Word: councillor
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...mayor—who also serves on the Cambridge School Committee—is chosen from within by the Council. A councillor must receive five or more votes in order to be elected mayor. At last week's meeting, five candidates received at least one vote...
...It’s a cumbersome process,” said Councillor Henrietta Davis, who placed third in today's vote. “We’re working at it even though it’s a potentially contentious issue...
...Councillor David P. Maher had the highest number of votes for the second consecutive week, with four votes from Leland Cheung, Sam Seidel, Timothy J. Toomey and himself. Cheung switched his vote from Marjorie C. Decker—who withdrew from the race—to Maher this week...
...there were, let’s say, a City Councillor running, nobody outside Cambridge knows who they are,” Winters said. “Over a longer time scale, someone relatively unknown in the rest of the district would have a little more time to buddy-buddy up to all the people you need to network with. In the short term, they have no time to do that. They’re invisible in the short term...