Commission on Government Efficiency & Economy       ( CGEE)

Series V. Research Reports & Memoranda

Boxes: 1-10/ 11-20/ 21-30/ 31-47

Table of Contents Box 11. Volume XI - 1940
Index - 1940
Staff Report - 1939
Capital Appropriations
Salary and Wage Rates
Automobile Tax Delinquency
Baltimore's Parking Problem
Baltimore Elections and Proportional Representation
Financial Data - 1940
Cost of Baltimore County Government
Bureau of Receipts System
School Question
Budget Revenue and Appropriations
Future Sources of Water Supply
Baltimore's Budget Problems for 1941
1941 City Budget
Basis for Disapproving New Loans
Pay-As-You-Go
Public Utility Bonds
National Defense and City Budget Making
Where City's Budget Dollars Go
$370,000,000 for City Purposes, 1935-1940
Public Welfare Riddle
Memo on Bond Issues
Paving and Sewer Loans
Salaries and the Budget
Problem of Public Administration
Summary of Budget Figures 1930 to Date
Tax Rate for 1941
Impersonal Status of CGEE
Board of Estimates Budget Meeting
Fifty-Fifty Paving Plan
Summary of Commisssion Recommendations
Commission Position on 1941 Budget
Proposed 1941 Budget
Duty of City Council
Salaries and Salary Increases
Proposed Operating Increases - 1941
Mayor's Statement Regarding CGEE Recommendations
Sun Forum Letters
State Proposals Adversly Affecting Baltimore
22 Years of Baltimore Budgets
Relation Between Commission and Tax Foundation
Acts of Legislature
Three Platoon System for Fire Department
Sheet Asphalt Street Repairs - 1940

Box 12. Volume XII - 1941
Index - 1941
Letter to Governor O'Conor Regarding Fiscal Matters
The City Exhibition
Securities Tax Revenue and Income Tax
State Budget Summary
Proposed State Budget
Salaried Positions, 1941-1943
Maryland Budget System Improvements
Departmental Expenses in State Budget
Summary of Departmental Expenses
Proposal to Increase Positions in Supervisor of Elections Office
Staff Report - 1940
Public Schools
Financial Data - 1941
Salary Policies
Commission Reply to Evening Sun Editorial
Rise in City Budget
City Personnel Cost
Analysis of City Budget Costs
Income Tax Reduction Plan
Summary of Budget Cutting
City Budget and Tax Rate - 1942
1942 Budget and Tax Rate
Paving
Refuse
Police Pensions - 1941

Box 13. Volume XIII - 1942
Index - 1942
Municipalities and the War
To Aid the War Effort
Budget Reduction
1942 Budget and Added Positions
Staff Report - 1941
Street Lighting in Baltimore
Financial Data - 1942
Resolution Concerning Need for Federal Economy
City Government in the War
Cut Costs to Help the War
Water Loan Proposal
State Government Can Save
Why Two Appointees to do the Work of One?
Fiscal Year End Data
Civil Defense and Revenue Shortages
Who "Runs" Baltimore?
Proposed $32,000,000 Water Loan
City's Wartime Budgeting Problem
Baltimore's Water Supply
Municipal Employees Unionism
Reducing Municipal Budget
Baltimore's Personnel
Budget Appropriations 1942 and 1943 Compared

Box 14. Volume XIV - 1943
Index - 1943
Staff Report - 1942
Baltimore's Water Supply
Baltimore's Water Problem
New State Budget
City's Water Supply Proposal
State Budget
Conference on Water Loan
Memo on Water Proposal
State's Proposed Budget
State Budget System
New Approach to Water Question
Statement of Water Proposal
$12,500,000 Water Proposal
City's Purchasing System
Financial Data - 1943
Association of Commerce Memo
Appointment of City Officials
Steps to Strengthen Municipal Operating Structure
City Law Department
City Jobs Paying $4,000 or More
Sun Editorial
Municipal Insurance Practices
Physical and Population Characteristics of Baltimore
$1,793,000 Due Taxpayers
Post-War Public Improvement Plan
CGEE - Twenty Years of Public Service, 1923-1943
City Budget Making for 1944
Proposed Post-War Public Works Program
1944 Budget Proposal
Analysis of Post-War Public Works Program
Re-Investment of Sinking Funds

Box 15. Volume XV - 1944
Index - 1944
Staff Work - 1943
Reconstituting City Charter
Postwar Public Works Program
Voting Habits in Baltimore
Financial Data - 1944
Debt-Creating Proposal
New Loan Proposal
Contingent Funds
Letter to Mayor - Loan Proposals
Municipal Personnel
Postal Announcement
State and Local Relationships
Citizens Do Not Vote
Budget for 1945
Long-Term Maintenance of City Property
Loan Programs
Proposed City Loans
Fire Department Salaries
Operation of Municipal Stadiums
Budget and Tax Rate
Application of State and Local Relationships
Finding New Sources of Revenue
Increase Budget for 1945
Budget Reductions

Box 16. Volume XVI - 1945
Index - 1945
Permits and Licenses
Staff Work - 1944
Position on Freeway
Budget Proposal for 1946/1947
State Budget
Through Highway
Honorary Degree Conferred on Chairman
An Unsound Proposal
Police Department Salaries
Public Improvement Program
Two New Loan Program
Financial Data - 1945
Ordinance No. 358
New City Jail
State of Maryland Surplus
Police Salaries
Municipal Personnel
Municipal Bureau of Audits
Post Mortem Examiners Commission
Clean City Campaign
Municipal Budget 1945
1946 Budget Cutting
Cut, Tax and Save Policy
New Tax Devises
State and Local Sharing of Taxes
1946 Budget Proposal - Short Analysis

Box 17. Volume XVII - 1946
Index - 1946
Staff Work - 1945
More Jobs, Pay & Money to Spend
Real Estate Planning
Baltimore Debt
Additional Patrolmen
Payroll of Jobholders
Financial Data - 1946
Police Survey
Water, Highway and Sewer Improvements
1943 Water Loan Program
City Charter Revision
Payroll Bureau Machines
Firemen and Police Salaries
Distribution of Tax Revenues - Summary Report
Budget Considerations
November Election
New City Debt
Harbor Improvement Proposal
Airport & Harbor Improvement
Budget - 1947

Box 18. Volume XVIII - 1947
Index - 1947
Staff Work - 1946
Sheet Asphalt Street Maintenance
State Fiscal Policy & Practice
City Loan Funds
State's Initial Budget
Citizens Should Vote
$60,500,000 Loans Proposal
Police Commissioner
Financial Data - 1947
Key Appointive Positions
Appointment of City Officials
Recommendations of Planning Commission
Paving Administration Methods
Paving Inspection Trip
Field Studies of Sheet Asphalt Streets
Low Cost Methods
Dangerous Debt Creation
Public Welfare in Baltimore
1948 Budget Proposal
Paving Situation
Department of Welfare
Paving Program

Box 19. Volume XIX - 1948
Index - 1948
Staff Work - 1947
Sheet Asphalt Resurfacing
Hanover Street
Fianancial Data - 1948
New Loan Proposal
Street Maintenance Progress Report
Public Welfare Department
Hanover Street Resurfacing
Sale of City Bonds
Prices Resurfacing Materials
New Loan Proposals
Asphalt Resurfacing Costs
Budgets Increase Rapidly
Sydenham Hospital
Proposed Budget - 1949
Proposed Budget and Future
Reduce Budget
Salaried Positions - 1949
Proposed City Budget

Box 20. Volume XX - 1949
Index - 1949
Staff Work - 1948
Paving Prices
Paving Data
Maryland Budget Making
State Budget Proposals
Proposed Budget Increases
Baltimore City Hospitals
Financial Data - 1949
City Hospitals
Municipal Personnel
City Finances
Welfare Financing
Job & Pay Trends
City Planning
Cost of Maryland Government
Improved State Budgeting System
Water Loan Proposals, 1942 to Date
Public Improvements and Bonds
Curtailing City Spending
Efficient State Government
Maryland Budget Finances
Maryland Taxes and Revenues
City Revenues and Spending
Maryland General & Special Funds
Tax Rate - 1950
State Appropriations
Budget and Tax Rate - 1950
State Budget
State Debt & Public Improvement