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Assembly debates adding feedback question to manager and clerk evaluations
Summary
During the April 16 special work session, the assembly discussed implementing manager and clerk self-evaluations and debated adding a question asking how elected officials can better support staff; members agreed to consider a separate feedback document and to finalize wording later.
The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly on April 16 discussed revisions to manager and clerk performance-evaluation forms and the process for collecting feedback. DPO Whiteside briefed the assembly on the forms and said the manager and clerk self-evaluation would be implemented this year to inform the assembly's review.
DPO Whiteside asked members to be objective in evaluations and to consider the absence of a strategic plan in evaluating the borough manager’s work. Assembly member Eddie Johnson suggested adding a fourth question to ask "what can the mayor and assembly better do to help you," framing it as two-way feedback. Members debated whether to include that language in the evaluation or to produce a separate feedback document, and whether the timing (self-evals before assembly ratings) might discourage frank staff responses.
Manager Williams and other staff noted that ordering and timing matter: some members suggested self-evaluations first with a later executive-session dialogue to allow more candid feedback. The assembly asked staff to draft or populate the additional question language and to consider a small separate feedback form so the item could be used without overcomplicating the formal evaluation process. No formal changes were adopted during the session; members agreed to revisit the wording and process at a future meeting.
