Focus Area Exercise
M E M O R A N D U M
13 February 2009
TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Jim C. Blagg, Assistant City Manager/Director of Public Safety
SUBJECT: City Council Strategy Retreat
Attached is a work sheet to assist you in preparing for an interactive exercise that we will
be conducting at the City Council Strategy Retreat on February 18, 2009. The exercise is
designed to assess the City’s Strategy Map and help the staff know what areas we need to
address in order to ensure that we are meeting the Council’s direction with regard to the
Strategic Focus Areas.
Please take a few moments and complete the answers to questions 1-3 related to how well
the City is meeting your expectations in regard to the Strategy Map and more specifically
the Strategic Focus Areas. Questions 2 and 3 are designed to provide the staff with
direction for improvement in meeting these Focus Areas. The last question relates to areas
that are important to you, but may not fit real well with the current Strategic Focus Areas.
Please take a few moments to jot down some of your thoughts and this will make this
exercise go more smoothly during the retreat.
Focus Area Worksheet
Performance
Partnerships &
Safety & Security Mobility Infrastructure Management & Quality Development
Volunteerism
Service Delivery
1.What are 2-3 accomplishments in each
focus area that you are proud of?
2.What are 2-3 areas in each of the five
focus areas that could use improvement?
3.What are 2-3 issues related to each focus
area that are not being addressed?
Other Items
Are there 2-3 issues important to you that have
not been addressed by our focus areas?