Fairfield City Council
The Fairfield City Council is the elected legislative body for the City of Fairfield. It consists of six members, each elected to represent a voting district, and a president elected at-large. Fairfield previously operated under a Mayor-Alderman system. The Council meets on the 1st floor of Fairfield City Hall on the first and third Mondays of each month at 7:00 PM.
The powers of the Council were reduced under legislation lobbied for by then-mayor Larry Langford beginning in 1988.
In November 2012, Mayor Kenneth Coachman began presiding over City Council meetings, citing state law for cities with less than 12,000 residents, noting that the city had fallen below that threshold in the 2010 census. Council President Darrell Gardner filed a legal challenge, arguing that Coachman had called the 2012 election without accounting for a change in government. Judge Eugene Verin ruled against the Mayor and ordered that Gardner should preside over Council meetings and Coachman would not vote in the council.
Fairfield City Council committees include Finance and Revenue and Public Safety
Members
1924
1925
- M. Appleby
- W. E. Brown
- R. H. Bumgardner
- J. C. Fuller
- J. E. Harrell
- J. H. Holmes
- J. T. Phillips
- F. D. Reynolds
- P. Williams
- William Wren
1939
- H. W. Allgood, president
1985
- Jerry Coleman, president
- Juanakee Adams
- Ronnie Cole
- Carstella Scott
- King Smith
- Larnetta Williams
- Charles Willis
1992
- President: Charles Willis
- District 6: Willie Hardley Jr
- Ronnie Cole
- Yvonne Coleman
- Ronald Kidd
- Jerry Kilburn
- Terrence Witherspoon
1996
- President: Charles Willis
- District 5: Jerry Kilburn
- District 6: Willie Hardley Jr
- Marion Evans
- Ronald Kidd
2000
- President: Charles Willis (2000–2003), Willie Murray (2003–2004)
- District 3: Willie Murray (2000–2003), Roderick Scott (2003–2004)
- District 4: Michael Johnson
- District 6: Willie Hardley Jr
- Howard Cook
- Marion Evans
- Yvonnne Coleman
2004
- President: Eldridge Turner
- District 1: Frederick Scott
- District 2: Vincent Smith
- District 3: Willie Murray
- District 4: William Yow
- District 5:
- District 6: Willie Hardley Jr
2008
- President: Eldridge Turner
- District 1: Frederick Scott
- District 2: Primus Mack, appointed January 2011 to fill the vacancy left by Vincent Smith's retirement
- District 3: Willie Murray
- District 4: Ronald Struthers
- District 5: Jerry Yarbrough
- District 6: Ves Marable
2012
- President: Darnell "Shank" Gardner
- District 1: James "Bubba" Reasor
- District 2: Primus Mack (2012-2014), Gloria Matthews (2014-)
- District 3: Harry C. Lee Jr (chair of Finance and Revenue committee)
- District 4: Paralee Britt
- District 5: Jerry Yarbrough
- District 6: Willie Hardley, president pro tem (chair of Public Safety committee)
2016
- Council President: Eddie Penny (1st term), sworn in as Mayor of Fairfield in February 2019
- District 1: Barakas Taylor (1st term)
- District 2: Susan Jo Rembert-Parks (1st term)
- District 3: Cynthia Turner McDowell (1st term)
- District 4: John Hackett (1st term), President pro tempore
- District 5: Herman Carnes Jr (1st term)
- District 6: Willie Hardley (7th term)
2020
- Council President: Herman Carnes Jr
- District 1: Barakas Taylor (2nd term)
- District 2: Susan Jo Rembert-Parks (2nd term)
- District 3: E. J. Foster (1st term)
- District 4: Cedric Norman (1st term)
- District 5: Phyllis Oden-Jones (1st term)
- District 6: Robert Averhart III (1st term)
References
- Chambers, Jesse (January 9, 2013) "Gardner presides over Fairfield city council meeting." The Birmingham News
External links
- Our Elected Leaders at cityoffairfieldal.org