All that makes you understand perhaps why Amy never ran for mayor. So take, for example, those pledges to improve the school system. Education is not a city function; it's a state function, says Barry Clegg, chair of the Minneapolis Charter Commission. All the mayor can do is advocate..
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Weak mayor-council. In a weak mayor-council government, the executive authority of the mayor is less expansive and more power is shared with the council. City council appoints and approves departmental heads. City council (usually in consultation with the mayor or an appointed administrative officer) drafts a budget.
https://ballotpedia.org/Mayor-council_government
In the twenty-first century, the strong mayor-council system and reformed versions of the weak mayor-council system remain mildly popular forms of municipal government, especially amongst cities with populations below 10,000 and over 500,000.
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Weak mayor-council. In a weak mayor-council government, the executive authority of the mayor is less expansive and more power is shared with the council. The general characteristics of the mayor-council governments are as follows: City council appoints and approves departmental heads.
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In the council-mayor system, the strength is that you have an elected central authority. This allows one person to be responsible to the people for the whole city government. The main problem with this system is that you can have a mayor who is elected for his or her political acumen but who is a terrible manager.
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The Minneapolis mayor appoints the chief of police and a majority of the members of the city's commissions, but only with the council's consent. Legally, the city council, with its combination of legislative and administrative powers overshadows the Minneapolis mayor.
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strong mayor system -- person who does most of the work at his/her discretion while mayor does ceremonial crap -- only responsible to mayor not council UNLIKE CITY MANAGER. weakness of the strong mayor system. the mayor has to be good at his job and there can be conflict between council and mayor.
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Most strong mayors are in the mayor-council form of government, and are directly elected by citizens to that office. Most weak mayors are mayors in a council-manager form, and are elected from within the city council. Characteristics of a strong mayor:
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Characteristics of a weak mayor: 1  The council is powerful, with both legislative and executive authority. 2  The mayor is not truly the chief executive, with limited power or no veto power. 3  The council can prevent the mayor from effectively supervising city administration.
http://www.nlc.org/mayoral-powers
In this form, one commission... The three main types of city governments are council-mayor (which can come with a strong mayor or with a weak mayor), council-manager, and commission (though very few cities actually have commission forms of government). Each of these has strengths and weaknesses.
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weak mayor system
The weak mayor system refers to the executive authority of the mayor that is less expansive and more power is shared with the council.  Weak mayor system means the executive authority of the mayor is less expansive and more power is shared with the council.