
"Every citizen wants to look at their municipal building with some level of confidence." You want it to be professionally managed," Schuettler said. Schuettler estimated there's a need for managers in about 400 of the state's municipalities that he described as "full-service," with police, public works and other departments to run. Many of the municipalities are so small that it would be hard to justify or cover the expense of paying a manager. Local governments need them too, but most of Pennsylvania's 2,560 municipalities operate without them, according to Rick Schuettler, executive director of the Pennsylvania Municipal League.

Whatever they're called - superintendents, chief executive officers or presidents - they're managers.
