Paper instructions:
Chapter Eleven of the reading discusses the changing structure and leadership of local governments.  Since the 1950’s, local governments have changed significantly

in type and size.  Identify the following in your opinion:

What are two reasons that local government has changed?
Which type of government is most common in modern life?
Why is this the most common form?
Local leadership usually involves either a mayor or a city/county manager. Which system is more effective in your opinion? Why?

Please do not leave space for name, professor or title just write intro and two paragraph but do not write conclusion ( it is not required)
( please cite the sources ).
here is my assignment (u might have to find item that i have more information to write essay ).
Cities are created by charter, like a corporation. Citizens form a city to provide services the private sector can’t efficiently provide on its own – water and sewer service, fire and police protection, parks and libraries, streets and bridges.
A city is a public services company that you own. The city council is your board of directors. In Houston, the mayor is your chief executive officer.
How does your company make decisions on your behalf?
Go to the Houston City Secretary’s website:
https://www.houstontx.gov/citysec/CitySec-Home-Page
Each week (with a few exceptions), a Houston City Council meeting starts on Tuesday afternoon with something called “public session.” That’s where citizens take turns griping about potholes or police brutality for three minutes apiece. The stranger ones tend to go last.
Click on “Current City Council Agenda,” and you can see how the meeting is organized.
Click on “Archived Agendas and Minutes” and you can see what they’ve done at previous meetings.
Click on a date under “minutes” on any given two-day meeting and scroll down past the people griping about potholes… past the unhappy tow truck drivers… past the recognition of Mrs. Smith’s 2nd grade class for the poster they made for National Milk Week…. just past the part where “President Joseph Charles” is complaining that the city is conspiring with the mafia and space aliens to remove all of his internal organs with lasers. Shortly after that, you’ll see where they recess until Wednesday. Wednesday is when the important stuff starts.
Pick a real agenda item from a Wednesday session at least a few weeks ago, where the minutes are online (but not before July, 2015), something where they’re changing a city ordinance or spending a lot of money. Pick something where there was some council discussion, preferably some disagreement, and a recorded vote. Write a 2-5 page college-level essay about the item, telling me what the item was about, who was for and against it, what happened, and what you think about.

Please do not write an conclusion instead write

Harris County Commissioners Court meets every Tuesday. Remember from your reading how counties are “general law” forms of government? They have much less rulemaking power than cities, and much less authority to spend money without specific approval from the governing body. When you look at a Commissioners Court agenda, it’s always surprising – at least to me – to see what is essentially the board of directors of a billion-dollar corporation voting on whether or not to pay sixty-three dollars to let some employee go to a seminar. But… rules are rules.

Go to the Harris County Commissioners Court website:

https://www.co.harris.tx.us/agenda/

Pull up the current agenda.

See what I mean?

Write a short paragraph giving one example of an item on the Commissioners Court agenda that you would NOT find on the Houston City Council agenda, and explaining why it’s different from something you would find on a city council agenda.

Please do not leave space for name, professor or title just write intro and two paragraph but do not write conclusion ( it is not required)
( please cite the sources ).
here is my assignment (u might have to find item that i have more information to write essay ).
Cities are created by charter, like a corporation. Citizens form a city to provide services the private sector can’t efficiently provide on its own – water and sewer service, fire and police protection, parks and libraries, streets and bridges.
A city is a public services company that you own. The city council is your board of directors. In Houston, the mayor is your chief executive officer.
How does your company make decisions on your behalf?
Go to the Houston City Secretary’s website:
https://www.houstontx.gov/citysec/CitySec-Home-Page
Each week (with a few exceptions), a Houston City Council meeting starts on Tuesday afternoon with something called “public session.” That’s where citizens take turns griping about potholes or police brutality for three minutes apiece. The stranger ones tend to go last.
Click on “Current City Council Agenda,” and you can see how the meeting is organized.
Click on “Archived Agendas and Minutes” and you can see what they’ve done at previous meetings.
Click on a date under “minutes” on any given two-day meeting and scroll down past the people griping about potholes… past the unhappy tow truck drivers… past the recognition of Mrs. Smith’s 2nd grade class for the poster they made for National Milk Week…. just past the part where “President Joseph Charles” is complaining that the city is conspiring with the mafia and space aliens to remove all of his internal organs with lasers. Shortly after that, you’ll see where they recess until Wednesday. Wednesday is when the important stuff starts.
Pick a real agenda item from a Wednesday session at least a few weeks ago, where the minutes are online (but not before July, 2015), something where they’re changing a city ordinance or spending a lot of money. Pick something where there was some council discussion, preferably some disagreement, and a recorded vote. Write a 2-5 page college-level essay about the item, telling me what the item was about, who was for and against it, what happened, and what you think about.

Please do not write an conclusion instead write

Harris County Commissioners Court meets every Tuesday. Remember from your reading how counties are “general law” forms of government? They have much less rulemaking power than cities, and much less authority to spend money without specific approval from the governing body. When you look at a Commissioners Court agenda, it’s always surprising – at least to me – to see what is essentially the board of directors of a billion-dollar corporation voting on whether or not to pay sixty-three dollars to let some employee go to a seminar. But… rules are rules.

Go to the Harris County Commissioners Court website:

https://www.co.harris.tx.us/agenda/

Pull up the current agenda.

See what I mean?

Write a short paragraph giving one example of an item on the Commissioners Court agenda that you would NOT find on the Houston City Council agenda, and explaining why it’s different from something you would find on a city council agenda.