City Government
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| Do local governments have legal independence? | show 🗑
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| Does the Constitution address the formation of local governments? | show 🗑
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| show | State constitutions
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| What is a municipality? | show 🗑
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| show | A locality within an officially organized government that provides services to residents
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| show | The community must apply to the state legislature for a city charter.
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| show | A document that grants power to a local government. It is like a constitution. It describes the type of city government, its structure and its powers
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| What is home rule? | show 🗑
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| Do cities that have home rule still have to follow state laws? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. mayor-council form
2. commission form
3. council-manager form
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| What form of government do most large cities use today? | show 🗑
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| show | Executive power belongs to the mayor, and legislative power belongs to the council
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| Voters elect a mayor, do the voters also elect the city council members? | show 🗑
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| How are the heads of departments (such as police, fire, planning, public works) selected. | show 🗑
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| show | City laws
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| show | City council
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| show | City council
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| Some cities are divided into voting districts called _______. | show 🗑
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| Each ward elects a representative to city council, but in some cities some, or all, of the council members are known as members-at-large. What does member-at-large mean? | show 🗑
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| What are the two types of mayor-council governments? | show 🗑
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| What kind of powers does a mayor have in a strong-mayor government? | show 🗑
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| show | A strong-mayor usually works full-time, but city council members are usually part-time. And, because city council members are elected by by wards, they focus on issues that are important to their parts of town.
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| In a weak-mayor system, who makes policy decisions and appoints department heads? | show 🗑
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| What does the mayor do in a weak-mayor system? | show 🗑
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| show | The colonists remembered suffering injustices under British government, so they were reluctant to give any official too much power.
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| show | Cooperation of the mayor and the council
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| In the council-manager form of government, who appoints the manager? | show 🗑
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| What responsibilities does a manager have in the council-manager form of government? | show 🗑
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| What is the advantage of having "at-large" elections of council members and managers? | show 🗑
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| show | 1912
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| Why did the manager-council form of government come about? | show 🗑
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| show | A board of commissioners. No separation of executive & legislative powers. Separate departments govern the city. Department heads are elected
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| show | Commissioners
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| show | No clear leadership. Commissions often unable to set and meet goals. Each commissioner likely to focus on his/her department rather than the city as a whole
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| show | A unit of government that deals with a specific function, such a school district
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| show | A board or commission may be elected or appointed to run a special district
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| show | A central city and its surrounding suburbs
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| What is a suburb? | show 🗑
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| What is a Metropolitan Statistical Area? | show 🗑
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| What are some of the issues facing metropolitan areas? | show 🗑
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