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Manager announces staff hires, CAPS video rollout, neighborhood clean sweep and upcoming meetings
Summary
City Manager Burrell highlighted new hires and promotions, previewed an AI-avatar video series explaining city programs (including Clean Attractive Property Service), announced a neighborhood clean sweep and Safe Streets participation event, and moved the November agenda meeting to Nov. 10 to allow additional time for the 2026 budget.
City Manager Burrell used his July 15 report to recognize new employees and to preview communications and neighborhood programs the city will roll out this summer.
Burrell named recent hires and a promotion and highlighted new public information work by Courtney Kaiser and Katie Yamaguchi that will convert city code and program text into short explanatory videos using AI-generated avatars. "This is focusing on our CAPS program or clean attractive property service," Burrell said, showing a short demonstration clip and telling the…
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