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The essence of staffing of local governments is clarified in the work. It is substantiated that this is a system of principles, forms and methods of forming the necessary qualitative and quantitative composition of local governments, aimed at improving human resources and their effective use. The mechanism of staffing of local authorities effective functioning is offered, the feature of which is the inclusion of the processes of formation and realization. As a target orientation of the mechanism of staffing of local governments, their effective functioning is defined by achieving a certain goal to increase the level of life of the territorial community. The use of the qualimetric approach for construction of the optimum scenario of staffing of effective functioning of local governments is substantiated