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A county usually has three to five members of the county commission. [1] In some counties within Georgia a sole commissioner holds the authority of the commission. In parts of the United States, alternative terms such as county board of supervisors or county council may be used in lieu of, but generally synonymous to, a county commission ...
A county executive (or county mayor) is the head of government 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.
A commissioner (commonly abbreviated as Comm'r) [1] is, in principle, a member of a commission or an individual who has been given a commission (official charge or authority to do something). In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to include a variety of senior officials, often sitting on a specific commission.
In some states the equivalent body to a Board of Supervisors is called the county council or county commission. For Louisiana parishes, the equivalent body is a Police Jury, while in Kentucky the equivalent is called the Fiscal Court. In Nebraska, some counties are governed by a board of supervisors while others are governed by a county ...
Percent of County Commissioner seats held by party in each county in New Jersey. In New Jersey, a Board of County Commissioners (until 2020 named the Board of Chosen Freeholders) is the elected county-wide government board in each of the state's 21 counties. In the five counties that have an elected county executive, the board of county ...
Doña Ana County Manager Fernando Macias, center, listens as Sheriff Kim Stewart addresses the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Process criticized by the whole board
The county administrator/manager, operating under the council-manager government form, was created in part to remove county government from the power of the political parties, and place management of the county into the hands of an outside expert who was usually a business manager or engineer, with the hope that the county manager would remain neutral to county politics.
The advantage to single commissioner is lower cost. With an average Georgia salary for a county commissioner being $168,195 per year, or $14,016 per month, The reduction from the three-man man commission board to a sole commissioner is a savings of $336,390 in salary plus another estimated million in extra staffing [citation needed].