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. . MEMORANDUM DATE: December 19, 2002 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council FROM: Kim Moore-Sykes, City Administrator RE: Comments in Response to City Administrator Performance Review First of all, I want to thank everyone for your comments. Obviously you invested a lot of time and consideration in providing this feedback to me and I sincerely appreciate the comments and your suggestions. While I may not agree with some of the comments, it provides me an opportunity to reflect on my skills and abilities and how they are perceived. By some of the comments I received, it occurs to me that I have not presented some of my capabilities adequately or as some of you have pointed out, not at alL For that I do apologize; I thought I had worked hard in every respect of the job as I understood it. As Mari Nelson correctly stated in her comments, I am a councilmember in another community. As such, I have three years of experience sitting on the same side of the table as you and it is that very experience that I am able to bring to my position as City Administrator. This is not an experience that many other City Managers or Administrators can claim as part of their tool box. And because I am a councilmember, I have a bit more insight into the power, authority and responsibility of a councilmember, the limitations and the potential for abuse of the same. I also understand the unique and critical role of a staff member from both my academic endeavors and council experiences what is and should be expected from an employee. But as a councilmember, I have never had the inclination or the need to intensely scrutinize each and every task the staff performs. As a city administrator with a lot of issues to deal with on a daily basis, I simply do not have the time to scrutinize each and every employee's work product. If hirings are done well upfront, then I have no reason not to trust employees to know what his/her job is and how to do it. I have to trust that they will also do their job right. When mistakes occur, they are discussed and the employee and I agree what the employee needs to do to prevent it from happening again. I feel that that should be the end of the matter and I do not find it necessary to report each and every infraction to the City CounciL Nor do I find it necessary to constantly resurrect the infraction. You hired me, I think, to take care of these day to day issues, not to mire you as a councilor you individually in this "tangential minutiae". Also as a city administrator or a councilmember, I would never make a statement that staff is easily replaced or let them go on strike if they don't like the working conditions. I value their role in the organization and have worked hard with them, to maximize their potential within the organization. I have used my skills to create an environment and culture that influences the