Fresno County board has no farmers among its supervisors

A change in the board’s makeup

Fresno County’s Board of Supervisors now has no farmers among its members. That is a change in the occupational makeup of the county board, which oversees county government.

The development has been described as a major shift for Fresno County. It concerns who serves on the county’s governing body, not a candidate race or a ballot measure.

What the change means

The change means that farming is no longer represented among the supervisors by a member whose occupation is identified as farming. The board remains the county’s central local-government body.

The change does not, by itself, establish how the supervisors may vote on agricultural, land-use, water or other county issues. No policy positions are identified here for any supervisor.

Primary record

The KVPR report on the change is the cited account of the development.