06-1723-A Affirming Commitment to Commission-Manager Form of Government

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RESOLUTION 06-1723 r-f A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA, AFFIRMING ITS COMMITMENT TO THE COMMISSION-MANAGER (COUNCIL-MANAGER) FORM OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT; PROVIDING FOR LEGISLATIVE. INTENT AND FINDINGS; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission of the City of Casselberry has the continuing and overriding responsibility to take all necessary steps and actions to ensure that sound principles and practices of local government management are used and applied in the City of Casselberry for the benefit of the citizens ofthe City of Casselberry; and WHEREAS, born out of the tum-of-the-century progressive reform movement, the council-manager system of local government is one of the few original American contributions to political theory and, in 1908, the city of Staunton, Virginia, instituted the first position legally defining, by ordinance, the broad authority and responsibility associated with today's professional local government manager and the city of Sumter, South Carolina, was the first city to adopt a charter incorporating the basic principles of council-manager government; and WHEREAS, nearly 3,500 clttes within the United States operate under the council-manager plan of local government which is the most used, most successful and popular form of government in cities with a population over 5,000 with over 92,000,000 Americans living in local governments having that form of government; and WHEREAS, 63% of the cities within the United States with populations of 25,000 or more, 57% of the cities within the United States with populations of 10,000 or more, and 53% of the cities within the United States with populations of 5,000 or more operate under the council-manager plan ofIocal government; and WHEREAS, some of the strengths of the council-manager form of municipal government, as opposed to a strong mayor form of government, include the fact that all council members or commissioners have equal rights, obligations and opportunities; the legislative and policy setting powers of cities are assigned to the councilor commission as a whole; and the position of city manager must be responsive in providing day-to-day public services to the councilor commission and the citizens of jurisdiction; and WHEREAS, the general role of the Mayor and the City Commission in the City of Casselberry under the council-manager form of government includes appointing a City Manager who has demonstrated administrative ability and who will carry out the