4. The making of a thorough study of the civil service of the city as a basis of recommendations looking towards the establishment of standard grades of work, and corresponding rates of remuneration, the elimination of duplication of work, the abolition of unnecessary positions, the creation of necessary positions, increasing the rates of pay for underpaid work, and decreasing the rates of pay for relatively overpaid work. In general, the setting up of adequate civil service regulation and control in all departments of the city. 5. The informal constitution of an administrative board made up of the heads of city departments, meeting weekly or bi-weekly with the Mayor as chairman, the city clerk being secretary. In the absence of provincial legislation this informal committee could only meet for purposes of discussion, interdepartmental coöperation, and the formulation of policies to be referred to the board of control and city council. The minutes of the meetings of the administrative board should be published with the minutes of the council and board of control. 6. A thorough study of the assessment methods of the city with special reference to (a) business assessments, (b) assessment of improvements, (c) local improvement assessments, (d) equalization of assessments and (e) appropriations. 7. The providing of the city auditor's department with the necessary staff to strengthen the auditing control of the city's expenditures. 8. The provision of the necessary facilities for an energetic following up of the city's report on centralized accounting control and uniform departmental accounting to strengthen administrative control of the city's expendi 9. tures. A thorough study of the educational resources and needs of the city. Since its establishment in 1914, the bureau has assisted in the establishment of the scientific form of budget for the city. It has studied the accounting and estimate-making of two organization units of the city government, and has made recommendations concerning them. It has interested itself in the reorganization of the Fire Department; made a field survey of the City Street Cleaning and Garbage Disposal Service; conducted a help-your-city campaign; studied recreation facilities of the city, and wage conditions; has made inquiries into school problems; and has made studies of the assessments and of the Toronto city organization. The bureau maintains a reference library in which copies of all completed working papers of every study made by the bureau are carefully preserved. It maintains a reference library of books, reports, and monographs, without duplicating unnecessarily the material on the shelves of the public library. This library and reference service are open to the public, and a desk is kept free for such use. The bureau has also responded to many requests for speakers on civic topics. The bureau's publications are issued in the form of pamphlets containing reports of important investigations and studies, folders and pamphlets known as White Papers, and occasional folders known as Bulletins, which contain brief statements of information of current interest. PUBLICATIONS Annual report, 1st-4th, 1915-1918. Toronto, 1915- Citizen control of the citizen's business. White paper, No. 1 (3, 6, 13-16, 18-19). Toronto, 1915 Effective citizen coöperation. Bulletin No. 1 (65). March 6, 1914(Jan. 29, 1918). Toronto, 1914 Toronto's budget for 1915, 1916, 1917. Toronto, 1915-1917. (3) v. The citizen and the city's business. Toronto, Ontario press limited, n.d. 7 p. Why a Bureau of municipal research was needed two years ago. Why it is needed this year. Why it will be needed twenty years from now. Toronto, n.d. cover title, 16 p. Administrative study of the Toronto Department of public health as of March 1st, 1915, by the Bureau of municipal research, Toronto, Ont. . . . [Toronto, 1915] 53 p. illus., port., diagrs. Reprinted from The Public health journal, issues of July, August, September and October, 1915. Health survey. Report of administrative study of the Health department. November, 1915. An analysis of Toronto's budget for 1917, based upon the official estimates, rearranged by the Bureau of municipal research so as to show costs of services rendered and of things purchased. Toronto, 1917. 24 p. illus. Can a community plan its giving for community purposes, or must individuals continue to give without a knowledge of the community's needs and what resources exist to meet these needs? A discussion of haphazard versus planned philanthropy based on a study of the facts. Toronto, Issued by the Toronto Bureau of municipal research, 1917. 47, [1] p. incl. illus., diagrs., forms. Report on the schools of Akron, made for the Education committee of the Akron chamber of commerce, by Horace L. Brittain, director of the Toronto Bureau of municipal research . . . [Akron, 1917] 234 p. illus. Denver, Colo.: Civic and Legislative Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association. The Civic and Legislative Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association of Denver, Colorado, created in 1916, is the successor in its activities of the Colorado Taxpayers Protective League which was established in 1914. The bureau is presided over by a chairman and a secretary, the latter being a paid offiThe present secretary is also secretary of the Survey Committee of State Affairs of Colorado. cer. The first important work undertaken by the Colorado Taxpayers Protective League, soon after its creation, had been the employment in 1914 of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City to make a survey of certain departments of the city and county of Denver. This survey covered the Departments of Social Welfare, Safety, Property, Improvements, Finance, and Accounts and Auditing; the budget, indebtedness, the Civil Service Commission, the offices of the jury commissioner, of the election commission and of the public administrator, and the Juvenile Court. A critical examination was also made of the Denver charter. The report of the survey contains criticisms of organization, methods and conditions as found, and constructive suggestions. Much attention was also given by the league to the subject of a budget for Denver; and monthly general balance sheets and other financial statements for each of the last six months of 1915 as well as budget estimates for 1916 were prepared and issued. In 1916, a school survey committee consisting of one representative each of the Denver Board of Education, and the Colorado Taxpayers Protective League, made an extensive survey of the Denver public schools. The services of special experts were engaged, and reports made on the general organization and management and the work of the schools, vo cational education, and the business management, school buildings and grounds and health work in the schools. Following this survey, a special committee was appointed by the Civic and Legislative Bureau in collaboration with educators, school officials and business men, which drew up a tentative outline of a proposed educational code for the state of Colorado. During the same year the Institute for Public Service of New York City made a field survey of the Denver Federation for Charity and Philanthropy for the Colorado Taxpayers Protective League at the request of the federation. The survey covered twenty-six charitable agencies represented in the federation. A long list of constructive suggestions was presented in the report of the survey, and at a general meeting of the officers and trustees of all the institutions comprising the federation a resolution was unanimously adopted pledging the separate institutions "to unite their efforts in cooperating for the purpose of carrying out the plans and recommendations of this report as rapidly as possible." On January 11, 1917, the bureau began to issue, as a supplement to the weekly issue of The Commercial, the organ of the parent association, a Legislative Index for the use of members of the legislature and the public generally which contains notations of the progress each week of all bills before the legislature and other information of interest in connection with the progress of legislation that is pending or has been enacted. The bureau is supplying field work for students of the Denver University. A number of these students have been engaged upon the school code draft and other work, for which they obtain credits in their university courses. Students have also been stationed in the state legislature for the purpose of recording the progress of every bill and resolution in that body, this information being used for the Legislative Index. Following is a list of the publications of the Colorado Taxpayers Protective League and the Civic and Legislative Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association and of reports made under their auspices and with their coöperation. PUBLICATIONS OF THE COLORADO TAXPAYERS PROTECTIVE LEAGUE Denver-budget estimates for 1916. November, 1915. 84 p. Denver-general balance sheet and other financial statements, July, 1915-Dec., 1915. 6 v. Procedure for the office of the Commissioner of supplies. n.d. 17 p. Standard classification of accounts for the use of the city and county of Denver, with explanatory statements and ready reference index. By Thomas R. Lill for the Colorado taxpayers protective league. Denver, 1915. 57 p. Denver federation for charity and philanthropy. Summary report of field survey for the Colorado taxpayers protective league... Denver, 1916. 30 [2] p. Uniform system of accounts for . . . Denver, 1916. 81 p. City and county of Denver; report on a survey of certain departments .. prepared for the Colorado taxpayers protective league, by the Bureau of municipal research, New York, 1914. [Denver, 1914?] 583 p. plates, fold. plan, fold. diagrs. PUBLICATIONS OF THE CIVIC AND LEGISLATIVE BUREAU OF THE DENVER CIVIC AND COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION Tentative outline of proposed educational code for the state of Colorado, (revised to December 1, 1916) . . . [Denver, 1917?] 30 p. A proposed educational code for Colorado, prepared by committee appointed under the Civic and legislative bureau of the Denver civic and commercial association in collaboration with educators, school officials and business men from all parts of Colorado; and based upon the most progressive educational organization and legislation in other states viewed in the light of Colorado's needs. [Denver] 1917. 90 [2] p. Legislative index of the twenty-first General assembly. Prepared under the direction of the Civic and legislative bureau. Jan. II, 1917 Supplement to The Commercial, the weekly publication of the Denver civic and commercial association. Rochester, N. Y.: Bureau of Municipal Research, The Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research was incorporated April 20, 1915. The governing body is a board of eleven trustees of which the president of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce is ex-officio a member. The executive head of the bureau is the director who is also the secretary of the corporation. The purposes for which the corporation was formed, as expressed in the certificate of incorporation, are: I. To serve the City of Rochester, New York, as a nonpartisan and scientific agency of citizen inquiry; to promote |