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Orono City Council Work Session Monday, August 26, 2019 Council Chambers 5:00 p.m. Page 2 of 4 City Engineer/Director of Public Works Adam Edwards noted that it sounds like what Council may be looking for is after creating your Vision and Mission staff should create their metrics for the goals to track success. Rief mentioned that as part of our internal measurements we have been working on our performance review process and detailing those evaluations based on the City’s Vision, Mission and goals as well. Rief mentioned that we may design a survey as use for external tracking. 3. City Owned Property Community Director Jeremy Barnhart presented a policy for guiding the Sale of City Property to the Council. This policy basically gives guidance and it establishes city owned property vs right-of-way property. If the Council accepts this policy, a formal adoption would be presented at a future council meeting. Johnson feels that the policy presented is much more than restrictive than he was expecting. He understands having a policy for staff when there is a need, but he was not in favor for having specific measures for it. Barnhart noted that staff has no authority to give City Property away. Walsh mentioned a verbal policy and would be more in favor of discussing these matters at the Council level instead of creating a specific policy. He would prefer it to be open ended. Walsh mentioned that we have to keep in mind that we are the first Council that actually is looking into these items. He pointed out that having the talk first at the Council level prior to investing staff time reviewing the options would be ideal. He added the City needs an internal procedure to deal with these inquiries. Johnson agreed noting staff shouldn’t be spending a lot of time on these things and that he would prefer staff bringing it to the Council first to see if there would be support, and then having staff proceed following support of the Council. 4. Marina Licensing Barnhart mentioned he had met with the Marina Committee in regards to establishing Marina Licensing. Barnhart is looking for guidance from the Council about initiating the license standards with the City’s Marinas. Barnhart mentioned if the Council is considering initiating the license than he would prefer to meet with each Marina to get a better sense of what they believe the current regulations are for each of their Marinas. He explained that by implementing a license the city can set the standards for the Marinas.