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Commission plan   /kəmˈɪʃən plæn/   Listen
Commission plan

noun
1.
A municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission.





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"Commission plan" Quotes from Famous Books



... City Manager.—A modification of the commission plan was tried in several cities of the South and Middle West in 1913-14. This has been called the city-manager plan. It is founded on the belief that the city needs business administration, and that a board of directors is not so ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe
... suggested that the city commissioners, instead of attempting to supervise the details of the city administration, should select a manager to do this. The scheme was put into effect in Sumter, South Carolina, in 1912. Like the commission plan, it became popular. Within eight years more than one hundred and fifty towns and cities had adopted it. Among the larger municipalities were Dayton, Springfield (Ohio), Akron, Kalamazoo, and Phoenix. It promised to create a new public service ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard


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