The council members could be removed whenever the voters desired. A region containing about ten to twenty neighborhoods would then have a level-2 council. Hence this is an old anarchist idea in which society is not a chaotic mass of atomistic individuals, but a hierarchy of small organizations, each in voluntary union with the others. They emphasize that genuine representative democracy depends on having a vital direct democracy at its base. The level-h council elects from its membership an executive and other officers.
Alternate representatives replace the executive and possibly other officers.
It could withdraw its schools from level 4 and create its own level-3 school district, and deduct the average cost per student from the tax liabilities to level 4. This partial withdrawal or service substitution would be an alternative to an attempt to reform the level-4 service. Such a secession possibility is practiced to a limited degree in St. Louis, where a local neighborhood is able to privatize the streets and take over the maintenance. With such local control, the neighborhood association can close off one end of a street as well as to organize better surveillance. On the revenue side, the bottom-up voting structure is reinforced if the public finances also flow from bottom to top.