Sandbox-City Government: Difference between revisions

From Cvillepedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
mNo edit summary
m (Blanked the page)
Tag: Blanking
(13 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
The '''Charlottesville City Council (2020-2021)''' is the current governing body of the City of Charlottesville.


==Council’s configuration & power==
Since 1928, the council has been composed of five councilors, one of whom serves as mayor. Each member is elected at-large, by voters to four-year, staggered terms. Council is in charge of policy oversight and hires a [city manager]] to run most city operations. Council’s configuration and duties are defined by its [[1946 charter |city charter]].
Following the [[2019 election]], held on [[November 5]], [[2019]], three new members, [[Lloyd Snook]], [[Sena Magill]] and [[Michael Payne]], each took their oath of office on [[December 19]], [[2019]], allowing them to assumed full duties immediately on [[January 1]], [[2020]] and thereby filling the seats being vacated by [[Mike Signer]], [[Wes Bellamy]] and [[Kathy Galvin]] who each declined to seek re-election.
<gallery perrow=5 caption="Charlottesville City Council (2020-2021); Term runs from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021">
File:2020-Nikuyah Walker.JPG|[[Nikuyah Walker]] (I), Member Since: January 2018; Next Election: November 2, 2021
File:2020-Heather Hill.JPG|[[Heather Hill]] (D), Member Since: January 2018; Next Election: November 2, 2021
File:2020-Sena Magill.JPG|[[Sena Magill]] (D), Member Since: January 2020; Next Election: November 2023
File:2020-Lloyd Snook.JPG|[[Lloyd Snook]] (D), Member Since: January 2020; Next Election: November 2023
File:2020-Michael Payne.JPG|[[Michael Payne]] (D), Member Since: January 2020, Next Election: November 2023
</gallery>
==Organizational meeting==
For their first action, [[Nikuyah Walker]] won a second term as president of the council (mayor) and Councilor Sena Magill was selected as vice mayor. (Charlottesville is a city manager-weak mayor form of local government, the positions of mayor and vice mayor largely are ceremonial.)
==Form of government==
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The City of Charlottesville operates under the [[Council-Manager form]] of government as granted by the [[Code of Virginia]] and the [[1946 charter |City Charter]]. From within council, by simple majority vote, the President (called mayor) and the Vice-president (called vice-mayor) of the Council are elected at the first regular meeting of the new term. The [[City Manager]], among the [[#City Officers|City Officers]] appointed by the Council, acts as the Chief Executive Officer. The City Manager is responsible for day-to-day operations, as well as carrying out policy decisions made by the City Council. Council-manager form with five at-large elected members of the city council; council president acting as mayor.Council’s configuration and powers are defined by its [[1946 charter |city charter]]. The City Council is composed of five members, including the Council President (mayor). Council has oversight power of the city manager’s hiring of some positions (''refer to [[Chief of Police]]''). Council’s configuration is defined by its  approved by the [[General Assembly]] in [[1946]], gives Charlottesville a “council-manager” system in which the five elected members (Council)  Council is in charge of policy oversight and some approval powers (''refer to [[Chief of Police]]'').
==City population==
Population as of most recent census (April 1, 2010): 43,475
:According to the current data from [https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/charlottesvillecityvirginiacounty U.S. Census Bureau Quickfacts], the estimated population in 2018 was 48,117, which represents a 10.67% population growth since the last census.
*The area within the city limits was 10.27 square miles, giving it a population density of about 4,600 people per square mile. Relative to local populations, *Charlottesville has one seat for every 8,700 residents. 
*As for historically under-represented groups, the city has about the same percentage of blacks in council as in the general populations; in Charlottesville, blacks makeup 18.3 percent of the population <ref>https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/charlottesvillecityvirginiacounty</ref> and 20 percent of the council.
*Elections are non-partisan elections
*The council post videos of council meetings online as well as searchable databases of legislation.
*Council does not post members’ personal financial disclosure statements or lobbying records.
Charlottesville has one of the highest average salaries for council members in Virginia, $xx,xxx council, $xx,xxx mayor.
Total budget including employee benefits Council consumes x.xx percent of city general-fund spending,
Budget per resident
Charlottesville's average council tenure at the end of 2019 was xx.x years while first-term members held xx percent of the seats
[[Frank Buck]] had been in office 8 years, longer than any other Charlottesville City Council member since at least 1920, and xxx other members have served for more than xx years.
council consumes 1.01 percent of city general-fund spending

Revision as of 18:30, 16 June 2020

Retrieved from "https://cvillepedia.org/index.php?title=Sandbox-City_Government&oldid=53797"