More recently, the Municipal Council rejected the mayor's plan for a city-owned water management corporation.
"It is the best project to have come out of the municipal council, " says Dr. Choong Sim Poey, who heads a citizens' transport lobby.
Its work is also supported by an International Committee (Internationaler Ausschuss), responsible for advising the municipal council and administration on all matters of integration and diversity.
"During its weekly meeting on Sunday, the cabinet named two women to the municipal council for the first time in the history of Kuwait, " Social Affairs Minister Faysal al-Hajji said.
That said, the next safest bank on the list is Zurich Cantonal Bank, which is the largest financial-services provider in the Swiss capital, owned by the canton and answers to the municipal council.
Brito demonstrated that the model that Sucre municipal council was proposing to combat the disease affecting the crop was not advisable.
The second award of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy goes to the Municipal Literacy Coordinating Council, Municipality of Agoo, La Union, Philippines, for its Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Programme, which makes available a vast array of education and training opportunities to the entire population, including the neediest.
Dionisi and Sopranzi lived in an apartment in the same building as Ivo Costamagna, the president of Civitanova Marche's municipal council, according to the state-run ANSA news agency.
In last February's municipal elections the Council of Guardians blocked without explanation thousands of people, mostly reformists, from running.
Since the creation of the modern City Council in 1989, when the municipal legislature was granted full power over the budget, a bill has never made it to the floor without the express support of the speaker.
One of the facts that moved the City Council to support their municipal utility to CLEAN LA with distributed solar was the way this will serve those so far underserved by the solar industry.
Dionisi and Sopranzi lived in an apartment in the same building as Ivo Costamagna, the president of Civitanova Marche's municipal council, and he had come to know them well over the decades.
In addition to the national level Governing Council, there are more than 250 governing councils at the provincial and municipal levels.
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The step forward of putting women on the Shura Council, and King Abdullah's promise that women can vote in the 2015 municipal elections, raises the prospect of women holding ministerial posts (Currently, one woman is the deputy minister of education, unlike many other Arab Gulf countries where women now hold ministerial positions).
British officials running Basra say that municipal and provincial elections could be held to choose the council nominees, so two-thirds of each caucus's members would be elected.
Last November, the Supreme Electoral Council received national and international criticism following irregularities in municipal elections.
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In choosing the Democratic Liu from a crowded field of candidates in this year's election, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees underscored the populist tenor of his campaign.
Mr. Booker, who is black, lost one of the city's African-American wards in 2010, and two of his Municipal Council candidates were voted out of office.
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