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