Responsibilities

The Board of Supervisors is the legislative body of the County and the following are some of its duties and powers:

• Approves bonds of county officials
• Establishes and vacates public highways
• Levies taxes to produce revenue for county purposes
• Allows claims against the county and orders them paid
• Allows applications for Homestead, Military, and Family Farm Credit
• Fills vacancies in county offices, except members of its own body
• Canvasses the vote totals of elections
• Approves all budgets of county
• Appoints a County Engineer to supervise the county road system
• Oversees the maintenance of the county buildings
• Appoints all members to the following county boards:
  
  • Care Review
  • Conservation
  • Health
  • Zoning Board of Adjustment
• Appoints individual members to the following boards:
  
  • Eminent Domain Compensation Commission
  • Civil Service
  • Compensation
  • Judicial Magistrate Appointing Commission