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After being classified as a taxing district in 1880 after a grievous loss of population due to the yellow fever epidemic, Memphis regained home rule in 1893. It established a city commission form of government, which it maintained until 1968. At that time, it established a mayor-council government of thirteen council positions.
The first city council took office in 1968, after the modern city charter had been approved by Memphis voters in a 1966 referendum. The 1966 charter set the salary for council members at $6,000, which was later raised to $20,100 in 1995, and later raised again to the current amount of $30,100.
The beginning of 2014 marked the start of a turnaround for the City of Detroit. Mayor Mike Duggan [21] had been elected, and with a "fresh start", the focus of the city government was to provide the services that the people of Detroit needed. By the end of September, the start of the 2014 - 2015 fiscal year, many of the public health services ...
DENVER — More than 90,000 Colorado residents can take their federal student loans out of default under the U.S. Department of Education’s temporary Fresh Start program.The deadline to apply is ...
Some council members voiced skepticism about the monetary value of the developers' proposed Community Benefits package. Detroit City Council members question developers, delay vote on $3B project ...
The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The full-time council is required to meet every business day for at least 10 months of the year, with at least eight of these meetings occurring at a location besides city hall. The Detroit City Council has elected Mary Sheffield to be its president. [2]
A Memphis City Council meeting can be seen through the City of Memphis seal in the meeting room door at city hall in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
Sheila M. Cockrel née Sheila Murphy (born November 3, 1947) [2] is an American politician and consultant. She was a member of the Detroit City Council from 1994 to 2009. [3] The widow of Kenneth Cockrel, Sr. and stepmother of Kenneth Cockrel, Jr., she "had [a] fractious relationship with" Monica Conyers, whose resignation she called "an appropriate decision". [4]