Why have an appointed City Manager to manage city operations instead of an elected Mayor?

A full-time City Manager would have the education and experience required to administer the city’s operations.  The City Manager would have expertise in managing departments and preparing budgets. A professional manager who understands how to motivate and evaluate staff would make the city more responsive to the citizens and would better enable us to hire and retain highly qualified people.  

An elected Mayor may or may not know how to manage a complex organization or even be interested in overseeing day-to-day operations of the city. Mayors are elected based on their ideas and visions rather than their administrative skills.

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1. Why have an appointed City Manager to manage city operations instead of an elected Mayor?
2. How is this system better than the current structure, in which we have an elected Mayor and a Chief of Staff?
3. Does this system weaken the power of the voters?
4. Will this cost the taxpayers more money?
5. How will the new role of the Mayor be different from the current role?
6. How common is the City Manager role?
7. How will the City Manager be evaluated?
8. How will the City Manager be removed?
9. Will there be a Deputy or Assistant City Manager?
10. How will this change happen?