And that's, uh, sort of where we are. People usually don't believe him, he said. But the average Alabamian has little idea what the county actually does. And that too is the result of the constitution's design. Monetary support People understand cities.
Cities are self-governing and raise revenue and disperse it and can zone.
People don't understand counties. Counties don't raise money. The Legislature does that for them. The counties just disperse whatever money trickles down from the state and federal government. They're not, and County Administrator Ken Joiner has the examples to prove it.