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| How are city managers chosen and what do they do? |
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| City managers are hired by city council, and they act as chief administrative officers, hire and fire department heads, prepare the budget, and oversee policy administration. |
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| Give examples of developmental, redistributive, and allocational urban policies. |
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| Developmental: A new stadium for the Houston Texans; Allocational: Police, garbage, street maintenance; Redistributive: low income housing, food assistance to the poor. |
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| What officials make up the comissioner's court? (County level) |
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| four county commissioners and the county judge. |
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| What are special districts? |
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| Units of govt created to perform specific functions. An example would be soil and water conservation, hospital districts, and junior college districts |
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| Why are MUDs created? What services? How are they financed |
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| They are created for unincorporated urban areas. The services include water and sewer services, medical care, community college services, etc. They garner revenue from taxes, service fees, and other units of government. |
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| What are the three revenue sources for Texas School Districts? |
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| Federal government, state government, and local taxpayers. |
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| County jail, state jail, and state prison? |
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County: There's a county jail for each county, paid for b y county tax, and staffed by the county Sheriff's office. For non-felonies usually.
State Jail: Intermediary between state prison. Fourth degree felons. Want to keep these felons away from hardened criminals.
State prisons: For serious felonies. 90 percent of state convicts are in state prison. There were a lot of reforms to the state prison system in Ruiz VS Estelle. |
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| Four stages of criminal prosecution process: |
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| arrest, pre-trial actions, trial, sentencing |
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| 2 specific differences between adult/juvenile court. |
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| Cases in juvenile court are tried unfer family law code and not criminal code; Juvenile courts have mroe leeway than adult court on how to handle juvenile offenses. |
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