As Chris Ballard prepares to head to Queen\u2019s Park this month, he leaves behind a vacancy on Aurora Council.<\/p>\n
According to the Municipal Act, Council now has 60 days to appoint someone to fill Ballard\u2019s seat. His seat must be formally declared vacant at the next meeting of Council and contenders for the appointment must be a Canadian Citizen, 18 years of age or older, and a resident of the community. <\/p>\n
At this time, it has not been determined if a Special Council meeting will be held to discuss the matter, or if it will be put on the backburner for the next meeting of Council scheduled for June 24. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the event of a vacancy, the Town Clerk will likely provide some recommendations for Council\u2019s consideration, but it is purely at Council\u2019s discretion who they wish to appoint,\u201d said Michael Kemp, Aurora\u2019s Manager of Corporate Communications.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Kemp, Council cannot place restrictions on the potential appointee, such as a stipulation such an appointee must not subsequently put their name forward as a candidate in the October 27 municipal election. <\/p>\n
Some Councillors have said, however, that an appointee with no aspirations in that regard would be the preferred option. <\/p>\n
Aurora Council last had to fill a vacancy in 2008 following the resignation of councillor Grace Marsh. After a contentious debate, the Council of the day ultimately opted to appoint runner-up John Gallo to the position. Gallo came in ninth for eight available Council seats. <\/p>\n
If this Council looks in that direction, finishing in the ninth position after the 2010 Municipal Election was now-former councillor Stephen Granger. <\/p>\n Although Thursday night was a party atmosphere for Chris Ballard and his supporters, a big decision needs to be made by Council in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7023,"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-19-03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1Pg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:27:59","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\/7022","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=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Facebook\"](\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F7022&t=Ballard%20win%20leaves%20vacancy%20to%20fill%20on%20Aurora%20Council&s=100&p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F7022&p[images][0]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2F2014-06-19-03.jpg&p[title]=Ballard%20win%20leaves%20vacancy%20to%20fill%20on%20Aurora%20Council\" "\\"Share")
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