My focus is on the United States. I’m sure the job can be very different depending on the city but I realized recently that I don’t even know a general description of the job which bothered me. I’ve tried checking out my cities website and found nothing, google searches were mostly useless, even conversations with people who were in local politics didn’t clarify anything. It’s unclear why this information isn’t more readily available for most local political offices.
I know that someone has the answers and I’m hoping that my lack of progress is just a result of my bad searches or clunky conversation skills.
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A mayor is the chief elected official of a city. He is in charge of all the departments, like utilities, police and streets.
He is elected, usually every 4 years. The mayor is in charge of the city council. The CC is made up of representatives of different areas of the city or town. The city council proposes and passes ordinances and taxes. It varies by town, but the mayor is either the tie breaker or a voting member of the council.
A city or town manager is the non elected version of the mayor and gets more into the day to day issues, whereas the mayor will be more political and focused on the macro.
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