The first time Bill Edgar walked into Joe Serna Jr.’s office, the late Sacramento mayor told Edgar how things were going to work.
“I’m going to be the mayor, the leader of the people and you’re going to run the government,” Edgar recalled Serna telling him. Edgar, who is now 86, began serving as Sacramento city manager in March 1993, two months after Serna became Sacramento’s 52nd mayor.
Serna told Edgar about things like how he wanted a good administration with good results and that he didn’t want Edgar out in the community testing policy ideas. It was, Edgar said, “a good definition of the mayor and the council.”…