{"id":131523,"date":"2016-01-13T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T05:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=131523"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:36:45","slug":"council-election-forums-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/01\/13\/council-election-forums-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Election Forums Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84026\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gloria-kirkness2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84026\" title=\"Gloria Kirkness\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gloria-kirkness2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gloria-kirkness2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gloria-kirkness2-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanango Tourism and Development Association president Gloria Kirkness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>January 13, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three of the region&#8217;s peak business and community organisations will be holding community forums next month so members of the public can meet candidates for the 2016 Council elections in person.<\/p>\n<p>The Nananago Tourism and Development Association (NaTDA), Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and Murgon Business and Development Association (MBDA) will all be holding forums in February.<\/p>\n<p>NaTDA will invite all candidates standing for Divisions 1 and 2, along with Mayoral candidates; MBDA will do the same with Division 5 and 6 and Mayoral candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The KCCI will invite the current three Mayoral candidates (Cr Keith Campbell, Cr Damien Tessmann and Mr Michael Brown) to address their next Meet &#8216;n&#8217; Greet in early February; and may hold a separate public forum for Division 3 and 4 candidates after the close of nominations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gloria Kirkness, president of NaTDA, said it seemed a large number of new faces would be putting themselves forward for the March elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ratepayers were naturally concerned the best candidates were elected.<\/p>\n<p>The forums will allow the participants to outline their ideas to interested voters in person, and possibly answer questions from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Dates and venues for the forums will be announced soon after a date for close of nominations has been set by the Queensland Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland&#8217;s four-yearly local government elections are scheduled for Saturday, March 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the region&#8217;s peak business and community organisations will be holding community forums next month so members of the public can meet candidates for the 2016 Council elections in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,3],"tags":[21,28,30],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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