Hays County

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

The Geography of Ellensburg The Pacific Northwest has an amazing landscape throughout several states. I’m from the great state of Washington, and my hometown of Ellensburg, Washington has a lot to offer. Ellensburg is located in Kittitas county near the Yakima river, and Wilson Creek. Ellensburg has a lot to offer, from the First National Bank of Ellensburg and the Ellensburg Hook & Ladder Company being built in 1883 (City of Ellensburg, nd). There is the beautiful Central Washington University

Impact of Agriculture on Clayton and Fayette County North Fayette Valley Middle School Mariya Yasinovska, McKenna Kemp, Cody Smith, Andrew Schmitt Agriculture impacts all of our lives in many different ways. There is the economic impact of agriculture and the physical impact. Agriculture is one of the main industries in Clayton and Fayette counties. These counties export a lot of agriculture products to the rest of the U.S.A lot of people’s careers are in the agriculture industry

industries became very economically important for years to come. 1873- Gold rush in the swauk creek area, mine gets 1,000 acres. Local farmers of Kittitas county are the first to rush to get good but soon after people from all over the world have come for gold. This bringing a more diverse community. 1883- November 28th Kittitas county became a county. Kittitas has different towns within all with a different but similar history. The towns including cle elum, roslyn,

Champaign County was first covered by the Illinois Glacier (191,000—130,000 years ago), which leveled the region and covered it in a deposit of boulder clay. The county’s topography was then formed by the Wisconsin Glacier about 20,000 years ago. As lobes of ice from what is now Lake Michigan crossed the county, a deep (up to 300 ft) pile of glacial soil was created and topped by numerous moraines (any glacially formed accumulations of unconsolidated debris) forming small, flat watersheds with no

kind of the ideal horse.” Sears has been riding horses since she was just ten years old, and is a now a twenty-seven-year-old resident of Fredericksburg, VA. Thrilled to have Freedom as a casual trail riding mount, Sears boards him in King George County, and has been his owner for about a month. “Not many people can say that they own a caisson horse,” Sears said. Accustomed to hard work, caisson horses begin their day in the Fort Meyer barn at 0430 hours, when soldiers on caisson duty arrive to