Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

rdf:langString Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

rdf:langString Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

rdf:langString Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County

rdf:langString Four Years

rdf:langString – Convention, Tourism, and Public Entertainment Facilities

rdf:langString – Personnel, Public Information, Human Relations, and Veterans

rdf:langString – Charter Revision

rdf:langString – Codes, Fair, and Farmer's Market

rdf:langString – Education

rdf:langString – Health, Hospitals, and Social Services

rdf:langString – Parks, Library, and Arts

rdf:langString – Planning, Zoning, and Historical

rdf:langString – Public Safety, Beer, and Regulated Beverages

rdf:langString – Public Works

rdf:langString – Rules, Confirmations, and Public Elections

rdf:langString – Traffic, Parking, and Transportation

rdf:langString — Budget and Finance

rdf:langString Unicameral

rdf:langString Dave Rosenberg

rdf:langString Vice Mayor and Metropolitan Council President

rdf:langString President pro tempore

rdf:langString The Metropolitan Council is the legislative body of the consolidated city-county government of Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County. The Council has 40 members, 35 of which are district council representatives, and five of which are council members at-large. If an at-large member resigns or dies before serving a full four-year term, the member's seat remains vacant until the next election. If a district council members resigns or dies more than eight (8) months before the end of their four-year term, a special election is held to fill the seat. At-large council members are elected by the entirety of the area the metropolitan government encompasses. The Metropolitan Council is the 3rd largest in the United States, behind the Chicago City Council and the New York City Council. The Historic Metro Courthouse, 1 Public Square, is where the Council meets. Under the Metropolitan Charter, members must be over the age of 25 and have lived within Davidson County for a year at the beginning of their terms. Members must also have lived in the district they represent for six months, and they must continue to reside in that district for the duration of their terms. In 2019, according to The Tennessean, annual salaries for council members increased for the first time since 2005 from $15,000 to $23,100. The members elected by districts represent 15,000 to 17,000 residents each, and all Metro Council members serve part-time. According to the Charter as currently amended, members are elected to no more than two terms consecutively, not including any partial term to which they may have been elected. However, district member and at-large member are considered to be separate offices for the purposes of this provision. In the 2015 municipal elections, two amendments to the Metropolitan Nashville Charter which would have increased term limits for members of the Council, both at large and district-wide to three consecutive terms, as well as reducing the size of the council to 27 members, were proposed. Both amendments failed with Davidson County voters.