HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council Workshop - Minutes - 05/20/2003 COUNCIL WORKSHOP MINUTES
MAY 209 2003
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Council President Judy Woods, Tim Clark, Connie Epperly,
Leona Orr, Julie Peterson, Bruce White, Rico Yingling
STAFF PRESENT: Dena Laurent„ Mike Martin, John Hodgson, May Miller, Jackie Bicknell
PUBLIC PRESENT: Debbie Raplee
The workshop was called to order at 5:00 P.M. by Council President Judy Woods.
2002 Performance Measures Report
Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Dena Laurent gave an overhead presentation consisting of
information from the 2002 Performance Measures Report booklet. (Please refer to materials included
with agenda for detailed information.) Ms. Laurent looked at the data in terms of the City's Strategic
Plan Measures, including comparative data from other cities as a result of the City's participation in
the International City/County Managers Association Center for Performance Measurement. The error
ratio of the Citizen Survey is plus or minus 5%.
• Vibrant Downtown: Measures in the annual Citizen Survey of how many people have come
downtown more than once or twice per month. This showed an increase in downtown
businesses.
• Safe Community: The percentage of citizens who feel safe in Kent, overall, is greater than
90%. The City has a four minute average response time for all priority one calls to police, and
. performance is slightly better than the median and mean figures for fire emergency calls
within a travel time of five minutes or less.
• Effective Transportation System: The paver rating is up. The condition of the roads has been
tracking slightly down over the last four years but remains very high when looking at people's
fiustration with traffic. Citizens continue to perceive the City's road system as good to
excellent 90%of the time.
• Strong Local Economy: Looks at the annual percent change in sales and use tax revenue year-
to-year. Over the past four years there has been a slight increase in dependence on the
property tax and generally flat tracking in sales and utility tax.
• Valued Government Services: Courtesy of City employees was rated between 80%-90% as
favorable.
Councilmember Rico Yingling inquired when the department level performance measures would be
published in the annual reports and used in department monthly reports. Chief Administrative
Officer Mike Martin said that those done on a regular basis were in the department budget sections,
but weren't monthly reports. He said the departments that collect performance measures could
include those measures in their annual report.
The workshop adjourned at 5:30 PM.
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