What is the County Board of Supervisors?
The board of supervisors is the legislative body of county government. The supervisors pass all ordinances governing the county and are responsible for seeing that function delegated to the county and that they are properly discharged. They adopt the budget, they are in charge of public works, including the county road system, and serve in ex-officio capacity as the board of directors for special districts or authorities of various kinds, such as, sewer or water. Supervisors also represent their counties on a local level of town or city councils. The supervisors are also responsible for providing municipal-type services for county residents. Each Supervisor sits on several committees that over see the departments that provide these services. The committees consist of Building and Grounds, Economic Development, Equalization and Assessment*, Insurance and Risk Management*, Law and Finance, Racing, Veterans, Water, Legislative and Research*, Public Health, Public Safety, Public Works, and
