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Boston's City
Council Members
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Council President; At-large
Michael Flaherty was first elected to the City Council as an
At-Large member in 1999. Flaherty was chosen by his colleagues to
serve as Council President in 2002 and again in 2003. |
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Council Member; At-Large Felix Arroyo is currently in his second
term as an At-Large member on the City Council. Councilor Arroyo is
the first Latino to serve on the Boston City Council.
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Council Member; At-Large Stephen
Murphy took office as an At-Large member of the City Council in 1996.
From 1997 to 2000, Councilor Murphy served as Chair of the Committee on
Public Safety. During this time Murphy worked towards making Boston a
safer place, which he did by adding 550 Boston Police Officers and 175
Boston Fire Fighters. |
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Council Member; At-Large Maura Hennigan has served on the Boston
City Council for over twenty years. Hennigan became the first woman to
head the Ways and Means Committee, which she chaired for 7 years. She
has served as chair on several other committees and most recently serves as
the chair of the Economic and Developmental Committee. Some of her
main priorities are education, housing, public safety, and developmental
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District 1 City Councilor Paul
Scapicchio was elected to the City Council in 1998. Since then he has
been an advocate for keeping Boston affordable and accessible to families by
serving as a trustee on the Neighborhood Housing Trust and Neighborhood Jobs
Trust. Scapicchio also served as a leader in developing a
state-of-the-art community center for Boston's downtown neighborhoods. |
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District 2 City Councilor
James Kelly was first elected to the City Council in 1983. During
the past twenty years Kelly has served on all of the major City Council
Committees and has been appointed Chairman of the Committees on Housing,
Neighborhood Services, Redistricting and Elderly Affairs. Most
noteworthy is that Kelly was elected by his colleagues to serve as President
of the Boston City Council for seven consecutive years (1994-2000). |
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District 3 City Councilor Maureen Feeney has
served on the City Council since 1993. Currently she chairs the
committee on Government Operations, Boston 2004, and University-Community
Relations. Feeney is an expert in health care services and strongly
promotes the protection of non-profit care facilities. In addition,
Feeney works towards improving education in Boston.
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District 4 City Councilor
Charles Yancey has served as a city councilor for over twenty years.
Since first being elected in 1983 Yancey has worked on numerous issues of
importance to Boston. Yancey has dealt with school legislation,
sponsored successful anti-smoking legislation and called for a City
Hall statute in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Yancey served as
President of the National Black Caucus of local Elected Officials in 1999
and as President of the Boston City Council in 2001.
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District 5 City Councilor Robert Consalvo was
elected to the City Council in 2002. Currently he serves as the
Council's Chairman of the City and Neighborhood Services Committee, Chairman
of Health and Human Services Committee and Chairman of Intergovernmental
Relations. Councilor Consalvo also serves as the Vice-Chair in several
committees and is a member in numerous other committees.
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District 6 City Councilor
John Tobin first joined the City Council in 2002. In the brief time
since being elected, Tobin has worked on numerous initiatives to improve
Boston including implementing a Safe Haven Law in Boston, finding a new home
for the City of Boston Archives, and helping restore funding for Cultural
Affairs in the FY 03 Budget.
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District 7 City Councilor Chuck Turner was
elected to Boston's City Council in 1999. Presently Turner is the
Committee Chair on Human Rights and the Committee Vice Chair on the Hunger
and Homelessness Committee.
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District 8 City Councilor
Michael Ross was elected to the City Council in
1999 and is the youngest city councilor in Boston at the age of 31.
Also of importance is the fact that Ross is the first Jewish city councilor
to serve in over 45 years. Ross has kept busy working towards
improving the quality of life in the neighborhoods he represents. Ross
advocates affordable housing and has worked with the mayor and his
colleagues to pass numerous initiatives to stop rising rent prices for
residents.
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District 9 City Councilor
Jerry McDermott has served on the City Council since 2002. He has been
involved in multiply local civil organizations including The
Allston-Brighton Healthy Boston Coalition, The Brighton Board of Trade, and
Friends of Franciscan Children's Hospital. McDermott makes a point of
being available to everyone within his district and to do this he was an
open door policy to his office.
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The City Clerk Rosaria Salerno is
Boston's City Clerk. Her role is to accept, file, record, and maintain
all municipal records. Also, Salerno publishes the agenda for all City
Council meetings, records all actions related to the Council and puts
together the minutes from the Council's meetings.
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Boston Government Links:
http://www.cityofboston.gov
http://www.boston04.com
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Created by Jen Frisque for Dr.
Rodd Freitag's
POLS 350 Group and Minority Politics class |
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Last Updated:
Thursday April 29, 2004 |
