Sentence examples for term council from inspiring English sources

Serving in his second term, Council Member David Yassky is among the Council's leading advocates for education reform, affordable housing, crime prevention, waterfront revitalization and the environment.

Awaiting the positive impact of a new deep-sea container terminal and high-speed train links, he has even, he said, dropped the politically loaded term "council", preferring just to talk about "the city".

This term, council is comprised of a record 33percentt women, or 15 out of 44 councilors.

But I never spoke about the first-term council members".

Mr. Lauder's views certainly weighed on several first-term council members who attended a caucus meeting on Tuesday morning.

Fixed-term council tenancies can now be up to 10 years rather than five, and longer if children are involved.

But should that happen, the current first-term council members could be barred from serving a third term.

Under his proposal, second-term Council members would get a chance at a third term, but first-term members would be limited to two.

Mary Napolitano, a four-term council member in Ocean Township, called the case an "enigma, and very perplexing" to everyone in town.

"All of us deserve to know what exactly is going on," said Bill de Blasio, a second-term council member representing Brooklyn, who is running for borough president.

Daniel R. Garodnick, a first-term council member from Manhattan, said that he was eager to hear the mayor's idea about extending the limits, but cautioned, "I don't favor changing term limits through legislative action".