City Government by CommissionClinton Rogers Woodruff Appleton, 1911 - 381 sider |
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Side 215 - that the office should seek the man, and not the man the office. Consequently the City Club has undertaken to relieve the city commissioners of all responsibilities connected with their reelection. Thus, the commissioners themselves are taken out of politics. They are men who in general dislike politics in the
Side 336 - railways, gas or water works, electric light or power plants, heating plants, telegraph or telephone systems, or other public service utilities within said city, must be authorized or approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon at a general or special election, as provided in section 776 of the Code.
Side 331 - duties of officers and employees; may assign particular officers and employees to one or more of the departments ; may require an officer or employee to perform duties in two or more departments; and may make such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper for the efficient and economical conduct of the business of the city.
Side 343 - clerk. At the end of each year the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent accountants, and shall publish the result of such examination in the manner above provided for publication of statements of monthly expenditures. Appropriations
Side 318 - equal in number to twenty-five per centum of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding general city election. At such election, the proposition to be submitted shall be, " Shall the proposition to organize the city of (name the city), under chapter fourteen-c
Side 350 - twenty-five per centum of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding general municipal election at which a mayor was elected, protesting against the passage of such ordinance, be presented to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going into operation, and it shall be the duty of
Side 331 - Department of Public Affairs. 2. Department of Accounts and Finance. 3. Department of Public Safety. 4. Department of Streets and Public Improvements. 5. Department of Parks and Public Property. The council shall determine the powers and duties to be performed by, and assign them to the appropriate departments; shall prescribe the powers
Side 339 - the State of Iowa, and to obey the laws, and to aim to secure and maintain an honest and efficient force, free from partisan distinction or control, and to perform the duties of his office to the best of his ability.
Side 318 - general assembly, be adopted ? " and the election thereupon shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as provided by law in respect to other city elections. If the majority of the votes cast
Side 329 - shall be fined a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) nor more than ninety (90) days.