Structure
The council consists of 15 divisions, each of which represents one of the former entities and elects one councillor, with a mayor being elected by the entire region. At the 2008 election, the following councillors were elected:
- Mayor—Fred Gela
- Division 1 (Boigu)—Donald Banu
- Division 2 (Dauan)—Raymond Soki
- Division 3 (Saibai)—Ron Enosa
- Division 4 (Mabuiag)—Keith Fell
- Division 5 (Badu)—Wayne Guivarra
- Division 6 (Kubin)—David Bosun
- Division 7 (St Pauls)—John Kris
- Division 8 (Hammond)—Nancy Pearson
- Division 9 (Iama)—Simeon Mackie
- Division 10 (Poruma)—Willie Lui
- Division 11 (Warraber)—Philemon Mosby
- Division 12 (Masig)—John Mosby
- Division 13 (Ugar)—Florianna Bero
- Division 14 (Erub)—Kenny Bedford
- Division 15 (Mer)—Ron Day
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Famous quotes containing the word structure:
“It is difficult even to choose the adjective
For this blank cold, this sadness without cause.
The great structure has become a minor house.
No turban walks across the lessened floors.
The greenhouse never so badly needed paint.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditional shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)