Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long’s performance review is delayed until January.

It’s been two years since City Council conducted a performance review. The city charter requires an annual “performance and salary review” although it doesn't lay out a process or timeline.

Council member Mark Jeffreys and five others signed on to a motion filed Nov. 12 that would have initiated the process.

“It’s our job,” Jeffreys said Tuesday, adding Council should ask detailed questions and set goals.

The motion outlined a timeline: a “self evaluation” presentation on Dec. 8, discussion in committee on Dec. 15, and final deliberation on Jan. 12 with the public release of Council’s findings.

According to the Clerk of Council’s office, that motion was not referred to committee “at the request of the m

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