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The council was formed in 1963, when the city adopted the Mayor-Council Act of 1955. It replaced the Birmingham City Commission, the city's previous form of government. [3] The council's current president is William Parker; the current president pro tempore is Wardine Alexander. [4]
The Center on Colfax was founded in 1976 and grew out of the advocacy work of the Gay Coalition of Denver. GCD held the "City Council Revolt" in 1973 which resulted in Denver city council repealing four discriminatory laws. [2]
Presidents of the Birmingham City Commission George B. Ward: November 1913 – 1917 [data missing] Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 1905–1908 Chose not to re-run Nathaniel Barrett: 1917–1921 [data missing] David E. McClendon: 1921–1925 [data missing] James M. Jones Jr. 1925–1940 [data missing] Cooper Green: 1940–1953 [data missing] James ...
On July 21, 2009, Langford gave the entire Birmingham City Council small ceramic unicorns as a response to Birmingham City Council President Carole Smitherman's comment that agreeing to the finance director's projection of available revenue in 2010 was the equivalent of saying, "We believe in unicorns."
William A. Bell Sr. (born June 1, 1949) is an American politician who served as the 33rd mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, from 2010 to 2017. He had previously held the office on an interim basis in 1999. [2] [1] Prior to that, he had served several terms on the Birmingham City Council. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Birmingham City Council has reached an agreement to settle thousands of historic equal pay claims costing millions, just over a year after effectively going bankrupt.. GMB Union, which brought the ...
In 2009, Hemming was awarded the Systems in the City Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with the company. [4] In 1997, Hemming also set up his own record company, Music Mercia International. [5] Hemming was first elected to Birmingham City Council in 1990, in Acocks Green ward. He moved to the South Yardley ward following boundary changes ...
In 1997, he was elected to represent District 8 in the Birmingham City Council and two years later defeated interim-Mayor William A. Bell in a runoff to become mayor. Kincaid was also member of the Alabama delegation to the 2000 Democratic National Convention .