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DIRECTOR REDICK. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED 22 RESUMES SO FAR, BUT WILL WAIT UNTIL ADMINISTRATOR .JENNINGS RETURNS FROM HIS VACATION TO SET UP FORMAL INTERVIEWS. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED AS TO WHETHER THE ADMINISTRATOR DESIRES ANY GUIDANCE FROM THE BOARD, AND COMMISSIONER Loy WAS OF THE OPINION HE HAS ALREADY ASKED HOW THE BOARD WISHES HIM TO DO THIS. SHE FELT THE BIG QUESTION IS WHETHER THE BOARD IS GOING TO HIRE THE PLANNER OR WHETHER THEY WANT THE ADMINISTRATOR TO HIRE HIM. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT COMMENTED THAT IT SEEMS WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO SOMETHING. COMMISSIONER LYONS ASKED IF THE BOARD WISHED TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF GOING BACK INTO A JOINT PLANNING DEPARTMENT WITH THE CITY, AND THE BOARD EMPHATICALLY DID NOT. CHAIRMAN WODTKE SUGGESTED THAT WE COULD APPROACH THIS BY HAVING THE ADMINISTRATOR DO THE INITIAL SCREENING DOWN TO A LEVEL THAT HE FEELS ARE THE PRIMARY APPLICANTS AND THEN MAKE THOSE RESUMES AVAIL- ABLE TO THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS. AFTER THAT, INTERVIEWS COULD BE SET UP WITH FOUR OR FIVE OF THE APPLICANTS. HE NOTED THIS WAS THE WAY IT WAS HANDLED BEFORE. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT LAST TIME THE SCREENING WAS DONE BY A MEMBER OF THE ZONING COMMISSION, A COMMISSIONER, AND THE ADMINISTRATOR, WITH MR. DONLON SITTING IN. ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR NELSON SUGGESTED THAT SINCE THE HIRING OF THE NEW PLANNING DIRECTOR WILL COME UNDER THE ADMINISTRATORS RESPON- SIBILITIES, THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR HIRE THE NEW DIRECTOR AND PRESENT HIM TO THE BOARD FOR THEIR APPROVAL RATHER THAN SUBJECT THE BOARD TO THE INTERVIEWING PROCESS WE WENT THROUGH LAST TIME. HE FELT THAT THE ADMINISTRATOR, WITH THE HELP OF STAFF, COULD SCREEN THESE APPLICANTS, CONDUCT INTERVIEWS, AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD FOR THEIR APPROVAL. COMMISSIONER Loy STATED SHE HAD NO PROBLEM, AND COMMISSIONER DEESON AGREED, NOTING THAT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. 64 APR 4 1979 _ Boa 39 PAGE418 r J