The Delray Beach City Commission on July 31 set the performance evaluation and salary review for City Manager Moore for Aug. 12, saying the date was necessary to avoid a possible technical breach of the manager's contract, which calls for an evaluation by 08/01/2025.

Commissioners opened the special meeting after confirming a quorum; discussion centered on whether to use the city's current evaluation form or adopt the Community Redevelopment Agency's (CRA) executive director form. The commission agreed to use its existing form, allow commissioners to mark items as N/A if they are not applicable, and have Human Resources exclude N/A responses from the final average.

The scheduling followed concern that the manager's contract included a contractual deadline. City Manager Moore told the commission he had not focused on the contractual "shall by 08/01/2025" clause as a practical problem but said he trusted the commission to provide timely feedback. Commissioner Markert said the current form asks commissioners to rate interactions and activities they cannot reliably judge: "This form is asking me to make decisions about how much and if by the way, the same thing applies to the city attorney's form. I don't know the communications that these people have."

Commissioners recounted that the commission had discussed revising the form last year and expected a revised form this year; some said no revised form had been produced. One commissioner said the evaluation form was distributed only days before the special meeting, leaving commissioners little time to complete it. The CRA executive director evaluation form was discussed as a reference but not adopted.

On the rules for scoring, commissioners agreed that entries a commissioner considered inapplicable would be completed with "N/A" rather than a zero, and Human Resources would compute averages excluding those categories so the absence of a score would not lower the overall rating. The commission also noted that because the evaluation and any salary review are governed by the manager's employment contract, the meeting date requires mutual consent from both parties; the record shows City Manager Moore agreed to the Aug. 12 schedule.

No formal change to the evaluation form was adopted at the meeting. The commission asked the city attorney and Human Resources to advise on any legal or procedural questions about the form and scoring ahead of the Aug. 12 meeting. Public comment was opened and closed with no speakers.

The discussion combined procedural motion-making (a vote was taken to permit Vice Mayor Rob Long to participate in the meeting) with policy questions about evaluation method and fairness; commissioners resolved the immediate scheduling and scoring rules but left any substantive revision of the form for additional review.

Looking ahead, the commission will complete the evaluation at the Aug. 12 meeting using the current form, with N/A rules applied and HR responsible for calculating the final average.