Why do cities have mayors and councils?
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Why do cities have mayors and councils?
Imagine your town woke up tomorrow with nobody in charge. The streetlights are broken. There's a giant pothole on Maple Street. Someone wants to build a noisy factory next to the park, and someone else wants to turn the library into a pizza restaurant. Who decides? Who fixes things? Who says yes or no?
That's why cities have mayors and councils — they're the people we hire to run the city like you'd run a household, except the household has thousands or millions of people. The mayor is like the household manager: the one person responsible for keeping everything running. The council is like a team of advisors who make the big decisions together by voting.
