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CityCouncil | 2022-04-12 | 7 | MRG Ms. Knight and Assistant City Manager Gerry Beaudin provided examples of priorities or projects where, although the work falls into the job description of a staff member, they may already be at or over their capacity with their current workload to take more on. Thus, in order to ensure that there is capacity to more a new project or initiative forward there are questions that the Council should be asking of staff, and information staff should be providing as new projects, initiatives, and needs arise: (1) How does this relate to the Council's Priorities/Goals? (2) What is the capacity of the staff to take this on? (3) What are the resources available to move this forward? (4) Will something else have to be put on the back burner to make this a priority? (5) What is the impact vs effort? It was also discussed that it is critical to keep in mind that workload overload, among other things, can negatively affect the culture and environment and ultimately the ability to recruit the best and the brightest in today's job market. Picture the Future of Alameda (Slides 28-32 on Attachment A) During this exercise Council and Staff were asked to think about the future of the City. What is the vision of the future that the Council and Staff should be striving towards? All were asked to fill in a diagram that asked for: (1) A Headline - 5 years from now, what do you want the frontpage story to be about Alameda? (2) Some of the supporting information to the story (3) Provide a few quotes about the headline they would like to hear from others 4) Talk about what would need to change to make this happen. The following are the responses to this exercise: Headline: 2027 Point in Time Count finds only 24 individuals living unsheltered in Alameda! Subtext: The City Council in 2022 laid the groundwork, formulated policies, and followed through to achieve this result which was made possible by the hard work of the dedicated City staff Quotes: "We made life changing and lifesaving decisions" "Alameda was a good steward of the funds we granted it to reduce homelessness" What would have to change to achieve this? Keep doing what we are doing, keep funding streams flowing. Focus on funding City of Alameda Page 6 Council Strategic Planning Workshop | CityCouncil/2022-04-12.pdf |