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COUNCIL OPERJ4TIONS
COMMITYEE
WASHINGTON
AUGUST 5, 2010 _
4:00 PM
COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM
MINUTES
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Rich Wagner called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. in the Council
Conference Room located on the first floor of Aubum City Hall located at
25 West Main Street in Aubum.
Members in attendance included Chair Rich Wagner, Vice Chair Sue .
Singer, and Member Nancy Backus.. Also in .attendance was City Clerk
Danielle Daskam and consultant, Greg Prothman of Prothman.
II. PLANNING FOR COUNCIL RETREAT
- Committee members discussed preparations for the Council Retreat
scheduled to be held September 9 and 10, 2010.
Mr. Greg Prothman of Prothman was introduced to the Committee
, members. Mr. Prothman will be facilitating the Council retreat.
Chair Wagner began by speaking about the Committee's ideas for the
Council retreat. Chair Wagner stated that is the desire of the Committee
that the Council engage in a more philosophical discussion of their vision _
for the City rather than identifying specific projects.
Mr. Prothman suggested that the Committee/Council, as a first step,
develop implementation strategies for the Council's vision statement; The
City's projects, senrice levels, and work plan would relate to the identified
strategies. Mr. Prothman stated that a vision statement cannot :be
implemented without first understanding the components that will accomplish the vision statement.
As a result of further discussion, the Committee members agreed that the
vision statement is current and valid and proposed the following
strategies: One Aubum, Sustainability, Quality, Partnerships, and
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Committee members agreed to draft a description for each strategy for
further discussion at the next Committee meeting.
Chair. Wagner informed Mr. Prothman that the Councilmembers have
been asked to review the current list of over 70 goals and rate each goal
on a scale of 0- 3(3 meaning the goal is very important for the Council to discuss in detail, and 0 meaning it is not worth spending time at the retreat
to talk about). Councilme.mbers were also asked for additional long-term
goals that the retreat should address.
Committee members agreed to categorize the work items according to the
strategies identfied above. Chair Wagner will prepare a spreadsheet that _
each Committee member may use to categorize the work items.
Mr: Prothman suggested that part of the retreat include a ranking exercise
so that the Council can determine which items should be removed from
the list.
Committee members will forward their implementation strategy descriptions and goals/strategies categorization to the City Clerk for
compilation and distribution to Committee members and Mr. Prothman for
discussion at the next Committee meeting.
There was brief discussion regarding the outcome of the retreat and how
. the work should be memorialized. Mr. Prothman suggested that the -
vision, strategies, and prioritized projects should be adopted by the
Council to provide a policy path for the administration.
The next meetings of the Committee will be held August 11 at 4:00 p.m.
and September 3 at 4:00 p.m.
IV. ADJOIJRNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting adjoumed at 5:27 p.m.
APPROVED THE ~ DAY OF , 2010.
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Rich Wagner, Chair Danielle Daskam, City Clerk
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