(A)How Often Does The City Council Overrule Your Proposals?.

There are many components to being a leader; a strong leader has to be able to clearly communicate, to intensely inspire others to collaborate in bringing the vision to fruition. James MacGregor Burns a leadership expert introduced the transformational leadership concept he suggested that “the transforming leader as one with the ability to create visions and employ charismatic behaviors, they are purposeful and seek to understand the motivation and needs of their followers (Crowell, 2016). Not only does a transformational leader have the ability to empower and motivate others “transformational leadership emphasizes the importance of interpersonal relationships, and the goal is to generate employee’s commitment to the vision or ideal rather than to themselves” (Sullivan & Decker, 2009). According to Smith, (2011) the ultimate goal of transformational leadership is the leader and the follower to discover meaning and purpose in relation to their work, in addition to growth and maturity. There are four I's of transformational leadership " individualized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation" (Riggio, 2014). The transformational leader causes changes in both the system and the individual. Creating positive and valuable changes in the followers with the result creating followers who will

On Monday, April 13th, 2009, I visited the Culver City city council meeting, and found that they operate using a council-manager form of government. For a city with a population of about 38,000, this type of governmental structure is fairly common, and I was not surprised to see it in action in a community where the median household income is around $56,000 a year. Culver City is also a culturally rich community with a 60 percent Caucasian population, and a quarter of the residents are either of African American or Asian decent. The mayor, D. Scott Malsin, is one of five members on the council, and his term as mayor is on a rotating basis. Having been to a Hermosa Beach city council meeting with a similar council-manager structure, I knew

One thing of significance that I learned about at the city council meeting was meeting procedure. When I first arrived a pre-meeting workshop about annexation was occurring. After the regular meeting began we started with the Pledge of Allegiance. Next roll call of the council members was taken. Dallas Center has five council members: Mike Kidd, David Bagby, Kurt Pion,. Following roll call was an action to approve the agenda, which was approved. Next up was public communications and concerns. I was surprised that each person only has two minutes to talk about all the issues they

Leaders need to recognize that certain motivators may not always be the best motivators. Considering that some motives may be complex, they are usually a result of some initiative that an individual may have brought about based on their personality or experience. One way to persuade followers or employees is to offer them financial incentives to increase output and profits. However, the consideration of financial incentives should also consider the leaders behavior on the employees which may have influenced the employees to increase output and profits. A transactional leader focuses on tasks and behaviors rather than relationships. Traits and behaviors influence effectiveness of the followers not necessarily the motivating factors associated with the task, such as financial (Derue, 2011). Values of the individual need to be considered when considering which motivators should be used.

The experience going to the council meeting was great and I would imagine that the items on the agenda had a great deal to do with that. The topics I found the most interesting revolved around public nudity, serving alcohol in public, spending grant money, a gun ordinance, and polling the public about being taxed. The agenda item revolving around public nudity took up most of the time. Currently, Eureka doesn't have a ordinance in place to give police authority to arrest citizens who are nude in public when it isn't a sexual act. The chief of police gave example of a person doing Tai Chi in a public park nude. The police were called and couldn't do anything short of asking him to put his clothes on. There was concern among a few council members

The mayor is weak, the city council is composed of numerous individuals, and the city manager is supposed to stay out of politics." Thus, council manager cities have a tendency to respond more to tip top and white collar class concerns than to those of the regular workers and ethnic minorities. The business first class and the white collar class have more organizations and leaders who have entry to city government and know how to function the system Just a minority of council-manager cities have mayors who routinely give strong political and strategy leadership. One of these exceptions is San Antonio, where mayors for the most part are strong leaders The council-manager form seems to function admirably in cities where most individuals are of the same ethnic gathering and social class and share regular goals. Obviously, couple of focal cities fit this description, yet numerous suburbs

The members on the board of supervisors and planning commission, all seemed to be in agreement with each other on most matters. On the other hand, I noticed great deal of discord amongst the Gulfport City Council members, particularly between Councilwoman Ella Holmes-Hines and Councilman F.B. ‘Rusty’ Walker, IV. They both voiced disparities regarding the pay rate amongst police officers and firefighters. Although they did disagree, at the end of the meeting, Councilman F.B. ‘Rusty’ Walker, IV, did clarify that even though they disagree, they collectively think of themselves as a team; this showed great strength and maturity to

Robert Dahl's Traditional Democratic Theory really does explain what is needed to make a healthy democracy. In this meeting, his theory was expressed by the lack of public participation which leads to the public not being in control. Attendance from the public is very important or else it is just a meeting between the council. I love my city, but I would not attend another meeting because the voice of the public is hardly heard so it wouldn't make that much of a difference. It was also very long, off schedule, and a little hard to understand everything the council was saying. That council meeting was my first and last meeting I attend. I did learn though how important it is for the public to speak up and be present if they want to have

Transparency in leadership practices is important due to the increase in corruption amongst governmental official. An incident in which recently took place with Mayor Bowser includes her new plans to shut down a previous homeless shelter at DC General within a certain timeline. Individuals would then transfer to new housing in which Mayor Bowser found private property in which the city would pay for this transitional housing from its budget. Council members became suspicious when Mayor Bowser would not discuss how the property and zoning permits were acquired, but the private owners of the property were known as large contributors to her campaign. These types of practices cause suspicion and speculation of leaders, especially in a city which deems such a corrupt history from Mayor Barry and Mayor Fenty. According to Arzumanyan, leadership requires “publicity and openness of the leader and his or her team” (Arzumanyan, 2016). Within transparency and openness of the political agenda of members of the DC Counsel, there will be a regained sense of trust amongst citizens and officials.

The 150 residents of Babcock Place are senior citizens who have gone to the city council to request that a crosswalk of Constitution Avenue. Constitution Avenue is a four lane thoroughfare that leads to the downtown district. The council asked the city planning department to send out an engineer to determine if there was truly a need for a crosswalk. The engineer determined that there was no need for a crosswalk, which upset the residents of Babcock Place along with the Neighborhood Association that supported the residents. The council members were left to determine what measures should be taken next, if any. This paper will look at how the residents of Babcock Place and the city planning department can have influence over the city council’s decision. Also, the paper will address how a public manager’s morals and values can have a direct influence over their decision making process.

Excellence of an organizational leadership determines how well an organization is doing. Effective leadership is influencing the behavior of individuals and groups in positive way to work towards a predefined organizational goal (Baack, 2012). An effective leader creates vision for the organization and effectively communicates with employees to set the organizational direction for growth, align the structure of the organization to meet the goals, and define organizational culture where employees can perform and grow along with the organization. Effective leaders create organizational strategies to inspire and motivate employees to achieve organizational goals and vision. There are many leadership theories evolved in organizational behavior over time. Some of the examples for leadership theories include great man theories, trait theory, behavioral theories, situational leadership, contingency theories, transactional leadership, transformational leadership and charismatic leadership.

As a public administrator, I learned the importance of showing people that you are serving that you care. For example, when the Vice Mayor took his time greet everyone that came for the meeting, it showed me that he was a career leader. Other commissioners were already at their seats. Also, I learned that it is important to do what you think it is important for the people that you are serving. For example, Commissioner Landman did not vote “yes” because she did not have enough time to review the proposal presented. I really admired this decision. I believe it is important to fully know the pros/cons of a proposal because voting on it, especially when you are a public servant. This goes along with what author Jered B. Carr (2015) mention about the responsibility of a public official, “Responsibility to the entire council is an essential characteristic of the council-manager form and helps to ensure both transparency and a focus on the public interest rather than the political interests of a single elected official,” (p. 674). Furthermore, I learned that it is important to recognize employees who are committed to their work. By giving awarding the employees during the meeting, I believe that their PSM will

In conclusion, Mayor Miller will have to make a wise decision on whether to sustain Steelers plan or recreate a new plan to help the city of Stoughton. The mayor might have to cut back from the list of capital expenses. Due to the various complex task from the project, the mayor have to view the pros and cons when making the decision. A decision to whether build a new city hall will need to be considered. The city is in debt and need recovery.

For over a year, the Mayor did read guidelines for speakers, trying to bring some order to meetings that had become dominated by 12-15 U City residents who are intent on voicing ugliness and hate, discouraging and frightening some people from even attending the meetings. No Councilmember ever opposed those guidelines, and no member of the public spoke out against them. The Mayor stopped reading those guidelines at the request of Councilmember Glickert, who asked that the Council discuss the rules in a study session.

I chose to attend a city council meeting for this assignment and was very surprised at what I witnessed. The city council served an important purpose and the meeting actually accomplished many important goals. Among the interesting things that I saw at the council meeting were the people who attended, the people who presented, the people who sat on the council, and the subjects that were being voted upon in the meeting.