Conversation on the Primary Role of City Council.

Let's start this conversation from recolections of a face to face conversation with Joe and Aker present.  Joe stated something like this that the primary role of council was to direct administration to work for the good of the community.  Jeff and others in the group commented that the opposite was happening.  Citizen concerns were being refered to adminitration to handle, rather than council listening to citizens and others concerned in the matter and direting council to resolve the issue.  Now over to you.  Make a comment on what you think the primary role of council should be. See Dan Saunders on