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Hunter v. Erickson, 393 U.S. 385 (1969), was a United States Supreme Court case.. The question in the case was "whether the City of Akron, Ohio, has denied [a black citizen] the equal protection of its laws by amending the city charter to prevent the city council from implementing any ordinance dealing with racial, religious, or ancestral discrimination in housing without the approval of the ...
City of Twinsburg's Issues 19 and 20 deal with zoning proposals Issue 19 would enact updates to Part 11 of Twinsburg's ordinance code, a roughly 288-page section that sets forth planning and ...
Columbus became a city in 1834, and it was divided into three wards, each with four councilmembers. [1] The current seven-member council was established in 1914; several proposals were rejected in subsequent decades to increase the number of seats as the city grew. Ward systems were proposed in 1968, 1975, 2012, and 2016. [2]
The nine top vote-getters win seats on the council for a two-year term. Until the charter of 1925, the council comprised 32 members—six elected at-large and 26 elected from single-member wards. The 1925 charter instituted the present nine-member council elected in a single non-partisan, at-large election.
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A city employee will receive $95,000 to settle claims against Municipal Court Clerk Reginald Thompson and the Columbus Consolidated Government. Columbus Council unanimously approved the settlement ...
Ohio is divided into 88 counties. [1] Ohio law defines a structure for county government, although they may adopt charters for home rule. [1] [2] The minimum population requirement for incorporation is 1,600 for a village and 5,000 for a city. [3] Unless a county has adopted a charter, it has a structure that includes the following elected ...
Christopher Smitherman, a Cincinnati City Council member was endorsed in 2003 by the Charter Committee. He lost reelection in 2005 and recently returned to the council in 2011 as an independent with no political party endorsements. Tyrone Yates, a Democratic member of the state legislature, was a Charterite member of the city council until 1993.