Agenda - Council Work Session - 02/12/15 & 02/17/15 Strategy Session - 02/12/2015

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Page 2, Q5. 5. What are your hopes and dreams for the elected officials? 1 I hope that the elected officials take their roles in government seriously and fairly govern the city. 2 That they represent the people and the City's best interest. 3 Honest, forthright and transparent. Council members should be upstanding citizens (We all have made /make mistakes, but much of the past and a bit of the current Council have done things as a Council Member, as a business owner and in their personal lives that really go beyond the norm of an upstanding citizen. This lets down the citizens of Ramsey and causes lack of faith and support of our Council. 7 8 9 10 4 More engagement with commissions. Provide key objectives for commissions and leverage them to put forth options that fulfill the objectives. 5 Common sense 6 That they will study and discuss the issues and truly work for the good of Ramsey. Get the city back on the tracks. No more bad articles in the Star Tribune. That they try to keep Ramsey from growing to fast. xx I would appreciate people elected to public office would have the ability to hit the ground running. Seeing, again, the City will be using another consultant to get the City, "going again ", is going against the whole concept of why these people are elected. To me it appears somebody got elected who doesn't have a clue, and should not have run for office to begin with. My hopes are that those elected to office would START with the reasons they ran for office, and THEN use the consultants once the strategic plan is decided upon. I'm sorry to say it is looking like the consultants were voted in by proxy due to ill- prepared elected officials. Even more discouraging is some folks seemed to be running against incumbents due to their use of consultants. My dream would be the officials take less than 1 month to get to the real work they were elected to do. That would include the strategic planning. 11 That the current council will listen with an open mind, not a predetermined destiny of vision. That they will attempt to get Name recognition for Ramsey by getting the USPS to give the City a Unique ZIP CODE. 12 To work together with respect toward each other and the staff that serves them. As well as being a good steward to the future. 13 I want to hear varied opinions, but collectively come to a consensus. 14 strong, visible leadership that listens to the concerns of residents. 15 a 16 be open minded, have thick skins. Half of the people won't like an answer (these are challenging times) but vote with conviction with the city's best interest in 18 of 40 Jan 26, 2013 5:57 PM 41) Jan 26, 2013 3:00 PM Jan 23, 2013 1:37 PM Jan 22, 2013 9:02 PM Jan 22, 2013 10:33 AM Jan 20, 2013 7:45 PM Jan 18, 2013 11:01 AM Jan 18, 2013 7:04 AM Jan 18, 2013 2:40 AM Jan 17, 2013 10:39 AM Jan 16, 2013 11:06 AM Jan 16, 2013 10:04 AM Jan 15, 2013 3:12 PM Jan 15, 2013 11:35 AM Jan 15, 2013 8:40 AM Jan 14, 2013 8:10 PM • •