The Anchorage/Alaska Economy

George Lahanas is the city manager for East Lansing Michigan. The City Manager is the chief administrative officer for the city their representing. Major priorities of a city manager include oversight of annual budget, financial planning, supervision over all City departments coordination and development of programs/services, implements City council priorities/ policy decisions. City manager isn’t an entry level position and a significant management and local government experience is required for the position. Overall a city manager advises the council on their decision making but have no authority to vote on laws.

They're 3 levels of government in the United Sates & each level has its own individuals who represent certain districts throughout the country. The 3 levels are local, state and federal. Unfortunately a vast majority of the people who live in the community are completely lost when you ask them what the job of their representative is , or even who they are.

held at the call of the mayor, there are 6 district commissioners. District Commissioner 1-

Being a school governor means being part of a team of up to 21 governors (although smaller schools may have less governors) this includes the head teacher.

Governors are hardworking individuals with unique jobs, just like our president, governors are elected by the people every four years and can only serve for a total of two terms. Although elected in similar ways as the president, being elected governor is different. The difference between governor and president elections being held are by citizens of the state rather than the entire United States. Thinking about becoming a governor should take someone a lot of thought. Governor’s jobs begin with signing or vetoing bills passed by legislators, declaring special elections filling offices, recommending bills based on funding, delivering reports on the state legislator. This could sound like boring work to any person, but

Local Officers shall be elected by secret ballot and installed at the last regular meeting each year and shall hold office until the next election.

Given the current issues facing Fife, it is easy to see who has the power the City Council, the Port of Tacoma, and the Puyallup Tribe, all have the power to shape the City of Fife. The City Council has seven seats; Mayor, Deputy Mayor and five Council Members. Currently, there is an open seat. The Council serves as the legislative branch of Fife’s government, and is responsible for establishing policy, voting appropriations, and developing the City’s vision and mission. The city council members are nonpartisan and are selected through an

Also each house elects a skyward who is representatives and they also elect the mayors of the town by secret ballot which is a life term. There is also a bencheater for every 10 skywards that meets every 3 days and debates or disuses issues with the mayor and debates the issue for 3 days and each day there is 2 different skyward invited to the meetings.

Alaska has many natural resources, these resources include oil, gas, mining, and fishing. By becoming more technical and learning engineering and geology and computer science is how I can also contribute to Alaska the largest state in the Union. Alaska should have the ability to take advantage of its resources more than we are now. Besides the resources already mentioned above, we also have the most lakes and largest shoreline than any other state. Because of the open arctic passages, we now have the ability to start utilizing our natural resources in this

The City of Vaughan used to be known as Vaughan Township, it was named by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe in honour of British diplomat Benjamin Vaughan. The city of Vaughan Council is made up of a Mayor, three Regional Councilors and five Ward Councilors. The Mayor of Vaughan is Maurizio Bevilacqua who was elected on October 25th, 2010 by the citizens of Vaughan. The three Regional Councilors are Gino Rosati who is also Deputy Mayor, Michael Di Biase and Deb Schulte that were all elected by the citizens of Vaughan in the year of 2010. There are five major wards in the city of Vaughan (as shown in the area map below) that each have an elected Ward Councilor to represent them. The first ward is managed by Marllyn Lafrate, who manages most of the Northern Vaughan area. The second ward, consists of the southwestern area of Vaughan is managed by Tony Carella. The third ward is mostly central Vaughan which is managed by Rosanna DeFrancesca. The fourth ward is managed by Sandra Yeung Racco, which consists of the west central area of Vaughan. Lastly, the fifth ward is managed by Alan Shefman which is the very southwestern area of Vaughan. All Regional Councilors and Ward Councilors have the responsibility of the ward they were elected for.

Political stability: The city has a stable government. This is due in part to the City Council consisting of 85 permanent members who are the basis for the City Administration (City Council). The Council puts into perspective the matters of importance and follows through with the implementation of those objectives. In delegating authority to other government bodies, the Council focuses on matters of highest importance.

In city council meetings, they focus on how policy change affects people within their community. These meetings are open to the public because as citizens we have the voice and the power that elects these government officials in our city. We vote for our presidents, mayors, and other important government officials who are put in charge of our community. City council meetings give citizens a

Since Alaska is donated with many natural resources, Alaska can take advantage of it to develop its economy. Firstly, Alaska can shift its focus from oil and gas to coal. About 30% of the US coal is in Alaska. However, most of the coal is in the Arctic Circle and therefore hard to access. If Alaska invest in power plants and in innovating technology that will allow to safely dig for coal in the far North, Alaska will considerably increase its revenues given the high demand of coal here and all over the world.

I chose to attend a city council meeting for this assignment and was very surprised at what I witnessed. The city council served an important purpose and the meeting actually accomplished many important goals. Among the interesting things that I saw at the council meeting were the people who attended, the people who presented, the people who sat on the council, and the subjects that were being voted upon in the meeting.

Municipalities may also provide parks, public housing, and various utility services. Cities are required to develop a general plan, environmental reports and review of their capital improvements program (League of California Cities, n.d.).