In order to establish and maintain effective City Commission and City Manager relations, it is essential that the City Commission establish an ongoing evaluation process that offers an opportunity for each party to review the performance of the City Manager. This evaluation focuses on how effectively the City Manager is accomplishing the goals established by the City Commission and how the responsibilities in key performance areas are being carried out.
Specifically, the evaluation serves the following needs. First, it allows the City Manager and the City Commission to test, identify, and refine their respective roles, relationships, and expectations of responsibilities to each other. Secondly, it allows discussion of the City Manager's strengths and opportunity areas as demonstrated by past performance with the objective of increasing the City Manager's effectiveness. That is, it gives the City Commission the opportunity to provide positive feedback in areas that have been handled well and to clarify areas where the City Manager could become more effective through improved performance.
This new evaluation process has been developed over the last several months by the City Commission Goals Committee in conjunction with the full Commission, the City Manager, and Dams & Associates.
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