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.
The current City Council consists of:
All fifteen members of the council are members of the Democratic Party.