Author: Lanarkshire (Scotland). County CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : County councils
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Mastering Council Meetings
Author: Ann G. MacfarlanePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482708189
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Mastering Council Meetings guides councils toward smooth, efficient, and fair meetings using effective leadership principles and practices grounded in Robert's Rules of Order."--Back cover.
Suggested Rules of Procedure for a City Council
Author: A. Fleming BellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781560113676
Category : City councils
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Minutes of the County Council and Reports and Minutes of Committees of the Council and Other Documents Submitted to the Council
Author: Lanarkshire (Scotland). County CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : County councils
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota from
Author: Minneapolis (Minn.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The New England Town Meeting
Author: Joseph F. ZimmermanPublisher: 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.
Making an African City
Author: Jennifer HartPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253069343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demanding rights to city services, and asserting their own informal vision for the future of the city. While urban plans and regulations ultimately failed to substantively remake the city, their effects were and are still felt by urban residents, who are often subject to but not served by urban infrastructure. Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.
Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer
Author: Organization and Administration of the Town Clerk's Department
Author: Arthur Samuel WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Effective Council Meetings
Author: Robert K. BushPublisher: ICMA Publishing
ISBN: 0873267966
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
“The purpose of a public meeting is to conduct the public’s business in an effective, orderly, and efficient manner.” But in many board and council meetings, this purpose can be thwarted by the factionalism and belligerence that may arise out of opposing viewpoints. Effective Council Meetings focuses on preserving (or bringing back) the level of respect, courtesy, and civility needed in council meetings to successfully conduct the public’s business. This e-book addresses the need to adopt rules of procedure, whether formal or informal, that establish clear standards of behavior and ensure a proper level of decorum; offers a simplified and slimmed-down version of Robert’s Rules of Order, applying the salient points of parliamentary procedure to the conduct of public meetings; and introduces a values framework as a way to help elected officials identify what lies at the root of public problems and make wise decisions in response.
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