How to Use city council in a Sentence

city council

noun

• He's running for city council.
• Tempe voters have the chance to elect who will sit on their city council.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2024
• The first all-female city council in the history of St. Paul, Minn., was sworn in on Tuesday.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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 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
• The recent city council vote extends that seasonal closure to be in place year-round.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Charlotte’s city council members will approve agreements in the fall.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• This is not the first time Randall and others have attempted to change governance of the utility through a city council vote.
  — Heather Gann | [e-mail], al, 8 Feb. 2023
• David Oh, an at-large city council member and attorney, had hoped to be the city’s first Asian American mayor.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Nov. 2023
• The discussion is slated for the upcoming city council meeting on Feb 26 or March 4.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• Get involved with a local city council, school board, or state legislative race.
  — Mallory McMorrow, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
• They were followed by Berkeley city council member Ben Bartlett.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• Davis, speaking at a Memphis city council meeting Tuesday, said training was not an issue with the unit.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 Feb. 2023
• Sixteen city council districts do not have any Parks Department pools at all.
  — Nicolas Kemper, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2023
• In November, the top three vote getters of the remaining six candidates will become part of the six-member city council.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2023
• It is covered by a large box that a district city council member requested be painted green, white and red to mirror the Italian flag.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2022
• Residents of the camp, and their supporters, showed up in force to a city council meeting and persuaded council members to delay the sweep.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Some Muslims said the flag contradicts their faith; all of Hamtramck's city council members and the mayor are Muslim.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2023
• Barber’s book says the the system resulted in the election of women, as well as religious and racial minorities to city council seats.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 16 July 2023
• Last week, South Pasadena’s city council voted to nearly double the number of new units that can be constructed in parcels in some of the city’s denser neighborhoods.
  — Ben Christopher, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• So back in May, bib asked city council to approve funding for, for new and expanded programming.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024