Recently, many authorities have operated as extensions of the governor's office, with little disclosure.
In the harsh financial climate, amid culls and reshuffles, many authorities have opted for a rotating roster of senior managers.
More than 20% of council's financial, HR and payroll services are now outsourced and many authorities have reported millions in savings.
Although many authorities have long noted the defensive and thermoregulatory functions of these structures, the plates, and the spikes, they may have principally served as indicators that allowed different species of stegosaurs to recognize each other.
Many authorities have focused more on improving the efficiency of their own buildings and private homes although this may be down to a misguided notion that "businesses were already doing this", says Vivienne Thomson, a senior consultant at JLL.
In American debates over the National Security Agency's warrantless collection of "metadata," this is one reason that many authorities have been quick to defend these techniques; a constellation of dialled phone numbers can be used to build a "link chart" exposing the hierarchy of an organization.
"Neither did local authority staff always target their efforts to improve the performance of those schools that needed most support even though many authorities had procedures to intervene.
Many authorities have already clustered together regionally, to form four "consortia" but from September they will be in charge of improving schools.
Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TPA, said: "It is good news that the number of senior council staff making more than £100,000 a year is falling, although that may only be because many authorities have finished paying eye-watering redundancy bills".
Given that Shah's writings and translations of Sufi teaching stories were designed with that purpose in mind, he recommended them to those interested in assessing the matter for themselves, and noted that many authorities had accepted Shah's position as a spokesman for contemporary Sufism.
