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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.
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 ...
The five-member elected Solano County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is the legislative and executive branch of the county government of San Diego County, California. Though officially nonpartisan, three Democrats and two Republicans currently comprise the Board of Supervisors, with the latest election occurring in 2020.
Proponents of expanding the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors tried in 1962, in 1976, in 1992 and again in 2000. Each time, voters said no, even as the county's population swelled. The last ...
The County of Sacramento is governed by an elected five-member Board of Supervisors. [2] Several other elected offices including the Sheriff, District Attorney, and Assessor, and numerous county departments and entities, under the supervision of the County Executive Officer, are responsible for implementing the policy of the Board of Supervisors.
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.
Leticia Perez, chairwoman of the Kern county board of supervisors, said that this project is important for residents of California’s rural Central Valley, providing a 171-mile system from Merced ...