The Columbus City Council is a unicameral body consisting of nine members elected or appointed at-large.

The city government operates a campus of facilities at the downtown Columbus Civic Center, including the Michael B. Coleman Government Center, its 77 North Front St. offices, the Columbus Division of Police Headquarters, a city park, and a municipal parking garage.

The city is administered by a mayor and a nine-member unicameral council elected in two classes every two years to four-year terms at large.

The village of Columbus was organized in 1816, four years after the city's founding, with a nine-member council and its first mayor, Jarvis Pike.

[1] The current seven-member council was established in 1914; several proposals were rejected in subsequent decades to increase the number of seats as the city grew.

Also nearby is 77 North Front St., which holds Columbus's city attorney office, income-tax division, public safety, human resources, civil service, and purchasing departments.