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City Council
Staff Report
From: City Manager
Report Type: 2024 ANNUAL COUNCIL RETREAT PROGRAM
Lead Department: City Manager
Meeting Date: January 29, 2024
Report #:2401-2515
TITLE
2. City Council Retreat: Discussion and Selection of 2024 City Council Priorities
ANALYSIS
The P&S Committee favored keeping the existing priorities and additionally recommended that the Council consider a two-year cycle for priority setting. Following the P&S recommendation, and in consultation with the Mayor and Vice Mayor, the agenda in Attachment A has been drafted for the 2024 Annual Retreat. An important key difference about this retreat is the focus on strategies to achieve the goal(s) in each priority.
As outlined in the working agenda, Attachment A, the retreat will begin with a focus on key inputs to assist the Council in its priority setting discussion including a look back at the progress made on 2023 Council priority objectives (retreat topic 2A), and a look forward to community and Council feedback for 2024 priority setting (retreat topic 2B).
This will be followed by Public Comment, also referred to as oral communication, as a key input for the Council prior to selection of priorities. Comment may range from 1 to 3 minutes per speaker depending on time. This time is intended to be an opportunity for all oral communications for the retreat program.
The Council will then review and select its 2024 Priorities followed by a discussion of strategies to achieve to goal(s) of those priorities (retreat topic 2C). Last the Council will have an opportunity to align norms for the Council’s work in 2024 (retreat topic 2D) followed by a debrief and discussion of next steps (retreat topic 2E).
The materials to facilitate the Council and community through the retreat agenda have been organized into individual reports by each topic for discussion by the City Council, e.g. item 2A, 2B, etc.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A: 2024 Annual Council Retreat Working Agenda APPROVED BY:
Ed Shikada, City Manager