Sentence examples for county governing from inspiring English sources

Both city and county governing bodies passed resolutions opposing the passage of I-69 through Monroe County.

One of the families donated its parcel without asking for any compensation, and the other two will, if the city and county governing agencies approve the easements at the end of this month, get, in addition to some tax breaks and some extra compensation from a land trust, $680,000 and $640,000 respectively — far less than the price of many a Mansion Heights home.

When county councils were introduced in England in 1889 about 20% of the area of Middlesex, along with a third of its population, was transferred to the new County of London and the remainder became an administrative county governed by the Middlesex County Council that met regularly at the Middlesex Guildhall in Westminster, in the County of London.

The corporation's board of directors voted Wednesday to send the consultants' recommendations to the Commissioners Court, the county's governing body, for further action.

"As a public servant you must have the trust of the people," Mosley told a meeting of the commissioners' court, the county's governing body, in Hempstead.

Funds that are distributed by the federal government are allocated to state governments and are filtered down to county and local governing bodies.

Although the majority of counties are governed by a board of supervisors, the home-rule privilege allows larger counties to entrust management to county commissioners.

Each of Mississippi's counties is governed by a five-member board of supervisors elected to a four-year term.

The state is divided into 77 counties that govern locally, each headed by a three-member council of elected commissioners, a tax assessor, clerk, court clerk, treasurer, and sheriff.

"The rules that govern growth and planning and zoning in the city and county government are incredibly complex," he said.

In that era, the supervisors functioned as the county's legislative and administrative governing body, so it was the last time Democrats controlled the entire county government.