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All Best Of Best of Pittsburgh Views You Had to Ask. September 18, Soon, Ms. Kaufman, you WILL all be cities Yes, soon you shall all be residents of And then your tax base will be ours, all ours! Sorry about that. The Allegheny Conference was just here, accompanied by a handful of burly metropolitanists from the Post-Gazette editorial board.
These people will stop at nothing to merge the municipalities that make up Allegheny County. And as you know, those municipalities consist of various kinds of city, township and borough. And while some folks think these governments should be consolidated, such an effort would face numerous hurdles. History teaches us that such divergent political traditions are usually only resolved through bloodshed. And the differences between the various forms of municipal government are even greater than that.
Boroughs have elected mayors and councils of seven or more members, along with a handful of tax collector and auditor positions. And though they are the simplest forms of government, townships come in different sizes too. First-class townships -- which must have at least people per square mile -- have a five-member board of commissioners, plus an elected treasurer and auditors.
Second-class townships have three to five supervisors, plus a handful of auditors and a tax collector. Many of the cities in Pennsylvania were boroughs that sought recognition as cities as they grew bigger. Today, a borough with at least 10, people can ask to become a city by putting the question to its voters. There are 56 cities in Pennsylvania, which is fewer than there are counties 67 and just a small percentage of the total number of municipal corporations 2, There are four classes of cities in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh is the only second class city in the Commonwealth, and Scranton is the sole second class A city. Scranton used to be a second class city, as well, but wanted to separate itself from Pittsburgh. It is like running a Pierce-Arrow automobile alongside of a Ford. The remaining 53 cities are all third class.
The uniformity clause, however, recognizes certain classes, like the different class cities, so the designations help lawmakers skirt that rule by making laws for all first class cities, for example, even though in practice it would still apply only to Philadelphia.
Cities, especially of the first and second class, tend to have a strong mayor and, thus, a more centralized government. As governmental units, cities generally have broad powers, and all first class and second class cities — i. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Scranton — have home rule charters, which further expands their autonomy.
Third class cities follow the Third Class City Code. What is a borough? Boroughs are defined, incorporated political subdivisions, but they tend to be smaller than cities. Most of the boroughs in Pennsylvania, for example, have populations under 5,, though there are exceptions. Boroughs follow a Borough Code; they tend to have a weak mayor system, where the elected council holds the majority of the power.
The mayor is primarily responsible for oversight of law enforcement, but can break a tie in council, as well. The council can appoint a manager to institute policies. What is a township? It is the most decentralized form of government. The two classes of township can have different numbers of elected commissioners, and first class townships can elect commissioners by wards rather than at large.
They function under the Township Code. What is a town? There is just one incorporated town in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg. It has six council members elected at large. The mayor is a voting member of council.
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