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<title>Scott Stringer - Manhattan Borough President</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/</link>
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<title>2010 Strategic Policy Statement for the Office of the Manhattan Borough President</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1667#1667</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial&quot;&gt;This document outlines the borough&amp;#8217;s most pressing policy issues and the office's plans to address them over the next four years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Recommendations to the New York City Charter Revision Commission</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1577#1577</link>
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<title>Individual Manhattan Schools Reporting Problems Relating to Physical Facilities</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1583#1583</link>
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_parent&quot; href=&quot;http://www.mbpo.org/uploads/SchoolNarrativesCatalogue2.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;School Narratives Catalogue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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<title>Community Task Force on NYU Development</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1530#1530</link>
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&lt;p&gt;Findings and Recommendations&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Manhattan Borough Board Budget Priorities Report FY 2011</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1514#1514</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;A&amp;nbsp;report detailing the budgetary priorities of the Manhattan Borough Board and community leaders throughout Manhattan.&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1495#1495</link>
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&lt;p&gt;A comprehensive and unified vision for New York City&amp;#8217;s food  policy, developed based on the ideas generated by the NYC Food &amp;amp; Climate Summit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Office of the Manhattan Borough President's First Term Report: 2006-2009</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1489#1489</link>
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&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;Each January since 2007, the Borough President's Office has released an annual report summarizing its accomplishments over the previous twelve months. This year, as the Borough President's second term begins, this report looks back at not one but four years of proud service to the Borough of Manhattan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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<title>Falling Apart At the Seams</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1467#1467</link>
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&lt;p&gt;A Critical Analysis of New York City&amp;#8217;s Failure to Enforce its Building Code &amp;amp; A Roadmap to Reform&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>School Daze: Fuzzy Numbers Mean Overcrowded Schools</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1362#1362</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;This report is the second update of Borough President Stringer&amp;#8217;s April 2008 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic; font-weight: bold&quot;&gt;Crowded Out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;study. The focus here is on the accuracy of the ten-year enrollment projections, covering the decade &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt&quot;&gt;from 2007 to 2016, which provided the basis for the Capital Plan developed by the New York City School Construction Authority and recently adopted by the City Council and the Mayor (the 2010-2014 Five-Year Capital Plan).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>A 7-Point Plan To Reconstitute The Pre-2002 School Governance Structure</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1334#1334</link>
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A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.libertycontrol.net/uploads/mbp/DOC022.PDF&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;plan to reconstitute&lt;/a&gt; the pre-2002 school governance system
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<title>Sidewalks Under Siege</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1310#1310</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;&quot; align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Halting the spread of illegal outdoor ATMs.&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Include Healthy Food Infrastructure in the City&#8217;s Environmental Review</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1055#1055</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Planning for Healthy Neighborhoods: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Include Healthy Food Infrastructure in the city&amp;#8217;s Environmental Review &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>FoodStat</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1044#1044</link>
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&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Measuring the Retail Food Environment in NYC Neighborhoods&lt;/font&gt;
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<title>A New Day For Parental Engagement</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1032#1032</link>
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A report on how to improve parental engagement in the New York City public school parent community
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<title>Manhattan Borough Board Budget Priorities Report FY 2010</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1020#1020</link>
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A&amp;nbsp;report detailing the budgetary priorities of the Manhattan Borough Board and community leaders throughout Manhattan.
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<title>Uncalculated Risk    </title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1012#1012</link>
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A report on how plans to drill for gas in Upstate New York could threaten New York City's water system.
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<title>Office of the Manhattan Borough President's 2008 Annual Report</title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1025#1025</link>
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<title>Food In the Public Interest  </title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1005#1005</link>
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&lt;P align=left&gt;A report on how New York City&#8217;s food policy holds the key to hunger, health, jobs and the environment.&lt;/P&gt;&amp;nbsp;
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<title>Saving the Mom and Pops                         </title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=1002#1002</link>
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&lt;P&gt;A report on ten ways to support small independent retail stores and keep Manhattan&amp;nbsp;vibrant.&lt;/P&gt;
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<title>Illegal Street Vending </title>
<link>http://www.mbpo.org/release_details.asp?id=993#993</link>
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&lt;P&gt;A report on the&amp;nbsp;unique case of Ground Zero street vendors.&lt;/P&gt;
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