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Personnel Status <br />Administration Staff Adjustments <br />The 2017 budget includes the new Assistant City Manager position. Strategically, the City is in <br />need of a backup to the City Manager. The City has not had an Assistant City Manager since <br />2007. Having a seasoned Assistant City Manager is necessary for a variety of reasons; most <br />notably the Assistant City Manager would also provide research support for the City Manager, <br />manage human resource services for the organization, and supervise the IT and office support <br />staff. <br />FTE FTE FTE FTE  <br />Administration Positions 2014 2015 2016 2017  <br />City Manager 1 1 1 1  <br />Assistant City Manager 0 0 0 1  <br />Assistant to the City Manager 1 0 0 0  <br />Management Analyst/HR Specialist 0 1 1 0  <br />City Clerk 0 1 1 1  <br />Deputy Clerk (Finance in 2014) 0 0 0 1  <br />Office Assistant (Moved to CD/DCAD) 1 1 0 0  <br />Office Assistant 1 1 1 1  <br />Office Assistant Seasonal 0 .025 0 0  <br />Total 4 5.25 4 5  <br />Strategic Opportunities and Challenges <br />The continued implementation of the three year strategic priorities that was adopted by <br />the City Council in 2013. Use of the community survey and employee survey results will <br />continue to shape decisions and actions on the strategic priorities in 2016. <br />o The City Manager would like to create a unique training program for staff. This <br />program would provide professional growth opportunities for staff that they could <br />apply to internal opportunities as well as external career growth. This project <br />would be comprehensive and meet the Council’s Workforce Engagement <br />priority and the desires stated by staff in a recent organizational survey. <br />o Adoption and implementation of long-term financial plans such as the CIP that <br />was introduced to Council in the 2016 budget year will help the Council meet is <br />Financial Sustainability priority as well as Effective Service Delivery. <br />The City Manager’s office oversees the DX Response legal and engineering team for the <br />City. This team has been assembled to confront the containment of emerging concern <br />known as 1, 4-Dioxnane. This project will involve a multiyear legal and engineering <br />strategy to design and construct an expansion to the City’s existing water treatment <br />system while navigating dollars for the project through the City’s litigation settlement <br />with the Federal Government. Another key element to this project is maintaining public <br />trust through regular and timely communication pieces. This effort specifically relates to <br />the Community Engagement Priority. <br />20