{"id":11991,"date":"2021-07-02T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:29:24","slug":"city-of-newcastle-councillor-information-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/02\/city-of-newcastle-councillor-information-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Newcastle Councillor information sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you interested in representing your community as a Councillor?
\nBecoming a Councillor is an exciting opportunity to represent your community and the interests of City of Newcastle’s residents by providing leadership and guidance to the community.
\nCity of Newcastle is hosting two candidate information sessions on 6 July before the 4 August deadline for candidates to register with the NSW Electoral Commission.<\/span>
\nThe next local government general election will be held on Saturday 4 September 2021.
\nThe sessions allow people to identify key requirements of becoming a Councillor, understand the rules and processes for registering as a candidate and running a campaign and to understand the role of Council, Councillors and the key elements of council meetings.<\/span>
\nThese sessions will be facilitated by Jenny Dowell, who previously held the role as a Lismore Councillor for 12 years and was the Mayor of Lismore between 2008 and 2016.<\/span>
\nThe sessions can be attended in-person at City of Newcastle\u2019s Council Chambers at the City Administration Centre, 12 Stewart Avenue Newcastle Wests or via zoom. Registration is essential.<\/span>
\nSessions:<\/strong><\/a>
\nTuesday 6 July 2021 –\u00a02pm to 5pm<\/a>
\nTuesday 6 July 2021 –\u00a06pm to 9pm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you interested in representing your community as a Councillor? Becoming a Councillor is an exciting opportunity to represent your community and the interests of City of Newcastle’s residents by providing leadership and guidance to the community. City of Newcastle is hosting two candidate information sessions on 6 July before the 4 August deadline for … Continue reading “City of Newcastle Councillor information sessions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}