Governance And Land Use Issues: Sustainability
• Explain the challenges local governments face because of their diversity in population size, square miles, and socioeconomic composition.
• Analyze the structure and functions of the system comprised of 89,000 local governments.
• Describe the diversity of county governments.
• Compare and contrast county commission, county administrator, and county executive governmental structures.
• Describe the duties of county officials, and discuss how home rule charters, townships, and New England towns are organized.
• Examine the mayor-council and council-manager forms of city government; outline the commission, town meeting, and representative town meeting forms of city government; and describe which forms of city government are most prevalent.
• Evaluate how successfully nonpartisan elections have taken the “politics” out of local government and raised the caliber of candidates for elected office.
• Compare at-large and district electoral systems, and how the electoral system affects which candidates are most likely to be victorious.
• Describe special-purpose local governments known as special districts, and list the various purposes for which these districts were created.