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CITY OF DUBLIN
AGENDA STATEMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: April 24, 1995
SUBJECT:
Municipal Dispute Resolution Consulting Services
(Prepared by: Richard C. Ambrose, City Manager)
EXHIBITS ATTACHED:
Resume of Dr. David Stiebel
RECOMMENDATION:
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.1. Authorize Mayor Houston, Councilmember Moffatt and
City Manager Ambrose to participate in an effort
to identify issues in common with the City of
Pleasanton and the Dublin San Ramon Services
District
2. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement
with David Stiebel for mediation services. This
authorization would be contingent upon the City of
Pleasanton and the Dublin San Ramon Services
District also participating in the agreement.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: The extent of services required by Dr. Stiebel is
undetermined at this time; however, the Liaison
Committees from Dublin/Pleasanton and Dublin San
Ramon Services District are recommending that each
agency authorize up to $2500 in consulting services,
initially. There are sufficient funds in the City
Council budget to fund this work.
DESCRIPTION: The City of Dublin's Liaison Committee with the City
of Pleasanton has been meeting to discuss issues of common concern to both
agencies. In that a number of these issues also involve the Dublin San
Ramon Services District, both liaison committees invited representatives
from the Dublin San Ramon Services District to participate in the
Pleasanton/Dublin Liaison Committee discussions.
With the hope of improving the relationships between the respective
agencies as well as clarifying and hopefully resolving some of the
historical issues between Pleasanton and Dublin and the Dublin San Ramon
Services District, the Liaison Committee participants are recommending that
the cities authorize the engagement of a consultant who is experienced in
mediating and assisting public agencies in resolving mutual concerns.
Representatives from the three agencies have met with Dr. David Stiebel, an
experienced municipal dispute resolution consultant, who has had
considerable experience in working with agencies with similar issues.
Since the amount of services required from Dr. Stiebel are unknown, it was
agreed that the Liaison Committees would recommend that each agency
authorize up to $2500 for consulting services and evaluate the progress of
the consultant and the three agencies once that threshold has been reached.
Any further work would need to be reauthorized by each agency.
It is the recommendation of the Council Liaison Committee to Pleasanton and
the City Manager that the Council authorize participation in this effort as
well as authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement with Dr.
Stiebel not to exceed $2500" contingent upon the participation of the
Dublin San Ramon Services District and the City of Pleasanton.
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DA VID STIEBEL, Ph.D.
Municipal Dispure Resolution
171 OAK MANOR DRIVE
FAIRFAX, CALIFORNIA 94930
4 1 5 . 4 5 7 - 3 2 1 31 Fax: 4 1 5 . 45 7.96 1 7
Dr. David SH~l, in the words of The Alameda Newspaper Group, is
"an acknowledged wizard at settling local feuds."
As The Business Journal said, he is II an expert in
negotiation strategies"--a nationally acclaimed specialist in
municipal dispute resolution.
A negotiator and mediator, Dr. stiebel has taught at 15
universities, including ue Berkeley and UCLA.
His peers elected him (twice) president of the Society of
Professionals in Dispute Resolution in San Francisco.
Recent Experience
Dr. Stiebel has worked on deadlocks over interagency feuds,
budget battles, tax-sharing, interdepartmental fights, land use,
labor issues, NIMBYs, permitting, redevelopment, annexations,
council-staff friction, and EMF.
Dr. Stiebel has consulted to the US Department of Labor, to
teach labor and management how they can negotiate more
effectively to prevent work stoppages.
Dr. Stiebel has addressed conferences of the American
Society for Public Administration (national and California
chapters), Association of Bay Area Governments (seven times),
Building Industry Association (twice), California Municipal
utilities Association, California Special Districts Association,
International City/County Management Association, and League of
California Cities (seven times).
At UCLA, in the first known study on whether teaching
negotiation produces measurable results, Dr. stiebel increased
negotiation performance scores 98%.
publications
Dr. Stiebel has been quoted and his analyses printed in over 40
publications, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco
Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Public Management;, Western
City, American City & County, Municipal Attorney, The Chief of
police, City & State, and the publications of leagues of cities
in nine states.
He is the author or contributing author of three books,
including Resolving Municipal Disputes: When Talking Makes
Things Worse, Someone Won 't Negotiate, There's Nd Trust published
by the Association of Bay Area Governments and Resolving Conflict
published by the International City/County Management
Association.
Dr. Stiebel has also produced a League of California Cities
audiocassette program on municipal dispute resolution.