He has control over the whole Liverpool City Region
combined authority area and works with existing city leaders and the mayor to take forward their strategic plan.
Once in place, the metro mayor will have control over the whole Sheffield City Region
combined authority area.
A metro mayor is the chair of a combined authority that has agreed to a Devolution Deal and is voted in by the electorate in
the combined authority area.
Postscript — I feel compelled to add something to this post as a result of the announcement about a metro mayor for Greater Manchester (3-11-14) based around
the Combined Authority area of 10 local councils.
Next month will mark the first anniversary of directly elected mayors covering
combined authority areas.
Not exact matches
In May 2017 a number of
areas elected a metro mayor (or
combined authority mayor) for the first time.
Two equally vulnerable
areas in the North are also progressing
Combined Authority status.
«We have so many
authorities, commissions and agencies running around, one has to believe that
combining, consolidating and streamlining has to provide some benefit,» said Lopez, whose district spans the Hudson River in the
area of the Rip Van Winkle.
Working in concert with LEPs, the
combined authorities would tackle the chronic problems of poor skills, infrastructure and economic development across a wider
area than local government can currently address.
Their responsibilities differ, but the website for the Sheffield City Region
combined authority says the new mayor will «be an ambassador for the
area; promoting it as a place to live, work, visit and invest in.»
We then
combine ACS data with data from local sources (violent crime incidents from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the number of Metrobus and Metrorail stations from Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit
Authority (WMATA), and the number of Circulator bus stops from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT)-RRB-.
Lower flexibility reserves needed in all balancing
authority areas is also saving costs by «aggregating the load, wind, and solar variability and forecast errors of the
combined EIM footprint.»
The London Borough of Croydon formed the view that the borough was «experiencing a significant and persistent problem caused by anti-social behaviour; that some or all of the private sector landlords who have let premises in the
area (whether under leases or licences) are failing to take action to combat the problem that it would be appropriate for them to take; and that making a designation will, when
combined with other measures taken in the
area by the local housing
authority, or by other persons together with the local housing
authority, lead to a reduction in, or the elimination of, the problem»: section 80 (6) of the 2004 Act.