Wakulla County, Florida

Long before Wakulla County was established, the Paleo Indians called it home. This occurred around 12,000 years prior to Wakulla County existing. Shortly after in the 19th century Wakulla County came about on March 11th 1843. Wakulla County can be spotted on the Map in the United States of Florida. Wakulla is a part of Tallahassee, Florida which is approximately 736 square miles. The Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of education, and the University of South Florida state, “Wakulla County is Florida's 23rd county, from a segment of Leon County. The origins of its name is unknown, except that it probably comes from a Timucuan word. Crawfordville is the county seat.” Wakulla County has many hidden facts that will be uncovered…

Escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life to Nature Coast aka “The Original Florida,” where a world of historic and natural wonders are plentiful, from numerous parks, preserves, beautiful, crystal-clear springs, rivers and estuaries, spectacular, freshwater lakes, wildlife refuges, and over 25 nature-based recreational sites. Once regarded as "the lonesome leg" of Florida, this 980,000 acres (4,000 km2) area, stretching along the Big Bend area from Apalachee Bay to Anclote Key, is the…

Lake Mary: A top business community Located roughly 18 miles north of Orlando, just off Interstate 4, Lake Mary is considered one of the fastest growing cities in Central Florida. It serves as home to a number of high tech businesses, beautiful residential communities, superb schools, excellent eateries and shopping galore. While the community of Lake Mary dates back to the 1800s, it did not incorporate until August 7, 1973. It was named after Mary Sundell, the wife of a minister, Reverend J.F.…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…

Types of external considerations within Rutherford County are related to natural disasters, political disasters and macroeconomic shifts, including inflation, rate of growth, and unemployment. As a measure to offset natural disasters, we have relationships with other counties across the state coordinate efforts with our Emergency Management team. Indeed, the county 's mitigation planning efforts consist of local, state, and federal assistance. Unfortunately, there are few measures to plan for…

Builders Association Of Pinellas County V. City Of Dunedin Background Context Until the 20th century, the general law in Florida stipulated that local governments could only obtain funds from public revenues as they had no authority to taxes. The local government made the realization that these funds were insufficient for running the everyday affairs of the growing county. For this reason, the county turned to private sources of revenue such as revenue obtained from impact fees for use in the…

Pivot Table / Chart Report Exercise There are four observations in the pivot table, and the one part of pivot table report is about the annual adult care facility, total number of census, SMI and SSI. The other part is about New York State Population, total population and total number of race and ethnicity distribution. The results that I received are come from the data Adult Care Facility Annual Survey and New York State Population. I use the pivot table or chart to get the observations. At the…

Jill started a new job as a count/verification assistant for the Johnson County Board of Elections. After completing her degree, she believed she would have the greatest chance of making a difference in her community and society as a whole. She had completed the counties required training and briefings, read and agree to the terms of the Statement of Secrecy, and she would have no problem with acting impartially at all times and respect confidentiality of material handled. Mark the senior…

The county commission is the local government in each of the fifty five counties. Fifty-four counties elect commissions that have 3 members while Jefferson County has a five-member. There are many different roles they do in Braxton County and many different people are in evolved in helping are county out. The county clerk has a big role in helping are county. Each county elects a county clerk whose responsibilities include the management of records of the county commission and election…