There are some council members who function on a belief system rather than a rational decision process. If they believe there are too many employees, no amount of data will influence their belief and their resulting decision. Sidewalk engineers rarely have the full financial and resource capacity issues to grapple with when informing the council member of the problems. They also rarely see the full picture of plans for achieving the goal.
Trust is a resource that is very important in the council-manager relationship and it can become hard to maintain when the lines between policy determination and policy implementation become blurred.
The elected and appointed officials in our community who can listen to all the participants while analyzing the past as they contemplate the future and make decisions based on a balanced system of scientific rationalism will become the leaders or groups of leaders regardless of position or organization.
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