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An interim legislative task force wrestled with the state’s hundreds of boards and commissions Tuesday, struggling to learn more about their finances and meeting schedules. Such groups can include powerful boards who can grant professional licenses, review an inmate’s parole application and approve utility price increases while others were designed to be one-off planning committees or exist in name only.

“I don’t think it’s a controversial statement to say we have too many,” said Adam Battalio, a sen

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