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<br />City of Centerville <br />Council Meeting Minutes <br />December 19,2002 <br /> <br />as a City Administrator he feels she needs to focus on. And, as rightfully said, you have <br />focused on leadership, management, communication and results. "The question that is <br />here is not whether you are employed, and he is sorry that your voice is breaking and that <br />you feel stressed by this because that is not the intention." He then said that Ms. Moore- <br />Sykes has seen everything that he has said and everything he intends to say. <br /> <br />Mayor Swedberg indicated he is not a hands on Mayor and has let Ms. Moore-Sykes run <br />the City as she sees fit and has never given her direction as to how to do her job but it <br />concerns him when things come before Council that have been done wrong. He then said <br />that she is a good communicator and represents the City well. He further commented he <br />is not looking at this as a punishment but as areas that need improvement to reduce the <br />errors coming out of her office. <br /> <br />Mayor Swedberg commented that Ms. Moore-Sykes may not agree with what he says but <br />this is his opinion based on what he sees and most of what he sees happens in this <br />Council Chamber not in City Hall and not at Public Works. He further commented that <br />personalities mean nothing and what he is after is trying to solve problems and he thinks <br />there are some problems. <br /> <br />Mayor Swedberg commented that he feels there is an issue with follow up and support to <br />Council and several members have said that. He then said he looks forward to a time <br />when that will be better. He funher commented that his biggest concern is the effective <br />supervision of the City Clerk to prevent errors. <br /> <br />Mayor Swedberg indicated he had asked for an evaluation of employee strengths and <br />asked whether employees are in positions where they can succeed. He then commented <br />that his comments on the resume were not based on comments on the resume but based <br />on references that he saw and the comments of those people and was not matching up and <br />that is why he provided the comment. <br /> <br />Mayor Swedberg indicated he hopes that the errors can be stopped and that quality can be <br />increased. He then said he looks forward to Ms. Moore-Sykes working with the next <br />Council to make these things happen. <br /> <br />Council Member Nelson indicated that Council does not supervise other staff members <br />only the City Administrator and when there are the kinds of errors that she has seen and <br />Council asks Staff about what kind of documents are being kept and whether the <br />employee has been reprimanded for a specific thing Council cannot get involved in that <br />level and can only evaluate you on what Council sees as far as leadership so from her <br />perspective she would agree that like she already said there has been a lot of errors and <br />they are documented in the minutes. She then said it looks as though the City <br />Administrator takes a lot of notes and that makes her think that things will get done and <br />by the next Council meeting it has not been done. <br /> <br />Council Member Nelson indicated that the week in review is very good and Ms. Moore- <br />Sykes represents the City of Centerville very well. She then said that Ms. Moore-Sykes <br />is a good communicator but the day-to-day supervising of Staff is not being done and <br />carrying out Council directives needs work. <br /> <br />Page 13 of 15 <br />