HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-19-2017 Work SessionMeeting of: COLUMBIA HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL
Date of Meeting: JULY 19, 2017
Time of Meeting: 3:30 PM
Location of Meeting: CONFERENCE ROOM 1, CITY HALL
Purpose of Meeting: SPECIAL WORK SESSION
CALL TO ORDER /ROLL CALL - The meeting was called to order at 3:30 PM
Present: Mayor Schmitt, Councilmembers Murzyn Jr, Williams, Buesgens and Novitsky
Also Present: Lenny Austin, Police Captain; Kelli Bourgeois, Human Resource Director /Assistant to the City
Manager; Danielle Pregler, Joseph Sturdevant, Malcolm Watson, Mike Novitsky, and Mary Granlund
1. Interview of Captain Lenny Austin
Mayor Schmitt explained the purpose of the meeting was to interview Lenny Austin for the Interim Police
Chief position. The Council Members were provided a list of questions which each of them were to take
turns asking Captain Austin.
The City Council took turns asking Captain Austin the first 10 questions of the list and Mayor Schmitt
followed up with the final two questions of the interview.
Bourgeois escorted Austin out so the City Council could discuss the interview and make a
recommendation regarding the Interim Chief appointment.
All members of the audience were given an opportunity to share their ideas on the interview and
appointment of Austin to the Interim Police Chief position.
The City Council members all shared their thoughts on appointment of Lenny Austin to the Interim Chief
position with the full City Council consensus being that Captain Austin should be appointed to the Interim
Chief position.
The Mayor reviewed the transition updates sheet that Captain Austin had referred to in the interview and
read through the items he is working on and planning for in the next several months. She then stated
that it is her plan to appoint him to the Interim Police Chief position.
With no further comments the meeting was adjourned at 4:27 p.m.
Respectively Submitted,
Kelli Bourgeois, u an Resource Director/
Assistant to the City Manager