Weatherford
Weatherford City Council (Retreat), May 31, 2016: 1 item; City Council Retreat to discuss and consider City Council goals and objectives;
0 consent items, 1 regular item. Written from the minutes.
City Council Retreat to discuss and consider City Council goals and objectives; staff/departmental operational needs and capital priorities; policies; and strategies to address these goals, objectives, needs, and priorities. City Manager Sharon Hayes introduced Trent Petty, Petty and Associates, who reviewed the Staff Operations, Capital, and Capital Projects Prioritization questionnaire that directors completed for the City Manager’s Office approximately three weeks ago. Mr. Petty did not go into detail on the responses; however, he did state that, across the board with the exception of two departments, staffing was the number one operational issue. The Council and management need to be headed in the same direction because the City does not have a lot of extra dollars at the same time as we have many needs across the departments. City Manager Sharon Hayes gave a quick budgetary history beginning in 2006 and spoke about succession planning. Assistant City Manager James Hotopp spoke about personnel being the number one cost to the city, and other operational challenges including cost of service increases, aging facilities, aging fleet, aging work force, employee retention, and competitive work environments. The Parks, Recreation & Special Events and Transportation & Public Works departments have constantly been asked to do more with less since 2008. Chief Financial Officer Brad [...]
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Sources: City of Weatherford: council minutes, May 31, 2016 (Granicus); Agenda for this meeting (Granicus); Meeting video (Granicus)