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Approved as amended April 10, 2007
• SPECIAL MEETING
ATASCADERO CITY COUNCIL
Strategic Planning Workshop
Friday, February 23, 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 24, 2007, 8:30 a.m.
MINUTES
Friday, February 23, 2007
City Council Team Development:
Mayor Luna called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. He asked all present to introduce
is themselves. All Council Members were present. Mayor Luna explained the agenda for
tonight's meeting.
Public Comment
Eric Greening questioned the reconsideration process and how it was handled in the
media.
Mayor Luna closed the Public Comment Period
Facilitator, Dr. Bil! Mathis, stated that Atascadero has new Council Members and this
change means the Council is moving in a new direction. In an effort to get to know each
other better, Dr. Mathis asked the Council Members to share personal information about
themselves by answering a list of the same questions.
The City Council chose to ask questions of each other and discuss sensitive issues that
developed during the election. The Council conducted a lengthy discussion on these
Issues.
Dr. Mathis and the Council had a discussion on how well they communicate and how
they function as a team.
• Mayor Luna adjourned the meeting at 9:00 p.m.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
City Council Goal Setting:
Mayor Luna called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. All Council Members were
present, as were all of the Executive Management Team, including the City Attorney.
The Executive Management Team gave individual oral reports to update the City
Council on staff's progress on the Council's goals. The Council asked questions and
discussed various issues presented by staff, including public safety, the City's financial
status, deferred maintenance on infrastructure, Community Center update, roads, and
the Historic City Hall.
Public Comment
Comments were received from the following:
Eric Greening, Jim Patterson, David Broadwater, Hal Carden, and Dan O'Grady.
0 Mayor Luna closed the Public Comment period.
The public was asked to add any additional items to the lists posted on the walls of
issues they felt the Council should consider for the goals.
By consensus, the Council agreed that the following issues are already in
process, or are to be placed on a future agenda:
1. Transparency
■ Televising Council meetings is being done.
■ Combine Council Norms and Ethics policy
o Schedule Study Session within 6 months to create
2, City Employee Satisfaction Survey
■ Staff to bring back to Council several sample surveys
■ Staff to provide to Council statistics on employee retention by department
3. Code Enforcement Complaints - Confidentiality
■ Council consensus to have City Attorney bring back to Council — Council
Members and Commissioners as complainants are not confidential (3:2,
Luna and Beraud opposed)
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4. Independent Investigations
Is ■ Update Personnel Rules
■ Provide links on City's website to State agencies and documents
5. Length of Council meetings
■ Staff to bring back an Ordinance which includes possible public comment
timing variable, ending meetings at 11:00 p.m., and the movement of
controversial issues at separate meetings.
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There was Council consensus to create the following list of goals for 2007-2009:
1. Enhance the City's Economic Base
1. Continue the Emphasis on Road Maintenance
2. Repair the Historic City Hall
3. Continue to Enhance Public Safety
4. Campaign Finance Reform
5. Create a Natural Resources Program
MOTION: By Council Member O'Malley and seconded by Council
Member Clay to adjourn the meeting.
Motion passed 3:2, with Brennler & Clay opposed.
Meeting adjourned at 3:10 p.m.
MINUTES PREPARED BY:
Marcia McClure Torgerson, C.M.C.
City Clerk
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