From the LA Times:
Mark Petracca, associate professor of political science at UC Irvine, said California mayors almost always have the authority to set a city council's agenda. "It's one of the very few explicit powers that they have, normally specified in city code. It would be highly, highly unusual to take that authority away from a mayor," he said in an email.

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