common council
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Hannah Shvets, who serves on the common council in Ithaca, the home of Cornell, said she would like to see the university transfer all violent crime reporting to Ithaca’s police department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The common council will vote to codify the moratorium on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The common council set speed limits south of Grand and Vesey Streets: no faster than “a slow trot or pace, not exceeding at any time the rate of five miles per hour.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2010
In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the business was over, the members of the common council and other gentry, with the officials and friends of the school, assembled at a repast.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
