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No byelection for Coquitlam, judge rules City’s lawyer says vote would have cost $200,000 JANIS CLEUGH jcleugh@tricitynews.com
Kim Dennis competes in lightweight hammer throw for distance in one of the heavy event competitions featured at ScotFest BC, which made its return to Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park last Friday and Saturday. For more photos see Page 17. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Coquitlam residents won’t go to the polls twice this year to elect city politicians. On Tuesday (June 21), a judge at BC Supreme Court in Vancouver immediately dismissed part of a petition that, had it been successful, would have seen residents cast ballots in September and October. Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick tossed out an order sought by Coquitlam residents Neal Nicholson — a former city councillor — and Wayne Taylor to compel the munic-
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ipality to hold a byelection to replace Bonita Zarrillo, who quit her civic duties on Oct. 1, 2021, after winning a federal seat. In her decision, at the end of the day-long judicial review, Fitzpatrick said a byelection wouldn’t be practical given the cost and the timing so close to the municipal general election on Oct. 15, 2022. But she said she would return a ruling in a month or so as to whether the city erred in its interpretation of Section 54 of the Local Government Act, which governs how municipalities run. That section of the provincial legislation states that if a municipality has a council opening before Jan. 1 of a general election year, a SEE
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