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M I N N E 5 0 T A
OFFICIAL MINUTES
City Council Workshop Session
January 18 and 19, 2018
January 18: The workshop session was called to order at 4:10 p.m.
Councilmembers present: Mayor Jake Spano, Councilmembers Tim Brausen, Steve Hallfin,
Rachel Harris, Anne Mavity, and Margaret Rog. Absent: Thom Miller.
Staff present: City Manager (Mr. Harmening) and Deputy City Manager/Director of Human
Resources (Ms. Deno)
Others present: Bridget Gothberg and ML Rice, Consultants
City Council participated in a workshop and discussed the following items:
• Carver Governance
• Groups: forming, storming, norming, performing model
• Unwritten rules and council norms — Updates were made and will be brought back for
formal approval at an upcoming council meeting.
• Relational learning, style preferences, Gregorc
Adjourned at 8:50 p.m.
January 19, 2018: The workshop session was called to order at 8:50 a.m.
Councilmembers present: Mayor Jake Spano, Councilmembers Tim Brausen, Rachel Harris, Anne
Mavity, Thom Miller and Margaret Rog. Absent: Steve Hallfm.
Staff present: City Manager (Mr. Harmening), Deputy City Manager/Director of Human
Resources (Ms. Deno), Director of Community Development (Ms. Barton), Director of
Engineering (Ms. Heiser), Director of Operations and Recreation (Ms. Walsh), Director of
Inspections (Mr. Hoffman), Chief Information Officer (Mr. Pires), Police Chief (Mr. Harcey),
Fire Chief (Mr. Koering), Communications and Marketing Manager (Ms. Larson), Chief Financial
Officer (Mr. Simon) and Racial Equity Coordinator (Ms. Sojourner).
Others present: Bridget Gothberg and ML Rice, Consultants
City Council continued the workshop with the following items:
• An exercise about the past, present and future. Past: 25 years 1990-2015; Present: 2016-
2017; Future: 2018-2028.
• Creation of groupings to help determine next steps. Data was taken from Vision 3.0; fi•om
former visioning exercises; and from the group discussion on past, present and future.
o Council's consensus was to direct staff to take the information developed and
propose some "big bowl" priorities/goals to bring back to council for review.
o Council will have a follow-up session with consultant ML Rice to check in and
modify statements as needed prior to final approval.
o Council will continue to discuss overall work, projects, and initiatives for
understanding, goal/priority setting, and taking action.
Adjourned at 3 p.m.
AH--
Melissaity Clerk