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<br />-- <br /> <br />e" <br /> <br />e. <br /> <br />Results of <br />Council Process Questionnaire <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />'- <br /> <br />Please list any other process misunderstandings or concerns that you feel <br />presently exist among members of the council. (The following comments will <br />be shared and discussed during the process session.) <br /> <br />Some councilors becoming very involved in detail of running city -- <br />managing not our job -- pol icy direction is. <br /> <br />City manager getting further away from council -- possibly moving to <br />leadership vs facilitation or implementation. <br /> <br />Councilors "role play" to the public on controversial items which tends <br />to excite citizens and make the majority of councilors look bad. <br /> <br />We give consideration to all reports prepared by our citizen committees <br />and are courteous to those who did the work. <br /> <br />We will not grind a personal ax without some support from other members or <br />a citizen group a private interest just wastes time. <br /> <br />We will not ask to have an ordinance drawn or other extensive stuff work <br />done without first getting a sense of the counoil that the idea deserves <br />work. <br /> <br />Sometimes we are caught in a squeeze between "speak briefly, do your <br />hornework, no major policy/ideology surprises" on the one hand -- and <br />a lack of forums to fully discuss issues on the other hand. <br /> <br />The balance we strike is not unsatisfactory, but it is not ideal. <br /> <br />The transmittal refers to "groundrules adopted and notified by the <br />Council... in previous years". Perhaps there should be a more formal <br />process of acquainting new councilors with these norms. <br /> <br />As a new member of the Council, I have more than once been advised <br />\ <br />publicly that a point of view is "not consistent with established Council <br />policy". Senior members of the Council should recognize that when a <br />new councilor begins a term, it is not his or her responsibility to <br />subscribe to all previously agreed positions. (The new member may wish <br />simply to declare his or her nonconcurrence with "established policy" -- for <br />the record). <br /> <br />The Council needs to consider the burden placed on Councilors and Planning <br />Commission memebers by the many additional committee assignment obLigations <br />assumed by each person. The time commitment required to meet those <br />obligations is presently burdensome and probabLy discourages many quaLified <br />citizens from serving on the CounciL or Commission. <br />