What this office does: The city commission is Bowling Green's legislative body: with the mayor, it passes city ordinances and adopts the budget. Its four commissioners are elected citywide to two-year terms.
Nonpartisan. Vote for up to four. Brian Fishback filed as a write-in candidate (Secretary of State's list of candidate filings with the county clerk); write-in candidates are not printed on the ballot. On the ballot in the Shive Kiel, Briarwood, Eastwood, Hartland, Reservoir Hill, Broadway, Hillview, Sugar Maple, Fairview, Main Avenue, Greenmeadows, Springhill, Covington, Smallhouse, Big Red, University, Cave Mill, CSX Railroad, Highland, Fruit of the Loom, Whispering Hills and Windover precincts and part of the Greenwood, Natcher, Campbell, Delafield, Octagon Castle, Central, Lost River, Ephram, Lovers Lane, Cumberland Trace, Riverview, Blue Level Browning, Cedar Grove, Rockfield, Greystone, Matlock and Phil Moore precincts (sample ballot).
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“Carlos Bailey co-sponsored a municipal order that would have placed a six-month moratorium on any data center projects in the city”
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