{"id":31170,"date":"2022-04-21T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T22:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=31170"},"modified":"2022-04-21T18:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T22:50:43","slug":"council-members-begin-to-signal-re-election-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/council-members-begin-to-signal-re-election-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Council members begin to signal re-election plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Candidates for Mayor, Ward Councillor, and School Trustee positions can formally register for this fall\u2019s municipal election beginning Monday, May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While that date is just over a week away, some members of Aurora Council have begun to signal their re-election plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillors Wendy Gaertner, Rachel Gilliland and Sandra Humfryes have confirmed to The Auroran in a canvas of all incumbents on whether they intend to seek re-election and whether they intend to pursue a spot on Council, take a run for the Mayoralty, or as a school trustee, that they currently plan to seek another term as a Council member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Gaertner intends to seek a sixth consecutive term on Council, running in Ward 3 in the south end of Aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Gilliland confirms she will seek a second term on Council but has not yet stated in which ward she intends to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three-term Councillor Sandra Humfryes meanwhile says she currently intends to seek a fourth term this fall in Ward 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other members of Council, including Mayor Mrakas, however, are yet to formally state their intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs most people know, I am honoured by the trust people have placed in me to serve as Mayor, a job that residents elected me to do for a full four years,\u201d stated Mayor Mrakas. \u201cI love this job serving my community and will certainly clarify my intentions closer to the election. However, until then, I believe there is still lots to accomplish this term and that remains the focus of my attention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This view was echoed by Councillor Michael Thompson, who said, \u201cAt this point in time, I am continuing to focus on the tasks at hand. There will be plenty of time to consider my plans for the next term in the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor John Gallo says he has not yet decided whether he will be running again as there is \u201clots to consider,\u201d nor has Councillor Harold Kim, who ran as a Conservative candidate in last fall\u2019s Federal Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Councillor Kim said he expects to make his final decision in \u201ctwo to four weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Candidates for Mayor, Ward Councillor, and School Trustee positions can formally register for this fall\u2019s municipal election beginning Monday, May 1. While that date is just over a week away, some members of Aurora Council have begun to signal their re-election plans. Councillors Wendy Gaertner, Rachel Gilliland and Sandra Humfryes have confirmed to The Auroran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-86K","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 06:54:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}