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I value face-to-face, two-way communications. I continue to meet monthly with each City Councilor. I think these meetings are critical to establishing and maintaining a positive working relationship and to help clarify mutual expectations. I also meet at least twice a week with the Mayor; more often if issues and needs dictate. Improving City Council-staff relations remains a high priority for me. I have appreciated the council's willingness to use process sessions over the last year for relationship-building, developing some preliminary council norms and expectations, focusing on council effectiveness, skills attainment, improving operating procedures, clarifying the boards and commission appointment process, beginning some preliminary strategic planning activities, revising recommended City Council vision and goals, and outlining the council's preferred process and time lines for ongoing review and approval of City Council priority issue action plans. We continue to strive for prompt and thorough responses to City Council inquiries whether they are formal council assignments, questions generated during the budget review process or the day- to-day answers to the council's questions in support of policy formation. We produce a lot of information on very short time lines in the form of Agenda Item Summaries, memoranda, emails, white papers, newsletter items and the like, in our attempt to ensure that our elected officials have accurate, timely and sufficient information to inform the relentless policy process. I hope we are making progress in meeting your expectations and needs with some of the reforms we have adopted over the last year. We hope that our work assists with the identification of important community values and the development of public policy that is informed by best practices, sound analysis and credible professional recommendations each and every week. 7