Zadar is a city situated on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. It is the seat of Zadar County and it ranks second by population in the region of Dalmatia and fifth in Croatia. This final paper focuses on local administration, and most of all, on the legal framework and the structure itself of the local administration of Zadar, its development through time in the Republic of Croatia (three phases), and the later desire to introduce regions. Furthermore, this final paper encompasses all the administrative departments of the city of Zadar, the principles governing them, as well as the management of the city. Modernization of the public administration introduces novelties that contribute to the improvements in Zadar and the County itself, as well as to the expansion of the city's boundary, from the creation of new administrative departments that are largely needed for proper functioning of the local administration, but also for the overall betterment and development of the population. Thus, this paper focuses on the description of the local administration (of Zadar), as well as of the course by the same name.