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The town of Boston had been incorporated as an ancient borough in 1545. [2] It was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836. [3]The modern borough was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, by merging the municipal borough of Boston with Boston Rural District. [4]
The first municipal building in Boston was the guildhall which was completed in 1390. [1] In the early 19th century, the fish market at the centre of the Exchange Buildings in the Market Place was converted for municipal use and subsequently became the offices of Boston Corporation, [2] [3] [4] which was duly reformed in 1836 in accordance with the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. [5]
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.
1979 Boston Borough Council election (New ward boundaries) [1] 1983 Boston Borough Council election; 1987 Boston Borough Council election; 1991 Boston Borough Council election; 1995 Boston Borough Council election; 1999 Boston Borough Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by two) [2] [3] 2003 Boston Borough Council ...
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Elections for Boston Borough Council, which covers the Borough of Boston, were held on 3 May 2007. The Boston Bypass Independents won the election in a landslide victory with 25 seats, the first party ever to take overall control of the council since the borough was formed in 1973. It was a single-issue party campaigning on getting a bypass for ...
The most restrictive definition of the Greater Boston area is the region administered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. [17] The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area.