HomeMy WebLinkAbout031914-cc Special_CCv0001.pdf MINUTES: of a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Redlands held in the
Council Chambers, Civic Center, 35 Cajon Street, Redlands, California, on March
19, 2014 at 5:00 P.M.
PRESENT: Pete Aguilar, Mayor
Paul Foster, Mayor Pro Tem
Jon Harrison, Councilmember
Bob Gardner, Councilmember
Pat Gilbreath, Councilmember
ABSENT: None
STAFF: Enrique Martinez, City Manager; Dan McHugh, City Attorney; Sam Irwin, City
Clerk; Carl Baker, Public Information Officer; Jeff Frazier, Fire Chief; Shawn
Ryan, Police Commander; Danielle Garcia, Interim Chief Information Officer;
Fred Mousavipour, Municipal Utilities and Engineering Director; Fred Cardenas,
Quality of Life Director; Tina Kundig, Finance Director; Oscar Orci,
Development Services Director; Amy Martin, Human Resources Director
Mayor Aguilar called the meeting to order and offered those present the
opportunity to provide public comment on the subject scheduled on the agenda
for the session.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
Friendly Communities— Steve Rogers presented his thoughts and observations on
the City of Redlands planning process. He submitted documents, describing the
Friendly Communities program, for consideration as an alternative method to
accomplish the planning workshop on this meeting's agenda.
PLANNING WORKSHOP:
Goal Setting Workshop — This workshop was the third of a series of meetings
facilitated by Marilyn Manning and Elaine Schmitz, of The Consulting Team,
LLC. in support of the development of the City's Strategic Plan document for the
next three years. As an introduction, Mayor Aguilar prefaced, and each
department director narrated, a slide presentation of the recent accomplishments
for which this city government can take credit. Led by the facilitators, the
Councilmembers revisited previous workshops and confirmed four priority focus
themes for the City of Redlands as financial stability and accountability,
economic development, infrastructure, land resource management, and added a
fifth theme listed as "safety and community services". Most of the discussion in
this workshop involved the Councilmembers rearranging, rephrasing, refining,
clarifying and finalizing the priority themes and the concepts listed in support of
each theme. As the next step in this strategic planning process, staff was tasked
to develop measurable specific goals, by the first part of May, to support the
priority focus themes, to identify programs that support the goals, and to define
the resources required for each program and related action items.
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PUBLIC COMMENT:
Other Considerations — Reyes Quezada reinforced the importance of some of the
concepts articulated during the workshop. He offered certain semantic
considerations in the development of the strategic planning document and
suggested the role of City Council boards and commissions needs to be included.
ADJOURNMENT:
There being no further business, this meeting was adjourned at 6:13 P.M. The Council
will meet next at their regular meeting scheduled at 5:00 P.M.,April 1, 2014.
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