Second term Councillor Victoria Henstock has been appointed Deputy Mayor by Mayor Phil Mauger.
Jillian Frater has been elected the Lyttelton representative on the Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula Community Board.
A judicial recount of votes in the Innes ward has confirmed Pauline Cotter’s election as a Christchurch City Councillor.
Ali Jones has been elected the Innes ward’s newest representative on the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board.
It’s just over two weeks until voting closes for the 2019 local elections and enrolled Christchurch voters should have received their voting papers in the mail by now.
Nominations have closed, and the names are in for October’s local body elections.
Videos featuring candidates in the upcoming local election have been published online by Christchurch City Council in a new initiative.
A free mobile app, Celect, is giving Christchurch voters an easy way to view candidate profiles ahead of October’s local body elections.
Preparations are under way for an early 2020 by-election, with nominations for a position representing the Mt Herbert subdivision on the Banks Peninsula Community Board opening on Monday 25 November.
Voters will be electing six new community boards in October’s local elections, but what does a Community Board actually do? Retiring Community Board chairperson Emma Norrish explains what the job can involve.