city clerk
noun
: a public officer charged with recording the official proceedings and vital statistics of a city
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Jessica Roach was acting mayor from at least December 2017 through April 2021 and had previously been city clerk.
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Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
In a small Missouri Bootheel town, the acting mayor didn’t deposit at least $66,000 in city receipts, hired her daughter as city clerk and between 2017 and 2019 ran the city without a board of aldermen.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
His father, Richard, was a probate judge and a former minor-league baseball player; his mother, Rhea, worked as a city clerk.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
The Muskegon city clerk had alerted police after noticing irregularities on some of the 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms dropped off by a canvasser.
—Amy Sherman and Sara Swann, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Jan. 2024
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Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
In a small Missouri Bootheel town, the acting mayor didn’t deposit at least $66,000 in city receipts, hired her daughter as city clerk and between 2017 and 2019 ran the city without a board of aldermen.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
His father, Richard, was a probate judge and a former minor-league baseball player; his mother, Rhea, worked as a city clerk.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
The Muskegon city clerk had alerted police after noticing irregularities on some of the 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms dropped off by a canvasser.
—Amy Sherman and Sara Swann, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Jan. 2024
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“City clerk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/city%20clerk. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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