A mayor speech, like a State of the City address, is a platform for your chief executive officer to highlight their priorities and vision. It is a chance for your city to showcase its achievements, and to outline its challenges for the year ahead. It also demonstrates the leadership of your mayor, and the city council.
The term “mayor” shares a linguistic origin with the military rank major, both ultimately derived from French majeure, which itself is the comparative form of the Latin magnus, meaning great. Mayors are elected to office by a majority vote of their city council constituents at a local government election. Mayors often carry some authority between meetings and may make decisions without consulting with the council. However, decisions made by mayors are subject to council scrutiny. The mayor also carries ceremonial duties for the city, and is entitled to use a mace, robes, and a chain of office.
In his State of the City address, New York City Mayor Eric Adams outlined an ambitious vision for working-class New Yorkers. This included making the country’s safest big city even safer and expanding his signature education initiatives – including ‘NYC Reads’, ‘NYC Solves’ and the new Division of Inclusive and Accessible Learning’. He also called on financial institutions, from banks to credit unions and philanthropic organizations, to join him in supporting young people with the skills they need to thrive in our economy. He also discussed the need to increase public safety funding.