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...Brooklyn Center mayor Mike Elliott said on Monday that the suburb’s council had voted 3-2 to give him authority over the police department and that the city manager — a professional role in many municipalities...
...The two developments were linked, moreover, in a very tangible sense: the new Sparkassen, or local savings banks, hoovered up private savings, and made them available to municipalities to fund canals and...
...In other developments, Mr Cordish used alternative public-private mechanisms such as tax-increment financing — debt issued by a municipality and serviced with taxes from the redeveloped area....
...The town is divided into two separate municipalities; the “township” is a 16 sq mile area with a part-suburban, part-rural feel that completely surrounds the more prestigious “borough”, which is 2 sq miles...
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