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Public Commission

Alan Forester-Kaiser · October 31, 2026

This follows a discussion at a recent meeting. In Sometown, in the Bay Area, two commission members are at odds about why they’re there. One holds that a commission exists to help the administrative government get its work done. The […]

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Posts tagged “council-manager government”

Public Commission