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Public Planning Workshop Held on February 1, 2014 <br />Attachment A — Interview Response Summary Management Partners <br />• Departments working together for business development <br />• Have broad band connectivity <br />• Budget, fiscal sustainability <br />• Lit San Leandro <br />• Police Department providing quality service with use of technology, Police Chief has <br />done a remarkable job and has created a new culture in the department <br />• Losing the battle with infrastructure <br />• A portion of community benefits funds given to neighborhoods <br />• Recreation Department did a great job with community events <br />• Progress on working with the schools on various projects <br />• In community relations City Manager has done a good job talking to community <br />groups, Chamber of Commerce, downtown business group <br />• Organization has calmed down and not as much turn over <br />• Economic development <br />• Starting on path toward fiscal sustainability and improving infrastructure <br />• Discussing new revenue measure for roads <br />3. What is not going well with the current City Council processes? Are there specific <br />processes you would like to discuss for possible change and improvement? If so, what <br />are they? <br />• Should connect better with the public including, simplifying our website, creating a <br />phone app to make information more available <br />• Town Hall meetings should be more specific, focused on fewer topics. Presentations <br />should be shorter to allow more time for two way dialogue with the public <br />• Need to focus on better outreach to ethnic populations, provide staff who can speak <br />a variety of languages <br />• Elimination of the committees was good in eliminating extra work but now we need <br />to receive more information on complicated issues and we need better <br />communication between staff and Council so we are made aware of changes in our <br />districts and city-wide <br />• Elimination of committees saves staff time but we have had some issues that would <br />have been handled better with the committee process, an example is a neighborhood <br />road project where there was not clear, understandable information. Neighbors were <br />upset with the roadway change and the lack of notice <br />• All Council members need to receive information at the same time <br />• Need more ad hoc committees for more in-depth discussion of issues <br />• Council should discuss "how" we work together, should discuss our rules and <br />processes <br />• Our council goals are broad; we should talk about the projects to be accomplished <br />each year under each goal. <br />• Council should have a discussion of what is most important to each Council member <br />so we know and understand each other better <br />