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Renard Johnson: “Voters decided over two decades ago to move to a city…”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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Explaining the El Paso City Manager Hiring Issues

Published | Video Starts at 00:27

Your city manager is responsible for making major decisions about economic development, implementation of programs and day to day operations. It's an incredibly important role. We have a city manager because Voters decided over two decades ago to move to a city manager style of government. The intention was to give the city more stability and continuity instead of giving total power to a city council and mayor. That frequently changed. (00:27–00:33)

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Asserts that the city manager style of government was decided by voters over two decades ago.

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