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The five-member elected Fresno 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).
Fresno is the county seat of Fresno County. It maintains the main county courthouse on Van Ness in the Fresno County Plaza for criminal and some civil court cases. The United States District Court, Eastern District of California , has one of its six divisions based in the Robert E. Coyle Courthouse.
Fresno County (/ ˈ f r ɛ z n oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. [3] [5] The county seat is Fresno, [6] the fifth-most populous city in California.
Fresno County Supervisor Steve Brandau, who represents District 2 encompassing northeast, northwest and central Fresno, is seeking re-election to a second full four-year term on the Board of ...
Fort Washington is a census-designated place in Fresno County, California. Fort Washington sits at an elevation of 249 feet (76 m). Fort Washington sits at an elevation of 249 feet (76 m). The 2010 United States census reported Fort Washington's population was 233.
The Fresno chapter of the League of Women Voters recently chastised the county for poor management of the General Plan over the years, and asked the Board of Supervisors to delay a vote to approve ...
The county’s unemployment rate is above the state average at 9.5%, and 23.4% don’t have a high school diploma or GED. This leads to more people dependent on CalWORKs.
The last county in California to be established is Imperial County on August 7, 1907. Since 1911, counties in California have been allowed limited home rule, with the Government of Los Angeles County the first in the nation to be granted home rule by charter in 1912.