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County Commission Texas historical marker in Brenham, Texas. A county commission (or a board of county commissioners) is a group of elected officials (county commissioners) collectively charged with administering the county government in some states of the United States. A county usually has three to five members of the county commission. [1]
Additionally, the county judge is a statutory member of several important boards, including the juvenile board and the county election commission. Finally, the judge is designated by a long-standing executive order of the governor, pursuant to the Texas Disaster Act of 1974, as the executive officer for civil defense within the county.
Santa Fe County, Texas formed in 1848 from lands claimed by the Republic of Texas and ceded by Mexico. It included a vast area later becoming portions of several states from New Mexico east of the Rio Grande extending northward into south-central Wyoming. Within Texas' modern boundaries, the county included the Trans-Pecos and most of the ...
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With both longtime commissioners stepping away from public office, Tarrant County will see a commissioners court of entirely new faces come January 2025. Brooks hopes they can put the politics aside.
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.
In the published agenda for this week's regular county commissioners' meeting, the recommendation to dissolve the committee concluded with the statement that "the need for this advisory committee ...
At the age of 25, Calvert filed as one of several candidates for the US District 21 congressional seat in 2006. [8] In 2014, he was elected as Bexar County Commissioner for Precinct 4 with 55% of the vote, succeeding Tommy Adkisson who chose not to run for reelection after 16 years in that office.