At the block station the boys kept building racing tracks and knocking them over while Yudy He Wu made a municipal parking garage and lined the top with Matchbox cars.
Public health was made a municipal responsibility, and municipal public-health inspectors were hired.
Its mild climate, the lack of parks in its more dense areas and the propensity here to treat fitness a bit like performance art combine to make Los Angeles a municipal force in the art of improvised exercise.
Besides changing the library's charter to make it a municipal library, the board is also considering the creation of a foundation to help put the library on firmer financial footing, he said.
Better to make a "Steady Eddie" return on municipal bonds or corporate bonds if it's in your retirement account, necessarily, than to try to go play too much in the markets.
The Stord Society for the Conservation of Nature applied for municipal grants to make a critical report, but this was rejected by the majority of the municipal council.
Last weekend's haul, with a street value of $1.5 million, was the largest Ecstasy seizure ever made by a municipal police force, the authorities said.
The local football club, Nacional, was supposed to be playing in the new stadium, but they are having to make do with a municipal ground with two open ends, missing floodlight bulbs and a hand-operated scoreboard with wonky numbers.
And there is more garbage on the streets than municipal collectors can make a dent in".
