Turn overs in East Grand Forks
There's gonna be a lot of new faces at City Hall this year, that's for sure.
Tuesday night was the last formal meeting for Council member Glen Trembath and city administrator Craig Mattson. Trembath is retiring to Clearbrook, Minn., and Mattson is taking a new job in Wyoming, Minn.
Craig Buckalew, the owner of Hardware Hank, will take over for Trembath June 6. He joins freshmen Council members Wayne Gregoire and Greg Leigh.
Finance director Wayne Oberg will fill in for Mattson until a replacement is hired. The city will be posting Mattson's job until July 7.
Next week, the city will talk about replacing retired fire chief Frank Ringstad and retiring parks director Dale Skyberg. Police chief Mike Lealos has made it known he'll retire this year so there's some talk of combining his position with Ringstad's.
Also, the city is expected to hire a mall manager for the Riverwalk Centre at some point but that hasn't come up yet.
Follow up: As a going away present, Mattson got a plaque, some nice words from council members and no retroactive raise. The council forgot to give him a job review so he hasn't had a raise for two years. Council member Henry Tweten tried to give him a retroactive raise of $6,182.99 that he woulda gotten if he'd gotten the job review, but couldn't get the vote. Only Tweten, Trembath and Leigh voted "yes."
Tuesday night was the last formal meeting for Council member Glen Trembath and city administrator Craig Mattson. Trembath is retiring to Clearbrook, Minn., and Mattson is taking a new job in Wyoming, Minn.
Craig Buckalew, the owner of Hardware Hank, will take over for Trembath June 6. He joins freshmen Council members Wayne Gregoire and Greg Leigh.
Finance director Wayne Oberg will fill in for Mattson until a replacement is hired. The city will be posting Mattson's job until July 7.
Next week, the city will talk about replacing retired fire chief Frank Ringstad and retiring parks director Dale Skyberg. Police chief Mike Lealos has made it known he'll retire this year so there's some talk of combining his position with Ringstad's.
Also, the city is expected to hire a mall manager for the Riverwalk Centre at some point but that hasn't come up yet.
Follow up: As a going away present, Mattson got a plaque, some nice words from council members and no retroactive raise. The council forgot to give him a job review so he hasn't had a raise for two years. Council member Henry Tweten tried to give him a retroactive raise of $6,182.99 that he woulda gotten if he'd gotten the job review, but couldn't get the vote. Only Tweten, Trembath and Leigh voted "yes."
posted by Tu-Uyen at 11:45 PM
1 Comments:
WHY DOES THE CITY OF EGF STILL TALK ABOUT COMBINING POLICE AND FIRE. THEY TRIED IT IN 1997 WITH ED LIER AND IT WAS A DISASTER. POLICE OFFICERS DO NOT WANT TO BE FIRE FIGHTERS AND FIREMEN DO NOT WANT TO BE POLICE OFFICERS. ITS BEEN TRIED MANY PLACES WITH THE SAME RESULTS THAT EGF PREVIOUSLY HAD. FORGET ABOUT IT.
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