Cannon combined a government grant with a pre-pay agreement involving a public power authority to complete the financial arrangement.

Some residents believed that a property owners association could gain too much power and cause the community's direction to fall into an undesirable power authority.

Before privatisation, the nationalised power authorities were run by engineers who took a pragmatic view of generation, transmission and distribution costs and set consumer prices accordingly.

Some hospitals, universities, transit commissions, power authorities and other agencies employ special constables.

Joint powers authorities receive existing powers from the creating governments; thus, they are distinct from special districts, which receive new delegations of sovereign power from the state.