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LOCAL GOVERNME~ NT STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION <br />PAGE 7 <br /> <br />,- It is difficult for smaller communities to get a keep a competent manager. There <br /> is tendency for managers to move on to greener pastures. <br /> <br />STATUTORY CITIES <br /> <br />The state legislature has provided three forms of organization for statutory cities: Optional <br />Plan A, Opfiofial Plan B, and the Standard Plan. These plans provide voters with a wide <br />range of choices in determining the administrative structure of their city. <br /> <br />The Standard 'Plan has the common weak mayor-council form of government consisting <br />of an elected ~nayor, elected clerk (or elected clerk-treasurer) who serves as a voting <br />member of fl~elcouncil, and three or five councilmembers. The treasurer is also an elected <br />official but is i~ot a member of the council. <br /> <br />Optional Plan IA is a modification of the standard plan. It retains the weak mayor-council <br />charactermt,¢s~, but provides for an appointed clerk, treasurer (or combined cIerk- <br />treasurer), and a fourth councilmember. <br /> <br />Optional Plan,B is the council-manager plan. <br /> <br />The Standard Plan and Plan A are available to all cities. Plan B, however, is available <br />only to cities With a population greater than I000. All cities automatically organize under <br />Plan A unless~ they complete the required legal steps to put one of the other plans into <br />effect. <br /> <br /> <br />