REMARKS
Suggestions for restraining mayoral power and increasing council oversight
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Professor Lane offers suggestions for restraining mayoral power and increasing council oversight through various means.
- Emphasizes the need to examine mayoral power and how the council can play a role in restraining it
- Suggests using transparency and other means to limit mayoral discretion
- Recommends the council take a more active role in overseeing mayoral actions
Ben Weinberg
0:49:25
I mean,
Professor Eric Lane
0:49:25
I'd I you'd I think one of the major questions is Merrill Power and how the council or maybe other elected officials can play a role in through transparency and other means of of restraining the mayor's a mayor's, not the mayor's, but a mayor's screening of mayors overly quick acts of what they would call discretion and and limiting some of that discretion.
0:49:56
You know?
0:49:57
I that's a long answer to your question.
0:49:59
So I think, yes.
