[oh_sigh]

What exactly do you do day to day as district councilor? Is your life mostly reacting to issues, or can you design/institute new programs/change?

[yholio]

I'm in the opposition and mostly react to proposals from the executive, the mayors' team, drafts of bills and projects. I can have legislative initiative but to impact meaningful change in a modern city you need to have a very well prepared and technical project.

So complex projects like what we discuss here will always be done though the executive, hey have the technical expertise and resources to plan it. They would do that only for projects that are likely to pass and have the mayors' support.