Essays on Commissioners

The Old Pass used to be the only way until another one was built. The nature has done its job and the Old Pass was blocked completely. The Pass was closed by the sand. The main idea of re-opening the East Pass, also known as the Old Pass, was first backed by the Bay County commissioners. They devoted $2 million dollars to the project, but the effort failed. According to one of the Bay County commissioners, people who live in the county find the idea of reopening the Pass very attractive. They believe that officials should keep trying to ...

Identify the three branches of Texas government and describe their functions.

Texas was admitted as the 28th State back on 29 December 1845. This was nine years after its secession from Mexico in 1836. The current constitution of Texas was adopted in the year 1876 (“Texas State Government at a Glance, n.d.”). As a result, the Texas’ government operates under its Constitution, which comprises a type of unitary democracy for its state government, one that uses the Dillon Rule in addition to governments both at the municipal and county levels (“Abbott, n.d.”). The Constitution of Texas divides the power of state movement into three specific departments namely the legislative, executive ...

Chapter 18: Florida State Officials

Chapter 18: Florida State Officials

County Commissioners Miami-Dade: Jose Pepe Diaz Broward County: Marty Kiar, Mark Bogen, Chip LaMarca, Lois Wexler, Bean Furr, Tim Ryan, Barbara Sharief, Dale Holness Pinellas County: Kenneth Welch, Dave Eggers, John Morroni, Janet Long, Karen Williams Seel Hillsborough County: Toni PAPPAS, Sandra Ziehn, Carol Holden Duval County: Alejo Garcia, David Garza, Rene, Gilberto Uribe Brevard County: Andy Anderson, Jim Berfield St. Lucie County: Kim Johnson. Fire District Commissioners: Rufus Alexander, Michele Berger, Johnson Kim, Chris Dzadovsky, Shannon Martin, Mark Gotz

Collier County: Georgia A. Hiller, Donna Fiala, Tom Henning, Commissioner Penny Taylor, and Tim Nance

Representatives Debbie Wasserman, Alan Grayson, Patrick Murphy, David Jolly, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Corrine Brown, Ted ...

The Courts’ Discretion under Section 25 Of The Matrimonial Causes Act

Introduction The Matrimonial Causes Act empowers Courts to make a wide range of orders pertaining financial provision related to divorce proceedings. One of the most instrumental segments that make this possible is Section 25 of the Act. This paper intends to evaluate the stipulations of the section thoroughly and make a critical evaluation of whether the provision gives room for Judicial discretion which is unfettered. The paper will seek to account for the discretion given to Courts by dint of this Section in light of decided cases and commentary that has been made on the same by highly qualified ...

Overview of the Project

The project described hereunder is the brainchild of the Broward County Board of Commissioners Facilities Maintenance Division. This is a division that is tasked with offering maintenance services to other government agencies. Some of the government agencies that have benefited from the maintenance services of the division include libraries, motor pools, courthouses, the health departments, office park buildings, fire rescue department and parking garages among others. The Broward County Board of Commissioners Facilities Maintenance Division has a versatile human resource that is comprised of welders, storekeepers, electricians, locksmiths, sign shop, maintenance workers, plumbers, painters, mechanics, and carpenters among others. ...

Question 1

Negative population growth rate means that the death rate is higher than the birth rate of the European region. This scenario has many consequences both socially and economically. One of the consequences of this negative growth rate is a decline in the use of fuels. This especially relates to use of fossil fuels and other non-renewables. This is because the decline in the number of people means less usage in terms of heating requirements, fueling of vehicles and other areas that involve the use of fuel by human beings. Such countries will enjoy reduced demand for fuel. ...

1. This case concerns decision making with regard to public budget in order to arrive at a decision that competently addresses the financial needs of the Gaston county of Carolina state. The case involves finding means to balance budget requirements in order to arrive at a suitable budget that precisely addresses financial situation of Gaston County.

2. The political context of this case revolves around seeking the most appropriate procedure to address the needs of the public. For instance, debates are raised regarding whether or not to increase taxes. Elected county commissioners are bestowed with decision-making responsibility in order to harmonize ...

Introduction

The US Constitution guarantees many of the rights of the individual citizens. One of the rights guaranteed is the right to peaceably assemble. The Bill of Rights states in part that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof [] or the right of the people to peaceably assemble” (First Amendment [emphasis added]). The 14th Amendment, on the other hand, ensures that states enforce this guarantee and all other civil rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The core issue in the present study is the right of the fans of Big Bad Bruce to ...

The Dallas County Commissioners Court serves as both the legislative and executive authority for Dallas County. The court is comprised of four members, namely four commissioners and a county judge. The four commissioners each represent one of the four county districts and are chosen separated by the voters of each district. The county judge is chosen by the voter of the full county and serves as the head of the Commissioners Court. Unlike in other parts of the state, the Dallas County Commissioners Court does not exercise any judicial powers. As a sub-state institute, the Court can only exercise the specific ...

Part 1

In April 1999 The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was built as a Special Health Authority to advocate and further the clinical quality and effectiveness of the resources in the NHS. NICE is an independent organization in charge for stipulating national guidance on the advocacy for good health, prevention and medication of illnesses (Chidgey, Leng, & Lacey, 2010). NICE has given a set of guides for the users of National Health Services to follow. The responsibility of NICE is to improve outcomes for people utilizing NHS and other public health services (NICE, 2013). The coverage of the organizations functions ...

Introduction

Terrorist is a national issue, and every country should have great mechanism of dealing with this issue that is threatening the security of many nations. Various studies have recommended changes in various approaches used to respond to terrorism. Terrorism threat has generated debates concerning the organizational aspect of the problem. They have focused on organizational structure, intelligent, collection and budgetary priorities. Various studies have suggested a bigger role to the military in combating terrorism while others call for a new structure which will fight terrorism.

How to develop counter-terrorism plan

The United States safeguard their core values. They stand for equity, dignity, hope, freedom and opportunity for ...

In his book, Turnaround (1998), William Bratton exclusively depicts the social discomposure in America’s major cities. He indicates his early life in Boston and his tenure at previous policing jobs that illustrates his vast desire and experience in dealing with crimes. He is a successful raconteur telling the autobiography significant police commissioner of the 20th century. His personal life is inspirational and depicts the self-improvement tradition of the Americans. He indicates Bill Bratton’s performance in an interesting but rather embroidered manner. The book is arranged roughly chronologically and intensifying to record chief changes in crime in American cities ...

Following the meeting attended on the date of 26 February 2014, held at the local municipal social hall that had intended to get the public and residence views regarding expansion of the municipal market and relocation of the local museum to a different place that was yet to be decided, but two venues had been proposed. The meeting was organized and conducted by the planning commission of the municipal of Arizona, and it started at exactly 9am in the morning. The commission was represented by three people, and those who had been invited were given tags and questionnaires to note ...

Secession commissioners were slave-owning politicians from the South. They were determined to defend slavery and mobilize other politicians from the South to separate from Abraham Lincoln’s Union. The Southerners claimed that the objective of quitting from the Union was not destructive but rather help in saving the tenets of the constitution. They believed that the slave system of the South would not thrive under the rule of the Republicans. The commissioners included state appointed individuals such as Jabez Curry, John Smith Preston, William L.Harris and Stephen F.Hale. They were a total of fifty-two commissioners with diverse experiences and affiliations ...

Find a building or structure constructed –Eiffel tower Art and architecture from the ancient times to date has played a key role that have made many appreciate the beauty in the natural environment. Buildings and structures in many regions and places are designed differently that depict and tell dissimilar stories with varied messages. In the recent times, art and architecture have grown tremendously in many institutions of learning across the globe, and this shows the emphasis and benefits that society has realized arising from the industry. Buildings among other structures made by artists and architects have portrayed different meanings and ideologies ...

Compare the significance for Canada of the Treaty of Washington, and the Alaska Boundary Dispute.

Introduction The Treaty of Washington and the Alaska Boundary Dispute both were significant incidents in the history of Canada. Both share some amount of similarities. At the time when the Treaty of Washington was signed in 1871, the Dominion of Canada was newly formed but still it was under the imperial control of the British Empire. The Alaska Boundary Dispute also took place at the same time when the Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867, but all the foreign affairs of Canada were still controlled by the British Empire. The Treaty of Washington was signed on the ...

It has been tradition in many urban centers in the UK for law enforcement agents to give low attention to anti social behaviors among the society members. The law enforcement officers have primarily directed their efforts to issues that they consider to be against the law or that are “real crime”. What they fail to realize is that anti social behaviors such as drug dealing, illegal drug taking, bullying of vulnerable families, graffiti, littering and breaking windows bring about great discomfort to the society and significantly affects the society’s way of life. According to research statistics, the police ...

Sources of Revenue

The police department accounts for 21% of the county’s budget. There are various ways the budget is funded to ensure the department continues to serve as required. Property tax is based on an assessment and is paid by everyone who owns land. The county executive officers prepare the budget showing how much the county is supposed to spend for all purposes. The executives estimate the amount of state and federal aid and other revenues that will be available and the balance is derived from property taxes. The New York state constitution sets a limit on the amount raised ...

Civil War history often exists in terms of the white Northern soldiers and white Southern soldiers, fighting with each other. The African Americans are shown waiting on either side to awaiting their fate. However, this is far from the truth, and no one can deny the influence of Negro American on the emergence of African Nationalism. Before the Civil War started in 1862, there were a projected four million slaves in the United States and only about 500,000 free African Americans. Only one percent of all African Americans resided in the North. White soldiers often saw the African Americans ...

Valerie Lemmie: The Case of Ethical Dilemmas Happened in Dayton City, USA

The following analysis involves a case study of ethical and leadership issues surrounding the decisions and actions of Ms. Valerie Lemmie, who was the City Manager of Dayton. It attempts to understand the various theories and models that can be applied to the ethical and social values involved in the decisions that had been taken during the period of 2001 to 2002 regarding the appointment of the new City Manager of Dayton. In the provided case study, there are various ethical issues that must be analyzed on the basis of Cooper’s model (Cooper, n.d.). The decisions made in this ...

Executive Summary of Cyber Crime Task Force Plan

The St. Louis County Task Force will be a joint effort of the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. It is primarily tasked to curtail cyber criminalities, particularly in the State of Missouri and in the St. Louis County. It is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The tri-state law enforcement team is similar to the Boone County law enforcement unit as it targets child pornography, enticement, solicitation, and other sex-related offenses. The task force has three full time staff ...

Analysis of the FTAA Case Study and FTAA After-Action Reports

Introduction On 17th to 21st, November, the Miami town of Florida experienced widespread demonstrations during the Free Trade Area of the America’s Summit (FTAA) held there. The demonstrations caused two departments of police in Miami to collaborate in a special way that saw them working together so as to ensure that peace was restored in the area (Driscoll, 2005). These two departments were the City of Miami Police Department and the Dade County Public Safety Department which now goes by the name Miami-Dade Police Department. This paper will interrogate the case study and all that transpired that ...

Introduction

The American economy has been facing serious challenges most notably the recession and the property crash witnessed in 2008. As Salaam (2012) asserts, the American economy was already on the decline way before the 2008 crash. He suggests that the recession began way back in 2000 and most notably in 2007, but the country was spared the pains by the unsustainable boom in property sector. When the slump hit in 2008, the country was least prepared for it. This slump has persisted to this day. VCU (2014) concedes to this fact saying that the recession has resulted to a ...

Abstract

The innocence project policy aims at ensuring that the people in the United States are not convicted for crimes they did not commit (Manning, 2003). The instances where the innocent or convicted wrongly then they find ways in which the evidence is rechecked in order to look at whether the DNA evidence proves that the suspect committed the crimes they have been convicted of in prisons. The policy has ensured that there are innocence commissioners in nearly all states who would be able to cater for the needs of the people who will need them in each state. The ...

Security and exchange commission refer to a government commission that was created by the congress, in order to protect investors, and regulate the markets securities. Additionally, the security and exchange commission has a duty to monitor the corporate takeovers in the United States. The commission is made up of five commissioners that are appointed by the president of the United States. The senate of the United States approves the five commissioners. The positions of the commissioners expire each year. Among the commissioners, three should be from different political parties. The agency has six districts, and five regional offices in the United ...

There are different systems of government in use all over the world. The presidential system also called the congressional system is basically a republican system where the head of state who is also the head of government leads an executive branch that is independent and different from a legislative branch. Often titled “president”, the executive cannot dismiss the legislature under any circumstances since it is not responsible to it. Arguably, presidential systems are diverse and numerous and there are laws governing them (Rosenfeld 45). The president who is also the head of state has a fixed term of office by law and ...

- What was the legal issue in this case? The legal issue in this case is based on the ill will acts which could have been evaded by the two parties involved. As an employee as a confinement officer at the Dona Ana County Detention center, Joseph Herrera becomes accused of inapt sexual relationship with female prisoners as well as exchanging sex for favors to prison inmates. Herrera had been hired by the Mesilla Valley Hospital (MVH) following favorable recommendations by Frank Steel and Al Mochen who were senior supervisors in the hospital. Steel had conducted research on the ...

The County Sheriff’s Leadership and Management Decisions in the Local Budget Process Revisited

The article revisits the research by LaFrance and Placide and confirms the participation of elected sheriffs in the leadership rather than the management of their system. The article takes the view, which is deduced from the research and analysis that, elected sheriffs would corporate with the legislative assembly for the solution of budgetary deficits and or problems. This serves to illuminate the critical issues incident to the introduction of election of sheriffs as opposed to appointment of Sheriffs. The article propounds a number of reasons that support the election rather than the appointment of sheriffs. It runs short of declaring ...

Introduction

The Cowboys stadium was constructed on the location where the Texas stadium previously stood and was completed on the 27th May 2009. The stadium has a seating of 85000 and this makes it the third largest stadium on seating capacity in the National Football League (NFL). The cost of the construction of the Cowboys stadium was initially projected to be $ 650 million but actual costs of constructing are documented at $ 1.15 billion, making it one of the most expensive sports construction ventures in the United States. The construction was financed both through public and private financing, and this paper seeks ...

One of the most contentious subjects in post-colonial America in the 1800s was slavery. It was well known that the South relied heavily on slave labor to maintain its cotton-based economy; at the same time, the social conditions and squalor slaves were forced to live in were unbearable, and slave accounts were gaining more and more notoriety (Dew, 2001). The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final nail in the coffin for a secure Union, as the threat of abolition from Lincoln was what led the South to finally secede. The agricultural restrictions and changes, as well as the tariffs, ...

When analyzing visual art there are many different ways to interpret a painting, sculpture, or work of architecture. Often we think that art should convey factual knowledge about when a piece of art was made and the context it was created. We may also think that the role of art is to discover meaning within a visual image and explore how we respond emotionally to them. Form and content should contain a message. However, there is no true definition of art. Yet the most recognized one is, “Visual art is human expression in a visual form.” (South). When interpreting what a visual work of ...

The concept of consumer protection can to be summarized as all efforts in developing structures and legal responses to outrage and crises developed by consumption of substandard products. Americans have in the past been subjected to consuming products that are a dangerous to the health. Once the dangerous nature of such products is known to the public, public outrage is usually the first response and such outrage is usually directed at any form of government, either federal or state. To this end, several government agencies and bureaucracies have been developed to address protection of consumers. These agencies have either federal ...

Introduction

The first limited liability company (LLC) in the United States was established in Wyoming in 1977, and the next one was established in Florida in 1982; but it wasn’t until 1996 that the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws adopted the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (ULLCA) (Uniform Law Commission, 2012). A LLC is a flexible type of hybrid business ownership that combines the limited liability of a corporation with the tax benefits of a partnership. LLC’s are owned by members, not partners or shareholders, and may be composed of any number individuals, corporations, other LLC’s, ...

In the wake of the financial crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission took a beating for appearing to sit idly by while the likes of Lehman Brothers and Bernard L. Madoff ran amok. Government regulators on the Wall Street beat have long been outnumbered and outspent by the companies they are supposed to police. Even after receiving budget increases from Congress in April 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission is struggling to fill crucial jobs, enforce new rules, upgrade market surveillance technology and pay for travel. The money squeeze comes as the regulators take on added responsibilities including ...

European business and politics are too close are often in closed and corrupt relationships." Discuss with reference to at least three corruption cases. The current businesses and politics are almost becoming the same in terms of practices and responsibilities. The developing culture of globalization needs strong connections for one to survive in the ever-demanding field of business. Individuals and organizations have found it too challenging to venture into the world of business and succeed without the help of some political figures. In other words those involved in businesses need to get the assistance of the politicians to enable them ...

One definition of conservatism states that a situation tends to remain static unless acted upon by a strong external force. In the world of major college football, tradition and fiscal conservatism have combined for years to preserve a system by which a tight circle of resource-rich powerhouse programs hold sway from year to year. The major bowl games, the nearly exclusive preserve of the nation’s football elite, serve as NCAA football’s branding identity but do little to determine a quantifiable national champion. A powerful cabal of athletic directors, commissioners, university presidents and other officials maintain the sanctity of the lucrative bowl system. In ...