A city council, town council, town board or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality or local government area.
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... He originally sought a seat on the Pittsburgh City Council in 1981, but was unsuccessful ... In 1983, he again ran for City Council, and was this time was successful, winning election to the at-large seat being vacated by Tom Flaherty, who was elected ... in a divisive election triggered by the reorganization of City Council seats into numbered districts ...
... Cork City Council (Irish Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in the city of Cork in Ireland ... As a city council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001 ... The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment ...
... In recognition of the quality of the design Norwich City Council proposed in early 2004 to apply for Article 4 (2) Direction in order to reinforce the ... In April 2007 the City Council indicated that it would not proceed with Article 4 Direction but would instead place the development on its list of buildings ... Friars Quay forms part of the City Centre Conservation area ...
... City councils and town boards generally consist of several (usually somewhere between 5 and 50) elected aldermen or councillors ... Other common titles for members of the council include councilmember or councilman/woman ... In some cities, the mayor is a voting member of the council who serves as chairman in others, the mayor is the city's independent chief executive (or strong mayor ...
... Hall was elected to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 11 in 1925 and was reelected in 1927 ... Bakes, "persuaded the city to lease a 640-acre bean and barley patch then known as Mines Field," which became the Los Angeles International Airport ...
Famous quotes containing the words council and/or city:
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)