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A board of supervisors is a governmental body that oversees the operation of county government in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as 16 counties in New York. There are equivalent agencies in other states.
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 ...
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
The Board of Supervisors was established in 1870. [6]Initially, the board had six members, one from each of the magisterial districts of Centreville, Dranesville, Falls Church, Lee, Mount Vernon and Providence, with the chairman elected from among the members of the board to a single year term.
Each of the five county supervisors has real sway over a $43-billion budget and a workforce almost as large as the population of Berkeley. It’s the reason the all-female board has been dubbed ...
Public safety, homelessness, crime and mental health are the top issues in the race for county supervisor in the 2nd District.
In San Francisco, there is an eleven-member Board of Supervisors, [10] but the executive branch of the government is headed by an elected mayor, department heads are responsible to the mayor, and there is both a city police department and a county sheriff, the latter mostly responsible for operating the county jail and for most jail bookings ...
In the county’s local municipalities, voters will also select township supervisors, borough council members and their local school board directors. Here’s the list of candidates who are on the ...