Then there was the ballot proposal to hire an administrator, who would have been responsible for personnel decisions and tracking the town's finances, duties now entrusted to the supervisor.
He qualified in law and Swahili and in 1943 was appointed district officer and commissioner in Tanganyika, gaining practical experience in accounting, finance, magisterial duties, civil engineering, local government, land rights and transfers, public speaking and general management.
According to Mr. Nye, the prince reinvests the duchy's capital gains for "future dukes," while his annual income from the estate finances public duties performed by himself, his wife, his sons and his daughter-in-law.
In addition there should be fast, real recompense to companies and workers harmed by unfair trade, and these payments should be financed by duties on the unfairly traded goods, so they would not increase the deficit.
Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, has signalled his determination to veto plans to give Monitor, the body that currently scrutinises hospital finances, the duty of promoting competition in the provision of health services.
In February's budget the finance minister cut duties on cold-storage equipment and allowed Indian companies to borrow abroad to pay for it.
Young has been shouldering most of the finance director's duties since Marc Puckett resigned from the position in 2009 for undisclosed reasons.
Those two factors effectively finance the fuel duty freeze and the changes to personal allowances, so the Treasury can't afford to be wrong.
Local government is barely able to finance its core statutory duties, without thinking ahead to the effects of climate change.
During those lean years, Abdullah Sulaiman's duties as finance minister mostly involved shaking down Abdul Aziz's subjects for tax money and collecting tolls from pilgrims on hajj.
