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1 <br />the goals were met. Great opportunity for me to get to know other employees and <br />their responsibilities what they do and how it applies to me. I would like to see <br />more time between sessions. I feel this year things were a little rushed not enough <br />time for questions. Because I did not have the opportunity to be in these <br />particular trainings, I cannot comment. It was a nice change of pace and I did <br />learn some interesting things but I don't see how it effects my service to the <br />public. Public Works Day gets some heat every year as "a waste of money" and for <br />how the expense is calculated - I wonder how the public might perceive our Training <br />Day with so little actual training being done? Separate training day from lunch. <br />Any additional suggestions /comments <br />Employees need to be seated and not standing in back talking that disrupts everybody <br />else. Some employees are very rude with their gabbing. Get more employee involved <br />with organizing event. Video equipment needs to be repaired so it works. It was <br />good to see staff from outside Roosevelt yard be participants especially facilities <br />and community centers. The event should continue to focus on work activities and <br />not move towards other things. Some minor activities that benefit the community <br />such as adopt -a- family are probably ok. Make the festive aspects of the day <br />memorable. Utilize the talents of PW personnel, have a party. There are singers, <br />musicians, actors, magicians and other assorted clowns working for PW. Talk to the <br />recreation people they know how to party. Even P.S. has a choir. Do it a night, <br />have a no host bar and hire a band if necessary. The is no better way to build <br />esprit de corp then socializing. Lets have Santa Claus and live music. Maybe <br />someone could play guitar or something w/a little more holiday spirit. Last hour <br />could be free time to wonder from crew room to crew room. Crews could be encouraged <br />to bring in desserts for this time. Would encourage team building. It would be <br />nice to see other dept like fire and police, medics, K -9 dogs, drug sniffing dog, <br />Inet, detectives. Why not use this opportunity to introduce "new employees" to the <br />rest of the people in the division? Perhaps mix crews the one or two days prior to <br />training day- debrief in crew meetings; or round -robin schedule. Something to <br />actually have crews interact. Garage in back worked out very well. Sound systems in <br />large conf. room was poor. The food was great! Such a meeting does serve to <br />further infuse the sense of festivity and appreciation. Ig the objective is more to <br />promote "brotherhood" among the ranks, a midsummer, warn - weather gathering would not <br />require the use of facilities designed for other uses. I would like to thank all <br />those who made this day possible. Well done! The committee on a job well <br />coordinated. I would repeat, we may want to discontinue the event around the <br />holiday season and consider doing something later. I always thought a good time <br />would be to roll the event in with the safety awards ceremony and kill two birds <br />with one stone. How about doing g both in February 1995 and still doing the Feb <br />1994 safety awards. Request those that will not participate by choice to get <br />involved with the days events. Great program. Many organizations around town either <br />appeared on tv with a christmas message or in the newspaper - why City of E not. My <br />biggest complaint is around the food - I don't know if the per person charge wasn't <br />enough or if we under estimated the amount people would eat, but when I pay I expect <br />there to be some food for everyone. Hand out door prize raffle tickets in advance - <br />people had to stand outside for quite awhile to sign up for door prizes. <br />