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The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners is the governing body of Mecklenburg County, consisting of nine commissioners - six representing districts and three elected at-large. You can watch BOCC meetings live and view each meeting's agenda.
Mecklenburg County ( / ˈmɛklənˌbɜːrɡ /) is a county located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of North Carolina, in the United States.
About Mecklenburg County. Mecklenburg County was formed in 1762 from the western part of Anson County and the first official governmental action took place in February 1763. The North Carolina State Constitution approved in 1868 gave the citizens of all counties the right to elect a Board of County Commissioners to govern them.
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Mecklenburg County, located in North Carolina's Piedmont region, was formed from Anson County in 1762 and took its name from the German duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, home of the wife of King George III, Charlotte Sophia.
Mecklenburg is the center of a six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes more than 1.4 million people. In addition to Mecklenburg, the counties are Gaston, Union, Cabarrus, and Anson Counties in North Carolina and York County, South Carolina.
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