Delegation of Authority to the City Manager and City Recorder Policy
The Council will instruct the City Manager and City Recorder through written policies that prescribe the city goals to be achieved and describe organizational situations and actions to be avoided. The Council will support any reasonable interpretation of those policies by the City Manager or City Recorder respective to their assigned responsibilities. Accordingly:
(A) Council will develop policies instructing the City Manager or City Recorder to achieve defined goal results. These policies will be developed systematically from the broadest, most general level to more defined levels, and may be called strategic direction policies;
(B) Council will develop policies that limit the latitude the City Manager or City Recorder may exercise in choosing the organizational means. These policies will be developed systematically from the broadest, most general level to more defined levels, and they may be called executive accountability policies;
(C) As long as the City Manager or City Recorder uses any reasonable interpretation of the Council’s strategic direction policies and executive accountability policies, the City Manager or City Recorder is authorized to establish all further policies, make all decisions, establish all practices and develop all activities they deems appropriate to achieve the Council’s goals; and
(D) The Council may change its strategic direction policies and/or executive accountability policies at any time, thereby shifting the boundary between Council and City Manager/City Recorder domains. By doing so, the Council changes the latitude of choice given to the City Manager or City Recorder. However, as long as any Council-specified delegation of authority is in place, the Council will respect and support any reasonable interpretation of its policies.
(Prior Code, Ch. 30, App. A) (Ord. 1256a, passed 8-1-2011)