Town of Mansfield

Personnel Committee

June 29, 2009

Audrey Beck Municipal Building, Conference Room B

 

Members Present:    Deputy Mayor Gregg Haddad, Councilor Helen Koehn, Councilor Chris Paulhus, Mayor Betsy Paterson

Staff Present:             Assistant to Town Manager Maria Capriola, Town Manager Matt Hart

 

I.                     CALL TO ORDER

The meeting came to order at 6:00p.m.

 

II.                   MINUTES of 5/5/09

The minutes of 5/5/09 were adopted with amendments by the Committee.

 

III.                  TOWN MANAGER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS & TIMELINE

The Committee reviewed and discussed possible revisions to the performance evaluation form used for the Town Manager.  The Committee asked Mr. Hart to have ICMA coordinate a 360 degree evaluation process for him.  The 360 degree process will be used as a professional development tool and Mr. Hart will provide a verbal report of what he learned from the process during his evaluation review[1] with Council.  Mr. Hart offered to complete both the self-evaluation form and the Council’s evaluation form during his self-evaluation process.  The Committee would like to explore the feasibility of completing the evaluation forms through Survey Monkey or a similar online tool; Ms. Capriola agreed to help Mr. Haddad with the efforts in updating the form, creating an online tool, and establishing a timeline for the process.

 

IV.               resolution on open and transparent government

Ms. Koehn is researching potential documents that could be available via the Town’s website; she will provide samples to the Committee at a future meeting. 

 

V.        ADJOURNMENT

The Committee stated that future agenda items will be: policy on Council and Mayor communications (on behalf of the Council as a whole); comp time policies and procedures; resolution on public hearings/ordinances.

 

The meeting concluded at 7:30 p.m. 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Maria E. Capriola

Assistant to Town Manager



[1] Would most likely be unable to implement and complete this process for the current evaluation period.