a memorandum regarding updates on the City Manager search

Dear City Council colleagues, Please find the following updates on the City Manager search. Randi Frank and her team finished their individual interviews with City Councillors and department heads, and have now moved on to small, content area based focus groups. Her team will continue to hold focus groups, and next week will be the larger Resident and Employee Town Halls. In addition to that update, we have the following to share: - The smaller, issue based focus groups are underway with Cortico, and the staff facilitators. We will start presenting information from the Cortico focus groups next week through their software. These conversations have been incredibly useful, and have garnered some important feedback. Thank you to all who have participated and facilitated. - The City has created a dedicated webpage at https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/citymanagersearch2022 - The Government Operations/Resident Town Hall was scheduled for February 16th 6:00- 8:00p.m., and can be accessed here. As of Friday, February 4th, residents and stakeholders have been able to register to provide public comment at that meeting. - The employee survey went live on Tuesday, February 1st and was emailed to every City employee by the Personnel Department. Over 100 employees have participated in this survey in the past 2 days. Employees were also notified of how to register for the Employee Town Hall being held on Tuesday, February 15th and the opportunity to participate in a private, 15 minute, drop-in session with Randi Frank Consulting. Posters with all of the information were also sent to each department for display at work sites (see artwork attached). - Postcards (see artwork attached) were printed to place in stores, restaurants, barbershops, hair salons, community rooms and other locations to inform residents of opportunities to participate in the City Manager search process. - Posters to inform residents of opportunities to participate in this process (see artwork attached) will be placed in the following City buildings:

● 344 Broadway ● 51 Inman Street ● 147 Hampshire Street (DPW) ● All library locations ● All Senior Center locations ● Police Headquarters ● 831 Massachusetts Avenue - The City Manager Search site through coUrbanize went live on Tuesday, February 1st, the link is: https://www.cambridgecitymanagersearch.com/ As of Thursday at 2pm, there were over 500 pieces of unique feedback. The site is translated into Spanish, Haitian Creole, Chinese and Amharic. All other languages are available through Google Translate. I will continue to keep you all updated this month as we continue through this community engagement period. Please share information on the coUrbanize site and the Government Operations/Resident Town Hall meeting through your social media, newsletters and other ways you engage your constituents. Thank you, Alanna Mallon Cambridge Vice-Mayor