2012-0328 Special Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Meelillg March 28, 2012 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 3C. A Resolution of the City Commission ofthc City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Approving an Agreement with Sttoatcgic Govcrnmcnt RcsoUlOccs (SGR) to Conduct a Search for a Dircctor of Organizational Developmcnt and Human Rcsources, in an Amount Not to Exceed $18,000.00, Attached Hereto as Exhibit "A"; Authorizing the Mayor to Execute Said Agreement; Authorizing the City Managcr to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate this Resolution; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk (-lines read the title, and City Manager Cohen reported noting the rate shect that includes all the diffcrent services wc can utilize however we do not intend on utilizing all of them, we are asking for an amount not to exceed $18,000 but he is hoping not to spend more than $15,000 on this. Public Speakers: None Commissioner Aelion said with unemployment as high as it is that an Ad that we normally do would be sufficc, hc docsn't undcrstand why he is using a recruitment agency. City Manager Cohen said he considers this position to be extremely vital for moving this organization forward and bringing it to at least the next level if not the next two. He also bclieves that wc willlikcly cnd up finding a candidate in the private sector rather than in the public sector. Most public sectors practitioners are transactional in nature rather than stratcgic in nature and we are really looking for a different profile thcn what we would typically find through our own scarches. Anothcr reason is that where we have been very comfortable using our own staff for our other searches, he did not feel as comfortable having our HR staff directly involved in this search for this HR position. He wanted to have a search done with complete objectivity and no one would have any questions about the objectivity of the work that was done on the search. Commissioner Aelion said he feels this could be handled without an outside source. Commissioner Scholl asked ifhe wants an outsider, why is he going to Strategic Government Resources, and City Manager Cohen said they do have both public and privatc reach but they specialize in filling government positions. He did look at firms that specializes in the private section who were asking for $40,000 or more for those searches, and that is probably the main reason we are talking about SGR right now, he did not feel spending that amount of money was a prudent investment. Commissioner Scholl said he was just questioning the logic of it but hc does agree with the premise that HR folks should not scope thcir next boss. City Managcr Cohen said HR typically participates in our interviews, they are the ones that actually pull in all the resumes, they do the initial pre-screening, he will be doing the interviewing but what we are paying for here is not the interviewing process, it is the pre- screenmg process. Commissioner Gatto said this is a very important position to fill, they have been the backbone of an organization, it is really important to have somebody that knows what they are doing in that area. Therc arc a lot of employee laws that are tricky, and you need to have expertise in that area, and she strongly urges that we do use a search finn and get the right person for our organization. Mayor Edelcup said given these circumstances that the City Manager indicated that this is for 11