If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The town instantly proclaims a miracle, and Cora and her council eagerly anticipate tourist dollars as they boast of the water's curative powers.

The town council becomes suspicious of this and try to force the truth out, but Hapgood questions them until they begin to doubt their own sanity.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

The seat of the municipal council is the island's main town, Rønne.

On October 16, 2009, the town council accepted the " Boone 2030 Land Use Plan.

" While the document itself is not in any way actual law, it is used by the town council, board of adjustment, and other committees to guide decision making as to what types of development are appropriate.

The 39-strong town council is also dominated by the UMP, who hold 31 of the seats.

In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs.

Only Kawerau District, an enclave within Whakatane District, continues to follow the tradition of a small town council that does not include surrounding rural area.

However, the position was given to William Cleghorn, after Edinburgh ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume because he was seen as an atheist.

Over time, the town of Delphi gained more control of itself and the council lost much of its influence.

It remained a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged into the South Hams district, and became a successor parish of Dartmouth with a town council.

Bidder served on the town council, and his expertise was instrumental in draining the area which is now the centre of the town, but was then part of the River Dart.

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

The town council set about a huge rebuilding project, among which the promenade was rebuilt ; and an Olympic-size bathing pool was erected.

Hawick ( ;, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

The oba ruled with the advice from the uzama, a council consisting of chiefs of powerful families and town chiefs of different guilds.

In the 2004 local elections at county level it increased its number of councillors from 8 to 18 out of 883 and at town council level its number of councillors increased from 5 to 14 out of 744.

Kesgrave parish council officially adopted the title of a town in January 2000.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.

The town was within the Persian empire at that time and maybe the young Herodotus heard local eye-witness accounts of events within the empire and of Persian preparations for the invasion of Greece, including the movements of the local fleet under the command of Artemisia.

: Can it be supposed that the moment the electors are allowed a freedom of choice they will immediately be seized with a desire to vote for some distant candidate with whom they are unacquainted, rather than for those whom they know – who are near to them, whose speeches they have heard and who have personal recommendations to the favour and respect of the town and neighbourhood.

After the attack, McCoy walks towards a town and finds an abandoned store, where he takes candy bars and other provisions while gunfire is heard in the distance.

Despite the book's one-sided and prejudiced statements about gay men, one middle-aged matron from a small town in Wisconsin was heard to say " Until I read this book, I never actually knew precisely what it was that homosexuals did ".

It looked to me as if the whole town would break out into a riot ... Then suddenly I heard a heavy thump, and as if by magic the whole crowd dispersed in every direction ... One of the regular patrons had felled one of the noisiest rioters .... And it was the effect of this which had scattered everybody so suddenly.

They had heard from their neighbor, Ed " old man " Frink, that Ike had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up their brothers.

The Bideford town clerk, George McLauchlan, told him that locals had never heard of Manteo and the only town Bideford was twinned with was in France.

The night before the capture of Hippotae, a voice coming from Mount Helicon had repeatedly been heard at the town ; it would utter " I'm here ", and the suitors recognized it as that of Phocus.

The Erith Symphony Orchestra ceased to exist in 1972 and it was almost 30 years before another orchestra was heard in the town, when the Dartford-based, Orchestra of the Thames Gateway gave a concert there in 2004 and in subsequent years.

It depicts the Bible verse, " For I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan " ( Genesis 37: 17 ), which inspired the city founders in 1885 to change the name of the town from Poplar Head to Dothan.

There were so many that the noise of the whitesmiths and their hammering could be heard in every part of town.

The noise of the cannon was so loud that visiting fans were often taken aback at the boom, which could be heard throughout much of the town.

Bideford town clerk George McLauchlan, told him locals had never heard of Manteo and the only town Bideford was twinned with was Landivisiau in France.

During this gathering, chanting can be heard even from across town, and thousands of people camp in public parks and empty lots to attend the religious procession.

The radio station was very important to the small town and was the Lake Eufaula Giant, the voice could be heard all over lake Eufaula by turning into the station 102. 3.

The Antlers F5 was so powerful that it could be clearly heard, as well as seen, four miles ( 6 km ) east of town at the Ethel Road crossroads, and as far north as Kosoma.

Newcomers to the town heard little about the tragic past.