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Aquatic Centre in Frankston North has reopened for spring and summer fun. Pictured are Harry taking a sideways jump and Zanthe, front left, Bella, Emmy and Billy. See Page 4. Picture: Gary Sissons
Four councillors out, five survive Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au FOUR Frankston councillors have been turfed by voters after council elections held on 22 October. The Victorian Electoral Commission declared results on Sunday evening (30 October) that confirmed Crs Glenn Aitken, Brian Cunial, Colin Hampton, Sandra Mayer and Michael O’Reilly were re-elected. Four former councillors — Re-
bekah Spelman, the mayor James Dooley, Suzette Tayler and exmayor Darrel Taylor — were not re-elected. All nine of Frankston’s councillors serving from 2012-16, representing three regional wards, stood for re-election. The new councillors elected for a four-year council term alongside the five re-elected councillors are Kris Bolam, Quinn McCormack, Lillian O’Connor and Steve Toms. Mr Bolam is no stranger to local
government having previously served as a councillor at Frankston before the 2012-16 council term. He was mayor in 2011. Ratepayers voted by post and the VEC allowed a week this time around to allow for votes posted before Friday 21 October to be counted in the final tallies. Voting in council elections is compulsory and non-voters enrolled on the electoral roll for elections may face a fine. Ballot papers were marked as pri-
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ority post but Australia Post made changes to its minimum delivery times in January this year and it can now take up to four business days for priority mail to arrive at its destination. The VEC’s decision to allow six days after election day to receive all votes cast means all councils across the state had no councillors from 6am on election day until new and re-elected councillors are sworn in this week. Councils were still able to func-
tion for the week despite the lack of elected representatives. Frankston Council confirmed previous councillors did not receive remuneration after 21 October. The results released by the VEC are provisional and subject to final ratification but there is little chance of change to the results in Frankston since no results were marginal enough to trigger recounts. Preferential voting is used where a ward is electing a single councillor. Continued Page 3
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