DUBLIN’S CITY MANAGER
POLICY AND MANAGEMENT. In 1930 legislation was passed in Eire which only imperfectly carried out the recommendation as regards the fusion of Dublin local authorities, notes the Irish correspondent of the “Sunday Times." This Act, however, did carry into effect one important recommendation which was that the whole basis oi city government in future should be recast, and that the functions of policy and management should be kept separate and distinct. Policy was to be the function of the elected representatives, while management was to be entrusted to a new official called the city manager. Their respective spheres were prescribed by law. City government thus became not unlike a commercial business, with a manager responsible to a board of directors elected by the shareholding ratepayers. A break was made with the bad old days when every petty appointment involved intensive canvassing and a’ bumper attendance automatically indicated thac some job was on foot. This city manager method has proved a success, and has since been extended to other Irish boroughs. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 7
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174DUBLIN’S CITY MANAGER Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 7
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