{"id":53466,"date":"2022-04-21T06:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=53466"},"modified":"2022-04-21T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:59:08","slug":"have-you-thought-about-running-for-council-municipal-election-october-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/21\/have-you-thought-about-running-for-council-municipal-election-october-24-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you thought about running for Council? Municipal Election October 24, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Municipal Election October 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Have you thought about running for Council?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Municipal-CREST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2856\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Municipal-CREST-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Municipal-CREST-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Municipal-CREST.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Nominations<\/strong> for the municipal election will open on May 2, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. and close on August 19, 2022 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nomination papers<\/strong> will be available at the Municipal Offices, 40 Broadway Avenue Wawa, and the Municipal website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wawa.cc\/en\/your-government\/forms.aspx#Nomination-Paper-Form-1\">https:\/\/www.wawa.cc\/en\/your-government\/forms.aspx#Nomination-Paper-Form-1<\/a>) for those persons wishing to seek a position on Municipal Council or school board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The filing fee must be paid when you file your nomination paper and the payment must be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cash or debit card<\/li>\n<li>certified cheque or money order payable to &#8220;Municipality of Wawa&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candidate Filing Fees:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mayor &#8211; $200.00<\/li>\n<li>Councillor &#8211; $100.00<\/li>\n<li>Trustee, School Board &#8211; $100.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two pieces of identification must be presented, showing name, qualifying address and signature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible to be nominated, a person must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reside in Municipality of Wawa (or are the owner or tenant of land or the spouse of an owner or tenant).<\/li>\n<li>be a Canadian citizen;<\/li>\n<li>be at least 18 years old; and<\/li>\n<li>not be prohibited from voting, by reason of;\n<ul>\n<li>serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution;<\/li>\n<li>being a corporation;<\/li>\n<li>being an executor or trustee;<\/li>\n<li>being a person convicted of a corrupt practice described in the\u00a0<em>Municipal Elections Act<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>or a former candidate in the 2018 election who failed to file financial statements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before incurring any expenses or collecting any money, candidates must file a nomination form along with the filing fee with the Clerk or designate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nomination forms must be signed by the candidate and filed in person or by an agent with the Clerk or designate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A two-hour Candidate Training Session presented by the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing will be held by zoom at 6 p.m. on April 26, 2022: <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/87336214070\">us02web.zoom.us\/j\/87336214070<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Topics to be covered include: an overview of the responsibilities set out in legislation for candidates\/third-party advertisers and a general overview of the roles and responsibilities of members of Council.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further information regarding the upcoming Municipal Election, please contact Ms. Cathy Cyr, Clerk, at 705- 856-2244, extension 222, or Ms. Maury O\u2019Neill, Deputy Clerk, at 705-856-2244, extension 223.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal Election October 24, 2022 Have you thought about running for Council? &nbsp; Nominations for the municipal election will open on May 2, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. and close on August 19, 2022 at 2 p.m. \u00a0 Nomination papers will be available at the Municipal Offices, 40 Broadway Avenue Wawa, and the Municipal website (https:\/\/www.wawa.cc\/en\/your-government\/forms.aspx#Nomination-Paper-Form-1) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":53468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1765],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ad-text"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 14:11:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53467,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53466\/revisions\/53467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}