Unfortunately, I'm probably only going to give you a partial answer for it, and that is that 20 years ago we didn't have the strong mayor form of government. The voters are the ones who voted for the strong mayor form of government Before we had city manager council form of government. which, which the city of Fresno is, is run much like the, the state of California. You know, the, the administration sets, can set the policy and, and then the legislature, which in our case, as the council can say, yay or nay. (47:54–47:59)
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