The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it!
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
QUESTION – Do you think the citizens in the area should be able to elect a Mayor, or do you think the Mayor should be appointed by the council?
Talk about it….
By the people, but would it really matter? The majority of the people that would vote for the mayor, are probably the same people that reelected Gavin Newsom, and Diana Becton.
Either way, all you get out here are liberals.
They should be elected by the people. If they are not elected by the people, probably don’t have the peoples best interests at heart.
HUMMmmmmm depends on the city charter type thing…
Some have chosen an elected mayor for that city’s form of government.
Some places the Mayor is an honorary rotation thing within the council…
I don’t have a preference. If the local government is failing us….. VOTE THEM OUT !
Mayorship should rotate thru the city council members.
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That’s the way Walnut Creek does it and IT WORKS GREAT.
You’re being Sarcastic …. right?!?
Neither. Amoung council members, the office of Mayor should be decided in a live stream mud-wresting match.
The area has outgrown its folksy, local City Council model. Even tiny Clayton elected a Mayor starting out. It is a model that served the community well for many years. Concord is in the throws of big-city issues and needs the authority, the energy, and the dynamic afforded an elected Mayor.
By the people – every 2 to 3 yrs, and abolishing the mayor pro-tem configuration… it adds and substantiates the “buddy culture”
No problem electing a mayor but only if there are term limits on the office. If we really wanted to make it interesting, we could also require candidates to resign from current elected or appointed positions, including from the City Council, to be eligible to run for mayor.
By the people.
I’ve said the Mayor should be elected by the people in Concord for years.
Sacramento had an option in the seventies of whether they voted for a strong mayor or a strong city manager. That seemed to have worked in the seventies.
Concord is the first city I have lived in that rotates the mayorship among council members.
Either way, the mayor should be elected by the people in my opinion.