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board of supervisors
noun
- the governing body of a county in many U.S. states, especially in the Midwest and the East, consisting of from 15 to 100 members elected from towns, townships, cities, or wards.
Example Sentences
Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation Friday just days after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to strip her agency of more than $300 million and hundreds of workers.
Soon after taking office in January, Lurie worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a measure giving his office more authority to bypass bureaucratic hurdles that have slowed expansion of shelter and treatment programs for homeless people, as well as more leeway to pursue private funding to finance those initiatives.
The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion, brought forward Tuesday by Supervisors Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger, to study a potential registry after the death of 17 in Altadena in January shone a spotlight on L.A.
He gave Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Kathryn Barger until May to fix the broken system, vowing only then to become “your worst nightmare†should they fail.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to move hundreds of millions of dollars out of the region’s homeless services agency on Tuesday, despite warnings from L.A.
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