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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Sounds like the same thing to me albeit from a slightly more neutral angle. It's a bad idea regardless of who's idea it is and it's something that previous mayors all had to deal with so I'm not exactly sure what makes Nenshi special that he can't chair the meetings. Bell simply goes into it deeper rationalizing why Nenshi is struggling with chairing the meetings and it's pretty clear Nenshi supporters struggle with his shortcomings being brought up.
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I'm not struggling with it at all.
I'm sure most of us have worked in the corporate world. We all know people that absolutely cannot run meetings. They could be a brilliant engineer or manager and command respect for the work that they do, but man are they ever hopeless at meetings. A one hour meeting drones on to three different sessions, and still no work gets done at the meetings. Most of the work ends up happening outside of the meetings (wasting even more time) via e-mails or other one on one communication.
If companies had better people to run meetings, then the people actually doing the work can get more done. Issues that need to be discussed offline get parked appropriately, when an issue has been beaten to death someone can tell people to move on (without partisanship). It seems like a great idea to me.
Nenshi is "special" because he's a part of the first council that's actually seen that council could be improved. I would argue that a lot of past councils were completely ineffective and got nothing done, but just because they didn't try to fix the problem doesn't mean that they were actually effective - it means they were ignorant.