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Closed Session - City
Manager Evaluation
Written Comments
From:Eric Schaefer
To:City Clerk
Cc:City Council
Subject:City Council Meeting Sept. 4, 2024
Date:Tuesday, September 3, 2024 8:25:06 AM
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City Clerk,
Please add my comments to the public record.
Thank you.
Re: Agenda #1, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE CITY MANAGER
If we measured how much power the City Manager has accumulated, she would get a high
rating. However, the City Manager's role is to serve the Council and ultimately the residents.
The residents and Council have been sidelined as many significant decisions are removed
from public debate by placement in the Consent Calendar. The direct democratic process that
involves the community is diminished.
Council members are held at arms length from Staff and cannot get the information they need
to make informed decisions. The process of representative democracy is diminished.
My city government has become less responsive to it's constituents through the concentrated
power of the City Manager.
--
Eric Schaefer
Cupertino Resident
“Diversity jolts us into cognitive action in ways that homogeneity simply does not.”
― Katherine Phillips