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Carmel council directs staff to develop clearer, hierarchical priority list after workshop recap
Summary
At a special Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council meeting staff summarized a February priorities workshop and presented a more granular staff-proposed project list; council asked staff to return with a hierarchical, roll‑up format, clearer category names and scoring methodology before finalizing the official strategic priorities list.
The Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council on April 1 heard a recap of a February strategic priorities workshop and asked staff to return with a simplified, hierarchical version of competing project lists to make priorities easier to track and score.
Assistant City Administrator Brandon Swanson summarized the workshop and staff’s subsequent attempt to merge the council’s existing five high-level categories with staff’s more granular project list. “This whole process is confusing. It’s messy,” Swanson said, acknowledging that staff’s proposed expansion of project names (for example splitting “beach infrastructure” into ramp,…
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