The primary difference between a city manager form of government and a mayor/council form is who has the ultimate decision-making authority, said Lynn Rex, executive director of the League of ...

Millcreek Township Government Study Commission members voted unanimously on Monday to recommend a new form ... elected council members or supervisors and operated by a professional manager or ...

Members of the Fountain Hills Town Council wanted to "send a message" to a local newspaper covering them. They did. A petty, ...

“The top administrators for cities and counties have extensive influence in the council-manager form of local government. They are paid by the taxpayers but are not directly accountable to them ...

Maurice Jones, the outgoing city manager of Charlottesville, will depart earlier than expected to lead the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In May, the City Council announced it would not ...

May 14 − To the Editor: Having read about how the State Police and the Rockingham Sheriff’s Office were collaborating with ICE to round up illegal aliens, I had to do something. At the end of ...

when the city was a council-manager form of government. The ordinance divides purchase orders into three levels. Anything under $2,500 doesn’t require a formal bid process or quotes. Anything ...

That’s because a city manager, under the council-manager form of local government used by Winston-Salem since 1948, wields more power, authority and responsibility than even an elected mayor.

The Alexandria City Council was dominated by members from ... similar to the one the city had before adopting the city manager form of government. The year was 1932. Del Ray had only been annexed ...

While the town operates under the council-manager form of government, the council convenes after the election to choose a mayor from the council members. This August, Councilwoman Kara Egbert and ...

tired of the city manager form of government, City Manager Walter Mynatt ... He pointed out to the City Council that T. P. S. had spent $800,000 improving its property since his original offer, ...