Show NEW JERSEY TOWN STRONG FOR MANAGES MANAGER PLAN teaneck Te aneck N J jf this town ot of chich w aich adopted the mana manasar tr plan flan by a slim majority last tall fall would probably swamp the polli poll with votes ot of endorsement it an election were called this week for the manager in office just seven months has already saved his salary for or the first year twelve times over not only that the tax rate has been cut ten tell per cent from the previous year and the cost of municipal housekeeping has been reduced 5 per capita this latter probably sets a record since the reduction took place within two months after the city manager took office these facts are revealed in a study of tho the situation in teaneck jact made by the national municipal league despite mandatory increases increase in various items aggregating more than the budget adopted by the manager government tor for 1931 showed a net reduction of more than in the total to be raised by taxation how was it done not through a reduction in the services being per formed by take city government teaneck citizens report the municipality ci Is being better run thau than ever before the answer Is through efficiency in administrative organization Izat iza lou tion through jobs being given to capable qualified men instead of being doled out on the basis ot of political patronage small items tell the story introduction it hot patching in street repair work reduced by 40 per cen the cost of such repairs and turned out a better job than the cold patch method formerly used the year before the manager plan was adopted an appropriation of 0 was made tor for the towns dumps and three men employed thi the 1931 budget appropriated 2000 tor for the dumps but none of it Is being spent a contract having been given to a private individual glad to tend the dumps for or their salvage value and citizens actually are beginning to know what hat their government is doing tax bills of 1931 show on their face the distribution ot of the tax dollar with comparative figures for or 1930 and 1931 the senior high school class in groups has been given instruction in 1 n the opera ton ot of the he town toun government Te anecks manager paul A volker was an all experienced municipal adminis administrator before he came to Te teaneck aneck with a record of five years successful management at cape may new jersey and teaneck Is finding indin out daily that the municipal business like private business can be efficiently conducted when who are running it know how PT |