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Sunday, April 10, 2011

What is the the Mayor's Role?

Ottawa Citizen Randall Denley argues that the Mayor "should publicly defend tough choices on transit and garbage cuts" (Full story).



Is the Mayor's job to rubber-stamp staff recommendations at face value or is to challenge them to innovate service delivery—find ways to maintain or improve services and deliver them at lower cost (using benchmarking and proven process improvement methodologies)? 


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The job of Council is to set priorities and ensure the City is doing the right things. In short, it is supposed to lead.

The job of senior staff is ensuring the rights things are done right. Their job is to manage projects, operations, and improve service delivery.

The Mayor oversees both and steps is one the rights things don't appear to be managed right way, as any good CEO would.