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City Manager's Office
To: Mayor Kenneth J. Kreutzer and Members of City Council
Prepared By: Philip Rodriguez, City Manager
Date Prepared: May 25, 2018
PURPOSE
The City Manager is recommending an Organizational Plan and structure to the City Council that will best enable him to facilitate management of the entire organization, while achieving greater efficiencies and ensuring improvements to public services and increased accountability.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA
Updating the Organizational Plan will support the Strategic Focus areas of being Financially Responsible and building toward an Innovative, Data-Driven, Results-Focused City Government
BACKGROUND
According to the City Charter, the "City Manager shall be responsible to the Council for the proper administration of all affairs of the City placed in the City Manager's charge."
A few of the City Manager's powers and duties include:
* Appointing managerial employees on the basis of executive and administrative abilities;
* Exercising supervision and control over all administrative departments; and
* Recommending to the Council any proposal the City Manager believes to be advisable in order to establish, alter, consolidate, or abolish administrative departments.
After serving eight months in the role of City Manager, and by overseeing the conclusion of the Fiscal Year 2017 Budget, implementing the present Fiscal Year 2018 Budget and Budget Adjustment, working closely with hundreds of City staff members on numerous projects and activities, spending time individually with each member of the City Council who comprised both last year's governing body and this year's governing body, and by leading the development of the Strategic Plan and ongoing Business Plan process, it is the City Manager's professional assessment that the City's Organizational Plan should be modified and enhanced to best support the organizational needs of the City of Brighton and its future.
At this time, the Plan and structure that i...
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