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It was decided, however, to municipalize the tramways so the Company continued in operation until 1905 when the Christchurch Tramway Board acquired its assets.

In 2006, the General Assembly approved creation of two new cities, Milton and Johns Creek, that would completely municipalize North Fulton.

"If you ask me," Mr. Kessel said, "these villages are wasting a lot of money and are being manipulated by consultants telling them they can municipalize when they can't."

Proposition F would have replaced the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission with a more potent municipal agency, which would have been authorized to seize the company's transmission lines through eminent domain, a precursor to deciding whether to municipalize the city's power market.

She also focused on protecting neighborhood health care, created a comprehensive homeless plan, increased funding for AIDS services, wrote the City's needle exchange legislation, cosponsored the minority business laws, crimes legislation, protected workers rights, assured environmental protection, helped small business, and furthered efforts to municipalize the City's electrical utility system.