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It guides city council training and accountability through a “best practices” resolution, emphasizing transparency policies, ethics, conduct, purchasing controls, management oversight, and strategic planning. 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Your governing body must read through this carefully and determine whether all or some of it fits with the policies or practices of your municipality. You do not have to adopt all of the policies in this Handbook to be eligible for the Recognition Program.  If there is a policy that works for your municipality feel free to add that policy to the Handbook.  In the end, you should have a Handbook that best meets the needs of your municipality.\nThese materials are not to be construed as providing legal, accounting, or any other professional service advice.  We strongly suggest that you work closely with experienced legal counsel to develop and implement a Handbook that best serves the needs of your governing body.\nThis Sample Best Practices Handbook was prepared by David Weatherford.  If you have questions, please call OMAG and ask for:\nBill Tackett\nDirector of Risk Management\n1-800-234-9461 (toll free)\n405-657-1400 (direct)\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"mailto:btackett@omag.org\" \u0014btackett@omag.org\u0015\n[Insert Town Logo]\nBest Practices Handbook\nApproved by\n[City Council/City Commissioners/Town Board of Trustees]\n[Insert date adopted here]\n\u000f\n\u000f\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nINTRODUCTION\nFORMS OF GOVERNMENT & ROLE OF ELECTED OFFICIALS\nMEETINGS AND THE OPEN MEETING ACT\nCONFLICT OF INTEREST, ETHICS & CONDUCT\nPUBLIC TRUSTS & UTILITY AUTHORITIES\nTRAINING & BUILDING STABILITY\nMEETINGS\nPUBLIC IMAGE\nAPPENDIX – HELPFUL FORMS\nCONFLICTS DISCLOSURE FORM\nAGENDA SIGN-IN FORM\nMANDATORY EDUCATION NOTICE\nEXECUTIVE SESSION CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT\nSOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSUM\nINTRODUCTION\nEducating ourselves and creating a more stable local government should be the goal of all elected officials. With a more stable government, cities and towns can successfully meet the needs of the community. This handbook aims to help provide stability by compiling resources to assist in training your city council. By adopting a “best practices” resolution, your City can continue working toward stability.\nBEST PRACTICES RESOLUTION\nMany cities establish their own “best practices” policies, approved by resolution, to ensure their City sustains operational traditions that have worked.  Many of those best practices deal with public transparency, council accountability and engagement in the operations of the City, and staff responsibility. The “best practices” of the City can consist of the following topics:\nElected Official Accountability: The council shall ensure council accountability by:\nAttendance reporting to ensure other members and the public are aware of the attendance history of the elected officials.\nAn annual training event with staff to review ethics, finances, operations, and to address the expectations and goals of the city, including a self-assessment of the accomplishments and improvements needed by council and management to achieve the goals of the city.\nThe use of council committees dealing with topics as the council deems appropriate, including financial and project related oversight.\nThe use of well-defined purchasing policies of the city to ensure management and staff are clear concerning the purchasing policies and expectations of the city.\nThe implementation of the “transparency” policies adopted by council to make information about city government easily accessible to the public.\nA “Code of Conduct” of council that is reviewed annually by council and readily available for council reference.  (see section below concerning ethics)\nManagement and Staff Accountability: The council shall ensure management and staff accountability by:\nAn annual evaluation and review of the City Manager/Town Administrator to include input from the directors of the City and copies of the City Manager’s/Town Administrator’s W2 and reimbursements log for the evaluation ","cbCaib3lL3ujYpiV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib3lL3ujYpiV","docx",342301,41,"English","# Introduction\n## Best Practices Resolution\n## Forms of Government & Role of Elected Officials\n### Organization & Personnel\n## Meetings and the Open Meeting Act\n## Conflict of Interest, Ethics & Conduct\n## Public Trusts & Utility Authorities\n## Training & Building Stability\n## Meetings\n## Public Image\n# Appendix – Helpful Forms\n## Conflicts Disclosure Form\n## Agenda Sign-in Form\n## Mandatory Education Notice\n## Executive Session Confidentiality Agreement\n## Social Media Impressum","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Sample Best Practices Handbook?\",\"answer\":\"It serves as a generic model to help governing bodies compile resources for training and to develop a handbook that fits their municipality’s policies and needs.\"},{\"question\":\"What is a “best practices” resolution and what topics can it include?\",\"answer\":\"It is a resolution used by cities to approve best-practices policies for transparency, council accountability and engagement, and staff responsibility; it can include attendance reporting, training events, committee use, purchasing policies, and code of conduct review.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of forms are included in the handbook’s appendix?\",\"answer\":\"The appendix provides templates such as a Conflicts Disclosure Form, Agenda Sign-in Form, Mandatory Education Notice, Executive Session Confidentiality Agreement, and Social Media Impressum.\"}]","Best Practices Handbook - Sample | DOCX",1788329910]