Department Potpourri
Board of Supervisors
Government & You
This and That
Hodgepodge
100

This department is responsible for cruelty and neglect investigations of four-legged friends.

What is the Animal Control Department?

100

This term applies to the Board of Supervisors approving invoices for payment.

What is appropriation?

100

What are the three levels of government?

What is national, state, and local

100

What set of restrictions exist on the use of land and may regulate where houses and businesses are located?

What are zoning laws?

100

You will often find this department repairing equipment and keeping the county buildings in ship-shape condition!

Who is the Maintenance Department?

200

In government principals, A/P stands for what two words?

What is accounts payable?

200

This is the official title of the person who presides over the governing board and is considered the spokesperson for the County?

Who is the Chairman?
200

This office (held by an elected official) determines the property tax rate.

What is the Commissioner of Revenues Office?

200

A geographic information system that creates, manages, analyzes, and maps all types of data.  

What is GIS?

200

**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**

A civil rights law that protects individuals with disabilities from discriminations in the work-place and schools.

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?

300

What department is responsible for the growth of the County's economy in both human and financial capital?

What is Economic Development?

300
Set of laws passed by a county government.

What is an ordinance?

300

A citizen calls with a question regarding where they vote. What department do they need to talk to?

Who is Voter Registrar?

300

The five local officials that each locality's citizens elect?

Who are the Sheriff, Commissioner of Revenue, Treasurer, Clerk of Circuit Court, and Board of Supervisors?
300
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. What two county departments would arrive on scene?

What are Emergency Management and Solid Waste?

400

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?

400

The number of members who serve on the Board of Supervisors.

What is 7.

400

How many US Senators are there?

What is 100

400

This department is responsible for the training and oversight of county-wide dispatchers.

What is E-911?

400

The department responsible for keeping our computer systems and website running.

What is IT?

500

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?

500

Recently the Board of Supervisors approved this type of permit for a proposed truck stop off exit 39?

What is a special use permit?

500

The county's largest source of revenue?

What is property tax?

500

Recite words 13-20 of the Pledge of Allegiance

What is "and to the Republic for which it stands" 

500
What year was Smyth County estabilished?

What is 1832?