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City council (n.) is where a town finds out what it signed.
A City council (n.) meets on a weeknight at six so the people with jobs cannot come.
A City council (n.) is like a homeowners' association with a police department.
A City council (n.) is a room where a stop sign takes three hours and a stadium takes one vote.
A City council (n.) is government close enough that you know whose brother-in-law got the paving contract.
City council (n.) is democracy at the scale where the angry resident can still be heard.
City council (n.) is a room that approves in five minutes what it takes a year to undo.