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on your way to school in the morning what kinds of sounds do you hear what do all these sounds have in common they're the sounds of local government working for you local governments are smaller than state or federal governments they are better able to look out for the visual needs of people because local leaders live in the communities where they serve there are many different kinds of local government in California local governments run towns cities and counties smallest communities to the biggest cities local governments are working for us in California cities are usually run by Mayer's a mare is the leader of a city or town the mayor sometimes works with a C Council which is a group of people that makes laws for the city we work real hard to try and make sure that every kid will have a place to play a good school to go to I and some nice treats to ride their bikes in sidewalks to grab skateboard or do other things that everybody likes to do police officers and firefighters are hired by City governments cities also hire people to keep roads and Parks clean and construction workers to repair the citizens vote to decide who will run their towns by holding elections for the mayor and city council members counties are usually larger areas than cities in fact a county usually include several cities within its borders but some cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco are so big that they are their own counties I am in emergency when you dial nine-one-one County workers answer your call and send an ambulance if you need one counties also run many of the hospitals in California mini California Indian groups use a form of local government called a tribal council tribal councils govern California Indians living on tribal lands such as reservations or rancherias a reservation is an area of land owned by American Indian groups set aside for them by the federal government Eddie Renteria is a small reservation for example the sick one band of the kumaye nation live on a reservation near San Diego tribal council's make rules and solve problems within their groups they also work outside of the reservation meeting with neighboring cities or counties to work out common problems the importance of difference and the fact that difference is to be honored and respected rather than to be explained away or subdued or pushed away set up a person or of a people if a person in your own group or person across the tribal people across the across the river excuse me where different from you you ordered them if you didn't understand it you said OG that's something that's spiritual I sometimes seek help from the state and federal governments with issues like health care and education there's another type of local government you may not have thought up did you realize your school has its own type of government most Publix those are part of a school district a district is a part of a country state or city that is marked off for special-purpose a superintendent is someone who is responsible for running all the schools in an area or disc the superintendent works with the school board a group of people that helps manage the schools in an area your principal makes your students and teachers at your school follow the rules set by the superintendent and the school board can you see someone working at a city park or hear a police siren or take directions from your principal you will know that your local government is at work from your school to your city to your county your local government work to make sure everything runs smoothly

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