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Council refines city administrator performance review form, removes staff‑management section
Summary
Councilors discussed the city administrator evaluation form and agreed to remove or de‑emphasize the section about direct staff supervision. Mayor’s attorney will collect forms; council set a two‑week timeline to complete evaluations and return them for compilation.
The council reviewed the city administrator’s annual performance evaluation form and agreed to revise it by removing or reducing weight for a section that asked councilors to rate the administrator’s management of staff. Attorney Wolf explained that councilors typically do not observe day‑to‑day staff management and that anonymous or default scores risk producing misleading results.
Why it matters: The evaluation informs the administrator’s annual review and any employment decisions; councilors wanted a fair process that reflects what the council can reasonably observe.
Attorney Wolf said the customary process is for councilors to complete individual forms, submit them to the city attorney or clerk, and then hold an executive session for discussion if the administrator chooses. Several councilors said they preferred removing the staff‑management question because councilors do not have insight into daily personnel management and because defaulted scores (a “3” for unanswered items) could skew results. After discussion, councilors directed staff to reissue the form with section 5 removed or reworded and to collect completed forms within roughly two weeks so the attorney can average scores and prepare a compiled review for council consideration. The council agreed to schedule the review in an upcoming meeting and indicated the compilation process would redact individual names in the document provided to the administrator unless otherwise requested.
No formal disciplinary action or salary decision was taken at this meeting; the council set deadlines for submission and processing of the evaluation.
