 After winning, he declared the purpose of the office to be "not just administrative in character, but also social", claiming that "we worked 50 years for the center [of the city], we should work 5 years for the outskirts".Consequently, he created a series of non-partisan "comitete cetăţeneşti" ("citizen committees"), which were to oversee the application of norms in areas such as health, building maintenance, street commerce, and public safety.In the context of the Great Depression, he took measures to ensure that the underprivileged were regularly fed through public expense.