Department Potpourri
This department is responsible for cruelty and neglect investigations of four-legged friends.
What is the Animal Control Department?
This term applies to the Board of Supervisors approving invoices for payment.
What is appropriation?
These are the three levels of government
What is national, state, and local
This ordinance is a set of restrictions that exist on the use of land and may regulate where houses and businesses are located
What are zoning laws?
You will often find this department repairing equipment and keeping the county buildings in ship-shape condition!
Who is the Maintenance Department?
In government principles, what A/P stands for
What is accounts payable?
The official title of the person who presides over the governing board and is considered the spokesperson for the County
Who is the Chairman?
This group of elected officials determines the property tax rate.
What is the Board of Supervisors?
An information system that creates, manages, analyzes, and maps all types of data.
What is GIS?
A civil rights law that protects individuals with disabilities from discriminations in the work-place and schools.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This department is responsible for the growth of the County's economy in both human and financial capital?
What is Economic Development?
What is an ordinance?
The department where a citizen will call with a question regarding where they vote.
Who is Voter Registrar?
The five constitutional officers that each locality's citizens elect
Who are the Sheriff, Commissioner of Revenue, Treasurer, and Clerk of the Circuit Court
There is an accident on the interstate where a vehicle is on fire and a tractor trailer's cargo has created debris on the road. These two county departments will respond to the scene
What are Fire and EMS?
The department responsible for the regulation of construction on residential and commercial buildings to reduce health and safety hazards.
What is the Building & Zoning Department?
The number of members who serve on the Board of Supervisors.
What is 7.
There are this many U.S. Senators
100
The department that answers 911 emergency phone calls
Dispatch center
The department responsible for keeping our computer systems and website running.
What is IT?
You can count on this department during the night, holidays, weekends, or bad weather to make repairs on our most valuable natural resource.
Who is the Water Department?
The type of permit recently approved by the Board of Supervisors for a proposed truck stop off exit 39
What is a special use permit?
The county's largest source of revenue.
What is real estate or property tax?
Recite words 13-20 of the Pledge of Allegiance
What is "and to the Republic for which it stands"
This is the year was Smyth County established
What is 1832?