Aides to Mayor Bill de Blasio were in touch with leaders of the City Council as they decided which members would be awarded coveted committee assignments, a councilman acknowledged on Wednesday. (politico.com)
But Joseph Chamberlain in the 1870s Birmingham City Council and Herbert Morrison in the 1930s London County Council were not directly - elected, nor in the 1980s were Shirley Porter leader of the City of Westminster and Ken Livingstone leader of the Greater London Council, and yet they were highly visible leaders in their localities. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things. (wxxinews.org)