National Civic Review articles from March 2002

National Civic Review archives from March 2002

Note from the President.
March 22, 2002... From its inception, the National Civic League has focused on the importance of municipal government reform to the quality of our political life. Longtime readers of this journal will need no review of NCL's role in developing and updating model...

Assessing the CAO position in a strong-mayor government.(chief administrative officer)(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... Conceptualizing the CAO Position: The General Manager Plan Writing in 1954, Sayre first articulated the concept of a strong mayor form of municipal government with an appointed CAO. (3) He argued that large cities were turning to the...

Regionalism in metropolitan Chicago: a work in progress.
March 22, 2002... Successful New Regionalism The public and private sectors each have different roles to play in making regional governance mechanisms successful. The Role of the Civic Sector. The private sector has been an advocate for regional reform...

Unity and community in the twenty-first century.
March 22, 2002... The Community Sector in the Twenty-First Century In considering the future of our community sector in the twenty-first century, then, two overarching questions rise to the surface: What forms will community institutions take in the century...