3.7. SR 05-21-2001TO:
FROM:
DATE:
SUBJECT:
MEMORANDUM
Mayor and Council
Phil Hals, Street/Park Superintendent
May 21, 2001
Request to Hire Summer Employees
**Item 3.7.**
Part time employee Darwin Schuur is at $10.22 per hour for 2001. Returning summer
workers Sarah Hopko, Jeremy Pipenhagen, and Paul Kohler are moving to $9.60 per hour
for 2001 (Pay Grade 1 Step B). The two new hires will be at $8.44 per hour (Pay Grade 1
Step A). These will all be funded with our present budget.
I am looking at every option to balance the summer workload with the available funding.
Amy Borst will be taking at least eight weeks of unpaid maternity leave in July and August
which will not only cause a park labor shortage but will provide about $5,500 in unused
personal service funds.
My staff and I interviewed three 18-year-old people and one semi-retired person for the two
summer park worker openings and found all four applicants to be good prospects. I ask
permission to hire all four of them, paying two with budgeted funds and two with the
unused personal service funds from Amy Borst's leave of absence.
All four employees would by paid at $8.44 per hour with the three 18-year-old people
working three months or until school starts and the semi-retired person working a little later
into the fall until the funding is exhausted.
If the Council has no objections, I will hire one worker to start immediately and the other
three to start on June 11, 2001.