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Open Letter

Year: 1926

Summary: Highlights the need for careful review of all civic services to ensure efficiency before reaching decisions about salaries and benefits for city workers.

Twelfth Annual Report Of The Toronto Bureau Of Municipal Research

Year: 1926

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1926. Work included: an office move, public addresses, various publications, and a campaign to increase voters. Improvements for efficiency in local government are made in the areas of policy-making, taxation and capital expenditures. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at end.

Twelve Years Of Community Service

Year: 1926

Summary: A summary of publications and achievements of the Bureau of Municipal Research from 1914-1926. Outlines Bureau mission statement and long-term goals to influence public policy. Detailed listing of Bureau publications and subscribers.

The City Of Toronto Will Have Spent Out Of Current Account In The Year 1925 $28,074, 823.20

Year: 1925

Summary: An analysis of annual expenditure and comparison to previous year. Warns that without a more rational, scientific accounting of expenditures, the city may not be able to keep decreasing municipal expenditures.

The Proposed Gasoline Tax As It Would Affect Toronto

Year: 1925

Summary: Highlights the amount that Toronto car owners would pay when the province's new gasoline tax is implemented

Eleventh Annual Report Of The Toronto Bureau Of Municipal Research

Year: 1925

Summary: A summary of the work done by the Bureau of Municipal Research for the year ending 1925. Work included community engagement, public debates and addresses, and publishing various bulletins. Civic government accomplishments and the city budget and taxes are outlined. Other steps to advance efficiency and economy are discussed. Bureau expenditures and subscribers at the end.

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.

Most People Do Not Go To The Physician Until They Are Actually Ill.

Year: 1925

Summary: Comparative analysis and recommendations for curing the illness of the Toronto municipal system, including changing term length, abolishing the ward system, reducing city council size, increasing efficiency.

On January 1St, 1925 In Addition To The Election Of A Mayor Board Of Control Aldermen Board Of Education The Citizens Of Toronto Will Be Given An Opportunity To Express Their Opinion On Two Matters Of Public Policy

Year: 1924

Summary: A survey of two specific areas of public policy that will be voted on in the election: expansion of the public water system and the city entering into the gasoline business.

On January 1St 1925 Ratepayers And Electors Of Toronto Will Vote On "Water Works Expansion" And "Applying For Special Legislation In Respect Of The Consumers' Gas Company." But These Are Not The Only Questions That Must Be Answered.

Year: 1924

Summary: Issues for upcoming election, including the extension of the water works and application for special leglslation in regards to the Consumers' Gas Company, as well as a criticism of the ward system, as highly populous wards are not adequately represented by the current amount of aldermen.

Open Letter To The Citizens And Taxpayers Of Toronto

Year: 1924

Summary: Highlights the high level of spending on salaries in the public service and the need for improved efficiency

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.

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.

The New Union Station The Proposed Viaduct The Harbor Situation And Customs House

Year: 1924

Summary: "An imaginary letter from a hypothetical correspondent" describing the problematic situation at New Union Station and the inefficiency in the operation of three separate commissions involved: Harbour, Transportation and Hydroelectric.

How Should Toronto's Civic Welfare Work Be Organized

Year: 1923

Summary: Scan of major elections issues, including changing City Council term length

In The Last Three Decades The History Of Cities Has Been Marked By Two Well Defined Tendencies Growth Of Population; Growth Of Expenditure Faster Than Population

Year: 1923

Summary: Argues that expenditures have grown even faster than population growth, as have the cost of services and the number of services provided, while cities have failed to improve efficiency and budget planning.

When A Debt Is Not A Debt

Year: 1923

Summary: Call for restricting expenditure per capita and queries about the possibility of increasing city revenue. The answer to the question in the title - when it is paid.

Toronto's Civic Budget For 1922 (Continued)

Year: 1922

Summary: Analysis of tax burden per capita and the proportion dedicated to education vs. other expenditure.

The Toronto Civic Budget For 1922

Year: 1922

Summary: Outlines the tax burden and the implications of the new budget in 1922.

Toronto's Civic Budget For 1922 Story No.3

Year: 1922

Summary: Outlines per capita debt burden especially with regards to education, and warns that increasing public debt without population growth can curtail Toronto's borrowing power.

Toronto's Civic Budget For 1922 Story No. 2

Year: 1922

Summary: Warns that public debt will increase unless some public works projects are delayed. Highlghts per capita debt burden especially with regards to education.

Toronto's Civic Budget For 1922 Story No. 1

Year: 1922

Summary: Analysis of annual budget and optimism that some past failures will be corrected with better accountability and more accurate estimates.

The Original Estimates Of Last Year's Board Of Education Are Said To Have Provided For An Expenditure In 1921 Equivalent To 10 1/4 Mills On The Assessment. The Actual Adopted Was 10 Mills

Year: 1922

Summary: Highlights the need for better coordination and budget planning between the different functions in the municipality.

The Toronto Bureau Of Municipal Research 1914-1922 Eight Years Of Service To The Community

Year: 1922

Summary: A summary of publications and achievements of the Bureau of Municipal Research from 1914-1922, including adoption of Bureau policy recommendations

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.

The City Of Toronto As A Buyer

Year: 1921

Summary: Tabulated comparison of prices paid by the city of Toronto and related bodies for supplies in common use. Suggests concentration of purchasing efforts applied through a centralized price-getting authority in co-operation with departmental ordering agents.

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.

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