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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The mayor is the chief executive officer of the city’s government, as it were.
It’s traditional in US governments to break down responsibilities between legislature, judicial, and executive. Legislature and judicial branches don’t have a “top boss”, due to their nature, but the executive branch does.
All of a city’s services answer to the mayor. The mayor’s job is to make sure that the laws are enforced, the taxes are collected, the garbage is collected, the streets are maintained, etc.
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