Mayor of Geraldton

Like Durack's Labor candidate, when Shane Van Styn was preselected by the

Nationals he was facing a virtual mission impossible to unseat Liberal Back Bencher Barry Haase from his very safe Liberal seat he had held for 15 years. Since then Mr Haase has announced his retirement and the Australian political landscape has been reshaped by the return of Prime Minister Rudd.
Mr Van Styn is a City of Greater Geraldton Councillor, business owner and accountant. In 2011 he was fined $15,000 and banned from any involvement in a licensed premises for three years after an employee died from acute alcohol toxicity in a Geraldton nightclub owned by Mr Van Styn.
Mr Van Styn is continuing something of a Nationals' tradition in saying he will vote against coalition policies where he believes they are at odds with the Durack electorate. He is calling for a moratorium on unconventional gas due to the potential for groundwater pollution from shale gas fracking. He's at odds with state Nationals in that he doesn't believe controversial plans to develop James Price Point north of Broome should proceed.
Mr Van Styn has a more conventional Nationals position around other development issues in the seat of Durack.

Mayor of Dubbo

While the year has started off positively for Dubbo with businesses generally

recording good Christmas sales numbers and events and projects for this year starting to roll out already, it is hard to think about long-term strategies and positive progress for Dubbo at the moment with the threat of a merger hanging over our heads. 
I encourage everyone to read the Merger Proposal document on the State Government Web site at www.councilboundaryreview.nsw.gov.au so you can gain more information on the proposal. I must admit to being incredibly disappointed with the quality of the document in my readings so far. The more I read the more inaccuracies I pick up. If one of my children was handing this in for a high school assignment I would be disappointed with the lack of attention to detail and just the plain inaccuracies in the document. Given that this will be the most important process in Dubbo’s history since our amalgamation with Talbragar Shire Council on 1 April 1980, I was hoping for a document of accurate and unbiased information to allow the people in our community to have a fair say on the proposal. 
We are sending off information to the State Government highlighting some of the mistakes in the document in the hope they will be corrected and a new copy placed on the Web site. To give you but a few examples, on Page 10 a table lists the number of dwellings in Wellington as 15,934. Anyone familiar with the area would know this is more than their total population! It is an amateur copy and paste error as that is the number of dwellings in Dubbo. On Page 7 the number of residents are listed in Dubbo and Wellington as 41,573 and 8,951 with the new combined population cited as 50,627. A ten-year-old could tell you that those numbers add up to 50,524. Only a basic error I admit but it points to the level of accuracy in the document. In fact, the Government is not even clear on the population of Wellington. On Page 7 the population is 8,951 and on Page 11 the population is listed in a table as 9,054. It becomes much worse when you start looking at philosophical errors. I quote from the document: “These communities [Dubbo and Wellington] have a common heritage in both agriculture and mining.” In my opinion, after “four years of extensive consultation, research and analysis” as quoted in the document, I would have hoped that someone would have worked out neither Wellington nor Dubbo have any mines (yet) and Dubbo only employs 2.8 per cent of our employees in agriculture compared to Wellington’s 21.7 per cent. 
For Dubbo ratepayers though, they should be most worried by the statement on Page 8. “The two councils are projecting divergent operating performance over the next 10 years. Dubbo City Council forecasts that its negative operating ratio will improve as it brings in more revenue than it spends, while Wellington Council projects that its expenses will grow faster than income over the same period.”
I would strongly encourage you to have a say – the submission form is open now at www.councilboundaryreview.nsw.gov.au and it is very easy to send in your submission. People power will hopefully win the day in this scenario.
On the positive side, we have the solid backing of our local Member and the Deputy Premier, Troy Grant. I have often said that it is fantastic having the Deputy Premier as the local Member and Troy does an excellent job undertaking both roles. At our time of need when we need someone sitting at the table with our best interests at heart, it is comforting to know he is backing Dubbo to stay as a standalone Council.

Mayor of Busselton

City of Busselton Councillors and Officers offer their support and well wishes to Mayor Ian Stubbs who announced today that he would not be standing for re-election in the forthcoming Local Government Council elections.

Deputy Grant Henley said that on both a professional and personal level he had learnt a great deal working alongside Mayor Stubbs.

“Ian’s involvement in Local Government goes back to 1968, but despite this amazing breadth of experience he never took anything for granted. He constantly questioned things and was always looking at new or better ways to serve the community. He stood by his decisions and respected the opinions of others; he’s been a really strong Mayor who provided great wisdom and guidance and was a great mentor for new Councillors. He will be missed at the table.”

CEO Mike Archer said that Mayor Stubbs has guided the City through many challenging but exciting periods. “Both as an organisation and a community we’ve benefited enormously from having a Mayor with so much knowledge of and experience with Local Government – that doesn’t happen very often.  We’ve achieved so many important milestones over the past few years and Mayor Stubbs has played an integral role in them all. 

He was passionate about the Shire pursuing City status. He was the driver behind the City’s strategic push to become the Events Capital of WA and he’s worked really hard to build important relationships with neighbouring Local Governments to advance the South West region.

He successfully advocated for Government grant funding to pursue major projects such as the Busselton and Dunsborough Foreshore redevelopments and, most recently, expansion of the Busselton Regional Airport.  He’s done all this with the view to growing jobs and opportunities here in the City of Busselton.

Perhaps, most importantly is the work Mayor Stubbs has done behind the scenes to instil stronger governance practices within the organisation and greater community engagement. This legacy will continue to serve the organisation and the community well into the future.”

Mayor Ian Stubbs was elected onto the then Busselton Shire Council in 2007. He was voted in as Shire President in 2009. He re-stood for Council in October 2011 and was re-elected and voted in unopposed by fellow Councillors for a second term as Shire President. He became the Municipality’s first Mayor when the Shire of Busselton became the City of Busselton in January 2012.

Mayor of Bathurst

Gary Rush,
On behalf of City Council and the citizens of Bathurst, I welcome you to our official world wide web site.

Bathurst is situated on the Bay of Chaleur in northeastern New Brunswick. We have a population of approximately 13,000 within the city boundaries and a greater area population in excess of 80,000. We are proud of our quality of life.

While we are multicultural, the prominent two cultures would be French and English.

Natural Resources have been our strength since our settlement as a Village in 1826. Recently, we have diversified because of our central location to be the shopping and service center of Northeast New Brunswick.

Hopefully you will take the time to browse and explore our visionary community and discover what we have to offer.

Mayor of Nowra-Bomaderry

Joanna Gash (born 21 July 1944), an Australian politician, was a member of the

House of Representatives representing the Division of Gilmore for the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2013. In 2012, Gash was directly elected as the Mayor of the City of Shoalhaven, a local government area in the south-eastern coastal region of New South Wales.

Gash was born in Groningen in the Netherlands, and emigrated to Australia when she was six. She was educated at Institute of Administration in Sydney. Before entering politics she was a Regional Manager with the Tourism Commission of New South Wales, a guest house co-proprietor, and a Councillor of the Wingecarribee Shire Council. She was for many years a scripture and Sunday School teacher and spent many weekends at the Church of England Camps at the Port Hacking River (Camp Howard).

Gash was elected to Federal Parliament at the 1996 federal election.

In January 2012, Gash announced that she would not be contesting the next federal election. At the same time, she announced her intention to stand for mayor at the Shoalhaven City Council elections, due to be held in September 2012. Gash was successful, winning the directly elected role with 63.19% of the vote. Gash also led a ticket that saw nine other Councillors elected to the thirteen–member Shoalhaven City Council. Following her election as mayor, there was criticism about her constitutional ability to hold office as a federal Member of Parliament and to hold an office of profit under the crown, as Mayor. Gash vigorously defended her position.

Mayor of Warrnambool

Cr. Kylie Gaston, Mayor

With her family watching on, councillor Gaston won a 4-3 vote, defeating Cr Peter Hulin who was the only other nominee. Cr Michael Neoh did not renominate, ending three consecutive terms. 

She gained the support of Crs Neoh, Jacinta Ermacora, Rob Askew and herself, while Cr Hulin received votes from Crs Brian Kelson, Peter Sycopoulis and himself. 

Cr Gaston, who was nominated by Cr Ermacora, said she was excited to have the honour to serve as the city’s mayor and pledged to work hard and with “great zest”. 

Cr Hulin, who was nominated by Cr Sycopoulis, said he was enthusiastic about working with Cr Gaston and wished her the best. 

“I believe, with you as mayor, the fear of dread I have felt prior to attending meetings in the past will be eliminated,” Cr Hulin said. 

Cr Kelson said it would be strange for him, having only worked under the stewardship of Cr Neoh, and he hoped to see a different style of “mayorship”. 

Cr Sycopoulis said he was glad to see an end to the perpetuity of the mayors job over the past seven years, while Cr Ermacora said councillor Gaston would make Warrnambool proud. 

Cr Askew said Cr Gaston had worked hard to make sure she was involved across the community and said he looked forward to working with her. 

Cr Neoh said he felt one chapter had finished and a new one was beginning and wished Cr Gaston the best. 

EARLIER: COUNCILLOR Kylie Gaston has been elected mayor of Warrnambool at Monday night’s annual meeting of council. 

Cr Gaston was nominated by Cr Jacinta Ermacora while Cr Peter Hulin was nominated by Cr Sycopoulis. 

She won with a 4-3 vote. 

Mayor of Albany

Katherine "Kathy" Sheehan (born December 5, 1963) is the current Mayor of Albany,

New York. Prior to being elected mayor, Sheehan was city treasurer. On September 10, 2013, she defeated Corey Ellis in the Democratic primary for mayor of Albany. She later won the general election becoming the first female mayor and first new mayor of Albany in 20 years after Gerald Jennings decided to retire after being Albany's mayor for 20 years.

In 2009, Sheehan was elected as the city treasurer in Albany, New York, taking office in 2010.

As city treasurer, Sheehan was responsible for increasing parking tickets from $15 to $65 in less than four years to make up for decreased tax inflows during the recession.

On November 17, 2012, Sheehan announced herself as a candidate for mayor.

On September 10, 2013 Sheehan defeated Corey Ellis in the Democratic primary, in preliminary returns with 6,973 votes to Ellis's 3,074.  According to official returns released on October 9, Sheehan won the Democratic nomination, with 7,468 votes (65.72 %) to Ellis's 3,294 votes (29 %), with 601 write in votes (5.29 %) and a few void and blank ballots, according to official returns.

Mayor of Warragul-Drouin

Baw Baw Shire is divided into four wards - Drouin, Mount Worth, North and Warragul wards. There are two Councillors elected for each ward, with three being elected for the Warragul ward, making a total of nine Councillors.

Councillors are elected to lead and represent the whole community. As your local elected representative, they advocate on behalf of residents and work to assist them. As members of Council, individual Councillors have responsibilities to other Councillors and the community.

Councillors' responsibilities include approving the Council Plan and Council Budget. They have a responsibility, as stewards of community resources, to manage the Council's assets, provide a wide range of services and facilities, and ensure finances are allocated in the best interests of the whole community.