Putnam County Commissioners

Make laws (“ordinances”) that apply mainly to areas within the county but outside city limits.

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Decide controversial land-use cases, particularly when a major development is proposed in a rural area.

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Formulate and finalize the County’s annual budget. That sounds dry and bureaucratic, but in the real world, the budget is the county’s primary policy document. It is where trade-offs are made between funding, say, an additional sheriff’s deputy to patrol the roads, another mental health counselor, a paving project at the fairgrounds, a grant to non-profit youth programs, a modest expansion of library hours…

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Serve on a variety of other policy-setting boards that focus on areas like transportation planning, job training and economic development

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Hire and supervise the County Administrator, who in turn hires and supervises the directors of the

complaints from county citizens who may be having trouble with their neighbors, or the county bureaucra

County’s departments

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Receive concerns and