POLS 207 LIM TAMU EXAM 3 COMPLETE
QUESTION SET 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Municipalities: Type Trends
Answer: Larger cities often use a hybrid mayor-council-manager
system.
Smaller cities often use mayor-council.
Council-Manager seems to work best w/ a small community (25k
- 50k).
◉ City: Services
Answer: Cities usually offer: Police, Fire Departments, Streets, and
Sewage systems. Note that education is NOT on this list.
◉ City: Revenue and Expenditure
Answer: City Revenue consists of (in no particular order), local
taxes, utilities (#1), Intergov't, Current Charges, et al.
City Expenditures consists of (in particular order), Utilities,
Environment, Public Safety, Roads, Gov't and others, Interest, and
Housing.
, ◉ Relationship between African American percentage in Pop. and
on Council
Answer: Mid - Strong positive (r = 0.764)
This is a more recent statistic that came about from in-district
voting.
◉ School Districts
Answer: The school board is elected at large, who then appoint a
Superintendent who then appoints the rest.
As of now, school districts are dying out, mostly because they
merge into super districts.
◉ Special Districts
Answer: A governing board is elected at large, who then appoint
extras.
These districts came about due to the inadequacies of already
establish city gov'ts, where those needing of gov't assistance lied
outside the borders of districts or weren't adequately helped due
to poor organization.
◉ State Legislative Branch: What they do
Answer: They do stuff like:
QUESTION SET 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Municipalities: Type Trends
Answer: Larger cities often use a hybrid mayor-council-manager
system.
Smaller cities often use mayor-council.
Council-Manager seems to work best w/ a small community (25k
- 50k).
◉ City: Services
Answer: Cities usually offer: Police, Fire Departments, Streets, and
Sewage systems. Note that education is NOT on this list.
◉ City: Revenue and Expenditure
Answer: City Revenue consists of (in no particular order), local
taxes, utilities (#1), Intergov't, Current Charges, et al.
City Expenditures consists of (in particular order), Utilities,
Environment, Public Safety, Roads, Gov't and others, Interest, and
Housing.
, ◉ Relationship between African American percentage in Pop. and
on Council
Answer: Mid - Strong positive (r = 0.764)
This is a more recent statistic that came about from in-district
voting.
◉ School Districts
Answer: The school board is elected at large, who then appoint a
Superintendent who then appoints the rest.
As of now, school districts are dying out, mostly because they
merge into super districts.
◉ Special Districts
Answer: A governing board is elected at large, who then appoint
extras.
These districts came about due to the inadequacies of already
establish city gov'ts, where those needing of gov't assistance lied
outside the borders of districts or weren't adequately helped due
to poor organization.
◉ State Legislative Branch: What they do
Answer: They do stuff like:
