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Freedom

Year: 1941

Summary: Encourages home owners and property owners to vote, as well as highlighting some causes of non-voters - including frustration over a lack of worthy candidates to support.

First Things First

Year: 1933

Summary: Analysis of taxation figures from 1927-1932.

Fire Department Organisation Is Essentially An Administrative And Business Problem

Year: 1919

Summary: Discussion of need for centralized fire / fire and police department and previous recommendations for increasing fire safety efficiency. Suggests amalgamation of fire and police department. Details Bureau suggestions made for improvements to the fire department, and which of these suggestions have been implemented.

Federation Of Philanthropists Is No New Idea For Toronto

Year: 1917

Summary: This publication suggests a federation of Toronto philanthropic organizations, which would incorporate the nine Neighbourhood Workers' Associations into a greater scheme of charity work.

Estimated Current Revenues For 1940 (In Comparison With Those Of 1930 And 1939)

Year: 1940

Summary: Provides the estimated current revenues for the 1940 civic budget. Outlines expenditures and the tax rate. Raises questions as to whether all city departments are as efficient and as adequately mechanized as they could be.

Estimated Current Expenditures For 1936 Of The City Of Toronto

Year: 1936

Summary: Analysis of city expenditures for 1936, including reduction of expenses for salaries and wages of city workers. Notes that this is the most balanced budget since 1932, and that the deficit has been greatly reduced since 1935.

Each Of Us Has Known Individuals Who Never Grew Up Physically But Did Grow Up Mentally

Year: 1916

Summary: Highlights the issue of "feeble-mindedness" and the burden the "feeble-minded" places on taxpayers. Outlines the agenda and exhibits that will be on display during the National Welfare Exhibition on the subject of feeble-mindedness - which includes a play about the life of a young offender. Pamphlet also includes a tear-away petition addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada and provincial premiers urging these officials to consider the establishment of farm colonies to house and segregate the feeble-minded.

Dollar Income And Real Income Are Not The Same Thing

Year: 1934

Summary: Argues that city workers' salaries can be reduced in light of the increase on purchasing power with the Great Depression

Do You Realize That The Citizens Of Toronto Pay Taxes To Support Two Departments Of Health

Year: 1916

Summary: This document outlines the fact that Toronto has a separate health department for schools that employs the same kind of experts as the general health department and has many overlapping responsibilities. Consolidation of these two separate boards of health is proposed.

Cutting Costs

Year: 1941

Summary: Suggests that the city could cut costs by reducing salaries and wages of city workers. Provides a list of questions one may put to candidates in the upcoming city election, including where the candidate stands on the issues of civic expenditure, debt control, and building up a reserve of civic credit.

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.

Community Service And Our Public Hospitals

Year: 1920

Summary: Explores the costs of hospital administration. The relation between hospitals, municipalities, and the province needs to ensure adequate service, while avoiding unnecessary costs.

Civic Reporting

Year: 1934

Summary: Need for accountability and more transparency in reporting on deficits.

Civic Financial Control Story No.4

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.

Civic Financial Control Story No. 3

Year: 1929

Summary: A scan of the city's debt management in 1917-1926, after which its estimates began to include more complete information. Notes Harbour and Radial deficits, while the TTC has been at an operating surplus each year. Also notes the encouraging news that the city has increased taxation in order to pay down Harbour and Radial deficits.

Civic Financial Control Story No. 2

Year: 1927

Summary: Highlights the ways in which the city has financially controlled expenditures for civic services over the past ten years - including public services not administered by boards or commissions. Raises the question of taxing privately-owned utilities as a source of city revenue.

Civic Financial Control Story No. 1

Year: 1927

Summary: Highlights the ways in which the city has financially controlled expenditures for civic services over the past ten years - including public services not administered by boards or commissions. Allowing for yearly fluctuations, the Bureau finds that Toronto produces a small surplus every year, and this is evidence of sound financial management.

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 Departmentalization Story No. 1

Year: 1940

Summary: Suggests that city service departments should be coordinated under one commissioner, responsible to council - reducing the work of departmental purchasing, streamlining accounting, and making the use of personnel more economical.

Civic Credit

Year: 1933

Summary: Highlights Toronto's strong credit position, and urges citizens to call upon their representatives to reduce the tax burden, so that business and industry can continue to grow.

Civic Budget Making Time

Year: 1938

Summary: The Bureau provides suggestions for ways to improve the efficiency of services and budget management - despite the fact that a draft budget was not available in time and public discussion on the budget was therefore limited. Some suggestions include coordinating health and welfare services, appointing a long-term planning committee, and increasing the length of terms for city council.

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 Planning Story No. 3

Year: 1928

Summary: Highlights the importance of city planning and zoning. Urges the adoption of city planning in order to reduce costs in the long term. Outlines what zoning can do - including making provisions for ample business districts, regulation of building height, and providing for quiet, conveniently located residential districts with uniform building sizes that make access to light and fresh air more equal. Stresses that tax-payer funds are wasted through poor or inadequate city planning.

City Planning Story No. 2

Year: 1928

Summary: Outlines the various municipal departments who have authority in planning, what each department plans. Highlights matters of urgent importance to taxpayers, which includes the appointment of a city planning advisory board, and how expenditures are made in city planning.

City Planning Story No. 1

Year: 1928

Summary: Highlighs the need for city planning in Toronto, arguing that city planning "is not a device to encourage spending," rather it is a way to control growth and ensure the proper services the city needs can be secured and paid for, without causing any undue tax burden on citizens. Planning is encouraged on major construction projects, new buildings, and street layout.

City Of Toronto Estimated Revenue And Expenditures For 1933 Out Of Taxation, Subsections, Other General Revenues And Proceeds From Sale Of Short Term Debentures For Unemployment Relief. Budget Story No. 3

Year: 1933

Summary: Tabulated comparison of estimated civic expenditures from 1928-1933, analyzed according to objects of expenditure, and comments.

City Of Toronto Estimated Revenue And Expenditures For 1933 Out Of Taxation, Educational Subsections, Other General Revenues And Estimated Proceeds Of The Issue Of Short Term Debentures For Unemployment Relief. Budget Story No. 2

Year: 1933

Summary: Povides a tabulated comparison of annual estimated expenditure from 1927-1933.

City Of Toronto Budget Story No.3

Year: 1934

Summary: The budgetary troubles in light of the Depression and the need for transparency regarding the working conditions of the civic service.

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.

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