Sentence examples for board of county from inspiring English sources

Then, in 2007, instead of closing the landfill on Eubanks Road, the board of county commissioners voted unanimously to approve a solid-waste transfer station as an addition to the already sprawling complex.

The governing body in most counties is the board of county commissioners, whose three members act as both the chief executive officers and the legislative body for the county.

Next month, more than 50 years after Islandia's incorporation, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners is expected to take a vote to abolish its tiniest city -- a chain of 33 islands, reachable only by boat, with Elliott Key as its centerpiece.

A picture caption on Wednesday with an article about the Florida city of Islandia, a desolate chain of islands that the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners is expected to unincorporate next month, misstated the purpose behind "Spite Highway," a large strip that was to be built across the main island, Elliott Key.

"They get drunk on power," said Katy Sorenson, who served on the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners for 16 years and runs the Good Government Initiative at the University of Miami, which educates elected officials about ethics and related issues.

The County Canvassing Board ("Canvassing Board" or "Board"), which is composed of the Supervisor, a county court judge, and the chair of the board of county commissioners, then canvasses the returns countywide, reviews the certificates, and transmits the returns for state and federal officers to the Florida Department of State Departmentent') by 5 00 p.m. of the seventh day following the election.

"We can't have a checker board of counties that want in".

Boards of county commissioners have executive and legislative powers, while county councils are concerned almost exclusively with fiscal affairs.

The FA says the council is merely the representative body of the grass roots of the game and that membership reflects the boards of county FAs across England.

Members of the school board of Hillsborough County (which includes part of Tampa, Florida's second-largest city) have offered to take a pay cut if their schools fail.

He will play a direct role in Virginia, a swing state, where he is the vice-chairman of the electoral board of Fairfax County.