Providence City Council Explained

Providence City Council
Coa Pic:Seal of Providence, Rhode Island.svg
House Type:Unicameral
Leader1 Type:President
Leader1:Rachel M. Miller
Leader2 Type:President pro tempore
Leader2:Juan M. Pichardo
Leader3 Type:Majority Leader
Leader3:James Taylor
Leader4 Type:Senior Deputy Majority Leader
Leader4:John Goncalves
Leader5 Type:Deputy Majority Leader
Leader5:Mary Kay Harris
Leader6 Type:Majority Whip
Leader6:Miguel A. Sanchez
Leader7 Type:Minority Leader
Members:15
Structure1:File:June 2019 Providence City Council 2019.svg
Structure1 Res:200px
Political Groups1:Majority (15)
Term Limits:3 consecutive terms
Term Length:4 years
Voting System1:Single-member districts
Meeting Place:Providence City Hall
Website:https://council.providenceri.gov/providence-city-council/

The Providence City Council is the fifteen-member legislative body of the city of Providence, Rhode Island. The two major responsibilities of the council are enacting ordinances necessary to ensure the welfare and good order of the city and adopting the city's annual budget. Providence uses a strong-mayor form of government in which the city council acts as a check against the power of the executive branch, the mayor.

The members of the Providence City Council are elected by residents of the fifteen wards of Providence. City Council members are elected to four-year terms and are limited, by City Charter, to serving a maximum of three consecutive full terms (excluding any partial term of less than two years previously served). Council members represent the concerns, needs, and issues of their constituents, and work to improve the city's neighborhoods.

City Council members, by ward

The current City Council consists of:

All fifteen members of the council are members of the Democratic Party.

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