How to Use city council in a Sentence

city council

noun

• He's running for city council.
• During city council meetings, residents had raised many housing concerns.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2022
• He was elected Baltimore’s then-youngest city council member in 1972.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• Portland is the only big city in the country in which city council members each control a subset of the city’s bureaus and departments, rather than having a strong mayor or city manager run the show.
  — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022
• Anyone who hires off-duty Minneapolis police officers for security work would owe the city money, if some city council members have their way.
  — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
• The full details, including the development’s financing, will be presented to city council for approval at an undetermined date.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2024
• In fact, the idea of Grand Park is one of the projects that inspired me to run for city council.
  — Dallas News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Tempe voters have the chance to elect who will sit on their city council.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2024
• David Little: Running for city council has been a dream of mine for many years.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• The first all-female city council in the history of St. Paul, Minn., was sworn in on Tuesday.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
• Here's what's on deck at city council meetings tonight.
  — Alex Golden, Axios, 9 July 2024
• A few dozen adults and teenagers packed the city council chambers for Thursday’s meeting.
  — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• Clark has served on the city council of Forest Park, a Cincinnati suburb, since 2017.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2022
• The five-member city council has three Black members and two White members.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Some city council members were upset by the report as well.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• With a hiring crisis on its hands, the Long Beach city council is scheduled to meet next week with the goal of streamlining the process.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
• Mitchell has served as Alexander mayor for the last 10 years and was previously on the city council.
  — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2022
• The code was written by members of Congress, not city council members.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Three city council seats are up for election this year in Hamtramck.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• The special city council meeting is scheduled for Sept. 22, at 7 p.m.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022
• The firearms will be given to the National Police of Ukraine, according to the agenda of a Phoenix city council meeting.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2023
• Phoenix voters will head to the polls on Nov. 5 to elect a mayor and four city council members, plus vote on three city ballot measures.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2024
• The town's city council and mayor did not respond to request for comment on their new camping ban.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
• The recent city council vote extends that seasonal closure to be in place year-round.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Before becoming mayor, Menard served for a decade on the city council and four years on the school committee.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
• That policy would be unlikely to be taken up by the deep-blue city council.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• Youth crime is talked about at city council hearings and on neighborhood chat groups far more than their well-being.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• This is the second time in recent years that city council members have approved a network of smart streetlights.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Judith Lee, the city council member who proposed the trial, says some constituents have expressed anger about the idea of not salting.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 12 Dec. 2022
• In 2006, they were invited to Lovell’s swearing-in as a Houston city council member.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024