Brazoria County

Across the globe, governments struggle to sufficiently represent their citizens. The breaking down of government responsibilities varies between countries, but one aspect that no country can agree on is what constitutes a municipality and how much responsibility a municipality should have. Should a city region be split into competing small municipalities, or should there be one municipal government for the entire region? Across Europe following World War II fragmentation due to land reform was favoured

Bell California is a small community located south-east of Los Angeles California. In the summer of 2009 that was caught up in a corruption scandal. The city manager Robert Rizzo was making $800,000 a year, and the Chief of Police Randy Adams was making $457,000 a year much more than even the Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department makes, (Coolican, 2010). The city council to include the mayor of the city were all part-time employees at the municipality only making monthly meetings and

My vision for Miami County is going to involve a lot of change. The first thing I would want to do the most work and change is the main part of Miami County which is the area which has the courthouse and the stores beside it. Most buildings that Miami County has have been there for many years,family owned, and have never been changed to fit the more modern times. Therefore this where the change would come in and we would start to redo the buildings and make them more attractive and bigger. Doing

4.2 White Paper on Local Government According to the White Paper on Local Government, local authorities have the following responsibilities in terms of their obligation to economic development: ● Provide marketing and investment support in order to attract potential support to their locality. ● Small business support services should be providing to assist small entrepreneurs. ● To provide targeted assistance to a particular sector in the local economy that has to potential to expand. ● By supplementing

The counties in Texas have an odd relationship with the state government and the Texas constitution. The counties are under the state and they are required to handle duties that the state rants them. However, the counties are strongly against the involvement of the state government. Brown (2014) states that “both county officials and county residents see them as local governments and resent any state ‘interference’” (p.110). The counties are charged with the responsibilities of collecting taxes on

describing how some states have consolidated the county and city functions into a single entity, and my opinion on whether or not Texas would be better maintaining its several distinct types or consolidating them into a single larger entity. The commissioner’s court has several roles such as taxes, discretion in administering state programs, determine how much state funding is provided to each special area (medical, supplemental food, etc.), upkeep and new county jails, all while providing health and safety

trends continue, approximately 40 percent of these new households will be captured by Collin County, significantly driving the residential market in this region. In fact, 98 percent of all population growth in the PMSA is expected to be captured by the three county areas of Collin, Denton and Dallas. 2. Housing Affordability, Average Sales Price and Growth As it is illustrated in figure 2.1, Collin County has the highest percentage of families that can afford median-priced homes in Dallas market

Carry Amelia Nation was born on November 25, 1846 in Garrard County, Kentucky. Her parents, Mary Campbell Moore and George Moore, soon relocated their family to Cass County, Missouri and when the Civil War broke out, moved their family to Kansas City. Carry began helping the injured in nearby Independence, Missouri where she soon met a young Civil War doctor by the name of Charles Gloyd. The two got married on November 21, 1867. The couple, however, separated shortly before the birth of their daughter

parks and recreation to be ever increasing in both the public and private sector. To accomplish my goals in the future I must first be able to get my foot in the door, Internships with Miami-Dade County assistant director's office or the operations office seem to be the best way to get into a job with the county government. Nevertheless, there are skills that I must be proficient before attempting to continue

out the schedule for any local city council or county commission public meeting and attend either in person or online to observe the deliberations. This observation paper is of the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) for Broward County. The meeting was held on March 28, 2017 at 10:08 a.m. The Broward County Charter requires a division among the legislative and administrative functions of government and the BOCC is the legislative branch of the county government (Borward.org. 2017. para. 1). The BOCC