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Six Mayors Talk About Their Cities’ Accomplishments and Challenges
The American mayors who convened in Providence, R.I., at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 77th Annual Meeting in June discussed stimulus infrastructure spending, ex-offender reentry, vacant properties and a host of other issues. Jess Zimbabwe, executive director of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, sat down with six of them: Steve Bellone, serving his third term as town supervisor of Babylon, N.Y.; Lois Frankel, the second-term mayor of West Palm Beach, Fla.; Mark Funkhouser of Kansas City, Mo., who decided to run for mayor because he believed that the city government was unfairly favoring downtown developers; Brenda Lawrence, the first African-American and first woman mayor of Southfield, Mich.; Mayor Mark Mallory, who took office in Cincinnati in 2005 and gained acclaim for commissioning a study that showed that Cincinnati’s population was drastically undercounted in the 2000 Census; and Mark Stodola, the first-term mayor of Little Rock, Ark.
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