Recommendation to Provide Input to Avery & Associates Regarding the Recruitment Brochure for the City Manager Recruitment.  (Human Resources 2510)
Recommendation to provide input to Avery and Associates regarding the recruitment brochure for the city manager. Recruitment. Hello, Madam Mayor. Members of the City Council. My name is Robin Young. I'm a senior analyst with the Human Resources Department. As you are aware, you have engaged to Avery and Associates, a consulting firm, to head up your city manager recruitment. I have with me here Paul Chmura, who is leading this effort and who would like to review the brochure for yourself without further delay . Oh. You. Very much. Good evening. Good evening. Mayor. Council members. Thank you for allowing us to take the other item ahead of yours. Appreciate that. Oh, absolutely. Real important, as well as interesting discussions about challenges where all all the communities are facing on housing. But, you know, thank you very much. I wanted to just return to you after having had a chance to individually meet or speak with each of you to solicit your input on the ideal candidate profile for your city manager. So incorporating. All of the. Central themes we I put together a preliminary draft of the job announcement. Staff was kind enough to work with me and ensure that the most of the facts were accurate. And tonight. I wanted to check with you to see your thoughts on the job announcement. And if there were any changes or edits that you would like to see. And then thereafter, to open up the recruitment so that we can try and find you a new city manager by year's end. Right. Comments from council or as I know, we don't have any speaker tips on this one. Correct. All right. Comments from Council. I liked it. I thought. I thought it did a good job of talking about our historical character. Reputation? I like the friendly and sophisticated island community, but, you know, talking about our attributes, great schools, family friendly beaches, successful historic movie theater, retail stores, ample recreational opportunities and abundant parks and playgrounds. But also the very next paragraph talks about the development that we're embarking on in Alameda Point and the characteristics we would like to see in a city manager to lead us through that, that process. And I like the photographs. It's I think there's a lot to choose from in Alameda when you're looking at photographs, but I think it was a nice representative sample. The other member comments. All right. So I have a few. When you describe our city as the second paragraph. Okay. In the middle of city of Alameda, best places to live. It has a high median family income. My understanding our median income is 75,000. So I'm not sure what that's based on. In regards to high, I really don't even know what that means. But I think very I would say that we are a socio economically diverse community. Well educated populace. Again, I don't know what that's based upon, but I think we I would like to describe the diversity as socio in the diversity of our community I think should be represented. And we can go over that language later. But I don't think this captures our diverse community. And with that, of course, comes. I would be hoping that we have we end up selecting a manager that recognizes the diversity of our community and supports the diversity of our community and wants to work with us to provide a higher quality of life and a be aware of quality of life for our the the diverse needs of the community members. So that's why that connects to. The the application then attributes. Mm hmm. Absolutely. All right. Any other comments? And this was just for feedback. It's my understanding. We don't need to take a vote on this. Just a question. Yes. When is it actually going to start? The recruitment was intended to start after you approved the brochure. You're not. Meeting, apparently, next. Month. So we were hoping we might be able to get approval this evening, initiate the recruitment, have a filing period close in early September, and have candidates presented to you by early October. I'm all for moving forward expeditiously. But can you just maybe do a read back of how you would incorporate the mayors? I mean, she's right. We are an ethnically diverse community. The. You know, we could debate about high median family income, but maybe there's a way to kind of. Right. Incorporate all of that. There is room and we can certainly speak to the diversity of the community. We can take out the comment about the high family, high median income. And I think. The what I would emphasize is that. Because. This is more of a marketing brochure as opposed to an all encompassing description of what exactly each of you might want. You know, I tried to. Under communicate. Rather than overcommunicate just to it to ensure that we we did make it more of a brief statement and try and attract the. Diversity of candidates that you would all look for. I think the other change I would. Try and make, given the mayor's input, is under the ideal candidate profile. Perhaps the next the last paragraph we can talk about someone who recognizes and appreciates a diverse community and can add, you know, positive benefits for the. Betterment party unity. Unfortunately, because that may not we might we might not be a good fit for certain candidates. We are I think, you know, we are a we are a diverse community. We are different from a lot of communities in the United States. Sure. So I think it is important to put that there. You know, initially so personally, I'm concerned about the comments that I think make it appear that, you know, the median income and then the well-educated populace, I don't think that really speaks to us. We are diverse in regards to education as well as income. But really, I think what we are is socioeconomically racially, racially. Sexual orientation, however you want to come up with that, really describes the diversity. And I think that's our richness as opposed to the attributes that are focused on here. However you want to describe that. I'm going to jump in and say, remember, we are casting our net wide. I think the we will be best served as a council making this very significant decision for our city if we have as wide a candidate pool to select from as possible. There is nothing wrong with saying we are a well-educated populace. We are, you know, right next to UC Berkeley. I think, you know, some of us up here on the dais have degrees from the University of California. So there's I mean, there's nothing to be ashamed of in our our capabilities. I and I don't think it's an either or proposition. So, yes, the cultural diversity and I you know, we should remember, too, we're in the San Francisco Bay area. I mean, some of that almost goes without saying, but nothing wrong with speaking to our rich cultural diversity. But I don't think we need to be ashamed of a have a good education. After all, we tout one of our selling points. I mean, any realtor will tell you is that we have a good school system in our students go on to good colleges, which. Is another point which is there. The next paragraph. Speaks We don't need to take. Your family first. We don't need to take out well educated populace. I'm okay. With that. I don't think it's based on fact, but I mean, it's up to you. That's my opinion. I don't know where the rest of you stand. We have people at cross. I'd like to see the process get going as quickly as possible. I don't think I don't think people are going to read this. So I think it's going to go out. I really don't. I think people are going to understand there's a city manager job opening in Alameda. They're going to Google it. They're going to look. They're going to talk to you. And you're going to go to your contacts because you have a we hired you because you have a lot of contacts. I don't want to spend any more time tonight on this. Go ahead and put in the diversity comment. Go ahead and put in that. We are in the San Francisco Bay area. It's cutting edge or whatever it is and get the recruiting going. That's my opinion. I second that. So we do. Have the. We do have a speaker. But you do? Yes. Sorry. So it's 1030. So to consider the remaining items six e ordinance of part time sick leave, six F Ordinance of sunshine and any nominations. Ten A We would require a motion with four votes to pass. Three Have a motion. All right. All right. Well, we do not have a motion. So. So move a second. All right. All those in favor. I know. All those opposed? No. Oppose. So, yes, the motion. To. The motion fails. Two in favor, three opposed. So we will just finish up this item. Thank you. And then we have speakers. Kara Goldstein. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man. A man. That happened a little quickly. We have an ordinance that is actually fairly urgent because it's a requirement from state law. That's six, which you haven't heard yet. That is an item that we need that we need to we need to decide tonight. I wish we'd known about that being a change. Then we do. Six. Do we have a motion to entertain? Six. Only I'll make that motion. I'll second that. All those in favor. I think you opposed none. Okay. So we'll be hearing six after this item. Carol, you may proceed. Thank you. Hi, Carol Gladstone, resident. I just. Wanted to. Back up the. Mayor a little. Bit on the earnings. I just happened to have the summary for Alameda 2013 earnings. According to Transparent California, our total population of 74,818 people. The median earnings for full time year round employed residents. Is. $61,378. That I wouldn't say is high income. And and I agree, we're not Piedmont. And I. Don't think we should be made. To look like we are. Thank you. Any other comments. On. Amor de SAC? A Thank you. I actually like the brochure as it is. For example, you know, when you look like I showed before, when you look at the median income of homeowners and in the city and remember, homeowners are half the households. It's $113,000, man. That's not chump change. The median income for renters is $51,700. You know, that's certainly low. So I like the the the inclusion of the education because to me, what all of these speak to is a need to get the prospects, to send them a clear message as to what kind of city they're coming to . They're coming to a city with high expectations because they themselves have high expectations for themselves and because they are high. The residents here are well-educated. When you look at the data and I've looked at the data, so I like the way I like it the way it is. I'm not you know, I'm not going to get into a wordsmithing battle, but I just want to say, great. So do you have a are opposed to adding information about being. Diverse, somehow speaking to the diversity of our community. Well, I don't. But what I would suggest is perhaps somewhere that we should make data available so that the people clearly understand the parameters of diversity, whether it's along the income score or any other. So. I can give you the data, too. It's not a big deal. I'm not a mayor. Okay, so. So somehow if you can, you know, make sure that people can reference basic census data so that they can make conclusions for themselves. I think diversity is a fine catchall, but I don't want to send the wrong message that, you know, we're as diverse as, say, the city of Gustin in Merced County. You know, so, you know, diversity and whatever topics that we use, there has to be some semblance of the parameters. I'm fine with that, and I think somehow we can still convey that the details. Any other comments? Member Ashcraft. Oh, I was just going to say I agree with Councilmember de SAC and the vice mayor. And I also think Mr. Chmura has shown himself to be quite a bit of wordsmith. If you could throw in the cultural diversity somewhere. I have confidence that he can do that. But otherwise, yeah. Let's just get this train out of the station. Any other comments? Thank you. All right, then we can move on to the motion. This is just reckless with. This information being shared. Okay. Thank you. So now we can move on to six E. Thank you. Introduction of ordinance amending the Alameda Municipal Code by deleting Section 20 5-2.4 concerning the accrual of sick leave by certain part time employees.