"Sacramento's election showed the Fund's key role in educating the public on professional local government management," said Ron Gould, ICMA West Coast VP.

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