Control of large public-works funds makes removal from an advisory post moot.

Evidence

No man with $250,000,000 to spend on public works in a financially strapped city desperate to build public works could possibly be frozen out of public works negotiations with federal and state governments; in reality he would, whether designated as arterial representative or not, still be that representative in fact if not in name, until he could be replaced as Triborough chairman. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4583