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CityCouncil | 2022-04-12 | 3 | MRG I. BACKGROUND The City of Alameda reached out to MRG for assistance with planning and facilitating a Strategic Planning Workshop for the City Council. MRG Consultant Marie Knight, Owner of Knight Leadership Solutions, met with the City Manager Eric Levitt and Mayor Ezzy Ashcroft to discuss their needs and a plan moving forward. After this initial meeting MRG was engaged for this event and Marie Knight was engaged to facilitate the workshop. In preparation for the workshop, Ms. Knight conducted the following activities: (1) Multiple planning meetings with the City Manager, some of those meetings also included the Assistant City Manager and Human Resources Director, to obtain background information and discuss their goals for the workshop in order to prepare the agenda for the Workshop. Ms. Knight interviewed four of the five City Councilmembers in advance of the workshop. (Scheduling conflicts prevented an interview with the fifth member of the Council.) All interviews were conducted virtually via zoom and lasted on average 45 minutes. The Councilmembers were asked the three questions with respect to the five current City Council Priorities. All were asked to provide candid, honest feedback in return for anonymity, and were assured that any comments made would be shared in general manner and not attributed to any one person. The Councilmembers were asked the following questions with respect to the five existing City Council Priority Areas: 1. On a scale of 1-5 (5 being close to full achievement) - -What do you believe to be the status of achieving the goal and why? 2. On a scale of 1-5 - -How is the staff doing in this area? 3. Is there anything related to the priority area that you feel we should either Start doing, Stop Doing, or Continue and why? 4. Other than these priority areas, what are three other "Top of Mind" issues you have going into this workshop? After the interviews, Ms. Knight discussed the comments received with the City Manager and finalized the agenda. Based on comments received during the interview process, there was some consensus from the Council that it would be helpful if some of the following information was covered during the workshop: The Roles and Responsibility of the City Council and Staff Creating better communication between Councilmembers, and consensus building Review the Council Priority Areas and creating more defined goals for the future. The City Manager approved the final agenda as well as the power point presentation that Ms. Knight would utilize during the workshop. City of Alameda Page 2 Council Strategic Planning Workshop | CityCouncil/2022-04-12.pdf |