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2 unusual facts about Town Council


Town council

Manitoba town council members serve primarily as a policy and direction board for the community.

A town council area can consist of a Group Representation Constituency (GRC), a Single Member Constituency (SMC), or a collection of neighbouring GRCs and SMCs controlled by the same political party.


Jon Hecht

A former board member of the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Hecht gained a seat on the Watertown Town Council in 2005, going on to chair the council's budget, economic development, and rules committees.

SIVU des Inforoutes de l'Ardèche

The organisation includes almost all of the Ardèche department town councils and some town councils of the adjacent departments of Drôme and Loire, for a total of more than 300 town councils.

St George's Church, Tyldesley

After 1912 the town council was responsible for the cost of repairs and illumination and in 1937 electricity superseded gas for lighting its faces.


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2013 Singaporean cyberattacks

Regarding the hacking of the Ang Mo Kio Town Council's website, Member of Parliament Ang Hin Kee dubbed it as "malicious", promising to boost the page's security system.

Aberystwyth Town Council

The 2012 Aberystwyth town council elections were held alongside the elections for Ceredigion County council on 3 May 2012.

Benigembla

The club belonged to members of the Cooperative Saint Francis Xavier, but the Town Council purchased the site in 2005 with the objective of rehabilitating its interior and restoring its facade.

Bill Enouy

On January 7, 2014, Enouy announced before the town council's meeting that he would not seek re-election in 2014.

Bill Goodacre

Goodacre married Mary Etta Cloud and served on the town council for Smithers, British Columbia.

Bradford West Gwillimbury Times

The Bradford West Gwillimbury Times has been serving the Bradford West Gwillimbury, south Innisfil and Holland Marsh areas for over 18 years – covering local Town Council, charity and cultural events, sports and business news.

Christine McCafferty

Before her election to parliament, McCafferty was a member of Hebden Royd Town Council 1991–95.

Citadel of Aleppo

Emperor Julian, in his 363 AD visit to Aleppo noted "I stayed there for a day, visited the acropolis, offered a white bull to Zeus according to imperial customs, and held a short talk with the town council about worshipping the gods."

Craigleith

In 1814, Sir Hew Dalrymple purchased the island from North Berwick Town Council.

Edward Headlam Greenhow

Here he practiced for eighteen years, and did much work on sanitation, becoming a member of the Town Council of Tynemouth and chairman of the Board of Health.

Festa do Albariño

The second face is formed by all of the official acts like the parade of the Capítulo Serenísimo do Albariño, which the Sunday of the party goes from the Town Council Square to the Fefiñans Square.

Fiji Labour Party

The party also won a two-thirds majority in the Nasinu Town Council, but was heavily defeated in the poll for the Suva City Council.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

In January 2014, a member of the Pomfret, New York Town Council wore a colander while taking the oath of office.

Heflin, Louisiana

Delmar Ray Thompson, known as Del Thompson (1933-2013), a native of Ashley County in southern Arkansas and reared in Bastrop, Louisiana, was a member of the Heflin Town Council.

Holmwood, Redditch

In 1925 the house was sold to the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes before the town council run Redditch Development Corporation purchased the property, for the headquarters of its organisation turning Redditch into a "New Town".

Jeanie Johnston

The cost of the project was borne by the Irish government, Kerry County Council, Tralee Town Council, the European Union, the American Ireland Fund, Shannon Development, Kerry Group, the FÁS, and the Irish Department of the Marine, most of which later agreed to write off their losses.

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse Stone still misses the Paradise, Massachusetts police chief position, which he lost because the current town council president, Carter Hansen (Jeremy Akerman), wanted his son-in-law, William Butler (Jeff Geddis), to have the job.

Jeremy Akerman as Carter Hansen (Paradise Town Council President)

Johann Marbach

Marbach also took an active part in bringing about the acceptance of the Formula of Concord; and prevailed on the Strasbourg theologians to sign the Zerbst Formula (1571), while the official acceptance of the Formula of Concord was opposed by the town council.

John Tolbert

He was the first black man to run for public office in Loudoun County, Virginia, John Tolbert later served on the Leesburg Town Council for 14 years, from 1976 to 1990, and never missed a meeting.

Kristian Djurhuus

He was the chairman of the town council of Froðba from 1926 to 1930 and was a regular member from 1930 to 1934.

Labasa, Fiji

Labasa's current Mayor, elected on 28 October 2005 following the municipal election to the town council one week earlier, is Dr Pradeep Singh of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP).

Lake Placid Conference Center

Dewey is credited with convincing the town council to rename the Lake, (and sub sequentially the town), from Lake Stearns to Lake Placid after the town of Lake Placid, New York, where his main residence was located.

Leicester Abbey

Part of the former abbey precinct was donated to Leicester Town Council (the predecessor of the modern City Council) by the 8th Earl of Dysart.

Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart, sold the land east of the River Soar (known as Abbey Meadows) in 1876; this was to allow Leicester Town Council to undertake flood prevention work.

Loftus, North Yorkshire

Loftus Town Council area includes the settlements of Boulby, Carlin How, Cowbar, Easington, East Loftus, Liverton Mines, Liverton, Loftus, Scaling, Skinningrove and South Loftus.

Mukono Town

The town is administered by Mukono Town Council, an Urban Local Government within Mukono District Administration.

Municipal City Council of Port Louis

According to the Local Government Act 2011 PART III Section 11, election of councillors to Municipal Town Council shall be held in 2012 and thereafter every 6 years on such date as the President shall appoint.

Ole Christensen

He then served as a member of Brovst town council (1989-2004), including terms of office as Mayor (1998-2002) and Deputy Mayor (2002-2004).

Rachna Khanna

She ran for and lost the election for the town council in South Windsor, Connecticut under the Republican Party ticket in 2009.

Ron Greenwood

The Town Council of Loughton, where Greenwood lived during his time as West Ham manager, erected a blue plaque to his memory on one of his former houses in the town, 22 Brooklyn Avenue: this was unveiled by Sir Trevor Brooking and the Town Mayor, Chris Pond on 28 October 2008.

Sidney Godley

Loughton Town Council placed a Blue Plaque at 164 Torrington Drive to commemorate its famous former resident

St Austell parishes

St Austell Town Council covering Bethel, Gover, Mount Charles, Poltair and St Austell Bay (Holmbush area); represented by 20 councillors.

Suma Gestión Tributaria

Also it is working on similar projects with the Majadahonda Town Council (Madrid region), since 2005 and with the Provincial Council of Albacete, since 2012.

Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan

He was deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1816, and served on Town Council in Washington, Pennsylvania, from 1818 to 1830, and was elected to the twenty-second congress in 1830.

Tobosi

During its period of Spanish domination, the town had its own town council or municipality, which was abolished in 1836 by the government of Braulio Carrillo Colina.

Tolga, Norway

Tolga was a stronghold for the Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling during the World War II, though the party was never represented in the town council.

Whitby Urban District

It comprised the present Whitby Town Council plus Briggswath (the present Scarborough Borough Council wards of Mayfield, Streonshalh and Whitby West Cliff).

William M'Culloch

In 1725, he had been asked by members of the Town Council to preach the “Annual Sermon for the Reformation of Manners” and had been chaplain and tutor to the Hamilton family Aitkenhead, near Glasgow.

Yountville, California

The Town Council consists of: Mayor John F. Dunbar (elected November 2, 2010 after defeating Robert Stryk; term expires November 2014), Vice Mayor Lewis G. Chilton (term expires November 2016), Council Member Marjorie "Margie" Mohler (term expires November 2016), Council Member Richard Hall (term expires November 2014) and Council Member Marita Dorenbecher (term expires November 2014).