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Sweet Home council approves framework for stepped employee-evaluation process
Summary
At a council work session, members agreed to use a Silverton-derived evaluation for council review of the city manager, a pared-down Lebanon-style form for general staff, a fuller form for department directors, and a shorter, numbered form for the city attorney; staff will draft the surveys and return them for council approval.
Mayor Coleman and the Sweet Home City Council discussed and reached informal agreement on a multi-part employee evaluation process during a work session on the employee evaluation process.
The council agreed to use the City of Silverton’s evaluation template and five-point rating scale as the primary instrument for councilors' review of the city manager, adopt a shortened Lebanon-style questionnaire for general staff, and use the full Silverton-style detail for department directors. For the city attorney, the council favored a shorter Lebanon-format form with numerical ratings and the attorney’s job description attached.
City Attorney Larson, who presented background materials and sample templates, told the council “the only employees that the council directly appoints are the city manager, the city attorney, and the municipal court judge.” Larson warned that “those contracts may need to be modified in order to, accommodate that new evaluation process” if the council chooses additional evaluation elements tied to…
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