Yeah no sweat I'm not an authority on anarchy if you'll excuse the pun and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/ is probably going to be a better source

I think the biggest difference between what I was describing and a state is the individuals elected are not part of any governing body or political party and are granted authority by a community for a specific purpose/job.

In general and broadly somewhere between 'that's Diane we elected her during the last community meeting to take care of the roads for the next 5 years based on community funds because she's got some good ideas on how to do that we mostly agree on' and 'the person you elected is a member of a governing body representing a political party following a bureaucracy of processes and they're in charge of police, education, roads, etc so if you want anything done get your wallet ready for lobbying and if you try to fix that pothole yourself it's illegal' a line is crossed.