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City Of Toronto Budget Story No.3

Year: 1935

Summary: Argues that the new budget gives more detailed information than in the past about salaries and wages but could still give the people even more detailed an account of how the budget is managed.

City Of Toronto Budget Story No.3

Year: 1937

Summary: Provides the major figures for the 1937 budget including debts and expenditures.

City Of Toronto Budget Story No.2

Year: 1934

Summary: Poses queries as to the effects of the Depression on the city accounts and the use of deficits to cover for lost tax revenue.

City Of Toronto Budget Story No.2

Year: 1936

Summary: Outlines the issues of budget management in light of city debt.

City Of Toronto Budget Story No.2

Year: 1937

Summary: Outlines budget figures for 1937. Notes that for the first time since 1932 Toronto will be raising all it needs to cover the year's expenditures, but that it will be paying for the Depression years when this was not accomplished.

City Of Toronto 1939 Budget Story No.3

Year: 1939

Summary: Provides estimates of budget expenditures from 1929-1939. Offers guggestions for ways to improve the efficiency of services and budget management, such as the promotion of budget planning over periods longer than one year, reducing the number of wards, and establishing a city planning committee.

City Of Toronto 1938 Budget Story No.3

Year: 1938

Summary: Outlines city budget figures for 1938. Suggests a detailed administrative survey be made of all city departments and that a long term capital expenditures budget be established. Further goes on to note that the cost of government is on the rise, however costs in Health and Sanitation and general welfare are on the decline.

City Of Toronto 1938 Budget Story No. 2 Budget Classification According To Main Objects Of Expenditures

Year: 1938

Summary: Provides a classification of expenditures in the 1938 Civic Budget. The Bureau notes that revenue now covers expenses but unemployment relief still poses a problem. The Bureau proposes that the city of Toronto pursue some of the advantages of the council-manager system, including the coordination of all services departments under a single department of Public Works with a single, unified administration, the adoption of staggered terms for council, and the election of city councillors by the city as a whole.

City Of Toronto 1935 Budget Story No.2

Year: 1935

Summary: Provides budget and expenditure figures for the fiscal year 1935, and includes money spent on direct unemployment relief and debt charges. Advocates against tax increases, and calls for debts incurred by the city abbatoir to be examined.

City Budget Story No. 6

Year: 1921

Summary: Advocates the speeding up of Estimates and the establishment of an earlier date for the payment of the first instalment of taxes. Call on the citizens to vote/act on these issues in the upcoming election.

City Budget Story No. 5 - The City As A Park And Playground Manager

Year: 1921

Summary: Statistics on five years (1917-1921) of parks department expenditures in Toronto. Also includes a chart comparing availability of parks and playgrounds vs. per capita expenditure in other North American cities (e.g. Montreal, Buffalo, Detroit).

City Budget Story No. 4 - The City As School Master

Year: 1921

Summary: Statistics on education expenditures in Toronto; this bulletin argues economy with efficiency is essential in the public education department.

City Budget Story No. 3

Year: 1921

Summary: Statistics showing the increase in per capita taxes in Toronto from 1915-1921, along with planned expenditures from taxation.

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.

Citizens Control Of The Citizen's Business

Year: 1924

Summary: Argues that the tax burden is increasing while the ability of residents to pay is not, and the municipality is not being run efficiently enough.

Cities Differ Materially In The Extent Thoroughness And Administrative Grouping Of The Functions Performed And Services Rendered To Their Citizens

Year: 1925

Summary: Comparison of public expenditures on services and ordinary taxes in Toronto and Montreal. Also takes into account total municipal debt for each city.

Children's Play: A Study Of Playgrounds

Year: 1970

Summary: Discusses principles for playground planning and the need for Toronto to invest in playgrounds in areas like Regent Park.

Changes In Municipal Grants For 1973

Year: 1973

Summary: New structure of provincial transfers to municipalities are vague and have contradictory goals.

Burning Up Canada

Year: 1915

Summary: Outlines the high cost of the Toronto Fire Department compared to other Canadian cities and the need for more efficient methods such as fire prevention.

Bureau Open Letter

Year: 1933

Summary: An open letter to the mayor, the board of control, and city aldermen, highlighting the fact that expenditures appear to be falling behind revenues at a growing pace.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twenty-Third Annual Report

Year: 1937

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1937. Topics of importance include the city budget, public welfare administration, and city planning. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twenty-Seventh Annual Report

Year: 1941

Summary: A summary of the the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1941. Topics of importance include the electoral system, civic budget and administration. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twenty-Second Annual Report

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.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twenty-Ninth Annual Report

Year: 1943

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1943. Topics of importance include the role of supervision and the BMR, intergovernmental relations, educational institutions, voter turnout, and city budget and planning. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twenty-Fourth Annual Report

Year: 1938

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1938. Topics of importance include town planning and zoning, sewage disposal, traffic control, the city budget, public health and welfare. Bureau expenditures and subscribers listed at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twenty-First Annual Report

Year: 1935

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1935. Topics of importance include unemployment relief, civic salaries and wages, the city budget and credit, voter turnout, declining assessment, and civic efficiency and amalgamation. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Twentieth Annual Report

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.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Thirty-Third Annual Report

Year: 1947

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1947. The chief concern of the Bureau is establishment of a unified municipal government. Bureau expenditure and subscribers at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Thirty-Second Annual Report

Year: 1946

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1946. Topics of importance include planning and urban sprawl, the city budget, co-ordination of departments, terms for alderman, and the ward system. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

Bureau Of Municipal Research Thirty-First Annual Report

Year: 1945

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1945. Topics of importance include planning and urban sprawl, administrative departmentalization, the role of city council, post-war society, the ward system, and the civic budget. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

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