Borough council (Ottawa)

Ottawa, officially the Capital Municipal District of Ottawa, is the federal capital city of the Canadian Republic. It consists of six boroughs, each of which has its own borough council which is responsible for administrating local government with in the borough. All six borough councils meet annually in what is called a summit, where they elect the Capital District Municipal Council (CDMC), the municipal government of Ottawa as a whole. The CDMC, which is the highest legislative authority at the municipal level in the capital city, elects a municipal manager during the summit, who is responsible post-summit for executing the CDMC's deliberated- and decided-upon policy and representing the CDMC between plenary sessions. Borough councils are composed of 10 to 20 members who are directly elected by the borough's constituents, while as the CDMC and municipal manager are elected at a borough summit, the Ottawa-wide government is instead indirectly elected.