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4 unusual facts about Local government


Disability Challengers

Disability Challengers receives funding by local authorities, but a significant proportion comes from fundraising from companies, trusts, community groups and individuals as well as fundraising events run by the charity supporters.

Friedrich Heckmann

Since the founding of the efms, Heckmann has been a consultant to the German Federal Government, the European Commission, to local and municipal governments, foundation (non-profit) and civil society organizations.

London Docklands Development Corporation

The London Docklands Development Corporation was established by the then Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Heseltine, under section 136 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.

Ohio Dental Association

It is also used by state and local agencies to determine what health care seniors need.


Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

Alexander von Hoffman

He came to the Center in 1997; he was previously associate professor of urban planning and design at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and a Fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

County councils of Sweden

In each county there are also several smaller entities for the local government and administration that constitute municipal self-government, which are independent of the county councils.

Electoral Commission of Queensland

The Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ) is an independent statutory authority which was established to impartially organise Queensland elections at both the Parliamentary and local government levels.

Frank Tsamoutales

In the domestic arena, Tsamoutales consults and is registered to represent such firms as Harris Corporation, Honeywell International, Wal-Mart, Black & Veatch and Caesars Entertainment before federal, state, and local government as well as leading business development.

Gorton North

Gorton North is a local government ward in the Gorton area of the City of Manchester.

Greg McClinchey

Greg McClinchey (born in Clinton, Ontario) was a municipal councillor for the Township of North Huron, Ontario (Blyth Ward) and was the nominated candidate in Huron-Bruce for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2008 federal election.

Heritage Overlay

The heritage overlay schedule of each local government planning scheme lists sites of local and state significance (Victorian Heritage Register) but does not include sites on the Australian National Heritage List.

Kenyon Wright

The convention was aimed at drawing up a blueprint for Scottish devolution and included representatives of local government, the Scottish Churches, Trade Unions, Small Business Federation and the Scottish Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green parties.

Licensed practical nurse

Other LPNs/LVN worked for home health care services; employment services; residential care facilities; community care facilities; outpatient care centers; and federal, state, and local government agencies.

Local government in Northampton

Northampton Borough Council is the borough council and non-metropolitan district responsible for local government in the large town of Northampton in England.

Local government in the United Kingdom

Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system.

Oshie Ridge

Oshie Ridge is found in Obanliku Local Government of Cross River State in Nigeria.

Royal Wootton Bassett

In local government, the town falls under the auspices of Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority established in 2009 as part of wider local government changes in England.

Springfield and New London Railroad

A proposal for a subscription of $150,000 in stock was accepted by the city government, and the question was submitted to the voters at a special election on July 21, 1874.


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Allan Highet

Highet was appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister John Marshall in 1971, becoming Minister for Internal Affairs, Minister of Local Government and associate Minister for Health and Social Welfare.

Ano Pogoni

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pogoni, of which it is a municipal unit.

Bishungarh

Bishungarh village is located at 27degree 6min 43 sec N and 79degree 24minute 56sec E. On Google Earth search put Bishangarh for the location of the village.Local government directory has listed Bishungarh as Vishungarh and the village code is 1446687.

Buji

Buji, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria

Capella de Ministrers

Along with another Valencian early music group Victoria Musicae directed by Josep R. Gil-Tàrrega, the Capella de Ministrers receives significant local government support from the Valencian Community (la Generalitat Valenciana).

Chunni Lal

Chuni Lal Bhagat, member of Bharatiya Janta Party, is an Indian politician and Minister for Local Government and Medical Education & Research in the present Punjab Government.

City of Coffs Harbour

A significant exception was that households in the Coffs Harbour local government area where Punjabi was spoken was three times the national average.

Corrupt practices

One of the most high-profile cases of corrupt practices in recent years was that of the local government elections in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham in June 2004.

Elections in Kosovo

The Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija is a local government created by the Serbian minority in the Kosovo city of Mitrovica in response to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.

Erdmonas Simonaitis

French General Dominique Joseph Odry established seven-member Directorate (local government) in February 1920.

Erna Solberg

In April 2008, it was revealed that Solberg, as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development in 2004, had rejected a request for asylum in Norway by Israeli nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu.

Eurico Guterres

Elsham leader Aloysius Renwarin reported Guterres already had 200 members consisting of Indonesian expatriates from Maluku, Timor and Sulawesi in December 2003 when Guterres confidently requested the local government to provide his organisation offices in Timika, Papua.

Faloreia

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trikala, of which it is a municipal unit.

Fres

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Apokoronas, of which it is a municipal unit.

Fuckland

The picture was recorded illegally in the Falkland Islands in 1999, and was made without the permission of the local government.

Gdańsk Voivodeship

Gdansk Voivodeship (2) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1945–1975, superseded by the voivodeships of Gdansk (1), Elbląg and Słupsk (area of Lębork).

Harold J. Milne

In 1954, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, also being awarded an OBE in 1954 for services to local government.

Holroyd, New South Wales

The local government area takes its name from Arthur Holroyd, first Mayor of the area, local landowner and businessman.

James McGarel-Hogg

James McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne (1823–1890), British politician, Member of Parliament, and local government leader

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

He fell from favour under the ultra-Royalist administration of the Jean-Baptiste, comte de Villèle, the Prime Minister of France from 1821–1828, and during which time largely he concentrated on local government, being Maire (Mayor) of Villiers-sur-Orge for seven years from 1820 to 1826, and was one of the founders of the l'Ecole d'enseignement mutuel (primary school) in Montlhéry, where using his own resources, he had several young pupils educated.

Jesse Robredo

Search and recovery operations were conducted by Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force and the local government of Masbate, with assistance from a number of foreign technical divers.

Karya, Larissa

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Elassona, of which it is a municipal unit.

Kastro-Kyllini

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Andravida-Kyllini, of which it is a municipal unit.

Kofinas

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortyn, of which it is a municipal unit.

Koszalin Voivodeship

– a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1950–75, created from eastern part of Szczecin Voivodeship, superseded by the voivodeships of Koszalin (2), Slupsk and Pila.

Kouloukonas

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Mylopotamos, of which it is a municipal unit.

Local Government Act 1988

The United Kingdom Local Government Act of 1988 was famous for introducing the controversial Section 28 into law.

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington

Hornsey plan: A role for neighbourhood councils in the new local government with John Baker (1971)

Miyake-jima

The seat of the local government is in the village (in the traditional sense) of Tsubota on the southeast coast of Miyake Island.

Mukono Town

The town is administered by Mukono Town Council, an Urban Local Government within Mukono District Administration.

Nigerian Ports Authority

Onne is located in Rivers State on Ogu Creek near the Bonny River, 19 km from Port Harcourt; the port area is located in three Local Government Areas of Rivers State, Eleme LGA, Ogu-Bolo LGA and Bonny LGA.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Ogbomosho North

The local government serves as a home to one of Nigeria's best institution of learning, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) and it teaching hospital(still under construction).

Parish Assembly

Assembleia de freguesia, the assembly of LAU 2 local government in Portugal

Piper PA-34 Seneca

18 August 2012 a PA-34-200 Seneca crashed off the coast of Masbate, Philippines, killing Philippine Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo.

Pittwater Council

At the 2011 Census, the proportion of residents in the Pittwater local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Saxon exceeded 75% of all residents (national average was 65.2%).

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff

The current ecclesiastical terrority of the diocese comprises the local government areas of Cardiff, Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan, Newport, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Herefordshire.

Roodepoort

Although Roodepoort has traditionally been regarded as being part of the West Rand, it was not made part of the West Rand District Municipality, instead being integrated into the City of Johannesburg Metropolitam Municipality, following the post-apartheid reorganisation of local government in the late 1990s.

Sahatu Ayagi

The school's management made these tables and chairs available for the students who are in the taffeta classes and provided other students with mats for their lessons which Daley the local government donated to the school.

Shola Ameobi

Born in Zaria, Nigeria to a family from Ijumu Local Government Area in modern day Kogi State, Ameobi moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England when he was five.

Sri Lanka Eastern Provincial Council elections, 2008

Following the successful completion of local government elections in the Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka’s Elections Department announced on March 14 that the elections for the Eastern Provincial Council were to be held in May, after a lapse of 20 years.

Tom Brake

Following the 2001 General Election, then party leader Charles Kennedy appointed him a spokesman on Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

Tracy, Minnesota

Jim Vickerman (born 1931) long-time Minnesota State Senator, first elected in 1986, chaired the Senate's State and Local Government Operations, Rules and Administration, and Agriculture, Veterans and Gaming committees before retiring in 2011.

Twentieth Amendment

Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland — provided constitutional recognition of local government.

Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas

Imtiyas was an Auto rickshaw driver from an impoverished background who contested local government elections on an independent ticket.

Vistonida

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Abdera, of which it is a municipal unit.

Vrachasi

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Agios Nikolaos, of which it is a municipal unit.

West Caister

For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Great Yarmouth.

Wiluna

Shire of Wiluna, a local government area in the Mid West region of Western Australia.