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Scappoose council advances discussion on city manager performance assessment tool
Summary
Councilors reviewed a draft assessment tool for the city manager that breaks performance into budget/finance, leadership, and relationship-building categories; members debated 3- vs. 5-point scales, staff anonymity, and aggregation before returning red-line edits for final approval at a future meeting.
City staff and councilors spent the bulk of the Oct. 20 meeting refining a proposed city manager performance assessment tool intended to give council specific, recurring feedback.
Kim (staff lead on the project) said the draft organizes criteria into three primary performance areas — fiscal stewardship and transparency, leadership, and relationship building — with draft questions under each area. Councilor Santiago had proposed structural changes that would replace ranking with a…
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