strong mayor
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Aurora clerk evaluates ‘strong mayor’ petition, other charter amendments advance
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The city clerk in Aurora will soon begin assessing whether an initiative to instate a strong mayor system in the city has secured enough petition signatures to put a question on the November ballot. The move requires amending the city charter, which must get voter approval. Meanwhile, voters will likely decide on three other charter…
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PERSPECTIVE: A fight to lead our cities: Councils and mayors battle for control
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Denver City Council members increasingly exude hostility toward a longstanding system that authorizes an elected “strong mayor” – now Democratic Mayor Michael Hancock – to run the city’s day-to-day operations. The council serves in a traditional legislative role, never hiring or firing key staff members or telling them how to do their jobs. The push…
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Blink and you’ll miss all the hats flying into the ring in Pueblo’s mayoral race
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Seems like just yesterday that Hot Sheet noted a sixth candidate had joined in the running for mayor in Pueblo, whose voters restored the position last fall after having gone without an elected chief exec since the 1950s. Good thing the Pueblo Chieftain’s Ryan Severance is keeping on top of things. Two more contenders are…
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Pueblo’s mayoral race has just begun — and there’s already a winner
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…Lori Winner, that is. Make that Lori Lively Winner, which is what she goes by on Twitter. The community activist and former Pueblo City Council member – she’s also a nurse and a pilates/yoga instructor – became the sixth Puebloan last week to enter the running for that city’s newly resurrected post of mayor. You’ll…
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UPDATE: Pueblo’s first mayoral race is drawing more takers
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Never mind, for the moment, how Pueblo got along all these years without a mayor. What Hot Sheet would like to know is how the Steel City’s local news outlets were able to go generations without a dog-eat-dog mayoral race to cover; a mayoral scandal to titillate the public – or a mayor to blame…
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The Steel City at long last gets a mayor — and a higher profile?
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It’s the original metropolis of southern Colorado, the gateway to the lower Arkansas Valley, and it can boast a number of things other cities in the state don’t have. A steel mill. A bona fide riverwalk, as well. And, arguably, the best homegrown chiles anywhere. (Take that, Hatch, N.M.!) Yet, for a city that has…
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Colorado Springs’ Suthers: Pueblo’s template for ‘strong mayor’?
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Puebloans are being asked on the Nov. 7 local ballot whether they want to elect a “strong mayor” to serve as their city’s chief exec. A city manager runs City Hall right now with the oversight of only the city council. As voters ponder the proposal, some observers are saying the city need look no…
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‘Strong’ mayor? ‘Weak’ mayor? Pueblo asks: How about any mayor?
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For a long time Denver and, much more recently, Colorado Springs have been the only cities in the state with what municipal-government wonks call a “strong mayor” form of government. That’s where the mayor serves as the city’s full-time, hands-on chief executive, appointing department heads, running day-to-day operations and generally presiding over a separate branch…
