City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2019 04 23

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City of Louisville ICARE Awards Program: The City of Louisville Strategic Plan reflects the City's values of Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. The City's ICARE values are reflected within our organization in many ways. The ICARE Awards were developed to provide an opportunity for supervisors and staff to recognize the outstanding work of an employee, employee team or groups of employees (working together on a project or initiative) within the City who are advancing the Vision and Mission of the City of Louisville by demonstrating these values in exceptional ways. City staff embrace and demonstrate the (CARE values every day, but the ICARE awards provide a formal recognition program to award those individual employees or groups of employees (with a reasonable number of employees, and including those employees who were critical to the success of the group and participated in the exemplary demonstration of the values) whose work rises above the norm in their commitment and representation of one or more of the City's values. Whereas the peer -to -peer recognition will acknowledge day- to-day or one time actions reflective of the organizational values, this award recognizes more than one-time deeds or actions, rather an ongoing project, program, initiative or effort that models or advances the City's vision and mission and demonstrates the values. All City employees are eligible to receive ICARE awards — whether full time or part time, and at all levels within the organization. The awards will be given twice per year. The 2019 Schedule will be as follows: • Spring/Summer — Due Friday, July 26, 2019 • Fall/Winter— Due Friday, November 22, 2019 Process for nominations: Nominations can be submitted anytime up until the quarterly due date. Nominations will be received and reviewed by the Special Events Committee, which will assist in overseeing the evaluation and award process. The Special Events Committee will provide a recommendation to the City Manager for the award recipient(s). The awards will be announced through Tuesday Tidbits and City Manager's Update by the end of the last month in the quarter. Award Criteria: The award committee will review the nominations for alignment with the criteria outlined in the nomination form. These criteria include: How well the employee(s) have contributed to advancing the strategic plan; How well the employee(s) have demonstrated the City's values; How well these actions have made an overall impact on the organization as a whole. Awards and Recognition: Each individual that receives an I CARE award we be awarded with a $100 bonus on their paycheck and a desktop award/trophy. In addition, the recipients will be recognized through City communication channels including the City Manager updates, quarterly employee update and Tuesday Tidbits. The award recipients for the previous year will be also recognized at the annual all -employee meeting in January. 45