City Council Agenda and Packet 2024 01 22 - SP

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Supporting the City Structure • But, commit, individually and collectively, to conduct that strengthens your structure and the Council as an institution: • Resolve to speak with one voice to your Manager and other direct reports. This is how the Council achieves clarity, credibility, and accountability to its voice. • Use your City Manager as a resource. • In the personnel area, focus on the few big picture items appropriate for Council; e.g., determining overall budget, selecting and supervising Council's "direct reports," setting resource allocation and work plan priorities at the governance level. • Recognize elected officials act primarily as a group and exercise responsibilities mainly by voting in a public meeting. Therefore, think "We" ... not "I"! If you find yourself about to act in terms of "I" rather than "we" ...that's a red flag. Supporting the City Structure • Commit to personnel conduct that strengths the WE - the governing body as an institution. This sometimes requires personal sacrifices, such as: • Setting aside a personal interest or agenda when there is lack of support. • Accepting "the Council has spoken" though one preferred a different outcome. • Accepting when "Our work is done"; i.e., the hand-off from Council --� staff. • Recognizing that individual efforts—e.g., liaison and representative roles —are in service of the entity and governing body (the WE). • Avoiding perceptions (internal or external) of "getting ahead" of or "speaking for" the voice of Council where Council has not yet spoken. CIRSA CIRSA N.