He was to cut the city budget by $700,000, hired city manager L.P. Cookingham, and began to expand the city limits.
Named after Laurie Perry Cookingham, the Institute promotes community building and development as a means to contribute to urban area revitalization through scholarship, practice and community engagement in the Kansas City area.
In 1931, he was named city manager of Plymouth, Michigan and subsequently became the director of the work division of the Federal Emergency Relief Association in Wayne County, Michigan.
Bobb has received the L.P. Cookingham Award for Career Development and four Innovation Awards from the International City Management Association.
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