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A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document establishing a municipality such as a city or town. The concept developed in Europe during the Middle Ages . Traditionally, the granting of a charter gave a settlement and its inhabitants the right to town privileges under the feudal system .
Grand Island adopted a home rule charter in 1928; it was repealed by the voters on April 2, 1963. The city council subsequently repealed the charter on April 17, 1963, with Ordinance 3990. Nevada: No [14] Yes Home rule legislation SB29 took effect July 2015, and gave more power to county commissioners.
The city agreed, and the library opened to the public on May 30, 1900. [5] [6] As the city's first public library building, Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library greatly increased the volumes of literature available to the citizens of Kenosha. By the mid-1910s, the library had 124,368 volumes and sought to expand with a branch library. [7]
City County(ies) Population (2010 Census) Population (2020 Census) Class [2] ... State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2013-2014 - state and local government statistics
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
South Central Library System counties (in red) The South Central Library System (SCLS) is a consortium of 53 public libraries in 7 Wisconsin counties: Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk, and Wood. The mission of the South Central Library System is " to help its member libraries provide the best possible service to the public." [1]
Madison Public Library was created by city ordinance in November 1874 under the persuasion of Mayor Silas Pinney. [3] It opened on May 31, 1875 as the "Madison Free Library" in two rooms of City Hall. It would keep that name until it was renamed the Madison Public Library effective on January 1, 1959.
The group rented space for its library in a number of locations over the years and expanded into sponsoring a lecture series with such important speakers as Horace Mann, Horace Greeley and Ralph Waldo Emerson. [2] In 1878, the city-sponsored library began when the state legislature authorized Milwaukee to establish a public library.