Australia to my people. I am now inputted my feet into the river beds and reconnected to Mother Earth and connected to municipal responsibilities and education to force the hand of what you're alluding to?
either by recycling or composting. Municipal compost programs are fantastic.And then there are companies.
And treasury bonds at 5.5%. So, the realm of fixed income investing, which would include things like municipal bonds, money market funds, um corporate bonds, government bonds, allkinds of interest-bearing investments, for the most part, those investments are relatively low-risk and low-returning
Yeah, just sounded good. municipally , whether it's a large, medium, or small chain of grocery stores, we are going to just buy
With the extraordinary amount of creative talent and financial power that circulates through this part of the US, we can be at the forefront of technological breakthroughs and municipal services in an unprecedented way. And if we took a quick moment to improve something as simple as the way we get around, the benefits to health, the benefits to business
So in the story of the Sirens, it's a story of temptation. the municipal bond tax exemption is not in the Constitution.
fish on it. Charles Looff, who was a very famous carousel carver in the early 1900s, wanted to build an amusement pier somewhere in the area and he chose next to the Santa Monica Municipal Pier as his ideal destination. Now Charles, he was famous, like I said, a famous carousel carver, he carved the very first carousel horses for Coney Island and then he began expanding his enterprise all
the Newcomb Pier, the Enid Newcomb Pier was going to expire anyway and she was, her orders were to tear down her part of the Pier at the end of that, that lease. The Municipal Pier, of course, I just said was in a serious state of disrepair, still owned by the city. Perry Scott thought to replace both, since the Newcomb Pier was gonna be torn down anyway, to replace both with a bridge to this manmade island. The manmade island would have a resort hotel and a convention center and all sort of shopping and, and fun
One way would have been to let one or two extra banks collapse. including municipalities, corporations, other financial entities, 10 times that.
And there's versions that are used to this day in the United States. 100 municipalities in the United States use some version of proportional representation. And it could take 33% of the vote to get elected, or 25%, or 20%, or 15%.
Landfills-- no one likes to live near a landfill. So municipalities don't give out tons of landfill licenses, because then nobody wants to live there. And that reduces the tax base.
- Dutch marriage rights require you to state your profession, and I said that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam didn't accept it on the ground that there was no such profession. And believe it or not, that under the heading "profession," my marriage act shows the ridiculous entry, "theoretical physicist."
confidence in their government. So, that's why I always stress the importance of good governance and associations with democratic socialism even at the municipal level, even when it comes to constituent services, because we have a lot of work to do to make sure that people trust their government again.
At the federal level in the United States, we don't have any one of these three policies in place. At the municipal level, some cities have now moved toward excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, like Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle. But others have not yet made that move.
get out there and have a ball while we're doing it. And the municipal operators, they meet, the general managers meet monthly as a group to talk about issues of commonality.
get out there and have a ball while we're doing it. to the municipal operators and the transit agencies information and ideas on how technology can help address
This is Max Gundel, who's the city councilor on the board of Spiegelgrund. He's the municipal director of Spiegelgrund. This is Erwin Jekelius, who's the head doctor of Spiegelgrund.
turn human waste and municipal waste into freshwater and biofuel and in the process you sequestered and destroyed
rights in municipal elections.
There was a municipal bond crisis.
And a municipality, or a city, they don't need to always pay for this stuff.
especially the municipalities that are interested, to sort of fast track some of the permitting and that kind of stuff.
and every other municipality law enforcement municipality-- to treat this community this way without us watching, witnessing, and going back and telling
is a municipality, a country in the eurozone, whatever, or even a community that wants to develop its own payment system, parallel payment
So that route means nothing. Most German municipalities don't allow you to wash your car in your driveway or on the street.
And now the municipalities pay her to recycle and pick up trash.
a lot of communities that have fewer municipal resources to impound animals into cages, they actually
It was full of old municipal softball team records and chairs from government offices.
What can we get from the municipal bond market?
You don't raise your hand in third grade for that. And so my background is actually in municipal finance. And I worked for the city.
Seward Park's in the oldest municipal park, the first municipal park in the United States on the Lower East Side.
So it's like managing a good municipal government, really.
And maybe someone's violating some municipal code or legal provision.
This year we have city and municipal , local, regional elections.
Uber is something other than a municipal taxi service.
Just think for a minute about the municipal documents in your own life.
The line up is the municipal court judge is first in line.
but the fisherman immediately became attracted to the Pier. In fact, a week before the Pier opened, a fisherman named John McCreary, snuck out to the end of the Pier and caught a yellowtail and declared the Santa Monica Municipal Pier as the best fishing spot in all of Santa Monica Bay. Quickly, of course, fisherman were lining up and down the Pier. There was a man who sweared he would fish on the Pier until the day he died. He did. And back in those days,
but are all the way down to municipalities and even smaller-- to schools, and to schools, and jails, and in universities.
We're meeting with LA-area municipalities.
in the door in smaller municipalities and then expanding into LA when we can.
If the local school board or municipality has raised taxes, I don't want to know from win-win.
So the statistics reveal that very few municipalities all over the world-- city councils all over the world--
Berkeley was the first to make that move in 2014. I wish those taxes would spread more quickly at the municipal level. But the real goal would be to do things at the state level and the federal level.
get out there and have a ball while we're doing it. We have four fully electric buses in our municipal bus fleet, which is the DASH bus system.
get out there and have a ball while we're doing it. We are also looking at the electrification of our municipal fleet as well.
Except there was also this thing called a municipal code that said, in New York, you needed to be wearing three pieces of gender appropriate clothing
is facing-- the role of your organization and what the Municipal Art Society does is critically important.
And so I think the interventions are mostly on the municipal level, right?
That's where the city got its fuel for schools and municipal buildings.