Year: 1914
Summary: Presents a tentative scheme for central control of labor supply, unemployment, and immigration, with suggestions for: administration, legislation, fees and costs, methods and procedures, and interdepartmental co-operation.
Year: 1959
Summary: Summary of keynote address to the Eastern Regional Conference of the Public Personnel Association: key issues in public personnel operations.
Year: 1917
Summary: A summary of city of Toronto budget expenditures for 1916 with estimates for the 1917 budget - includes information on expenditures, city revenue and debt, and includes a breakdown of average taxes paid by Toronto citizens. The publication aims to encourage taxpayer and citizen engagement with budgetary concerns.
Year: 1973
Summary: Documents shortcomings of the urban land development process and suggests that public land banking (i.e. large-scale assembly of land in advance of price inflation by urbanization) could be used in Ontario to alleviate some of these problems.
Year: 1921
Summary: Suggests potential "New Year's Resolutions" for members of council or board of education, and citizens.
Year: 1931
Summary: This letter suggests the need for efficient management in periods of depression.
Year: 1948
Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1948. Topics of importance include the Civic Advisory Council, co-ordination of personal and civic services, health and safety, and civic planning. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.
Year: 1975
Summary: Presents the keynote address and four background papers presented at the "Metro Toronto Under Review: What are the Issues?" Conference. Papers focus on the form of Metro's government.
Year: 1962
Summary: To maintain the level of competence of senior municipal officers, university trained recruits are required whose academic backgrounds permit them to understand the effect and ramifications of municipal activity.
Year: 1983
Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1982. Documents highlights of the past year and significant research projects. Bureau expenditures, publications, and contributors at the end.
Year: 1966
Summary: Explains the complex residential assessment function in Metro, so that ratepayers can gain greater understanding of the valuation and appeal procedures.
Year: 1979
Summary: Identifies various cost-saving innovations in municipalities in Canada, as well as other countries. Documents efforts at the local level to save money through the use of innovative management and/or technological changes.
Year: 1972
Summary: Explores municipal reform in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
Summary: Provides a potential list of issues; citizens should ascertain the opinions of civic conditions prior to the upcoming election.
Year: 1936
Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1936. The chief concern of the Bureau is the balancing of the civic budget. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.
Year: 1915
Summary: Introduction of City Accounting by the City Auditor and the Commissioner of Works, and recommendations from the report.
Year: 1919
Summary: Citizens are encouraged to write suggestions regarding civic services on attached cards, and submit them to the Bureau of Municipal Research for investigation.
Year: 1969
Summary: Three case studies concerning personnel transfers stemming from municipal amalgamations and assumption of the welfare function by Metro.
Summary: Presents a potential Fire Insurance Policy for the citizens of Toronto.
Year: 1920
Summary: Outlines the qualifications, duties, and powers of a Finance Commissioner, in response to the pending appointment of a new commissioner.
Year: 1934
Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1934. Topics of importance include civic administration reform, the city budget, taxation, welfare expenditures, and the need to reduce city departments. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.
Summary: A listing of the personnel in city council, boards, and commissions in Metropolitan Toronto.
Year: 1964
Summary: A survey of license, permit, and user fees in Ontario - how and why these fees are charged, how these fees differ from taxes, how fees should be spent, the importance of fees as a municipal revenue source and some of the problems associated with the use of fees.
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.
Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1962. Includes a summary of the current work and future programme of the Bureau. Bureau expenditures and members at the end.
Summary: Presents several comparisons which illustrate some of the gains made in methods of financial administration in Toronto from 1914-1918.
Year: 1961
Summary: Examines proposals which aim to correct weaknesses of Metro Toronto Area government.
Summary: A deputation of Toronto city officials was sent to examine accounting departments in New York, NY and Reading, PA. Outlines necessary steps in the reorganization of Toronto's accounting systems.
Year: 1916
Summary: This publication highlights the need for an independent citizen research bureau (such as the Bureau of Municipal Research) to inform fellow citizens and to keep municipal government accountable when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars. Additionally, the Bureau outlines some of their near and long-term goals in improving and modernizing city administration and planning.
Summary: Discusses the issue of expenditure on government administration out of taxation revenue. Highlights a need to streamline municipal government, reduce the number of wards, reduce the number of aldermen, increase the length of alderman terms, and to establish a five to ten year capital budget.