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what does happen if an officer does not meet those performance standards. 1 want to know what policies we have in place when an officer does not meet his or her performance standards. I want to know if it will affect his or her salary, I want to know if it would affect retraining of that officer. Those are things that Chief Bolanos can answer for me at a future date. (4) We have a different management system in our City. It is a management system that is patterned after the private sector. I would suggest that it is called a consultative management system which I approve of. It is a spin off from TQM, which is Dr. Demming's thoughts on how Japan got to where it was. I would like to know if the officers participated in establishing these standards, and I would like to know whether or not our City Manager, how he reconciles performance standards with our consultative management technique. I would like to have a brief discussion on that. (5) I would like to have a Council discussion concerning the whole topic of performance standards used in the law enforcement arena, and whether or not it is something that we, as a City Council, would agree or disagree to, after we have had a sufficient amount of information from the Police Chief, the City Manager and the City Attorney." Council Member Claire further stated, "I will be happy to provide these questions in detail to the City Manager and he can pass them on. I do not intend to have a long discussion about this tonight. I do not have any problems with either the City Manager or the Police Chief. I have no lack of confidence of their abilities. I think they are doing a good job, but I think this has caused somewhat of a concern in the community, and for us not to discuss it openly at a future Council Meeting would be, in my opinion, a mistake." MEMO 1/7/98 MIS: CLAIREIRUSKIN TO DISCUSS PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS UTILIZED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AT THE FEBRUARY 2, 1998 CITY COUNCIL MEETING, BASED ON THE CRITERIA STATED BY COUNCILMAN CLAIRE, WmCH WILL GIVE STAFF ENOUGH TIME TO REVIEW ms QUESTIONS AND AT THAT TIME THE COUNCIL CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION CONERNING WHETHER OR NOT WE, AS A COUNCIL, APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS Council Member Buchan said, "I support Council Member Claire's suggestion to bring this back with more information and more involved discussion. I trust that this discussion will not revolve around personalities or confidence in the administration. This discussion should revolve around the policy that has been put in place, and after we have the information we are comfortable with, we can have a thorough discussion as to whether we feel we can move forward with that policy or not. This is not about personalities, this is about a policy that, unfortunately, has had negative impacts on the community in my mind so far, and I want to make sure that the community understands what it is and what it is not." Vice Mayor Ruskin stated, "Both the San Mateo Times and the San Jose Mercury stated in different ways that I supported the broad new performance standards. I want to clarify my position. When I was speaking to both of those reporters, I can see how there was a misunderstanding. What I was referring to were the national monthly statistical averages REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 56 JANUARY 5, 1998 MINUTES Page No. 146 PAGE 9