By Jack Carrerow, Staff Writer
Of the three-and-a-half hours it took for the city council to hold its meeting Monday , only about 40 minutes were in open session.
The focus of the evening — at least 1.5 hours —was the completion of City Manager Rick Hohnbaum’s performance evaluation for the past year.
The results of the first evaluations, presented at the June 2 City Council meeting, drew less than satisfactory marks from surveys handed out to a prescribed list of people, including city employees.
That process resulted in the council voting to give Hohnbaum his contracted 5 percent cost-of-living raise, but refusing his request for an additional 3 percent bump.
On Monday, council members also were given a question-and-answer evaluation sheet, that touched on five areas of Hohnbaum’s performance over the past contract year: managing, producing and delivering results; leading strategically; being proactive developing employees; being proactive developing self; and communication.
The council came out of the executive session that was held at the end of the meeting and Mayor Keith Tymchuk adjourned the meeting. No results were announced.
The meeting began with the council approving the acceptance of a $7,000 grant that would allow the Reedsport Police Department to purchase an electronic fingerprinting machine.
“This piece of equipment will allow the department to process a set of prints in minutes instead of weeks,” Reedsport Police Chief Shawn Essex said. “It’s an easy device to use and will take up less staff time.”
The rest of the meeting took place in additional executive sessions.
The council discussed the latest labor negotiations between the city and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union that covers public works and front office staff.
In another closed session, not listed on the agenda, the council discussed the ongoing negotiations between the city and the Gardiner Sanitary District over what the district has maintained it is being overcharged by the city for 10 years.
District Board Chairwoman Jackie Degman said the district had sent Reedsport a letter containing its counterproposal for a settlement.
“We haven’t wavered on the issue of operation and maintenance overcharges, engineering fee overcharges and a reconciliation of the EPA fund,” Degman said. “We’re negotiating in good faith and we’re hoping this gets resolved soon.”
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