The term Council here means the same as "Municipality" in Canada. Councils were created by the Decentralization Act of 2004, although there were other forms of local governments before that. The elected council has 35 members, but they are a “deliberative” body, which only meet four times a year and their main function seems to be to appoint the mayor and four deputy mayors who are the executive. The mayor has all the power, counterbalanced somewhat by two central government appointees; the Secretary General who keeps things straight administratively and the Municipal Treasurer, who receives all revenues and must approve all disbursements.
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