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Date Posted: Wednesday, April08, 10:51:pm
Author: Voter
Subject: Re: a must read (part 2)
In reply to: exposed 's message, "a must read (part 2)" on Friday, March27, 08:55:am

Two things can be true at the same time. Yes the council-manager form has produced results that are counter to those permitted to rise in power within it believe, but also the qualifiers and abilities of the elected officials to act in any managerial capacity is blatantly absent in all seven members that currently sit in those positions. (And the argument fails to acknowledge that there have been many other substantial contributing factors to those decisions than a simple analysis of a arms length manager.) That our form of government fails to require some kind of prerequisites for those elected officials completely annihilates there being any better/more representative results from a mayor/city council structure.

It's a little naive to believe that elections(aka popularity contests) would yield people who cared more about the city's future and the will of the populace than a hired city manager who lived here and is genuinely invested. There are 2 city managers in the last 30 years that met that threshold and they were both run out- one for political reasons for opposing turning our waterfront into a garbage transfer station for NYC and the other because of his own personal peccadilloes. What that also reflects is the weakness of the elected officials who win the popularity contest concisely because there's a contradiction between a slate of successfully electable candidates and those who have the confidence and awareness of the responsibilities of the office.

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