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Directory Of Municipal Governments 1966

Year: 1966

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto and suburban representatives.

Directory Of Municipal Governments 1965

Year: 1965

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto and suburban representatives.

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1983

Year: 1983

Summary: A guide to the Municipality of Metro Toronto and the six area municipalities.

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1981-82

Year: 1982

Summary: A guide to the Municipality of Metro Toronto and the six area municipalities.

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1979-80

Year: 1980

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, children's aid, and relevant provincial organizations

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1979-80

Year: 1980

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, children's aid, and relevant provincial organizations

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1977-78

Year: 1978

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, children's aid, and relevant provincial organizations

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1975-76

Year: 1976

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, children's aid, and relevant provincial organizations

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1971-72

Year: 1972

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, and children's aid, Municipal Assessment Department, and Ontario Municipal Board

Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1970-71

Year: 1971

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, and children's aid. Note that metro assessment department moved under provincial administration. Now includes staff listings for the Ontario Municipal Board.

Copy Of Open Letter, June 26, 1924. Reproduced For The Information Of Members Of The Bureau And Citizens Generally

Year: 1924

Summary: The Bureau is opposed to establishing a participatory pension fund for city civil servants before a review of the efficiency of the civil service is prepared.

Control Of Civic Expenditure Through Civic Elections

Year: 1921

Summary: Provides a potential list of issues; citizens should ascertain the opinions of civic conditions prior to the upcoming election.

Civil Service Reform

Year: 1917

Summary: Recommendations for civil service reform, including: regular procedures for promotion and salary increases in City Council; establishment of a an independent Civil Service Board; and emphasis on eligibility and performance records.

Civic Departmentalization Story No.2

Year: 1940

Summary: Suggests that city service departments should be coordinated under one commissioner, responsible to council. Recommends that civic departments be reduced from 16 to 9, and that in doing so, personnel and material would be used more efficiently, and that it would reduce the need for operating space.

Civic Affairs Directory Of Governments In Metropolitan Toronto 1983

Year: 1983

Summary: A reference guide listing the contact information for the mayor, city council, and various municipal boards and services. Also lists contact information for metro Toronto, suburban representatives, children's aid organizations, the zoo, conservation authority, industrial development board, and relevant provincial organizations

City Voting A Record Of The Few Who Voted And The Many Who Did Not

Year: 1943

Summary: A report on 20% voter turnout in elections and criticism thereof. Provides an analysis of civic election results, and questions whether the results of the election would have been different if more people had voted, and whether or not the release of preliminary budget figures before the election would have made a difference in voter turnout.

City Budget Story No. 1 - The City Of Toronto As An Employer

Year: 1921

Summary: Considers Toronto's Annual Bill for Personal Services (Salaries and Wages); the Bureau suggests that an Administrative Board made up of Department heads would function to keep service records, promote by merit, and standardize work and wages.

Changes In The Metro Act

Year: 1966

Summary: Outlines responsibility shifts following the changes to the Metro Act.

Can The Organisation Of The Municipal Government Of Toronto Be Improved?

Year: 1930

Summary: Examines possible changes to the election and city management structures and their implications. Raises the question of cutting down civic departments and establishing a centralized purchasing system. Stresses that the city must be run like a business in order to ensure maximum efficiency.

Can The Organisation Of The Municipal Government Of Toronto Be Improved Story No. 2

Year: 1930

Summary: Outlines possible changes to the election and city management structures and their implications - focus on ward system. Highlights the need to attract city councillors who will be well-suited to the work of running the city.

Business Is Business Story No.3

Year: 1930

Summary: Suggested organization for the city of Toronto administrative units as a means to secure better results from municipal expenditure and citizen effort

Bulletin: The Other Half

Year: 1957

Summary: Describes of the structure of government in metropolitan Toronto and planned changes.

Bulletin: The Important Requirements For Municipal Office

Year: 1958

Summary: Describes the responsibilities and requirements of elected city officials.

Bulletin: The Government, The Civil Service And The Taxpayer

Year: 1959

Summary: Looks at the meaning of "the spoils system", and the application of the ideas of "merit", "the central personnel agency" and "the classification system" in the public personnel field.

Bulletin: Term Of Reference For Appointed Members Of Local Boards And Commissions

Year: 1960

Summary: Authority and form of management of the different boards and commissions in the city

Bulletin: Provincial- Municipal Relations With Emphasis On The Financial Relations Between Provinces And Local Governments

Year: 1959

Summary: Local governments encounter difficulties in both current and capital financing; this warrants reconsideration of Provincial-Municipal Relations.

Bulletin: Proposal For An Improved System Of Local Government For The Windsor Metropolitan Area

Year: 1959

Summary: Describes changes in local government in Windsor and lessons for Toronto and the Metro process started in 1953.

Bulletin: Discrimination In The Local Franchise

Year: 1958

Summary: Urging the advancement of legislation for universal suffrage in municipal elections (limited until that time by ownership of property).

Bulletin: An Outside View Of Public Personnel Operations

Year: 1959

Summary: Summary of keynote address to the Eastern Regional Conference of the Public Personnel Association: key issues in public personnel operations.

BMR News Briefs

Year: 1960

Summary: News Brief about universal suffrage - not needing to own property to be allowed to vote as of Dec. 1, 1958; Tax exemptions, including one for the head of the Bureau that he asked to cancel; and asking why the TTC shouldn't be a branch of the municipality.

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