Toowoomba prepares for by-election ...
Excerpt from the Chronicle:
By-election only option
7 October 2008
Voters will go back to the polls to decide who will fill the vacancy on Toowoomba Regional Council by December 14.
The news was confirmed yesterday a by-election will determine the 11th member of council left vacant after the death of popular Councillor Ian Orford on Sunday.
"There will be a by-election before the 14th of December it is the only option, actually it's the only choice," Toowoomba Regional Council Government and Administration manager Norm Garsden said.
Section 253 of the Queensland Local Government Act states that if a person's office as a local government councillor becomes vacant before March 1 in the year before the scheduled local government quadrennial elections, the vacancy must be filled by a by-election.
It is yet to be decided if Toowoomba Regional Council chief executive officer Philip Spencer will act as the returning officer or whether he will elect someone else to fill the role.
The returning officer must name a date for the by-election within 10 weeks, according to Mr Garsden.
Mr Spencer is currently on leave.
"That will need to be decided I would think in the next few days. Ten weeks will come around pretty quickly," he said.
See - By-election only option.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:56 AM
8 Comments:
They will all come out of the wood work again!!
We need a capibile, business MAN who will represent this city as we are top heavy with country councillors.
Toowoomba deserves better than Ramia(who abuses ladies) and Peter Marks (the councillor who has had 3 holidays since elected) Not bad racket if you can get away with it.
Ian Orford was there every day and will be sadly missed.
We need quality in the Councillor who will be elected and some-one who can stand up to Spencer and Flanagan team.
We need one for Toowoomba.
11:35 AM, October 07, 2008
Time for a new face.
1:00 PM, October 07, 2008
Snow Manners would be the person for the job!!!
3:21 PM, October 07, 2008
Not a new face but would he want to put himself through it all over again?
6:50 PM, October 07, 2008
Please: no-one who wasn't a top 5 nonwinner in the 2004 election, 2006 byelection or 2008 election should even consider running. You know who you are. You won't win so why bother? Take up a hobby instead.
7:51 PM, October 07, 2008
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11:02 PM, October 07, 2008
Snow Manners is the man who could do this job and we all need his caliver of person on this Council now!!
He won the by-election and could have won the mayorality except there was a concertive effort from the State governmnet (Premier Anna Bligh)and the Phil Spencers of this world to keep him out because he could get thing done and said.
What Snow would have to ask himself is- "Is it all worth it in the end?"
Or can he make the difference?
9:44 AM, October 08, 2008
How many times can you bang your head against the wall?
10:29 AM, October 08, 2008
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