Managing Your City or Town: A Reference Guide for the New Public Official - Softcover

Griffin, Kenton G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819194042 ISBN 13: 9780819194046

Publisher: University Press of America, 1994

Synopsis

Managing Your City or Town will help readers understand practical skills and knowledge needed in the daily operation of a municipal government. This text provides a tool for educators with which they could better prepare their students for the problems that will face them as governmental administrators. Contents: Small City Government: An Overview; Your Most Important Jobs; Personnel; Elected Officials; Training; Budget; Privatization; Purchasing; Public Relations; General Government Department; Police Department; Fire Department; Public Safety Department; Communications/Dispatch Section; Drainage; Street Department; Water Department; Sewer Department; Sanitation Department; Public Works Department; Building Department and Code Enforcement; Planning Department; Development Department; Parks and Recreation Department; Maintenance Department; Vehicles, Radios and Organization; General Comments; Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Index.

About this title

About the Author

Kenton G. Griffin is City Manager for Livingston, Montana.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819194042
• ISBN 13: 9780819194046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292