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To remedy these issues, McGovern says that the School Committee should have a vote in the selection of the mayor, or it should choose a chair from any of its seven members in a selection process independent of the vote for mayor.
But Simmons reinforces the importance of the acting mayor as a fallback position. The role is always filled by the senior member of the Council—Reeves, in this year’s case.
This year was not unique in the difficulty of its mayoral election process. Since Cambridge adopted its current form of government in 1940, many of the biannual deliberations that have chosen new mayors for the city have been similarly tortuous.
In 1948, unlike this year, councillors took scores of votes each time they met, hoping to resolve the selection process as efficiently as possible. Despite these efforts, the election of Mayor Michael J. Neville required over four months and more than 1,300 ballots.
More recently, in 2000, councillors came to their decision in a six-and-a-half hour meeting on the night of Valentine’s Day, after a six-week impasse.