Vocab I
This is the largest type of municipality.
What is a City?
A unit of local government, usually larger than a village and smaller than a city.
What is a Town?
This is a form of government in which all citizens meet regularly to discuss issues.
What is a town meeting?
This level of government has the greatest impact on individual citizens.
What is Local Government?
True or False: a school district is considered a special district by local governments.
True
This is a unit of local government that is incorporated by the state and has a large degree of self government.
What is a Municipality?
This is a unit of local government that maintains local roads and rural schools within counties.
What is a Township?
This person is the chief executive of a city government.
Who is a Mayor?
Government decisions at ALL levels of government must not conflict with this important national document.
What is the Constitution?
This reason is why special districts are important in local government.
What is special districts are able to focus on a special and specific need of their communities?
This person is an elected law-enforcement official who command several deputies and an office staff.
What is a Sheriff?
This is the power of a city to write its own municipal charter and to manage its own affairs.
What is Home Rule?
These are Federal Funds given to state and local governments for broad purposes.
What are Block Grants?
Townships, Special Districts, villages, and Burroughs are all examples of this type of government.
What are Local Governments?
Why can Local Governments provide some services more efficiently than State Governments?
Local governments are more involved in their communities, and will be able to recognize the communities need more quickly
This is a subdivision of state government formed to carry out state laws, collect taxes, and supervise elections
What is a County?
This is a basic plan of government granted by state legislatures to local governments.
What is a Charter?
This is a unit of local government set up to provide a specific service.
What is a Special District?
Providing healthcare, police protection, and establishing libraries are all responsibilities of this level of local governments.
What are County governments?
These two levels of government may compete over tax dollars.
What are State and Local governments?
These are regulations that govern a local governmental unit.
What are Ordinances?
This is the name for federal funds given to state and local governments for specific projects.
What are Grants-in-Aid?
This is a lawmaking body of a city.
What is a City Council?
This is one way that cities and states might attract new Industries to their areas.
What is offering tax breaks and a good supply of labor to them?
This is when rural communities officially become villages and boroughs.
When a population grows to around 300 people, and the state legislature approves the proposition.