Live Oak council plans workshop and prepares city manager performance review

Council Member (Speaker 3) told the City Council that their performance review is scheduled for next month and asked that a review form be ready for use.

The request triggered a broader discussion about the evaluation process and whether the council should hold a workshop to agree on a standard template. Speaker 2 said the city manager, Mr. Sessions, had requested a workshop "to reaffirm our roles, responsibilities, and expectations to elected officials and staff," and suggested the council aim for a session in January or February.

Council members recalled that evaluation forms have evolved with successive city managers. Speaker 4 said the form "has evolved by city manager to city manager" and described prior practice in which the council reviewed a proposed form, met individually with the manager and then held a joint discussion. Speaker 1 volunteered to pull model evaluation forms from manager-association sources, work with Mr. Gill to adapt categories and produce a 1–5 rating template that would be circulated to council members for input before a workshop.

Council members emphasized that a baseline document would make a workshop more productive. Speaker 1 said they would have a draft ready "first of the week" and encouraged members to propose additions or edits so the workshop would start with an agreed draft rather than building categories from scratch.

The council discussion focused on process rather than substantive changes to the manager’s contract; no formal motion or vote on the evaluation form or workshop was recorded in the transcript.