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Description:Excerpt from Government of the City of Rochester, N. Y: General Survey, Critical Appraisal and Constructive Suggestions, 1943 The study just completed of the organization and administration of the city of Rochester has developed a number of points of unusual interest - among them is the fact that the old style charter which provides for a single executive and a large council is not essentially bad. Years ago this was the prevailing type. Officers became wasteful, if not corrupt and inefficient. The political reformers said - "the charter is at fault, let us have a new charter that will provide for filling the important places by popular election." Officers continued to be wasteful if not corrupt and inefficient. Again the political reformers said - "the charter is at fault, let us have a charter that will provide for government by a small commission." Still in many places the officers continued to be wasteful and inefficient, and political reformers are again saying - "the charter is at fault, let us have a city manager plan." Rochester holds to the old style of charter - a mayor and a council made up of twenty-three members, one from each ward. The New York Bureau of Municipal Research has made administrative studies in some fifty different local governments and comprehensive studies of twenty-five city governments, and, notwithstanding the fact that Rochester still retains the old type of organization, the results and conditions which were found there are superior to those which have been found in any other city; not that Rochester has a government which is beyond criticism, as there is obvious opportunity and need for improvement. But speaking comparatively, Rochester's government is better organized and better managed than any which has come to the Bureau's notice. It is of interest to consider the elements of difference which seem to account for the superiority. As shown by Chart "A" in Part 1 of this report, practically all the executive responsibility is in the mayor. Other cities have made similar provision but have not given to the mayor the means of protecting his responsibility. In Rochester the mayor has the means of protecting his responsibility - First, by having the power to appoint all of the principal department heads, who must be looked to to get things done in an effective manner. Second, the mayor has the power to prepare and submit the annual budget; he has not a full executive cabinet system - perhaps it would be better if he had - but the budget is prepared by a board of five which is controlled by him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Government of the city of Rochester, N.Y. General survey, critical appraisal and constructive suggestions. To get started finding Government of the city of Rochester, N.Y. General survey, critical appraisal and constructive suggestions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Government of the City of Rochester, N. Y: General Survey, Critical Appraisal and Constructive Suggestions, 1943 The study just completed of the organization and administration of the city of Rochester has developed a number of points of unusual interest - among them is the fact that the old style charter which provides for a single executive and a large council is not essentially bad. Years ago this was the prevailing type. Officers became wasteful, if not corrupt and inefficient. The political reformers said - "the charter is at fault, let us have a new charter that will provide for filling the important places by popular election." Officers continued to be wasteful if not corrupt and inefficient. Again the political reformers said - "the charter is at fault, let us have a charter that will provide for government by a small commission." Still in many places the officers continued to be wasteful and inefficient, and political reformers are again saying - "the charter is at fault, let us have a city manager plan." Rochester holds to the old style of charter - a mayor and a council made up of twenty-three members, one from each ward. The New York Bureau of Municipal Research has made administrative studies in some fifty different local governments and comprehensive studies of twenty-five city governments, and, notwithstanding the fact that Rochester still retains the old type of organization, the results and conditions which were found there are superior to those which have been found in any other city; not that Rochester has a government which is beyond criticism, as there is obvious opportunity and need for improvement. But speaking comparatively, Rochester's government is better organized and better managed than any which has come to the Bureau's notice. It is of interest to consider the elements of difference which seem to account for the superiority. As shown by Chart "A" in Part 1 of this report, practically all the executive responsibility is in the mayor. Other cities have made similar provision but have not given to the mayor the means of protecting his responsibility. In Rochester the mayor has the means of protecting his responsibility - First, by having the power to appoint all of the principal department heads, who must be looked to to get things done in an effective manner. Second, the mayor has the power to prepare and submit the annual budget; he has not a full executive cabinet system - perhaps it would be better if he had - but the budget is prepared by a board of five which is controlled by him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Government of the city of Rochester, N.Y. General survey, critical appraisal and constructive suggestions. To get started finding Government of the city of Rochester, N.Y. General survey, critical appraisal and constructive suggestions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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