<P> The board sat in the capital city of each department and exercised jurisdiction throughout the entire territory of the department . It could issue decrees and resolutions that it deemed necessary either on the suggestion of the governor or on its own initiative . It could approve budgets, fix the amount of taxes, request the intervention of the Accounts Tribunal for advice concerning departmental finances or administration, and remove from office--at the request of the governor--members of nonelective local departmental boards . The board also supervised local public services; public health; and primary, secondary, preparatory, industrial, and artistic education . Although Montevideo was the smallest department in terms of area (divided into twenty - three geographic zones that generally coincided with the electoral zones), its departmental board had sixty - five members in 1990; all other departments had thirty - one - member boards and a five - member executive council appointed by the departmental board, with proportional representation from the principal political parties . </P> <P> Data as of December 1990 </P>

Which level of government is responsible for public transportation