applicants 3, 5,
6, 61 and 81 , and Wednesday, March 4, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM for applicants 34, 69 and
79. This is a tentative schedule to be firmed up by Mayor Penzel after he reaches
the 11 applicants this coming weekend. At the time Mayor Penzel contacts each of the
applicants he will ask them to bring a copy of their budget to the interview.
Additional questions were added to the original list of 7 questions to be asked
during the interview process as follows: 8. What is your outstanding achievement?,
9. What is your biggest failure?, and 10. Why do you want to come to Eden Prairie?
Special City Council Meeting - 2 - Wed. ,February 11 , 1981
IV. CITY MANAGER SELECTION PROCESS (continued)
Airplane reservations and hotel/motel accommodations to be set up through Joyce
Provo at City Hall , and transporting those applicants to and from the Airport/motel/
hotel and City Hall to be coordinated with Public Safety Director Jack Hacking.
Contact to be made to Councilman Paul Redpath on Thursday, February 12, 1981 ,
to update him on matters discussed and decisions made at this meeting.
V. ADJOURNMENT
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MOTION: Edstrom moved, seconded by Penzel , to adjourn the meeting at 11 :00 PM.
Motion carried unanimously.
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