Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help clear up the situation, the legislature limited new municipalities to a choice of five kinds of charters, labeling the types Plans A, B, C, D and E. Under the 1938 law already incorporated cities could change their charter to one of these by ballot, if they wished. Only Boston, which has a government similar to that outlined in Plan B was denied this privilege...
...Committee was unsuccessful, however, in the first election; not until 1940, on a second try, was Plan E voted as the new charter. A 7,500 majority, carrying all but three of the city's 11 wards, made Cambridge the first city in Massachusetts to use the new plan. In 1941 the first election employing Plan E was held. The successful candidates moved into office January...
...city affairs and can request that measures be passed by the councilmen. And, from his executive position he is directly responsible for the welfare of the city. Opponents of Plan E can find nothing wrong with this--they base all their arguments on the Proportional Representation article of the charter...
Overlapping departments under the old Plan B charter and caused doubling on single jobs and padding employees of the independent staffs. Atkinson, to avoid the unpleasantness of wholesale firing, reduced the size of the city staff by waiting for city employees to retire or leave. The vacated posts were then abolished. Most recent statistics on City employment put the Cambridge staff at about 2000 employers--approximately 1000 fewer than were drawing pay checks...
...times, under the current Manager, civil service appointments have gone to the man rated first by the Civil Service Commission. Councilmen have no authority in appointments according to the Plan E Charter. They can of course try to exert pressure on the City Manager...