This agenda item is intended to provide the criteria by which the assessment of the City Manager’s performance evaluation will be structured. On February 15, 2017, the City of Riviera Beach and the city manager, Jonathan Evans entered into an agreement whereby, within 30 days effective of the agreement signed, both parties will mutually discuss the criteria to evaluate the city manager as part of the contractual obligation stipulated in section 2, subsection B of the agreement. The city manager began his employment with the city on Monday, March 20, 2017, at 8 AM. The city manager has proffered example performance evaluations that are attached to this agenda item. Attached, you will find (3) evaluation forms that have been proffered by the Florida City/County Management Association (FCCMA), of which Mr. Evans is a member, and is the professional association that most professional administrators within the state of Florida belong to. Furthermore, the evaluation forms provided were developed by the communications committee, of which Mr. Evans was a co-chair of, as a member of the Board of Directors of this Association. The three forms offered are: a top level dimension evaluation form, a narrative evaluation form, and a performance dimension. The evaluations rate on a Likert scale from 1- unsatisfactory, to 5- excellent; topics are broken into sections applicable to city operations. The categories are as follows: professional skills and expertise, council/commission relations, citizen and public relations, policy execution,  intergovernmental relations, staff and management, fiscal management, planning and organizational development, leadership and decision-making, and, lastly, individual characteristics. Based on scores in each of these individual sections, a total score is derived, divided by the total number of points available in each section and an average is computed thus, ranking the city manager’s performance. This particular item is intended to adopt a standard in which the city manager will be evaluated, as well as, when the manager’s evaluation should occur. It is recommended that the evaluation of the administrator occur 30 days prior to or 30 days after the anniversary of the manager’s start date. Furthermore, this item is to be placed on the agenda in the appropriate section, and to ensure that the public is notified in accordance with existing organizational policies and applicable state statutes.

At this time, staff recommends that the Council act to adopt a performance evaluation matrix, as well as set a date for the evaluation of the city manager.