STUDENTS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT 2007

City of Daly City / Jefferson Union High School District

Each year the city of Daly City and the Jefferson Union High School District join together to present a unique learning opportunity for young people in our community. The Students in Local Government program allows students to learn first hand how city government operates and the role individual city departments play in the overall process of governing a modern city at the beginning of the 21^st century.

The program begins with a meeting of the participating students to gain some background knowledge of how local government works and to identify issues in the community of importance. A series of field trips helps students understand the actual workings of city government. Trips include everything from touring the Wastewater Treatment Plant, SeniorCenter, corporate work yard, fire stations, to a complete tour of city hall. The culminating exercise in this program is a mock city council meeting. At this meeting, which students run from “gavel to gavel,” each of the department heads’ meeting agenda items are presented to the city council for consideration and action. The meeting is held in the actual council chambers and is video taped for later broadcast via local cable access throughout the community.