Vancouver City Council

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Vancouver City Council is the governing body of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The city is governed by the provincial Vancouver Charter, not the Local Government Act used for other municipal governments.

Powers of the Vancouver council include:

pass by-laws to regulate such things as noise and land use
buy and sell property
collect certain taxes
approve expenditures
take on debts
give grants
hire and discharge employees

City council sits at City Hall at 453 West 12th Avenue.

The council consists of the mayor plus ten person council elected to serve a 3 year term. Monthly, a deputy mayor is appointed from among the councilors. The last election was November 16, 2002. The next election will be on November 19, 2005.

Unlike most Canadian city councils, all Vancouver councillors are elected at-large. A proposal to move to a conventional ward system was rejected by voters in an October 17, 2004 referendum.

Vancouver City Council members

Larry Campbell

Vision

mayor

Fred Bass

COPE

councillor

David Cadman

COPE

councillor

Jim Green

Vision

councillor

Peter Ladner

NPA

councillor

Raymond Louie

Vision

councillor

Tim Louis

COPE

councillor and Chair

Anne Roberts

COPE

councillor

Tim Stevenson

Vision

councillor

Sam Sullivan

NPA

councillor

Ellen Woodsworth

COPE

councillor and Vice-Chair

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