Author: Richard Neal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146852965X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Being a Municipal Officer or Municipal Official can be a challenging task in many of the small communities in Maine or any other state. Most of these positions are part time and do not draw the best of salaries. Unfortunately, there is little training and no certification requirements for these positions. In many cases, newly elected officers or elected/appointed officials depend on the past practices of their predecessors. These past practices may be OK or not OK and may not meet todays standards. The budgets are much bigger and there are more state and federal laws/regulations to comply with. In the State of Maine, the Maine Municipal Association (MMA) offers some basic training/workshops and provides legal counsel for member communities for those that choose to participate. Many are not willing to spend the time in attending these training classes/workshops.
Municipal Management & Finances
Author: Richard Neal
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146852965X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Being a Municipal Officer or Municipal Official can be a challenging task in many of the small communities in Maine or any other state. Most of these positions are part time and do not draw the best of salaries. Unfortunately, there is little training and no certification requirements for these positions. In many cases, newly elected officers or elected/appointed officials depend on the past practices of their predecessors. These past practices may be OK or not OK and may not meet todays standards. The budgets are much bigger and there are more state and federal laws/regulations to comply with. In the State of Maine, the Maine Municipal Association (MMA) offers some basic training/workshops and provides legal counsel for member communities for those that choose to participate. Many are not willing to spend the time in attending these training classes/workshops.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146852965X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Being a Municipal Officer or Municipal Official can be a challenging task in many of the small communities in Maine or any other state. Most of these positions are part time and do not draw the best of salaries. Unfortunately, there is little training and no certification requirements for these positions. In many cases, newly elected officers or elected/appointed officials depend on the past practices of their predecessors. These past practices may be OK or not OK and may not meet todays standards. The budgets are much bigger and there are more state and federal laws/regulations to comply with. In the State of Maine, the Maine Municipal Association (MMA) offers some basic training/workshops and provides legal counsel for member communities for those that choose to participate. Many are not willing to spend the time in attending these training classes/workshops.
Annual Report
Author: Williamstown (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Permanent Regulations, Warrant, Annual Reports of the Selectmen, School Committee, Overseers of the Poor ... and a Statement of the Financial Concerns ...
Author: Springfield (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The New England Town Meeting
Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313003637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313003637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Annual Reports
Author: North Andover (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Journal of Proceedings,including the Annual Reports of Its Officers and Statistical Tables from 1821,to 1862
Author: Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Annual Reports of the Town of Dalton
Author: Dalton (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Dalton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Dalton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Official Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor
Author: American Federation of Labor
Publisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor
Author: American Federation of Labor. Convention
Publisher:
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Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description