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MINUTES
ATASCADERO CITY COUNCIL
Monday, February 28, 2000, 3:00 P.M.
SPECIAL MEETING
Strategic Planning Workshop
Mayor Johnson called the Workshop to order at 3:10 p.m.
ROLL CALL:
Present: Council Members Arrambide, Clay, Luna, Scalise and Mayor Johnson
Absent: None
Others Present: City Clerk Marcia McClure Torgerson
Staff Present: City Manager Wade McKinney, Assistant City Manager Brady Cherry,
Community and Economic Development Director Paul Saldafia, and City
Attorney Roy Hanley.
COMMUNITY FORUM: None
COUNCIL WORKSHOP—STRATEGIC PLANNING
City Manager Wade McKinney welcomed everyone to the workshop and explained how this
workshop would progress. He also explained the Interpersonal Influence Inventory and how it
helps the Council to understand each others' behavior and their interactions with each other.
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The Council made a list of those issues they feel have been going well:
What's been going well:
Main St.
Economy
Redevelopment
Carlton Hotel
Recreation Center Proposal—Community Center
Leadership Conference—improving working relationships
Annexation efforts
Communication between Staff and Council
Community survey
Public Works Director
State Hospital
Lack of litigation
Resolution of flooding problems on Atascadero Ave.
Resolution of Orange County
Drainage preparedness
Improvement of staff leadership
Attitudes—staff and community
Community policing—Police Academy
General Plan review
Smart Growth training and workshop
6:00 P.M. RECESS: Public portion of meeting will resume at 7:00 p.m.
7:00 P.M. COUNCIL WORKSHOP CONTINUES
The Council made a list of what is not going as well as they would like:
What's not going as well as we would like?
News "filtered"by Atascadero News
Roads
Commercial and industrial development
Recreation services
Swimming pool
State's lack of response to finance requests
Grand Jury
Trust factor
Used car lots
Detention basin behind Albertson's
Ugly developments
Public education
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Community and Economic Development Director Paul Saldana handed out a draft Economic
Development Strategy and briefly reviewed the document.
The Council asked that the following sentence be added to the document: "The economic
vitality must come without reducing the quality of the community's environment." The Council
also asked that benchmarks be added for clarity. It was also suggested that the strategy include a
schedule for regular visits to businesses for the purpose of retaining them.
City Clerk Marcia McClure Torgerson reviewed information with the Council concerning
streamlining Council meetings. She explained that she received this information at the City Clerks'
Annual Conference in December 1999.
ADJOURNMENT:
Mayor Johnson adjourned the workshop to the Joint City Council/Planning Commission
workshop scheduled for Tuesday, February 29, 2000 at 6:30 p.m.
MINUTES PREPARED BY:
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ItjMarcia McClure Torgerson, City Clerk
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