Broken Hill City Council has a new General Manager - Therese Manns

Therese Manns, image
courtesy 'Barrier Daily Truth' (BDT)

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The hunt is over for Broken Hill City Council's new General Manager after Mayor Wincen Cuy announced yesterday afternoon that Therese Manns had been appointed to the role.

Mrs Manns is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Financial Administration and is currently the General Manager for the Boorowa Council in NSW, a position she has held for the last two and half years.

In 2005 the Local Government Managers' Association awarded Mrs Manns the prestigious 'Aspiring Young Manager of the Year award'.

Mrs Manns has held several senior positions in regional and rural councils and has also worked at private accounting firms.

Mrs Manns will become Broken Hill's first female General Manager.

Mrs Manns was quoted in the Broken Hill City Council's media release (see link here) as saying "I am very honoured to be selected as the new General Manager of the Broken Hill City Council.  With many changes currently taking place in local government state wide, I look forward to working with the Mayor, Councillors and the community to ensure Broken Hill remains vibrant and that Council has the capacity to ensure strength and sustainability into the future."

I wish Mrs Manns every success in her new role which she is expected to take up on 1 August.

Cheers, Jane D

Broken Hill Councillors Final Results Confirmed

Results sourced from
Electoral Commission NSW

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2012 New Broken Hill Councillors.  See link here for the latest on this story.

A couple of interesting links will take you to all the intricacies of the vote tallies, see Candidate in Sequence of Election for the summary of results, and here for the breakdown and all the details.

The counting of votes and preferences is a very involved process, so no wonder it took nearly a week for the final results to be announced.

Again congratulations to the winners.

Cheers, Jane D

Footnote: Candidates (Officially) Declared Elected at 15:21 on 15 September 2012

Broken Hill's new Councillors - the final election results

Broken Hill Council Chambers
courtesy ABC Noah Schultz-Byard

Local Government          Breaking News 
It has been nearly a week since Saturday’s 2012 Local Government elections and at last the long wait is over. Final results for the Councillors were available at 10.37am today.  The people of Broken Hill have voted in the following candidates as their new councillors, and whilst most of them are familiar faces, there are three new Councillors - Jim Richards (Labor), Jim Nolan and Branko Licul (Labor).



Mayor Wincen Cuy
courtesy Council website



The Mayor Councillor position has already been announced earlier in the week with Mayor Wincen Cuy re-elected for a second term.



Out of 23 candidates, the nine winners are (names in bold are re-elected councillors) –

1 Darriea TURLEY (Labor)

2 DaveGALLAGHER (Independent) 

3 Peter BLACK *
4 Marion BROWNE (Labor)
5 Jim Richards (Independent)
6 Bob ALGATE
7 Jim Nolan (Labor)
8 John GROENENDIJK (Independent)

9 Branko LICUL (Labor)



'New' Councillor
Peter Black courtesy ABC



*Peter Black was not on the most recent Council but he was previously mayor for a record 19 years from 1980 to 1999, before he went on to serve two terms as the State Government Labor MP for the seat of Murray Darling from 1999-2007.  Although he has obvious ties to the Labor Party, he was not a Labor Party candidate in this election.

 

   

Councillor Darriea Turley
courtesy Council Website

  

Councillor Dave Gallagher
courtesy Council Website





Councillor Marion Browne
courtesy Council Website





Councillor John Groenendijk
courtesy Council Website

Councillor Bob Algate
courtesy Council Website

Results were sourced from the Electoral Commission NSW.

I wish the new team of Councillors and Mayor Cuy every success for the challenges that lie ahead.

Cheers, Jane D

Broken Hill Mayor Wincen Cuy Re-elected in September 2012 Election

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Re-elected Broken Hill Mayor Wincen Cuy
courtesy Barrier Daily Truth's Darrin Manuel

I can officially say congratulations to Mayor Wincen Cuy upon his re-election for a second term as Broken Hill City Council Mayor.

He strongly fought off three other contenders, Peter Black, Darriea Turley and John Groenendijk (listed in order of percentage of votes – greatest to least.)

Results of the Mayor Councillor voting from the NSW Electoral Commission can be seen here or by clicking on the following link -

ftp://ftp.elections.nsw.gov.au/Results/LGE2012/EMA/Mayor%20DOP/Broken%20Hill/Mayoral-DOP.pdf

Mayor Cuy first became the Broken Hill Mayor after Council elections in December 2009.  Previously Broken Hill Council had been under administration for a period from 10 January 2007 until the election on 5 December 2009.

The names of the successful other nine Councillors should be available Thursday 13 September 2012 sometime during the day.

Cheers, Jane D

Broken Hill 2012 Local Government Elections-Results Not Yet Final

My information was sourced from here.

Note final results can be found here on a later post.
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Preliminary figures.  Please note my reporting of the results is unofficial and counting is incomplete.  I have taken my information from the Electoral Commission NSW.  It is my reporting of the summary of the first preference figures as they are presented on that site at the time of this post i.e. 9 September 2012-today. There are still preferences to be counted that could influence the final result, so it is still too early to tell who the final winners are.

13,591 people were entitled to vote as at 30 July 2012.  Voters are however entitled to enrol up to and including the election day.  The progressive total of ordinary votes is 11,236 votes counted at the time of writing.  Of these, there are 9,157 formal votes and 2,079 informal votes.

Late last tonight, Sunday 9 September 2012, I noticed that there had been quite a lot of readers for my last night’s post regarding the election results and as there has been some variation in the order of the rankings to date, I have updated my interim results list – see below.  I am issuing this update due to these changes, but I won’t continue to do so until the final results are in.  I have just listed the top 12 names, in order of the number of votes tallied to date per candidate and obviously doesn’t include preference votes.

Electoral Commission returning-officer Mr Darren Flowers noted counting will continue from Monday morning and will take three to four days to complete.

Please wait for the final results before you start to celebrate or drown your sorrows.

Names in bold are existing Councillors.

I will report the final results when they are available.

1 TURLEY Darriea
2 GALLAGHER Dave
3 GROENENDIJK John
4 BLACK Peter
5 STEER Ray
6 ADAMS Christine
7 LICUL Branko
8 BROWNE Marion
9 TUCKER Alan
10 KENNEDY Tom
11 ALGATE Bob
12 COWDREY Josh

Cheers, Jane D

Broken Hill Local Government Elections 8 September 2012

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(NOTE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS, NOT INCLUDING PREFERENCES WHICH WILL {AND DID} ALTER RESULTS - SEE POST DATED 14 SEPTEMBER 2012 LINK HERE FOR FINAL RESULTS)

It was a big day in Broken Hill with the Local Government elections being held in the city today.  Stories, interviews and letters to the local paper the ‘Barrier Daily Truth’ have been appearing for months.  The elections are in fact being run in councils across the state of New South Wales.



Mayor Wincen Cuy courtesy
Broken Hill Council website

Unofficially, it appears very likely that the immediate past Mayor Wincen Cuy has been re-elected as the Mayor.  Preferences however are still to be counted.

I know it's premature but I think it's pretty likely congratulations to Mayor Cuy.

There are 9 Councillor positions available plus the Mayor Councillor.

(There is one retiring councillor - Neville GASMIER - who is not re-contesting his position.)

As at very late this evening on the actual day of the election, the candidates are listed below in order of their number of votes today.  Names in bold are existing Councillors.

(NOTE - ALTHOUGH THIS IS THE ORDER AT THIS DATE, THE FINAL RESULTS SAW A DIFFERENT OUTCOME (SEE FINAL RESULTS IN A LATER POST DATED 14 SEPTEMBER, SEE LINK)

As at 11.58pm Saturday 8 September 2012 - 

Darriea TURLEY; Dave GALLAGHER; John GROENENDIJK; Peter BLACK; Ray STEER; Christine ADAMS; Branko LICUL; Alan TUCKER; Josh COWDREY; Marion BROWNE; (Current Deputy Mayor) Robert (Bob) ALGATE; Tom KENNEDY; Sherri KUERSCHNER; Marie WECKER; Jim RICHARDS; Andrew OLESNICKY; Shorty REVILLE; Dove HOWARD; Jim NOLAN; Larry ANGELL; Pim SCHAAIJ; Carol ROWLANDS; Lee BIASIO.

I will publish the final results as soon as they are available.

Note the final results are now available and can be seen here and Mayor Cuy did retain the Mayoral position.

Cheers, Jane D