The Executive Mayor is the political head of the Municipality. The Structures Act defines an Executive Mayor as an elected in terms of section 55 of the Act. Only municipalities of the type that have a mayoral executive system may have an executive mayor. A Mayoral executive system is a system of municipal government which allows for the exercise of executive authority through an executive mayor in whom the executive leadership of the municipality is vested and who is assisted by a mayoral committee. The powers and functions of the Executive Mayor are set out in section 56 of the Structures Act. Functions of the Executive Mayor are illustrated below.
Section 56 (1) states that an executive mayor is entitled to receive reports from committees
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Section 56 (3) states that the executive mayor in performing the duties of office, must:
a) identify and develop criteria in terms of which progress in the implementation of the strategies, programmes and services can be evaluated, including key performance indicators which are specific to the municipality and common to local government in general
b) evaluate progress against the key performance indicators
c) review the performance of the municipality in order to improve the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the municipality, to improve the efficiency of credit control and revenue and debt collection services; and to improve the implementation of the municipality's by-laws.
d) monitor the management of the municipality's administration in accordance with the directions of the municipal
Section 47 – States that the local authority has a duty to investigate when ‘there is a reasonable
If there is a shift in the mayor staff, then this department will/might have to deal with a new mayor and his staff changing the terms of the agreement and negotiations for this contact could have to meet every four years.
elected separately from the council, and is often a full-time and paid position with a significant administrative and budgetary authority. This form of government, the elected City Council sets policies for the operation of the City. The City Council enacts Ordinances, the laws of the City, adopts Resolutions authorizing actions on behalf of the City, reviews plan for development, and establishes the policies by which the City is governed. The City Council consists of seven members a Mayor and two Councilmember 's elected citywide and four additional Councilmember 's elected by individual districts. The administrative responsibility of the City rests with the City Manager, who is appointed by the City Council upon recommendation of the Mayor. Each Councilmember is
The governing core of South San Francisco is the city council, which creates municipal laws and the overall policy, decides how to expend treasury, assigns members to all consultative local businesses and represents the city officially. The city council`s members are Richard A. Garbarino as a mayor, Mark N. Addiego as a vice mayor, Pradeep Gupta, Karyl Matsumoto and Liza Normandy.
A budget also provides the opportunity to analyze the recent performance of city government. San Clemente's performance measures section begins on page 257 with data on how the government in general fared in the previous year. In the ensuing pages, each department is similarly examined. For example, the output of the public works department is viewed through statistics such as the number of potholes repaired and the percentage of maintenance completed in a timely manner. Also listed are the target numbers for each performance measure set
Now the query that needs answering is what appropriate implementation that Anderson must play to secure the approval of an income tax package. What 's more, the mayor
held at the call of the mayor, there are 6 district commissioners. District Commissioner 1-
Financial emergency management stripped City Council of many powers and included state financial oversight. Another issue the City Council has recently contended with is the water crisis. City Council is charged with the authority to make investigations into the affairs and operations of city departments by city charter. Investigations into the recent water crisis has involved considerable council
Many concerns and objections have been filed in opposition to the Department of Health (which includes Social Services, Fire and Emergency Management, and Human Services) administrator by departments, citizens, and so on. The City Manager has contracted me regarding: unethical practices, unprofessional leadership, poor fire and emergency response time, unethical practices, insufficient customer and patient care, and much more concerning various governmental departments and external stakeholders. In regards to the latest questions of the City Manager a thorough search into the accusations will be put into play. Supplementary to the issues already being presented, the school board have made concerns to the capability to conduct daily transactions.The school board has a collaborative association with an assortment of government departments and they have levied department directors with non fulfillment to work together on a number of efforts that will be revealed later within this report. This report will provide an underlying support for the City Manager to discourse and perform leadership techniques that outline the actions that should be carried out in order to prevail over the previously mentioned complaints.
The County Mayor is responsible for the oversight of day-to-day operations of multiple departments including the Ambulance Service, Emergency Management, Animal Services, Risk Management, Recovery Court, Correctional Work Center, Youth Services, Solid Waste, Landfill, Information Technology, Building Codes, Planning, Engineering, Building Maintenance, Vehicle Maintenance, Domestic Violence, Fire & Rescue, Archives, and Community Learning. Conversely, the other elected officials are only responsible for the department they were elected to oversee. Further, each office may have additional tiers to support subdivisions of the office for example: Finance includes payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, audit, fixed assets, grants, and budgets.
The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively compare and contrast the implementation of two types of mayor-council government systems which are that of the weak-mayor type of the mayor council system and the strong-mayor type of the mayor council system. The premise of the analysis which has been conducted in this paper is based upon assessing the local governments of two cities within the United States – Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Minneapolis, Minnesota which follow the adoption of a strong-mayor system and weak-mayor system respectively.
There are numerous techniques the mayor can use to create effective teamwork among city employees one of which is an atmosphere of accountability and trust as a common goal. The American Management Association (2014) stated, “When people work together in a climate of trust and responsibility toward a common goal, they put aside turf issues and politics and focus on the tasks to be done. This
The meeting continued with the Joint Consent Calendar, the consent calendar is a grouping of routine matters to be acted on in one motion. There were six items considered and recommended actions taken anywhere from issues related to utilities to professional services. At the end of this presentation it was open to public hearing providing any concerned resident an opportunity to speak. This was followed by consent ordinances which city staff members began to speak about Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and its draft citizen participation plan for years 2015-2019. This was followed by an ordinance for the Civic Plaza which would limit the use of skateboards, bicycles, and leashed animals during special events held at this location. Following these issues the council would make a decision which would be placed on record for public view. New business was proposed where an approval of long ranged property management was projected, but they motioned to push this event forward to the next meeting due to the absence of a council member who was more familiar with the issue.
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.
Next, is administrative responsibility? Simply put this is a shared responsibility between public officials. Our officials need to determine a way in order lead without division of said responsibilities. This should be performed collectively and not just individually.