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Cambridge council debates city manager goals, strategy coordination and program reviews
Summary
Councilors and the city manager discussed framing annual evaluation goals, prioritizing a housing strategy, program reviews, boards-and-commissions work and several administrative studies including a benefits broker and a class-and-compensation study. The committee agreed to solicit edits and bring a revised draft to the full council.
City Council members and the city manager discussed how to frame the manager’s annual goals and create a more strategic, coordinated approach to long-standing priorities such as housing, homelessness and capital planning.
The city manager said the aim would be to collect the council’s disparate priorities into a clearer roadmap. “How do we map out a little more clearly what the roadmap is?” the city manager said, adding that the administration could compile and present the pieces the council has already raised so the body can set sequencing and timelines.
Councilors said the draft goals should distinguish between (1) the discrete goals the manager will be evaluated on annually and (2) longer-term policy work that requires collaboration between council and administration. “For an evaluation tool … you can rate the manager on what has been done in the last year to forward that goal,” said a member of the council. Several members also cautioned against assessing the manager for outcomes beyond the…
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