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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 larger principal city of the Fresno-Madera CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Fresno (Fresno County) and Madera (Madera County) metropolitan areas, [60] [61] which had a combined population of 922,516 at the 2000 census. [10] Fresno is home to numerous ethnic minority communities, such as the Armenian and Hmong ...
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Most small cities have a council–manager government, where the elected city council appoints a city manager to supervise the operations of the city. Some larger cities have a mayor–council government, with a directly-elected mayor who oversees the city government. In many council–manager cities, the city council selects one of its members ...
The city council through its No Place Like Home Initiative is giving $1 million to the Southwest Fresno Development Corporation, which hopes to repurpose the abandoned Bank of America building in ...
The Bee’s senior editor weighs in on the importance of Fresno’s downtown and plans for exclusive coverage Fresno has once-in-a-lifetime chance to redevelop downtown. City leaders must get it right
The building across from Hotel Fresno operated for 34 years until a new city hall, four times larger, was completed in 1941. This two-story, L-shaped building was designed by architect Ernest J. Kump and located at Fresno and M streets. The building later became known as "Old City Hall" and was placed on Fresno's Register of Historic Places. [4]
The hiring comes a little more than a month after the council voted in favor of the city manager’s recommendation to terminate its longtime controller. Fresno hires city controller.