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The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The full-time council is required to meet every business day for at least 10 months of the year, with at least eight of these meetings occurring at a location besides city hall. The Detroit City Council has elected Mary Sheffield to be its president.[1] The council may convene for special meetings at the call of the mayor or of at least four members of council.[1]

History

The city council was first constituted as the legislative body of the city in 1824. The city began to grow more rapidly in the late 19th century, absorbing immigrants from Europe and migrants from the rural South and other areas. This body was called the Common Council until July 1, 1974.

Until the early 20th century, the council was elected from city wards, or single-member districts. However, starting in 1918, at a time of changes in local government thought to be Progressive, the city council voted to require all city council members elected at-large. This reduced representation by geography from wards, where various ethnic groups tended to concentrate. It was considered unusual for a city of Detroit's size, which had competing political parties.

While voters in the city have become predominantly affiliated with the Democratic Party, they wanted more representation by district. On November 4, 2009, city voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum to once again elect seven of the nine council seats from single-member districts, and two at-large seats, beginning in 2013.[2]

Composition & Election

The council is composed of nine members, seven of whom are district representatives elected from single-member districts, with two additional members elected at-large using block voting. The district representatives are elected by a majority in a general election, with the general election candidates being selected in a top-two non-partisan primary election. The council includes two officers, the president and president pro tempore, who are elected from among the members of the council at the beginning of each new session of the body for four-year terms. The officers can be removed by a unanimous vote of council, exclusive of the member being removed, during any session meeting. Elections to the body are officially non-partisan.[3]

City Council Electoral Districts

A major overhaul of Detroit City Charter took place in 2012. This change moved to election by district for 7 districts and 2 at-large positions.[4]

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Detroit City Council Electoral Districts Map

Current members

District Councillor Position In office since Party (officially nonpartisan)
District 1: Rosedale Park/Old Redford/Brightmoor James Tate Pro-Tempore 2010 Democratic[5]
District 2: Bagley/University District/Palmer Woods Angela Whitfield-Calloway 2022 Democratic[6]
District 3: Conant Gardens/Regent Park/Farwell Scott Benson 2014 Democratic[7]
District 4: Chandler Park/East English/Jefferson Chalmers Latisha Johnson 2022 Democratic[8]
District 5: Boston Edison/Lafayette Park/Brush Park Mary Sheffield President 2014 Democratic[9]
District 6: Delray/Midtown/Mexicantown Gabriela Santiago-Romero 2022 Democratic[10]
District 7: Warrendale/Russel Woods/Rouge Park Fred Durhal III 2022 Democratic[11]
At-large Coleman Young II 2022 Democratic
At-large Mary Waters 2022 Democratic

Committees

The council has six[12] standing committees:

  • Budget, Finance & Audit
  • Neighborhood & Community Services
  • Internal Operations
  • Public Health & Safety
  • Planning and Economic Development
  • Rules

The council is granted the power to form additional committees at its own discretion

Vacancies and special elections

If a vacancy occurs on the city council, it is filled by appointment of the city council based on a two-thirds vote of its existing members. The appointee serves until an elected member takes office, which is filled at the next general election scheduled in the city not held sooner than 180 days after the vacancy occurs, be that an election to fill federal, state, county or city offices.[13]

Former members

Starting in 1919, nine Detroit City Council members were elected at large. Members of the council, from 1919 to the present, are:[14]

  • Color coding: pink = Republican; blue = Democratic; light green = Farmer-Labor; dark green = Progressive; gray = unaffiliated.
Year Detroit City Council Members
1919 rowspan=11 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | John C. Lodge James Vernor rowspan=9 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | John C. Nagel rowspan=11 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | Sherman Littlefield William P. Bradley
(Died June 1938)
rowspan=1 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | Charles F. Bielman
(Died April 16, 1920)
rowspan=19 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | Fred W. Castator rowspan=3 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | David W. Simons rowspan=5 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | John Kronk
  Richard M. Watson
(Elected November 21, 1920)
 
1922 rowspan=10 Шаблон:Party shading/Farmer-Labor | Robert G. Ewald
 
1924 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | John Stevenson Arthur E. Dingeman rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | Phillip A. Callahan
 
1926
 
1928 George A. Walters rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |John Kronk
 
1930 rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |John C. Nagel rowspan=5 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |John S. Hall
(Died January 19, 1934)
 
1932 rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Frank Couzens rowspan=6 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |John W. Smith rowspan=5 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Richard Lindsay
(Died January 7, 1937)
rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican | John C. Lodge rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Eugene Van Antwerp rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Edward Jeffries
 
1934 rowspan=3 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |George Engle
(Until June 23, 1937)
  Arthur E. Dingeman
(November 13, 1934 – Oct. 1935)
1936 rowspan=6 Шаблон:Party shading/Farmer-Labor |Robert G. Ewald
(Out May 26, 1942)
    rowspan=3 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |John Kronk
(Elected April 5, 1937)
1938 rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Philip Breitmeyer rowspan=3 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Harry I. Dingeman
(Out April 10, 1941)
Henry S. Sweeny
  rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |John W. Smith
(Elected November 8, 1938, Died June 1942)
1940 Charles E. Dorais
(Rsgd. May 27, 1947)
rowspan=1 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |John Hamilton
(Out April 2, 1941)
rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |James H. Garlick
     
1942 William G. Rogell rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |George C. Edwards rowspan=7 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |William A. Comstock
(Died June 16, 1949)
  Frank Cody
(Elected November 3, 1942,
Died April 1946)
1944 Fred C. Castator
 
1946 rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Charles G. Oakman
    rowspan=1 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Patrick V. McNamara
(Elected November 5, 1946)
1948 rowspan=10 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Louis C. Miriani Charles F. Edgecomb rowspan=1 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Leo J. Nowicki
(Resigned April 14, 1948)
Del A. Smith rowspan=7 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |John A. Kronk
(Died February 13, 1954)
rowspan=6 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |James H. Garlick
    rowspan=18 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Edward Connor
(Elected November 2, 1948, Resigned December 31, 1966)
1950 rowspan=1 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Edward Jeffries
(Died April 2, 1950)
rowspan=20 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Mary Beck William G. Rogell
  rowspan=12 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Eugene Van Antwerp
(Elected November 7, 1950, Died August 5, 1962)
1952
 
1954 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Charles Youngblood rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Blanche Parent Wise
  rowspan=5 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |James H. Lincoln
(Elected November 2, 1944, Resigned May 5, 1960)
 
 
1958 rowspan=12 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Ed Carey rowspan=6 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |William T. Patrick
(Resigned December 31, 1963)
 
  rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Charles N. Youngblood
(Elected November 8, 1960)
 
1962 rowspan=5 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |James H. Brickley
(Resigned January 15, 1967)
Anthony Wierzbicki rowspan=12 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Mel Ravitz
  Phillip J. Van Antwerp
(Elected April 1, 1963)
  rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Thomas L. Poindexter
(Elected November 3, 1964)
 
1966 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Louis C. Miriani Nicholas Hood
     
  Robert Tindal
(Elected November 5, 1968,
Died July 30, 1971)
Anthony J. Wierzbicki
(Elected November 5, 1968)
 
1970 rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Carl M. Levin David Eberhard Ernest C. Browne Jr.
 
  rowspan=18 Шаблон:Party shading/Progressive|Erma Henderson
(Elected November 7, 1972)
 
1974 rowspan=28 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Clyde Cleveland rowspan=32 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Maryann Mahaffey rowspan=20 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Jack Kelley
 
 
 
1978 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Kenneth Cockrel Sr. Herbert McFaddend Jr.
(Died September 21, 1981)
 
 
 
1982 rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Mel Ravitz rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Barbara-Rose Collins
(Resigned 11/90)
John W. Peoples
 
 
 
1986
 
 
 
1990 rowspan=12 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Gil Hill rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |Keith Butler rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Kay Everett
 
 
 
1994 rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Alberta Tinsley-Talabi rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Nicholas Hood III rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Sheila Cockrel rowspan=9 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Brenda M. Scott
(Died September 2, 2002)
 
 
 
1998 rowspan=16 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Kenneth Cockrel Jr.
 
 
 
2002 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Sharon McPhail rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Barbara-Rose Collins rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Alonzo W. Bates
  rowspan=11 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |JoAnn Watson
(Elected April 29, 2003)
 
 
2006 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Monica Conyers rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Kwame Kenyatta
(Resigned June 21, 2013)
rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Martha Reeves rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Brenda Jones
(see col 1 in 2014)
 
 
 
2010 rowspan=5 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Saunteel Jenkins
{Resigned October 17, 2014)
rowspan=15 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |James Tate
District 1,
Council President Pro-Tem
rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Charles Pugh
(Seat declared vacant July 8, 2013)
rowspan=12 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Andre L. Spivey
District 4 (Resigned September 29, 2021)
rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic |Gary Brown
(Resigned June 24, 2013)
 
 
 
2014 rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Brenda Jones
At-Large
Council President
rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | George Cushingberry Jr.
District 2
rowspan=11 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Scott R. Benson
District 3
rowspan=11 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Mary Sheffield
District 5,
Council President
rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Raquel Castañeda-López
District 6
rowspan=8 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Gabe Leland
District 7 (Resigned May 3, 2021)
  rowspan=7 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Janeé Ayers
At-Large (Appointed February 17, 2015; elected November 8, 2016)
 
 
2018 rowspan=4 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Roy McCalister Jr.
District 2
 
 
 
2022 rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Coleman Young II
At-Large
rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Mary D. Waters
At-Large
rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Angela Whitfield-Calloway
District 2
rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Latisha Johnson
District 4
rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Gabriela Santiago-Romero
District 6
rowspan=2 Шаблон:Party shading/Democratic | Fred Durhal III
District 7
 

Salaries

Salaries for elected officials are recommended every odd-numbered year by the Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission.[15] The 7-member board is appointed by the mayor and approved by the council, each member serving a 7-year term.[16]

After being recommended by the compensation commission, city council approved a pay increase of 3% on November 19, 2019. Regular City Council members will be paid $82,749 annually, while the City Council President will be paid $94,000.[15] Recommendations for salaries were recommended and approved in 2015 and 2017. Prior to 2015 increases had not happened since 2001.[15]

See also

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References

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External links

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