Accessible and Accountable Local Government

City residents are represented by the City Council, which is responsible for providing municipal services, such as police, parks and recreation, trash collection, and street maintenance. 

Unincorporated County residents are represented by the County Board of Supervisors, which provides many of the same municipal services, though often at lower levels.  (click here to find out more about these services).      

The City offers more accessible and more accountable local government.  Consider the following:

Accessibility - Santa Clarita offers accessible local government: 

	LA County	City of Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita is smaller and more manageable
Size	Over 4,000 sq. mi.	About 52 sq. mi.
Population	Over 10 million	About 176,000
Number of Employees	90,000-100,000	About 350
Santa Clarita government is just minutes away
Location of where my elected officials meet	Downtown LA	City Hall
Length of drive to attend a meeting of my elected officials or planning commission	About 100 miles round trip	A few miles round trip
Time of day that my elected local officials meet	9:30 a.m.	6:00 p.m.

To learn more about the City's accessibility, click here 

Accountability - Santa Clarita offers accountable local government:

	LA County	City of Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita officials are accountable to all City residents
Number of elected officials who control my local government	5	5
Number of elected officials I can vote for	1	All 5
Number of residents each elected official represents	About 2 million	All 5 represent all 176,000 residents
Number of elected local officials living in the Santa Clarita Valley	0	All 5
Number of Planning Commissioners having to live in the Santa Clarita Valley	0	All 5