RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS AND THE MAINE MANAGER PLAN IN THE FUTURE
Chapter III
This document is reprinted with permission from "The Manager Plan in Maine" published by the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy. Copies of the complete book may be obtained by calling the Center at (207) 581-1646.
There are four recent developments that have affected the scope and content of the Maine manager plan in the recent past and which will likely carry into the future. These are:
1) the abandonments of the town meeting form of government,
2) the adoption of another town manager enabling act,
3) the adoption of constitutional home rule for Maine municipalities; and,
4) the introduction of the administrative assistant model.