OAKLAND, Calif. -- In Oakland, a well-known developer is pushing an unusual proposal. He wants to make certain that Mayor Ron Dellums is earning his almost $200,000 annual salary and working a full eight-hour day by requiring that the mayor to fill out a weekly timesheet.

Developer and Oakland power broker Phil Tagami may be best known a the man who brought the historic rotunda building back to life.

Now Tagami wants to bring accountability back to city hall.

He wants the mayor, a former U.S. congressman, to fill out a timesheet and prove his passion for the city of Oakland in the hours he works.

"This action of improving Oakland requires daily contact and that is what the essence of this is," explains Tagami. "Washington is a little different; a little more abstract, Oakland and a city with our issues requires daily tending."

Tagami says Dellums gets a full day's wage even though in his eyes the mayor doesn't put in a full day's work. He wants to change the city charter to require timesheets for all city staff.

Dellum's Chief of Staff told us being mayor is a 24-7 job.

Earlier this summer, KTVU news sifted through an entire year of Dellum's city calendar. On more than a third of recorded work days, the calendar indicated Dellums worked four hours or less.

"I've had success communicating with the mayor, meetings with the mayor, and the concern I have with that is follow through," says Tagami. "So we need time on task and we need follow through, and sometimes when we need follow through, there needs to be continued communication."

Oakland Council President Ignacio de la Fuente supports Tagami's push to reform the city charter to require timesheets.

"The point is who is the mayor now? And I think that is the person who has to be accountable," says de la Fuente. "When we get paid to work for the city, we should do our job and we should put in the hours that are necessary for us to do our job. And I've been trying that from the top to the bottom. So I support any reforms or measures charters that will create an accountable system."

De la Fuente is not alone.

"If you are slated to work a 40-hour week and you don't put in 40 hours, then you shouldn't be paid," says Oakland resident Erin Graves.

"I guess the mayor has to earn his pay like everybody else from the top to the bottom," says local Harold Boyden.

Mayor Dellums staff says the mayor was in budget meetings all day and night and could not come out to comment. Phil Tagami added that if the council doesn't amend the city charter, he plans to work to get an initiative on spring 2010 ballot.