Although Covington’s City Charter contains several pages about the structure of its government, very little information about the actual roles and duties of the city manager, council and mayor are contained in the 48-year-old document. The Covington City Council set out to better define its role at its strategic planning retreat, and it plans to build the list it created into the city charter to make the changes formal.Covington has a city manager type of government, where the city manager is the top daily administrative official, as opposed to Newton County, where the chairman is elected by