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It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us is a book published in 1996 by the then First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton. In it, Clinton presents her vision for the children of America.
In 1878, the legislature passed the Borough Act, allowing landowners in an area less than 4 square miles (10 km 2) and with fewer than 1,000 people to seek a referendum on secession from the township to become a new borough. This referendum could take place on petition of the owners of 10 percent of the land, as measured by value, in the area ...
The term borough was adopted in 1898 to describe a form of governmental administration for each of the five fundamental constituent parts of the newly consolidated city. Under the 1898 City Charter adopted by the New York State Legislature, a borough is a municipal corporation that is created when a county is merged with populated areas within ...
The Municipality of Anchorage is a consolidated city-borough, as are Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Yakutat, and Skagway. Nearly half of the state's area is part of the vast Unorganized Borough, which has no borough-level government at all. The United States Census Bureau has divided the Unorganized Borough into ten census areas for statistical purposes.
Often, a borough is a single town with its own local government. However, in some cities it is a subdivision of the city (for example, New York City, London, and Montreal). In such cases, the borough will normally have either limited powers delegated to it by the city's local government, or no powers at all.
The borough and Vallone are still negotiating a PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) agreement. A PILOT is a financial agreement to give a developer an incentive to undertake a redevelopment project,
In Alaska, it is known as a unified municipality, unified home rule borough, or city and borough. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The United States Census Bureau generically refers to any such jurisdiction as a consolidated city , regardless of the jurisdiction into with the city has consolidated. [ 7 ]
Costs and zoning restrictions forced Habitat for Humanity to give the Susquehanna Street property back to Franklin Borough.