POLS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scantron Corporation, Income Tax, County Commission
28 Nov 2017
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Pols 207: test, full 150 q"s scantron, test has 50 questions. Local government: providing services is principal function of local government, extremely diverse on types of service, depends on where you live, cities provide common function ( re, water, sanitation, etc) if you live on city land. County provides if you iive on county (multi-service) land: one service like school district. D. local government is where most difference can be made: higher level of trust and dependability on local government! 2. taxes collected by county: local functions differ by state, counties: rural or urban. Tuesday, october 3, 2017: cities or towns, school districts, biggest and most important, day to day operations of school districts rely on superintendent. General purpose local governments: texas has most counties, started with 23 ->254, second most cities, does not have townships, over 1000 school districts. F. third most special districts: some 5000 total districts in texas.
