Sean C. Morgan
City Manager Craig Martin
got high marks from the City
Council in his annual evaluation
on July 24.
The council met with Martin
in an executive session to review
his performance prior to the
regular council meeting.
Councilors rated Martin, who
has been city manager since 1997,
“good” to “excellent” in eight
categories, said Mayor Craig
Fentiman. Martin’s strengths
have always been communication
skills with the council and the
community.
“He’s been pleasingly
progressive in his continued
self-development,” Fentiman
said. “It’s amazing how he can
take things said in these sessions
to heart and then he goes and
improves.”
One councilor commented
that there is always room for
improvement, Fentiman said,
but that councilor didn’t really
identify any particular areas where
Martin needed to improve.
The council discussed the
need to lobby other government
agencies on behalf of Sweet
Home, Fentiman said, but that’s
something everyone needs to
work on.
“The whole council could do
a better job,” Fentiman said. “I
could do a lot better on that.”
The council and Martin have
not discussed a raise yet, Fentiman
said. He expects it to come up in
a future council meeting.
“It was an excellent session,”
Fentiman said. There were
suggestions, but not too many.
Present at the meeting were
Marybeth Angulo, Fentiman, Jim
Gourley, Mike Hall and Greg
Mahler. Ron Rodgers and Scott
McKee Jr. were absent.
In other business, the
council:
■ Reappointed Sharon
Akerfields to a four-year term on
the Library Board. Her new term
expires on June 30, 2016. She
has been a member of the Library
Board since July 10, 2007 and
was a library volunteer for
ive
years prior to her appointment.