The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary provides a political and administrative framework for providing region-wide services such as regional parks, providing inter-municipal or sub-regional services such as recreation facilities where residents of a municipality and residents in areas outside the municipality benefit from the service, and acting as the general local government for the electoral areas and providing local services such as waterworks and fire protection to incorporated communities within the electoral areas. The governance of regional districts is managed by a board of directors composed of appointees from municipalities and a director elected from each electoral area. The municipal directors serve on the regional board until council decides to change the appointment. The directors from the electoral areas serve for a three-year term.