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Advice <br />City Council <br />Meeting Minutes <br />February 13, 2018 <br />Page 3 of 3 <br />No hiring FTEs without Council discussion; <br />More thoughtful about budget amendments; <br />Set an expectation of transparency/open government; when we can, have <br />discussion in open meetings <br />Be more judicious in the use of executive sessions and summarize executive <br />session topics better when coming back into regular meeting; <br />Have a process to tell Council when it is overstepping its policy guidance role <br />and entering into operational discussions. <br />Establish your leadership and align the management team to the new leadership; <br />Manage staff, manage the process, but don't manage projects and tasks; <br />Improve communication with the public; embrace community engagement and <br />technology. The City Manager and directors need to engage the community <br />directly. <br />City Manager should be more visible in the community; <br />Organizational disruption is good; don't allow for organizational inertia; <br />Raise the bar <br />Pushback on Council when we aren't clear; make sure Council understand the <br />tradeoffs. <br />CITY MANAGER'S REPORT & ADVANCED AGENDA <br />Members reviewed the advanced agenda. <br />ADJOURN <br />Members adjourned at 9:10 pm. <br />Meredyth Muth, City Clerk <br />14 <br />Robert P. Muckle, Mayor <br />