4.2 White Paper on Local Government
According to the White Paper on Local Government, local authorities have the following responsibilities in terms of their obligation to economic development:
● Provide marketing and investment support in order to attract potential support to their locality.
● Small business support services should be providing to assist small entrepreneurs.
● To provide targeted assistance to a particular sector in the local economy that has to potential to expand.
● By supplementing and tailoring to local need, the services provided by the Department of Labour in supply of training and placement services. This is necessary towards the end of assisting people in acquiring skills and funding jobs.
4.3 The Local Government: Municipal Systems Act (2000) (Act 32 of 2000)
The Municipal System Act (No. 32
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● Promote and undertake development in the municipality.
● Promote gender equity in the exercise of the municipality’s executive and legislative authority.
● Promote a safe and healthy environment in the municipality.
● Contribute, together with other organs of the state, to the progressive realisation of the fundamental rights contained in sections 24, 25, 26, 27 and 29 of the Constitution.
LED is one of the most strategic tools through which local municipalities adhere to its duties, as prescribed by the Municipal Structures Act. This fact becomes even more applicable, once a municipality’s LED strategy is functionally integrated with its Integrated Development Plan.
Section 26(c) of the Local Government: Municipal System Act further specifies that the Integrated Development Plan of the local municipality must contain its LED aims. This awards the municipal LED strategy legal status as part of the Integrated Development Planning process.
5 RECOGNISING PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES WITH REGARDS TO SOUTH AFRICA’S ECONOMIC PROGRESS SINCE
to provide for as wide a range of individual needs as possible and to raise
The City of Bend, Oregon Government consists of approximately 500 employees across thirteen different divisions. These divisions are Police, Fire, Community Development, Public Works, etc and are all coordinated under the City Manager’s office. Bend’s government style is called a “weak mayor” form of city government, in that the citizens elect a city council, which then elects a mayor from among the council members. The city council and mayor, then hire a City Manager to run the day to day operations of the city. In doing this form of government, the City Manager is not directly accountable to the citizens and can focus on the needs of the city and its employees. At the same time, the City Council can only provide direction to the city manager and is accountable to the citizens. The city employees in this case are led by the city manager as directed by city council. The community leadership environment in this case is established by council to provide direction to the city manager.
The main ingredient for a local government bankruptcy to happen is structural weaknesses in the systems and policies of the local government unit (LGU) coupled with political facilitators within the LGU. These weaknesses may refer to rules that are not being followed when issuing licenses or permits, say on building permit or excavation permit in order to favor a friend or a political ally. Poor financial management is another trigger for LGU bankruptcy when an elected official pressures the certain officers and staff in the unit in releasing funds to his/her ambitious project because election time is nearing. This can only be done with the cooperation or collusion of people within the bureaucracy because in return they may also get some paybacks from the elected official. The check-and-balance systems should be in place to prevent getting into the "red". There should be transparency. Periodic audits should be done by an independent party.
Local authorities such as the county and city councils have roles such as education, libraries, public transport, emergency planning which will contribute in more of the latest technology resources which will help the people of illness or of people who need immediate medical attention; this will help services throughout a city or a county. Planning and development to improve on the communities appearance; this will make the people in the society love the place where they live which may lead to less criminal damage. Also fire and public safety and waste management and trading standards. Councils make decisions on the situations within the community; they do this by holding council meetings to discuss what needs to be done to help the society. Members of the public are allowed to attend the meetings so they have first hearing of the decisions discussed than those who don’t attend. All decisions the council make in these meeting must be later published. In my opinion I would say that local authorities are a good thing to have as they can focus on small communities than looking at things as a whole country, otherwise no problems within a community will be solved. I think there should be no improvements for local authorities as they tackle all areas that need improving in the community. Local authorities help the public
The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively compare and contrast the implementation of two types of mayor-council government systems which are that of the weak-mayor type of the mayor council system and the strong-mayor type of the mayor council system. The premise of the analysis which has been conducted in this paper is based upon assessing the local governments of two cities within the United States – Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Minneapolis, Minnesota which follow the adoption of a strong-mayor system and weak-mayor system respectively.
What important purposes are served by the right to amend the Constitution guaranteed by Article V?
* help to prioritise those needs to ensure better planning of local services and more effective allocation of resources;
County governments are so often overlooked. The people spend the majority of their governmental association time with the federal government, only paying attention to what it is the president is up to lately or which laws the legislative branch is trying to push out now. County officials are very much deserving of attention as well. After all, these people are the ones that are dealing with the problems that are so close to home.
Return to Work - provides individualized job search and placement, resource connections to employment and training opportunities and assistance with overcoming barriers to employment
...establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, & secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves & our Posterity
The Amendments to the Constitution, specifically amendments 1-8, protect certain rights of the individual. They are commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights. I will be analyzing exactly how these amendments protects the rights of the individual and as a result, what the individual owes to their community as well as to the society as a whole. I will also present ways in which the individual can actively exercise these rights.
Since its inception in 2014, Popcorn time has always remained very controversial, albeit the popular media response and support from hundreds of users, popcorn time has always been viewed as a dark shadow over the field of big Hollywood movies and copyright infringement cases. It’s been well known that the original two creators of popcorn time were under a heavy amount of stress from the Media Performing Arts Association who put them through a lot of hurdles until the creators gave up the effort and decided to leave the project altogether and released the file into several different hubs all over the internet where other programmers picked up where the creators left off and improved it. The reason for all this controversy mainly comes due to
With rights and freedoms guaranteed through the constitution, not only establishes an individual’s personal rights but also
In a parallel system to National Government is Local Government who is responsible. For the management and operation of our cities, towns and local environments. The country is divided up into city and District councils. Representatives of the community are democratically elected to sit on councils and represent the needs and views of citizens. Each council is supported infrastructure of local Government employees who carry out the duties of the council. These duties cover every aspect of the everyday life including running services such as rubbish removal and sewerage, through to Maintaining Facilities such as parks and reserves to town planning and Resource Management Act Compliance and even traffic wardens. Councils are funded through rates which are a levy charged to individual households and businesses based on the value of their property or industry. Local councils may introduce bylaws which only apply to the citizens or business located within that councils area. These local bylaws give each council the opportunity to create rules for how that city or district can operate.
Planning is for the common people and for the community development then it should not be complete concern of the planners or the central policy makers; rather it should be the concern of the whole community and whole society. Thus the traditional planning process needs to be revised and modified to make room for the common people to take part in the decision making process. The local communities, elected