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City clerk presents six-month constituent services and communications update, highlights work orders and events
Summary
City Clerk Salazar gave a six-month update covering staffing changes, nearly 4,000 constituent service work orders, liquor license counts, agenda activity, and upcoming community events and ranked-choice voting outreach.
City Clerk Salazar presented a six-month update to the governing body covering staffing, constituent services, elections and the communications team's work.
Salazar said the clerk’s office filled seven positions since her tenure began and has two openings remaining, with an additional position in recruitment. She listed several positions that remain posted and said the office will advertise other roles after July 1.
On constituent services, Salazar reported 3,996 work orders from Jan. 1 through the meeting date; the top five categories were illegal dumping, road maintenance, "other," trash and recycling, and property maintenance code violations. The clerk said 2,994 of those work orders had been completed in that interval.
Salazar summarized governing-body activity this year: 38 resolutions passed, 13 ordinances adopted, and 159 items approved such as grants, contracts and legal documents; staff had heard three land-use cases and recorded 77 appointments and 12 staff presentations, she said.
On elections, she said the city has launched a website to collect online petition signatures and qualifying donations. As of the update there were seven mayoral candidates and eight city council candidates. Salazar said the clerk’s office will begin a ranked-choice voting education campaign with staff training and candidate training followed by senior-center outreach.
On communications and marketing, Salazar described the in-house team of designers, videographers and web staff and listed upcoming city events: the bridal parade June 28; disability-pride flag raising July 1; a community engagement event on micro-community homelessness July 1; Movies in the Park on July 11 (Wicked) with a partnership to provide free water; and a summer spray-down series starting July 19.
Council members thanked the clerk and communications staff and asked that similar updates be provided quarterly so the governing body has regular metrics on constituent services, licensing and agenda activity.
