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Worcester City Council is the local authority for Worcester, a non-metropolitan district with city status in Worcestershire, England. The council consists of 35 councillors , elected from 15 wards .
Thu Nguyen (born 1991 or 1992) [1] is a Vietnamese-born American politician and community organizer who is a member of the Worcester City Council, serving since 2022. Nguyen is the first openly non-binary candidate elected to public office in Massachusetts history.
The county council has its headquarters at County Hall on Spetchley Road on the outskirts of Worcester. [19] The building was purpose-built as the headquarters of Hereford and Worcester County Council and had been completed in 1978. [20] The building transferred to the re-established Worcestershire County Council as part of the 1998 reforms. [5]
The Mayor of Worcester is the civic head of Worcester City Council. Every May one of the city Councillors is elected to serve as Mayor for a year. Another is elected as Deputy Mayor. The Mayor chairs meetings of the Full Council, represents the city at ceremonial occasions, welcomes international visitors and attends events organised by local ...
Following the 2015 Worcester City Council election and hours before his tenure as Mayor of Worcester was to end, Amos announced he was rejoining the Conservative party. [14] In the 2024 Worcester City Council election he was re-elected and was the sole Conservative on the city council. In 2025, he now sits as an Independent on the city council ...
Worcester City Council elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time. Worcester City Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Worcester in Worcestershire , England.
In Worcester, which has a hybrid city council/city manager form of government, the mayor is directly elected by the voting public and is considered the political leader of the city. The mayor is, by charter, chair of the city council and chair of the School Committee, overseeing the city's 23,000-student public school system.
In early 2017, Petty apologized after he was caught on tape making disparaging remarks about people protesting a city council proposal. Earlier in the evening, he had thanked the protestors, saying they made Worcester proud. [9] He was reelected to a fourth term in 2017. In 2019, Petty was reelected to a fifth term.