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Local Government

Local Government. Why Do We Have Local Government?. To meet the needs in our city or towns. Local government provides: senior facilities, public transportation, fire protection, waste disposal, parks and recreation, animal control, libraries, and street/roads.

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Local Government

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  1. Local Government

  2. Why Do We Have Local Government? • To meet the needs in our city or towns. • Local government provides: senior facilities, public transportation, fire protection, waste disposal, parks and recreation, animal control, libraries, and street/roads.

  3. How Does Local Government Create Laws? • Government makes rules called bylaws. • A councilor makes motion to pass bylaw. • A motion or bylaw has to be considered three times before it is voted on.

  4. How is Local Government Organized

  5. What Are the Trustees Responsible for? • School boards make decisions about services and programming • Make decisions about buildings and student transportation • Listen to peoples complaints and make fair judgments • Decide how the budget is spent • Listen to what people this is important to their children’s education. • Make rules and polices for schools.

  6. What is a Superintendent? • The person responsible for running the school in a jurisdiction. The position of the superintendent is similar to a CAO in local government.

  7. Different Types of Schools • Public school boards are responsible for schools that are available to any member of the public. • Separate school boards are usually for students of the Roman Catholic faith. The reason has roots in Alberta’s past, when the majority of people living in the province were either Roman Catholic or Protestant. • Francophone school boards are responsible for the education of Francophone students in the French language. They can be either Catholic or public. They were created to meet Francophones’ constitutional right as an official language minority group in Alberta.

  8. How does your local government compare with a different type of local government? What is the same and what is different? Make a chart to show this. • How are representatives elected to form a local government? Show the process in a series of freeze-frame theatre segments. • What responsibilities does your local government have? Use a graphic organizer to illustrate how your government is responsible to you. Include ways in which you are responsible to your government. • What do school boards do?

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