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A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...
Baltimore County, Harford: J. B. Jennings: Republican 2010 Budget and Taxation 8 Baltimore County Katherine A. Klausmeier: Democratic 2002 Finance 10 Baltimore County Benjamin Brooks: Democratic 2022 Education, Energy, and the Environment 11 Baltimore County Shelly L. Hettleman: Democratic 2020 [1] Budget and Taxation 42 Baltimore County ...
The name "Board of Supervisors" was changed to "Board of Commissioners" in 1970 to avoid confusion with township government (where the term "Supervisor" was still used). In New York, the new boards were called "county legislatures" (and their members, "county legislators"), but not every county has adopted this system.
A county usually has three to five members of the county commission. [1] In some counties within Georgia a sole commissioner holds the authority of the commission. In parts of the United States, alternative terms such as county board of supervisors or county council may be used in lieu of, but generally synonymous to, a county commission ...
Baltimore County (/ ˈ b ɔː l t ɪ m ɔːr / BAWL-tim-or, locally: / b ɔː l d ə ˈ m ɔːr / bawl-da-MOR or / ˈ b ɔː l m ər / BAWL-mər [1]) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland. The county is part of the Central Maryland region of the state. Baltimore County partly surrounds but does not include the ...
Measure G would expand the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to nine members from its current five: from left, Janice Hahn, Hilda Solis, Lindsey Horvath, Kathryn Barger and Holly Mitchell.
A county board is a common form of county legislature, particular of counties in the United States. Related forms of county government include: Board of Supervisors — a form of county legislature in some U.S. states; County commission, also called a board of county commissioners — a form of county administration in some U.S. states
A county board meeting in Stafford County, Virginia. County governments are organized local governments authorized in state constitutions and statutes. Counties and county-equivalents form the first-tier administrative division of the states. The county equivalents in Louisiana are called parishes, while those in Alaska are called boroughs.