I.
Call to Order/Roll Call
CALL TO ORDER:
Al Rios, Mayor
ROLL CALL:
Yodit Glaze, City Clerk
II.
City Officials
MAYOR CITY CLERK
Al Rios Yodit Glaze
VICE MAYOR CITY TREASURER
Maria del Pilar Avalos Gregory Martinez
COUNCIL MEMBERS INTERIM CITY MANAGER
Maria Davila Chris Jeffers Denise Diaz
Gil Hurtado
CITY ATTORNEY
Raul F. Salinas
III.
Meeting Compensation Disclosure
Pursuant to Government Code Section 54952.3: Disclosure of compensation for meeting attendance by City Council Members is $650 monthly regardless of the amount of meetings.
IV.
Open Session Agenda
SOUTH GATE CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
Saturday, July 16, 2022 at
8:30 a.m
AZALEA ROOM
4761 FIRESTONE BOULEVARD
SOUTH GATE, CA 90280
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DISCUSSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION STATEMENT AND
ANNUAL STRATEGIC PLAN
The City Council and Executive Team will undertake the drafting of a Vision Statement and Strategic Plan in this workshop which will be presented at a future meeting for consideration and adoption by the City Council. (CM) V.
Special Meeting Adjournment
I, Yodit Glaze, City Clerk, certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing Meeting Agenda was posted on July 14, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., as required by law.
Yodit Glaze
City Clerk
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Documents:
Item 1 Report 07162022.pdf
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City of South Gate
CITY COUNCIL
ACENJDA E,J[LL
For the Regular Meeting of: July 16, 2022
Originating Department: City Manager's Office
City Manager: Ciffl Manager:
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SUBJECT: DISCUSSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION ST ATEMENT
AND ANNUAL STRATEGIC PLAN
PURPOSE: For the City Council to meet with the City's Executive Team members to develop a Vision Statement and a Strategic Plan that will develop goals, objectives, or tasks to be undertaken in pursuit of the Vision Statement.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: The City Council and Executive Team will undertake the drafting of a Vision Statement and Strategic Plan in this workshop which will be presented at a future meeting for consideration and adoption by the City Council.
FISCAL IMPACT: The City engaged the services of Institute for Local Governtnent ("ILG") to facilitate this planning session for $15,000. ILG is associated with the League of California Cities and is well known for assisting cities in strategic planning; team building; and other governance related workshop efforts.
ANALYSIS: More and more cities are undertaking strategic plaru'iing processes to become more efficient and effective with their allocation of resources in delivering services within their communities. A partial listing of California cities that participate in the process of strategic planning is provided below:
National City
Huntington Beach
Corona
Yorba Linda
Norwalk
West Sacramento
Chula Vista
Diamond Bar
Indian Wells
Roseville
Novato
Torrance
Glendora
Carlsbad
Pasadena
A vision statement outlines what an organization would like to ultimately achieve and gives purpose to the existence of the organization. A vision statement is the anchor point of any strategic plan within the organization. From this, the organization will set a limited number of goals (3-5) that are broad and general guidelines of what the City Council wants to achieve for the community. An objective is more specific than a goal and defines a strategy to address or 1 3
reach the goal. An action or task is an even more specific step necessary to move an objective forward. Ideally, tasks/actions should have a clear completion and should be feasible to complete with the given measure period, which should never be more than 12-months and ideally around 6 to 8 months. Periodic updates should be given to the City Council and public approximately every 2 months.
BACKGROUND: Undertaking a Strategic Plan can occur in many formats. Since this will be the City's first, it is expected that the participants will provide input on how future sessions can be improved upon to meet the chemistry of those participants. In addition, :tuture sessions can be expanded to include other key players in the organization (other elected officials; Commission members, etc.). Some cities even undertake surveying their communities in some manner.
These additional actions are usually incorporated by organizations that have completed several Strategic Sessions and, thus, are comfortable with the process and how to appropriately merge these additional elements into the process in a productive manner.
This session will be held in the azalea Room at the azalea Regional Shopping Center and structured to be compliant with the Brown Act and other requirements placed upon a public meeting. The public is allowed to observe the process as this is a special public meeting of the City Council. The meeting will start at 8:30 am and end at approximately at 2:00 pm. 2 4