HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-022 ARDEN HILLS
CITY OF ARDEN HILLS
COUNTY OF RAMSEY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2016-022
RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING CITY COUNCIL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL THAT THE NORMS OF
BEHAVIOR ARE HEREBY ESTABLISHED AS FOLLOWS:
1. Speak only for yourself,not for other Councilmembers—unless specifically tasked by your
colleagues to speak for the group.
2. Don't question motives. Assume others have positive intentions,even when you disagree.
3. Be respectful of one another, and the public process, at all times. Do not criticize Staff or others
in public.
4. Aim of consensus, but accept decisions of the majority once made.
5. Stay focused on the elected official role—policy,prioritization,and citizen representation.
6. Work primarily through the City Administrator or a Department Head, and through line staff with
prior arrangement. May work with the writer of a memo in a packet to request information for
clarification. Refrain from attending staff meetings,trainings, "rides-along"or group staff
functions unless specifically invited or cleared by the City Administrator.
7. Respect Staff and the fact that they work for the Council as a whole. Don't expect or ask them to
engage in the fray(secrets, gossip,triangulation),make your individual case(to take sides), or to
be your"insider"(informant).
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARDEN HILLS THIS 271h
DAY OF DUNE,2016.
David Grant,gayor
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J ie Hanson,City Clerk