Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Local Election Page on City of WL's website

On Friday - I noted that the City of Williams Lake, unlike other municipal governments, did not yet have pertinent information about the upcoming civic election this November.  See that blog post here

On Monday - the City of Williams Lake put a link on its' main web page, in regards to the upcoming local government election, which you can find here.  Interesting set of coincidences though - on Friday, no information on the local gov't election and I blog on it and Monday - all of a sudden, it is there.  Just like when I announced, earlier this year, that the City was not getting a provincial grant to move the Station House Gallery, and then hours later - the City formally announces the same.  Coincidence.....?  You be the judge....

The City has also pertinent information about time commitment, relevant provincial legislation and a link to the Local Government Department - Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development on local government election information, which I strongly encourage anyone running in this November's election (City of Williams Lake) to review this information prior to submitting your nomination papers

However - I was disappointed to read that the City of Williams Lake reports that in the 2008 Local Election - the overall participation rate in that civic election was 44.7% of the City's local electors, when a report authored by the then Chief Election Officer (Ms. Sue Moxey) reported that the actual participation rate was in fact 36.6%Read her report here.  I hope that the City will want to correct that factual error ASAP

SBF

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah Steve, I'm sure the people over at City Hall just wait around for you to tell them what they should do.