the study of council management function in changing the structure of a certain town (dehdasht as a case study)

councils have been a component of civil society after the glorious victory of islamic revolution in iran. considering the emphases of the holy koran, the conduct of the innocent authorities in islam (the holy prophet's household), the necessity of the implementation of a non-concentrated system, and the existence of local organizations councils were formed. some principles of iran's constitution were allocated to them and after being inactive for some years, the first round of elections for islamic councils was held all over the country. taking the provisions of iran's constitution and customary rules into account councils are assigned three functions of decision making, supervision and consultation and cooperation. in keeping with such functions studying the performance and determining the scope of the success of councils are necessary to know their weaknesses and strengths. the present study was carried out in the form of an inquiry research in which some questionnaires were constructed and given to the citizens to study the performance of the islamic city council of dehdasht by considering the first, second and third round acts of islamic council and the acts of the council commissions. research findings show that despite the crisis caused by the initial formation of the council, as the impact on urban management, dehdasht city council of acceptable performance in later periods have been impact on the transformation of the city council, was associated with weaknesses (such as the new city council, the nobles of the city's strengths and weaknesses and lack of experts and specialists, lack of effective cooperation with other organizations in the management of the city) but stabilized over time and place, we are seeing a positive impact on the city dehdasht.