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<br />City of Ramsey <br />Council/Staff Retreat <br />February 7,2, 2008 <br /> <br /> OBSTACLES STRATEGIES <br /> Toward Meeting Goals and Priorities For Overcoming Obstacles <br /> . <br />#5 Ability To Reaain The Trust Of The People Reaain Trust <br />Who Live In Our Community . Have open, honest communication <br /> . Conduct more neighborhood <br />- informational meetings. <br /> . OST <br /> . Send clear, consistent messages <br /> from staff and council. <br /> . Allow healthy debate. <br /> . Share the facts, background more <br /> readily. <br /> . Encourage referendums at presidential <br /> elections on key issues - to increase <br /> participation. <br />#6 Change In Council/Staff And Their Workina Council & Staff: <br />T oaether This takes time. Also, the ideas put forth <br />a. Strong administrative tendencies of regarding how to improve the effectiveness <br /> past will need to allow for strong of both council and staff and the working <br /> council relationship between the two are the key <br />b. Disregarding staff's actions toward addressing this obstacle. <br /> input / experience/research. (See next section of report (below) that <br />c. Inability of Council to work together as address council and staff effectiveness.) <br /> a team and agree (or agree to <br /> disagree) on collective goals. <br /> i. Lack of ownership in decisions <br /> over time. <br /> ii. Lack of trust/respect at Council <br /> level. <br /> Hi. No unified City Council. <br /> - <br /> <br />Comment on Redevelopment: <br />In relation to the topic of redevelopment, there was discussion of adding the following <br />obstacle: "City Charter disallows the assessment of sewer and water when going through <br />an existing neighborhood with functioning sewer and water." It was determined that this is <br />a long-term financing issue, rather than an obstacle <br /> <br />Comment on Communication and Change; <br />The overriding theme in all of this is communication. Changing organizations and communities <br />need to triple the amount of communication you do; you cannot over-communicate, <br />especially when there is negative press. <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br />-41- <br />