city clerk

noun

: a public officer charged with recording the official proceedings and vital statistics of a city

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In a small Missouri Bootheel town, the acting mayor didn’t deposit at least $66,000 in city receipts, hired her daughter as city clerk and between 2017 and 2019 ran the city without a board of aldermen. —

Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 His father, Richard, was a probate judge and a former minor-league baseball player; his mother, Rhea, worked as a city clerk. —

Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024 The Muskegon city clerk had alerted police after noticing irregularities on some of the 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms dropped off by a canvasser. —

Amy Sherman and Sara Swann, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Jan. 2024 The interim status for city clerk/recorder will last until a municipal election can be held in 2026 for city clerk. —

Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for city clerk