POLS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: John Maynard Keynes, Consumerism, Unintended Consequences
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Used for smaller cities like glendale, burbank, pasadena. Council is typically a five member council board. Part time job, 25/30 hours a week, elected, executive and legislative branches. Mayor puts together the agenda for meetings and runs the weekly council meetings, whoever has the gavel. Pasadena mayor goes down rose parade every year. Full time job, run the day to day operations of the city, neither executive or legislative. Make sure theres law enforcement, emergency services, streets are paved, trash, maintenance, libraries. Manager is hired by the city council. Mayor is not a member of city council. Typically a five member council, but la is bigger. La has 15 people on their council and uses this sytem, largest city council in the country. Want all the power to go to the council not mayor, weak mayor system, council legislative, mayor is effective. Each has its own county board of supervisors, elected.
