Ashburton Guardian, Saturday, August 17, 2013 by Ashburton Guardian

News Saturday, August 17, 2013

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Council leadership countdown begins By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

And the nominees are: Mayoralty (1 vacancy)

Ashburton District Council, urban ward (seven vacancies)

Wilson, Stuart

Ashburton District Council, western ward – elected unopposed

Nordqvist, Martin

Totty, Alan

Methven Community Board (five vacancies) McLaughlin, Dan

McMillan, Liz

Lischner, Jim

McNab, Terry

Smith, Vicki

Ashburton Trust (six vacancies)

Sampson, Richard

Paterson, Roger

Robertson, Chris

Lilley, Alister

Urquhart, Alisdair

Neumann, Alan

Thomas, Alden

Moore, Maree

Davidson, Bernard

Sparks, Jac

McLeod, Don

Robertson, nominated by Gary Fail and Bruce Day, current board member Alan Neumann, nominated by Ray McLaren and Darryl Phillips and Richard (Spike) Sampson, nominated by Wayne Watson and Graeme Moore. The trust now has nine candi-

Cutforth, Ken

McAlpine, Sonia

Reveley, Peter

Favel, Donna

McKay, Angus

Brown, Neil

Gilpin, Hamish

Quinton, Sam

Ellis, Russell

McLeod, Don

Bell, Thelma

Ellis, Russell

Ashburton District Council, eastern ward – elected unopposed

Nelson, Darryl

Beavan, Rod

The focus of interest in this year’s local body elections will be firmly on urban Ashburton. For many voters the elections will be a non-event with many able only to vote on one issue, the mayoralty. Three candidates are chasing the district’s top job and this is the only issue where voters district wide can have their say. The urban ward of the Ashburton District Council and the Ashburton Trust are the other two issues where elections are required. Candidates in these, however, can only be chosen by people living with in either the urban ward or within the trust’s geographical boundaries. Out of the six issues at stake, just three received more nominations than were needed, guaranteeing an election, while one, the Methven Community Board, failed to attract sufficient numbers to fill all board seats. The two rural wards for the Ashburton District Council attracted just the bare minimum number of nominations, with the five sitting members returned unopposed. With just hours to go until nominations closed there was a late surge of interest with 10 nominations coming in at the 11th hour. The number of candidates seeking seats around the Ashburton District Council table, representing the urban ward now number 13 (for seven seats). The latest nominations are two former district councillors - Rod Beavan, nominated by Michael Hanrahan and Janice Andrew, and Peter Reveley nominated by Simon Page and Margaret Chapman. An election will now be required for the six Ashburton Trust seats, with the nomination of current chair Alister Lilley, nominated by Alistair Wing and Graeme Church, solicitor Chris

Watson, Fay

dates. The Methven Community Board will be running one short around its board table this year. Until late yesterday no nominations had been received but last night current member Hamish Gilpin was nominated by Brent McDonald and David Nesbit and new candidate So-

nia McAlpine was nominated by Philip Wareing and Maree Glanville. With just minutes remaining until nominations closed a further two candidates came forward for the board. Current chair Liz McMillan was nominated by Heather

MacKenzie and Janine Holland and current board member Dan McLaughlin was nominated by James Urquhart and Peter Wood. Voting papers will be sent out to registered electors from September 20 and voting closes at noon on October 12.

Mrs Gillian Simpson, Executive Principal, warmly invites you to join her for a

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