CHARTER PANEL CALLS FOR MAYORAL POWER.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Los Angeles' elected Charter Reform Commission recommended tentatively ten·ta·tive adj. 1. Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional: tentative plans. 2. Uncertain; hesitant. Monday Monday: see week. to expand the mayor's powers to administer To give an oath, as to administer the oath of office to the president at the inauguration. To direct the transactions of business or government. Immigration laws are administered largely by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. the city, including giving the mayor sole power to fire city managers and to limit the City Council to legislative matters. The first proposals to be voted on by the 15-member panel go to the heart of complaints that there is no one person who can be held accountable for running city operations. Commission Chairman Erwin Chemerinsky Erwin Chemerinsky (born 1953) is a well-known professor of Constitutional law and federal civil procedure, has recently accepted a position at the University of California, Irvine, in the new Donald Bren School of Law, beginning in 2009. said the panel's initial vote on what to put before city voters next year, which can be changed based on public input in the coming months, involves the backbone of a new City Charter - the balance of powers. ``The philosophy of the (new) charter is that the mayor has executive authority and the City Council has legislative authority,'' Chemerinsky said. The panel recommended that the mayor's authority over administration be increased so that department managers report to and can be fired by the mayor. Managers often feel they must report to all of the City Council members, as well as the mayor and their commission. The council ``should not be involved in the day-to-day day-to-day adj. 1. Occurring on a routine or daily basis: the day-to-day movements of the stock market. 2. administrative matters,'' the commission agreed on an 11-3 vote. The commission tentatively voted to support expanding the 15-member City Council to 17 to 21 lawmakers. The commission also voted to give the mayor flexibility to organize departments and duties. The commission tentatively supported the creation of a Department of Finance to take over treasury, debt management and revenue collection. Those areas would then be more squarely square·ly adv. 1. Mathematics At right angles: sawed the beam squarely. 2. In a square shape. 3. under the control of the mayor. In addition, the commission agreed to retain an elected city controller but could not agree on whether the office should retain the accounting duties. |
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