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Citrus County Animal Services Citrus County Animal Services - Kittens available for adoption! Citrus County Animal Services - I'm available too! Citrus County Canning Center - view of stage Citrus County Canning Center Central Ridge District Park Citrus County Old Courthouse Chassahowitzka Campground Chassahowitzka Campground Chassahowitzka Campground Citrus County Fire Rescue - Chief Larry Morabito Citrus County Fire Rescue - Craig Stevens, Assistant Fire Chief Citrus County Fire Rescue - Firemen suiting up Citrus County Fire Rescue Citrus County Fire Rescue - citizens watching demonstration of ladder truck Citrus County Fire Rescue - Hazmat collecting (mock) samples Citrus County Fire Rescue Citrus County Fire Rescue Citrus County Fire Rescue Citrus County Fire Rescue Citrus County Fire Rescue - Kandice Bellamy McPherson - sporting her shiny new fire helmet Citrus County Fire Rescue - Chief Morabito helps Ardath Prendargast suit up! Citrus County Fire Rescue - Ardath Prendargast "Where's the fire?" Ft. Island Trail Park Homosassa Library - Kids Cove children's section Homosassa Library Citrus County Sign Shop - Julie Canada - shows citizen's how to make a sign Citrus County Sign Shop - Pat McLeod - shows citizen's how to make a sign Citrus County Solid Waste Management Citrus County Solid Waste Management - new cell

These are some of the field trips you will be attending during your course.

Citizen's Academy

• Application
• Schedule

If you would like
an up-close and personal
look at Citrus County government...

then this
is the class
for you!
(and it's FREE!)

2010 Citizen Academy graduates - Session #2

The Academy is a free course designed to educate citizens about the departments that implement the policy of the commission and to give residents a hands-on, inside look at what, how and why the county's departments do what they do.

With so much misinformation and lack of information in the public about how the county commission and its departments work, the goal is to create informed citizens who understand the board's responsibilities and capabilities and how the taxpayer's resources are utilized in the various departments.

There are various field trips via county buses during the sessions. Departments and divisions covered include, for example, Development Services, Planning, Building, Management and Budget, Systems Management, Public Works, Community Services, Parks and Recreation, and Code Compliance, as well as numerous others.

There are no qualifications needed other than being a resident of the county and interested in how it works, and the only requirement of the class is attendance.

Registration is on a first come, first served basis. If more than the allotted slots are requested, the names will be put on a waiting list in the order they were received for the next session.

The course does not cover the other elected constitutional offices, such as the County Court Clerk, the Property Appraiser, Supervisor of Eections, Tax Collector, and Sheriff, except for cooperative programs with the commission and how their budgets are part of the overall county budget (the school budget is separate from the commission's).

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