C O N C L U S I O N T H I N K I N G C R I T I C A L L Y A ...
C O U N T Y G O V E R N M E N T I N T E X A S Local government plays a major role in Texas. In 2007, there were 4,835 local government institutions. Of these, 1,462 were generalpurpose governments, including 254 county governments and 1,209 municipal governments. There were also 3,373 specialpurpose governments, including 1,082 public school systems and 2,291 .