Cape manager evaluations show overall confidence in performance
Council’s collective assessment is a 4.0, above average
One council member gave City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn a perfect score for all 10 categories on his employee performance evaluation with the top administrator’s overall Cape Coral City Council evaluation of his efforts a solid 4.0.
The evaluation was based on 1-5 scores, with a 1 being poor – rarely meets the performance standard, to a 5 being excellent – almost always exceeds the performance standard. A 4 is “above average.”
The 10 evaluation categories included individual characteristics, professional skills and status, relations with elected members of the governing body, policy execution, reporting, citizen relations, staffing, supervision, fiscal management, and community.
Councilmember Joe Kilraine gave a 5 for each of the 10 categories. Kilraine gave a constructive caution “to be careful not to become over-protective, which I would define as to be strong in support based on facts in the public arena, but equally strong to privately address performance matters as necessary.”
The overall evaluation of 4.0 saw the highest average among the eight-member elected board at 4.2 in individual characteristics and the lowest at 3.7 for staffing.
The lowest score provided individually was given by Councilmember Keith Long.
Long gave a 4.2 for individual characteristics, 4 for citizen relations, 3.6 for professional skills and status, 3.4 for reporting, 3.2 for policy execution, supervision, fiscal management and community, 2.6 for relations with elected members of the governing body and staffing.
Councilmember Rachel Kaduk gave a 4 for professional skills and status, policy execution, reporting, supervision, 3.8 for individual characteristics, 3.4 for relations with elected members of the governing body, 3.4 for citizen relations, 3 for staffing, fiscal management and community. For Kaduk, the most critical area for improvement is strengthening and rebuilding the relationship with the public.
Councilmember Dr. Derrick Donnell gave a 5 for relations with elected members of the governing body, supervision, fiscal management and community, 4.8 for individual characteristics, policy execution and professional skills and status, 4.6 for citizen relations, 4.5 for staffing, and 4.4 for reporting. The most critical area for improvement, Donnell stated was reporting.
Councilmember Jennifer Nelson-Lastra gave a 3.6 for staffing, 3.4 for professional skills and status and fiscal responsibility, 3.2 for individual characteristics, reporting, policy execution and community, and 3 for relations with elected members of the governing body and citizen relations. Nelson-Lastra’s most critical area for improvement deals with the public and how to handle responses to them.
Councilmember Laurie Lehmann gave a 4 for reporting and community, 3.8 for individual characteristics, supervision, policy execution and citizen relations, 3.6 for relations with elected members of the governing body and staffing, 3.4 for professional skills and status, and 3.2 for fiscal management.
Councilmember Bill Steinke gave a 4.4 for policy execution, 4.2 for individual characteristics, professional skills and status, relations with elected members of the governing body, supervision and fiscal management, 4 for reporting and citizen relations, 3.6 for staffing, and 3.8 for community. The critical areas of improvement for Steinke were holding more departments more accountable for current results and personal interaction with the community.
Mayor John Gunter gave a 4.6 for supervision, 4.2 for individual characteristics, fiscal management, community, reporting, policy execution, and relations with elected members of the governing board, 4.0 for professional skills and status, citizen relations and staffing, 4.0 for citizen relations, 4.0 for staffing.
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