GoofGoof
Premium Member
If you go back several hundred pages someone posted a link to a site that has all of the special districts and you can filter on type of district, whether they have taxing authority and whether the board is elected the vast majority of districts with taxing authority have an elected board. Makes sense since our country was founded on the basis of no taxation without representation. There were some districts that had taxing authority and also a government appointed board but in those cases the district required that the appointed board members be landowners of the district. We could not find an example of a district with taxing authority and a government appointed board where the board members could be selected from people who don’t reside in the district. This would be the first.So there are 1844 special districts. Plenty to research if anyone wishes to do so,