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The members of the Providence City Council are elected by residents of the fifteen wards of Providence. City Council members are elected to four-year terms and are limited, by City Charter , to serving a maximum of three consecutive full terms (excluding any partial term of less than two years previously served).
Providence (/ p r ɒ v ɪ d (ə) n s / ⓘ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, [7] founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Three of the fifteen Providence City Council wards are located on the East Side. Ward One includes all of Fox Point and parts of College Hill and Wayland south of Angell St. [18] Ward Two encompasses the remainder of College Hill and Wayland, most of Blackstone, and parts of Mount Hope. [19] Ward Three includes Hope (Summit) and most of Mount ...
From north to south, Downtown includes portions of Wards 12, 13, 11, which are represented in the Providence City Council by Kat Kerwin, John J. Lombardi, and Balbina A. Young. [16] [needs update] All three councilors are Democrats. Providence City Hall is located at 25 Dorrance Street, at the corner of Dorrance and Washington Street. It is ...
A small portion of Federal Hill is in Ward 15, represented by Democrat Oscar Vargas. [14] The Providence Public Safety Complex is located on Federal Hill at 325 Washington Street. The complex is the headquarters of the Providence Police Department, the Providence Fire Department and the city's municipal courts. [15]
Brad R. Ward, who became the full-time East Greenwich building official last fall, said he first visited Sa’s project on Greenwich Boulevard just south of downtown in early February.
At the municipal level of government, most of Elmwood [7] is within Ward 9, [9] though the area of Elmwood north of Potters Avenue falls within Ward 11. [10] Carmen Castillo and Mary Kay Harris represent Wards 9 and 11, respectively, in the Providence City Council.
The Lower South Side (or Lower South Providence) is a neighborhood in the southern part of Providence, Rhode Island. It is bounded by Public Street to the north (bordering Upper South Providence), by Interstate 95 to the south (bordering Washington Park), by Broad Street to the west (bordering Elmwood), and by the Providence River to the east.