Capilano County Council

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The Capilano County Council is the top executive government body of Capilano County, one of six counties proper of the Lower Mainland, a ceremonial county which is the most populous region and cultural centre of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Like other county councils, the Capilano County Council utilises the council–manager form of government: the members of the County Council are directly elected by the constituents of their respective county, who in turn appoint a professional manager (called the Council Manager) to chair the County Council. Between plenary sessions of the County Council, the office of County Manager is the highest in the county administration; during plenary sessions, however, the County Manager must answer to the elected County Council, which scrutinises the County Manager's actions and decisions since the last plenary session. Following a plenary session, the County Council may either retain the current County Manager or appoint a new one.

Executive departments[edit | edit source]

The Capilano County Council's multiple councillors each chair a particular executive department, each of which is responsible for a particular domain of county-level public administration. The active departments are:

  1. Capilano County Department of Corrections
  2. Capilano County Department of Justice
  3. Capilano County Department of Housing
  4. Capilano County Department of Health
  5. Capilano County Department of Sanitation
  6. Capilano County Department of Public Works
  7. Capilano County Department of Municipalities
  8. Capilano County Department of Education
  9. Capilano County Department of Parks & Recreation
  10. Capilano County Department of Communications
  11. Capilano County Department of Energy
  12. Capilano County Department of the Treasury
  13. Capilano County Department of Accreditation & Incorporation
  14. Capilano County Department of Transportation
  15. Capilano County Department of Infrastructure