Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Discussion
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDER THE PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CITY MANAGER'S DEPARTMENTS (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
The City Council has been reviewing reorganization to various City departments since 2011, due to the reduction in the City's workforce and increases in workload. This includes a significant increase is building and planning activity over the last three years. This report discusses promoting the existing Community Development Director to the Assistant City Manager; promoting the Planning Manager to the Community Development Director; promoting the Principal Planner to the Planning Manager. The report also recommends reclassification of the Principal Management Analyst to Assistant to the City Manager. The reorganization results in $77,583 in savings to the City's General Fund for FY17-18 and $27,967 cost in FY18-19.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
The City Manager recommends approval of the proposed reorganization.
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III. ALTERNATIVES
Take any other action the City Council deems appropriate.
IV. BACKGROUND
Loss of Key Management Personnel
Dramatic downsizing of the City's operations during last decade has made a review of the City's departmental and organizational structure a critical project. As a point of comparison, the City has eliminated over 26% of its workforce during this period of time. Proper reorganization is critical to ensuring efficient and effective service delivery when personnel is reduced.
During the past three years, staff and the City Council have been reviewing the various City departments. The City Council has made several changes to the departments and to the organization as part of the review. Staff is recommending additional modifications for City Council's consideration to help support the City's goals and to ensure work is being performed effectively and efficiently and that the duties of...
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