“The outcome of the Sacramento election proved once again what a critical role the Fund can play in helping inform the public about the value of professional local government management,” added Santa Monica City Manager and ICMA West Coast VP Rod Gould.

On 11/4, Sacramento residents will vote on a proposal to abandon council-manager government in favor of the mayor-council form. ICMA issued a response to the proposal, submitted on behalf of 4 Calif. members.

At this exact moment 100 years earlier, the city council had voted to hire Westmount’s first general manager.

One community adopted C-M government, another retained the commission form, and a third rejected a proposal to create a county manager position.

Navolato has established the first nonpartisan municipal administrator position in Mexico, thanks to years of groundwork by ICMA México-Latinoamérica and ICMA members.

This document presents statistics on municipalities in the United States with populations of 2,500 and greater