Calling all aspiring candidates
By Cecilia Nasmith
The Town of Cobourg is giving notice to its municipal electors that the nomination period is approaching, when nomination papers may be filed with the municipal clerk/returning officer (in person or by an agent) for this year's municipal and school board elections.
Filing at the municipal clerk's office in Victoria Hall (55 King St. W.) can take place between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. between Monday, May 2, and Thursday, Aug. 18 – as well as on Nomination Day, Friday, Aug. 19, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
In the event an insufficient number of certified candidates step forward to fill all available positions, nominations will be reopened for the vacant positions only on Wednesday, Aug. 24, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - again, with nomination forms to be filed with the office of the municipal clerk/returning officer.
The required nomination fee for all nominations is $100, except for the $200 fee for mayoral nominations. Payment must accompany the signed form an can be made in cash, debit, certified cheque or money order payable to the Town of Cobourg.
Each municipal nomination filed (excluding school board trustee candidates) must include an endorsement-of-nomination form signed by 25 eligible voters supporting the nomination. Each must sign a declaration stating that he or she is eligible to vote in the municipality.
Candidate information packages can be picked up at Victoria Hall and on-line at cobourgvotes.ca
You are entitled to vote (and to run for office) if you are not disqualified by any act or law, and if (on voting day) you are aged 18 or older, a Canadian citizen and either a Cobourg resident or a non-resident who is owner or tenant on municipal land or the spouse or same-sex partner of such an owner or tenant.
In the municipal election, a mayor, deputy mayor and five councillors will be elected at large.
Nominations can be filed for the English-language public and separate school boards at Victoria Hall as well.
In the case of the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, two trustees will be elected for the combined area of Alnwick-Haldimand Township, Hamilton Township, the Town of Cobourg and the Municipality of Port Hope.
In the case of the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, one trustee will be elected for Northumberland County.
Candidates for the French language public and separate school boards are required to file nominations with the City of Oshawa Municipal Clerk's office at 50 Centre St.
For Conseil Scolaire Viamonde, a trustee will be elected by French Public electors for the Regional Municipality of Durham, Northumberland and Peterborough counties, and the cities of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough and Quinte West.
For Conseil Scolaire Catholique MonAvenir, one trustee will be elected by French Catholic electors in the Region of Durham, the Counties of Haliburton, Northumberland and Peterborough, and the Cities of Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes and Quinte West.
