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The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is made up of 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councillors are elected to two-year terms, and there is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve.
He was replaced on the City Council by Frederick C. Hailer Jr. 4. ^ On April 21, 1958, Frederick C. Hailer Jr. resigned from the City Council. He was succeeded by James S. Coffey. [11] 5. ^ Following Edward F. McLaughlin Jr.'s election as Massachusetts Attorney General, he was replaced on the City Council by Peter F. Hines in September 1958. [12]
Critics alleged that he did not regularly attend Wednesday Council meetings. [9] Yoon took up the issue of government transparency on the Boston City Council. He requested the City Council minutes utilize "plain English" in order to make their contents more understandable to the general public. He requested for the city government's website to ...
Supporters of Pressley's 2009 Boston City Council campaign march in the 2009 Dorchester Day Parade. Pressley was first elected in November 2009.The only woman in a field of 15 candidates, Pressley won one of the four at-large spots on the city's 13-member council with nearly 42,000 votes.
On July 25, at the age of 32, Durkan was elected to the Boston City Council in a special election to fill the remainder of the term vacated by Kenzie Bok when Bok became the head of the Boston Housing Authority. Durkan's opponent had been Montez Haywood, a longtime prosecutor at the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. The campaign was ...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended a Wednesday holiday party for elected officials of color after an invitation was accidentally sent to the entire City Council, the NBC News affiliate NBC Boston ...
Michael F. Flaherty (born May 4, 1969) is a politician who served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council for a cumulative ten terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the council in 1999, serving an initial five terms between 2000 until 2010. During this initial tenure, he served as vice president of the ...
Arroyo first ran for a seat on the Boston City Council in 2019; at the time, he was working as a public defender. [3] He successfully won the District 5 (Hyde Park and Roslindale) seat on the council in the November 2019 election, [4] took office in January 2020, and was re-elected in the November 2021 election.