City Manager in Dayton Four Years of Commission-Manager Government, 1914-1917

Download or read book City Manager in Dayton Four Years of Commission-Manager Government, 1914-1917 written by Chester E. Rightor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from City Manager in Dayton Four Years of Commission-Manager Government, 1914-1917: And Comparisons With Four, Preceding Years Under the Mayor-Council Plan, Council Plan "New times demand new measures and new men: The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth." Lowell. On August 12, 1913, Dayton, Ohio, adopted a commission-manager charter, and on January 1, 1914, it went into effect. The Dayton government of to-day is the fulfillment of the application of business principles to the government of a municipality. Ever since the adoption of the charter Dayton has been governmentally in the limelight. It has been the guide and leader to other cities seeking governmental betterment. Hundreds of cities have copied, in whole or in part, the city-manager idea. Thousands of people interested in municipal affairs have visited Dayton. Magazines have printed articles. Newspapers all over the country have printed stories. Cities like Chicago and New York are seriously discussing the possibility of applying the principle in their governments. Managers for counties are being advocated. States have passed city-manager laws, and other States are considering the subject. Usually Dayton is turned to for the story of her experience, until in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people she has come to mean the "best governed city in the United States." 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.