Council Agenda 01-27-2007 RetreatCITY OF FEDERAL WAY CITY COUNCIL AND MANAGEMENT TEAM
Annual Strategic Planning Retreat
Saturday, 27 January 2007
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Dumas Bay Center
DRAFT AGENDA
THE MEETING’S GOALS:
1. Review our principal accomplishments of 2006 and
assess what factors produced them.
2. Assess the quality of our interactions as teams of elected officials,
elected and appointed officials, and public servants and citizens.
3. Discuss long-term structural issues to lay the foundation for future actions.
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NOTE: Refreshments will be served beginning at 8 o’clock so come early to enjoy them and be prepared
to begin the meeting precisely at 8:30.
I. 8:30 Welcome! Review Today’s Purpose Mayor Mike Park
II. 8:35 Review Agenda, Ground Rules and Facilitation Techniques Jim Reid
III. 8:40 Public Comment Period Everyone
Do our guests in the audience have any comments on the topics
we will discuss today or other issues important to them?
IV. 8:50 Warm-up Exercise Everyone
V. 9:30 A Review and Assessment of 2006 Council/MT Members
What were the most important accomplishments of 2006?
What factors produced these accomplishments?
Was anything not as successful as you expected? If so, what
was it and what factors prevented or limited success?
A brief discussion with Brian Wilson about his leadership
and management philosophy and his vision for the Police
Department.
VI. 10:15 Implementing Proposition 1 Everyone
Directors will briefly describe their departments’
approaches to implementing Proposition 1.
Questions and brief discussion.
10:45 Break
VII. 11:00 An Assessment of Our Interactions and Teamwork Council/MT Members
What are the strengths of our interactions as a team
of elected officials?
Are there any areas in which we could improve?
What are the strengths of our interactions as elected
and appointed officials?
Are there any areas in which we could improve?
What are the strengths of our interactions with the public?
Are there any areas that could be improved?
VIII. 11:45 Structural Issues Affecting the City’s Long-Term Future
Premise: Over the long term, the City’s financial situation
will affect and be affected by economic development,
annexations, and the level and quality of services we provide.
Because these issues are linked, we will examine them in
relation to one another.
The long-term financial outlook Iwen/Everyone
What is the City’s financial outlook in the next 10-15 years?
What does it indicate in terms of challenges facing the City
and the choices available to us?
12:15 Lunch
IX. 1:00 Structural Issues for the Long-Term (Continued)
Note: During this discussion we will take a ten-minute break when appropriate.
a. Annexation Everyone
What impacts might the annexation of new neighborhoods
and 20,000 people in 2007 have on our immediate financial
situation? On the level and quality of services that our
citizens voted for in approving Proposition 1 last year?
What could be the long-term impacts of annexation on our
financial situation, particularly in light of the expiration in
ten years of the State’s rebate of a portion of tax revenues if
annexation is approved? On the level and quality of services?
What might be the impacts of annexation on City facilities
and office space, including City Hall, the jail and
maintenance facilities?
b. Economic Development Patrick/Kathy/Everyone
How might the economic development initiatives we have
launched in the past few years affect the City’s finances?
Are there limits to how those initiatives can influence the
City’s long-term financial situation?
What might the impacts and limitations of current economic
development initiatives on our long-term financial situation
indicate about future economic development efforts?
c. Level and Quality of Services Everyone
What do the immediate and long-term financial situation and
a potential annexation in 2007 indicate about the ability of all
of us to sustain a high level of service at relatively low costs?
X. 3:15 Other Issues on the Horizon Everyone
During the interviews with Jim Reid, Council members voiced
interest in a wide range of issues, ranging from transportation
to the City’s involvement in delivering human services to the
community’s need for a performing arts center. In this brief
discussion we will “put on the table” the handful of issues that
we think may require the City’s attention and action in the next
3-5 years.
XI. 3:45 What are We Taking Away from Today’s Meeting? Everyone
4:00 Adjourn