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 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:39 pm Post subject: Kozachenko's victory |
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Ann Arbor has a council-manager form of government. The mayor, who is elected every even-numbered year, is the presiding officer of the City Council and has the power to appoint all Council committee members as well as board and commission members, with the approval of the City Council. The mayor of Ann Arbor is John Hieftje (Democrat), who has served in that capacity since the 2000 election. The city council has ten members, two from each of the city's five wards, with the mayor wielding the tie-breaking vote. Council members serve two-year terms; half the council is elected in annual elections.[86] City operations are managed by the City Administrator, who is chosen by the city council.[87]
Ann Arbor is in the 15th Congressional district, and is represented by Representative John Dingell (Democrat). On the state level, the city is in the 18th district in the Michigan Senate. In the Michigan State House of Representatives, the city of Ann Arbor is in the 53rd district, while northeastern Ann Arbor and Ann Arbor Township are in the 52nd district.[88]
As the seat of Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor is the site of the Probate, Family and Circuit (civil and criminal) courts with pan-county jurisdiction; and of the District Court for the 15th District, which has limited jurisdiction within the City of Ann Arbor only. The 14-A District court, in the nearby City of Ypsilanti, has limited jurisdiction over matters that arise in the rest of Washtenaw County, except for the Charter Township of Ypsilanti (which is served by its own District 14-B court). Ann Arbor is also the site of a United States district court for the Eastern District of Michigan courthouse.[89]
[edit] Politics
Left-wing politics have been particularly strong in municipal government since the 1960s. Voters approved charter amendments that have lessened the penalties for possession of marijuana (1974),[90] and that aim to protect access to abortion in the city should it ever become illegal in the State of Michigan (1990).[91] In 1974, Kathy Kozachenko's victory in an Ann Arbor city-council race made her the country's first openly homosexual candidate to win public office.[92] In 1975, Ann Arbor became the first U.S. city to use instant-runoff voting for a mayoral race. Adopted through a ballot initiative sponsored by the local Human Rights Party, which feared a splintering of the liberal vote, the process was repealed in 1976 after use in only one election.[93] As of August 2009, Democrats hold the mayorship and all council seats.[94] The left tilt of politics in the city have earned it the nickname "The People's Republic of Ann Arbortendering software
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