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UNITED STATES LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM: THE EMERGENCE OF THE CITY MANAGER
City Managers came into being in the early 1900.s because of the corruption, waste, and lack of responsiveness of local governments in the United States. Business leaders in large cities had begun to recognize that major changes in their local governments were desperately needed for their businesses to grow and prosper. Andrew Carnegie, a founder of United States Steel, had indicated that business needed a stable society to prosper. Local government had to become responsive to the changing needs of the poor, abused and neglected children, the mentally ill and the elderly, to cite a few examples. Many city governments were the opposite of responsive local government. They were corrupt and inefficient and run by powerful political machines. Citizen and business tax dollars were feeding wasteful local governments which could not be easily accessed by citizens or businesses.
