MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS
COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 13, 2002
ROOM 310 CITY HALL
6:30 P.M.
Convened: 6:40 p.m.
Adjourned: 8:00 p.m.
Present: Chairperson Councillor Joseph M. Petty
Councillor Stephen T.
Patton
Councillor
Konstantina B. Lukes
Also:
City
Manager Thomas R. hoover
City Auditor James
A. DelSignore
City Clerk David J. Rushford, Clerk
1. Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication
relative to FY 2002 Goals and Objectives.
#29B CM December 4,
2001
Recommend Accept
2. Order Clancy - Request Municipal Operations Committee to
consider speed humps and the tree farm as Goals for the City Manager in FY
2002.
#19d CC December 4,
2001
Recommend that the city Manager consider including this request
in preparing his Goals for Fiscal Year 2003.
3. Order Clancy - Request the City Manager's Goals &
Objective for FY 2002 be amended to include a new goal referencing a solution
to the problem of overgrowth encroaching the public ways across the City.
#47 CC December 11,
2001
Recommend that the City Manager consider including this request in
preparing his Goals for Fiscal
Year 2003.
4. Order Mariano - Request Municipal Operations Committee, in the
future consider to amend the Goals and Objective of the City Manager as
follows: 1. Relative to Union Station, whether we have a developer, whether
the development parcels are being marketed, and whether we have a parking
garage; 2. Relative to the South Worcester Industrial Park the issue of
business recruitment be included;
3. Relative to the timeframe for
consideration in evaluating TIF's, that the references to three years be broken
down so that the minimum level of accomplishment must take place in the first
year; 4. That the reference relative to
business recruitment include clarification of the terms "targeted"
and "actual" and 5. In the analysis of the business tax base, a
comparison of businesses locating and leaving the city be included.
#46c CC January 16,
2001
In Committee June 8,
2001 - Held
Recommend that the City Manager consider including this request in
preparing his Goals for Fiscal
Year 2003.
Chairman's Order request the
City Manager forward his Fiscal Year
2003 Goals and Objectives to
City Council with the submission of the
2003 Annual Budget.
Chairman's Order request the City Manager provide the City Council
with updates to the Fiscal Year
2002 Goals and Objectives on or about
April 1 and July 1, 2002.
5. Communication of the City Manager transmitting communication
relative to City Manager's accomplishments as they correlate with the year 2000
Goals and Objectives.
#6 CC June 26, 2001
Recommend File
6. Communication of James DelSignore, City Auditor transmitting
his Accomplishments for FY 02 and Goals for FY 03.
Recommend Accept the City Auditors Mission, Goals and Objectives
for Fiscal Year 2002 (attached), and further, that the Auditor be
awarded a Merit Raise of four
(4) steps effective July 1, 2001.
Voted 2-1 with Lukes in opposition.
Chairman's Order request the City Auditor consider inside auditing of
City Departments for
efficiencies and technology advances.
Chairman's Order request the City Auditor provide the City Council
with a comment concerning the
dialogue between KPMG, the City 's
external auditors and the Administration relative to the Revenue
Procedures Manual.
Chairman's Order request Administration report to the City Council
concerning the January 10, 2002
action of the Massachusetts
Development Finance Authority preliminary approval of revenue bond
project on behalf of the Henry Lee Willis Center.
7. Communication of David J. Rushford, City Clerk transmitting
his Accomplishments for FY 02 and Goals for FY 03.
Recommend Accept the Fiscal Year 2001 Accomplishments (attached)
and Fiscal Year 2002 Goals (attached), and further, that the Clerk be
awarded a Merit Raise of four (4) steps effective July 1, 2001.
Voted 2-1 with Lukes in opposition