The municipal cap law was first enacted in 1976 and provided for a 5 percent limit on almost all non-education municipal expenditures.

Before 1882, municipal expenditures were covered with several types of taxes.

Because French law forbids municipal expenditures on churches, the main worship space on the second floor will be used as a performance space.

The Patriot-News said the purchases ranked as "one of the more bizarre municipal expenditures in the state, if not the country."

He cast the sole vote against various municipal expenditures a few months later, arguing that the city should instead prioritize a property tax cut.

The mil rate has fallen somewhat mostly in response to decreases in municipal expenditures.

Labour costs are relatively low but waste management is generally a higher proportion of municipal expenditure.

Yet the existing tax base in almost every municipality throughout the United States is an important source of revenue for funding municipal and school expenditures.

"It is an area of municipal expenditure which has more of a political halo effect than almost any other."

This is especially true today under laws that put a limit on municipal expenditures, he said.