PPA 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rob Ford, Mel Lastman, Richard Branson
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The elected officials or the communities the officials represented. The public library system was requested by people, is an example of an expansion of a municipality to deliver services. Collection policy was set up by civil service. Operating budget reflected the wages of the people that offered service. Development of special personal bodies: individuals that sat on special boards. These citizens were able to oversee what these politicians were doing, problematic because they would just followed the politician"s ideal just so he or she can be elected onto the board. Increase in population, and growth of services that are needed mean city councillors are under scrutiny to deliver these services. Problem have been for councillors to represent these many and vary problems. Hard to organize council to speak about problems that aren"t tenacious. Harder for individual constituents to bring up issues versus an organized group that can bring up their issue. Politicians get antsy about complaints from their constituents .