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A county executive (or county mayor) is the chief executive officer of a county in the United States. They are either elected by the citizens of the county or appointed by the county council or governor of the state. The county executive signs bills passed by the county council into local ordinance, manages county government agencies, finances ...
Board of supervisors. (Redirected from Board of Supervisors) 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.
Most U.S. states and territories have at least two tiers of local government: counties and municipalities. Louisiana uses the term parish and Alaska uses the term borough for what the U.S. Census Bureau terms county equivalents in those states. Civil townships or towns are used as subdivisions of a county in 20 states, mostly in the Northeast ...
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] In some counties within Georgia a sole commissioner holds the ...
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. [3] The term " county " is used in 48 states, while Louisiana and Alaska have ...
A county administrator or county manager is an unelected official appointed to be the chief administrative officer of a county in the United States. They are usually nominated by the county executive and appointed by the county council. This position is analogous to a city manager at the county -level. In some counties, the equivalent position ...
Ohio county government is the structure of official managerial and legal bodies of the counties of Ohio, USA. It is marked by a loose organization and a diffusion of power, the basic framework not having been changed since the nineteenth century. The Ohio Constitution allows counties to set up a charter government as many cities and villages do ...
On April 1, 1850 the citizens of Los Angeles elected a three-man Court of Sessions as their first governing body. [1] A total of 377 votes were cast in this election. [1] In 1852, the Legislature dissolved the Court of Sessions and created a five-member Board of Supervisors. [1] In 1913 the citizens of Los Angeles County approved a charter ...