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Orono City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> Monday,January 27,2020 <br /> Council Chambers 5:00 p.m. <br /> AGENDA <br /> PRESENT: Mayor Dennis Walsh, Council Members Richard F. Crosby II, Matt Johnson <br /> and Victoria Seals. Staff members present were City Administrator Dustin Rief, Police Chief <br /> Correy Farniok, Finance Director Ron Olson Director of Public Works/City Engineer, and <br /> City Clerk Anna Carlson. <br /> GUESTS: <br /> 1. Office Hours Discussion <br /> City Administrator Dustin Rief began discussion describing the typical office hours <br /> observed in the various department of the City. Rief explained he asked for a lake area <br /> survey of cities for office hours. He found that primarily 8:00 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. was <br /> widely used among those surveyed. He found that some cities overserved summer hours <br /> and that Wayzata observes a summer hour schedule similar to Orono's year round, and <br /> Excelsior observed a four day work week Monday through Thursday year round as well. <br /> Rief added that Orono Public Works does have their current hours in their contract which <br /> is 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily, so any changes may not affect them. Rief asked for input <br /> from the City Council about how they would like to move forward. <br /> Council Member Matt Johnson asked how the city got into the routine of the current <br /> hours to begin with. <br /> Rief was not quite sure when the summer hours began but concluded that it was in the <br /> early 2000's. <br /> Walsh mentioned that is was brought up for discussion a few years back and at that time <br /> summer hours made sense however it is good to review it at times to make sure we are <br /> doing things right. <br /> Rief mentioned that Fridays are typically pretty quiet and the city has almost everything <br /> available online which assists with the efficiency of customer service. It could go either <br /> way, the city may be able to forward phones to the Police Department on Friday's or we <br /> could look into doing alternating shifts much like what the Police Department <br /> Administration current does. <br /> Police Chief Correy Farniok discussed the current alternating shift schedule which his <br /> employees observe during the summer months. <br /> Matt Johnson mentioned that you never hear anyone say that they have issues with it but <br /> he came here on a Friday and found out that City Hall was closed and did not feel that the <br /> Page 1 of 3 <br />