Council
Botany Bay City Council is composed of seven Councillors, including the Mayor, for a fixed four year term of office. The Mayor is directly elected while the six other Councillors are elected proportionally as six separate wards, each electing one Councillor. The most recent election was held on 8 September 2012. In Wards One and Five, only one candidate, being those below, nominated for election. There being no additional candidates, the election for these Wards was uncontested. The makeup of the Council, including the Mayor, is as follows:
| Party | Councillors | |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Labor Party | 7 | |
| Total | 7 | |
The current council, elected in 2012, in order of election by ward, is:
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor | Ben Keneally | Labor | ||
| Ward One | George Glinatsis | Labor | Deputy Mayor | |
| Ward Two | Brian Troy | Labor | ||
| Ward Three | Christina Curry | Labor | ||
| Ward Four | Stan Kondilios | Labor | ||
| Ward Five | Greg Mitchell | Labor | ||
| Ward Six | Mark Castle | Labor | ||
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Famous quotes containing the word council:
“I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)