Year: 1928
Summary: Gives an overview of police services in several US cities. This information is meant to assist City Council and the Board of Control in their consideration of the upcoming Police Estimates. Notes the need to consider more information than just city population, city area, and current size of the city police force when making decisions on police budgets.
Year: 1920
Summary: Outline of suggested stages in preparing and passing budget estimates, and list of advantages this would secure.
Year: 1980
Summary: Evaluates the impact of cost-saving innovations in Canadian municipalities, as well as factors which led to the success or failure of those innovations. Examines five case studies.
Year: 1916
Summary: Proposes a system for public budget-making, in order to increase effectivity and engage citizens in the planning process.
Year: 1949
Summary: Highlights and recommendations for the city's new 30-year plan.
Year: 1937
Summary: Suggests that technological developments - such as the use of wireless radio - can enable increasing the efficiency of police work without increasing numbers. Provides figures for the strength and distrubution of Toronto's police force, as well as some numbers on crime.
Summary: A summary of work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1916. Work included analysis of the city budget, establishing a bureau reference library, surveying street cleaning and garbage disposal, inquiries into school admission, and a study on the living wage. Civic government and community achievements noted. Future goals are outlined. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at end.
Year: 1975
Summary: Scan of major issues that the Robarts Royal Commission is dealing with regarding the city of Toronto: relationships with neighbouring municipalities, political system, role of boards and commissions, finance, municipal boundaries, inter-governmental relations etc.
Year: 1941
Summary: Provides estimated current expenditures to be met by taxation and grants for the 1941 civic budget. Suggest increase in city council term length, planning to budget for periods of time greater than one year, the appointment of a planning committee, and reducing the number of wards.
Year: 1922
Summary: Scan of major elections issues, which includes taxation, the issuance of bonds to build a new stadium (which would serve as a war memorial) and the Hydro Radial agreement.
Year: 1926
Summary: Highlights harbour deficits and financial mismanagement of the project.
Year: 1940
Summary: An open letter to the citizens of Toronto, highlighting the need for better snow removal - including coordinating snow removal under one department, improving snow removal equipment, and keeping the snow removal budget consistent from year to year.
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.
Summary: Provides a classification for expenditures for the 1940 civic budget. Makes recommendations for improving efficiency and oversight of city actions, including the insitution of a personnel survey, the appointment of an unpaid planning committee, and that the board of control and city council frequently consult this planning committee on matters of traffic arteries and all other improvements that can be postponed until after WWII.
Year: 1929
Summary: Highlights the results of the operation of regular civic and educational services, the operation of muncipally owned public services not controlled by boards and commissions, and the operation of public services controlled by boards and commissions.
Year: 1978
Summary: Letter sent to Bureau members listing recent research topics. Sample topics include rent control, downtown revitalization, transportation coordination, the teaching of local government in schools, and financial problems of local governments
Summary: Listing of recently published studies, research in progress, and upcoming Bureau of Municipal Research events. Sample research topics include transit problems, cost saving in local governments, who should pay for municipal services, and productivity vs. quality of life
Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1928. Work included analysis of the city budget, and studies of civic finances, policing, motor accidents, town planning, taxation, and the board of education. Bureau publications are listed. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.
Year: 1970
Summary: Focuses on how decisions regarding the Metro Toronto transportation system are made.
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: 1921
Summary: Statistics showing the increase in per capita taxes in Toronto from 1915-1921, along with planned expenditures from taxation.
Year: 1959
Summary: Local governments encounter difficulties in both current and capital financing; this warrants reconsideration of Provincial-Municipal Relations.
Year: 1982
Summary: Publications catalogue, 1982. Sample publications topics: economy, education, environment, finances, government, housing, productivity, planning, public safety, regional government, transportation
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: 1939
Summary: Provides classifications for expenditures in the 1939 civic budget. The Bureau argues that expenditure on different services such as fire safety is decreasing while debt payments are increasingly burdening the city. They suggest a thorough and independent survey of all city departments and personnel in order to ensure maximum efficiency.
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.
Year: 1944
Summary: Highlights the importance of voting in the upcoming municipal elections.
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: 1943
Summary: Highlights major issues of the upcoming elections, and suggests that the city should vitalize elections by providing budget and expenditure information in advance of the elections, as well as conducting regular budget hearings that could be attended by all electors.
Year: 1915
Summary: A summary of the work done and of progress made on the Bureau of Municipal Research's program for the year ending 1915. Sample work and goals included: establishing a scientific form of budget with city officials, installation of modern accounting practices, assisting in the reorganization of the fire department, and producing studies of citizen interest. Yearly expenditures and bureau subscribers are included at the end.