Believe it or not, we\u2019re only months away from the NSW local government elections. All NSW residents will go to the polls on 8 September 2012 to elect their local Council for the next four-year term. While it is my intention to stand again, most of the current Palerang councillors have indicated that they will not be seeking re-election. This election therefore promises the best opportunity since the formation of the Palerang LGA to elect a Council with a unified view of the shire, and a genuine community focus, but this opportunity can only be realised if the right candidates come forward.<\/p>\n
If you think that you may be interested in nominating as a candidate for election to Council, the NSW Electoral Commission, in conjunction with the Electoral Funding Authority, will be holding a candidate information evening in Queanbeyan on Tuesday 29 May (check the Electoral Funding Authority website<\/a> for details). If you want to have a chat about what it\u2019s like on Council, feel free to give me a call.<\/p>\n At this election, Palerang residents will also be asked whether or not they would like Council elections to be conducted in wards, formerly known as ridings. Wards are effectively electoral sub-districts. Palerang Council\u2019s nine councillors are currently elected in a single area. A flyer presenting the cases for and against a ward system were forwarded with rate notices in 2010, and a comprehensive discussion on the subject is provided elsewhere on this website under the Palerang InfoZone<\/a>.<\/p>\n [Stop Press: At it’s May GM, Council resolved to cancel the above mentioned referendum. I’ll comment further on that in another post.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Believe it or not, we\u2019re only months away from the NSW local government elections. All NSW residents will go to the polls on 8 September 2012 to elect their local Council for the next four-year term. While it is my intention to stand again, most of the current Palerang councillors have indicated that they will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}