URP 337 Spring 1999
Solutions to
Quiz 1, 7 April 1999
Correct answers are given in italics
  1. Which one of the following characteristics does not necessarily characterize special districts and public authorities? strict oversight from state and federal regulators.
  2. Suppose the Tuxedo Streetlight Authority's (TSA) budget is received as an appropriation from Sartorial County, its parent government. Also, the primary responsibilities of TSA's board members are their jobs in the Sartorial County bureaucracy. Towards which end of the intergovernmental independence scale does TSA lie? highly dependent.
  3. According to Leigland, which type of special governments are growing fastest (and also most controversial)? Urban fringe

    From Leigland's perspective, which of the following are advantages and which are disadvantages of special governments over typical government forms?
  4. Increased possibility of "back door" financing=disadvantage
  5. Beneficiaries pay for benefits=advantage
  6. Increases number of leadership opportunities for local citizens=not addressed by Leigland
  7. Enterprise accounts are separated from general funds=advantage


  8. According to Garvin, parks can and should be used to influence the character and development of an entire city.
  9. According to Garvin, an ingredient of success in park development today, entrepreneurship means: harnessing local initiative to support park development, maintenance, and management.
  10. Garvin compares Los Angeles' Griffith Park to other large city parks. Griffith Park was like many other parks in many ways, but different in an important way. Which of the following characteristics of Griffith Park distinguishes it from many other large city parks: The dominant feature of its design was to leave most of the park in a natural state and It failed to stimulate significant development in its vicinity.
     
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