Lethbridge City Council

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The Lethbridge City Council is the legislative governing body that represents the citizens of Lethbridge, Alberta. Eight aldermen and the mayor comprise the council. The mayor is the city's chief elected official and the city manager is its chief administrative officer. For the 2007–2010 term, the mayor is Bob Tarleck and the aldermen are Jeff Carlson, Rajko Dodic, Barbara Lacey, Ryan Parker, Margaret Simmons, Ken Tratch, Shaun Ward, and Tom Wickersham.

1 History
2 Elections
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

In 1890, when the local population reached 1,478, an application was made to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories to grant town incorporation. Such was granted on 3 December of that year and the following 9 February, the first town council meeting was held in the Lethbridge Hotel. Charles Alexander Magrath was the first mayor and was joined by six aldermen.

Shortly after Alberta became a province in 1905, an application was made for a city charter. City status was granted on 9 May 1906, and the first council meeting was held on 21 May with a mayor and six aldermen as before.

The Alberta Legislature approved a new charter on 25 March 1913 that would see the city governed by three elected commissioners: the mayor, who was also commissioner of finance; a commissioner of public utilities and a commissioner of public works. The charter became effective 1 January 1914 and the first meeting under this commission was held on 5 January 1914 under mayor William Duncan Livingston Hardie.

Within eight years, however, local citizens felt the commission was becoming dictatorial and were able to get the charter amended to allow for thee additional but advisory commissioners. The newly elected commissioners attended their first meeting on 24 April 1922. In 1927, as a result of a plebiscite, Lethbridgians voted to change their civic government from commission to council–manager form. The council was then comprised of seven aldermen, one of whom would be elected internally as a mayor. As well, a city manager was appointed by city council to administer its policies. The new elections were held in June 1928. In their first meeting, on 23 July 1928, council elected Robert Barrowman as their mayor.

In 1961, city electors voted in favour of electing their mayor directly. In 1962, they elected Frank Sherring as mayor. Seven years later, the number of aldermen was increased from six to eight.

[edit] Elections

Every three years, the City of Lethbridge holds municipal elections for the positions of aldermen and mayor. All aldermen are elected at large.

The tables below show all candidates who ran in recent elections, who were incumbents, and who won.

[edit] 2007 election

Main article: Lethbridge, Alberta municipal election, 2007

[edit] 2004 election

Mayors
Name	Incumbent	Elected	Votes	Percent
TARLECK, Bob	X	X	15333	66.48
MAURO, Joe			7732	33.52

Alderman
Name	Incumbent	Elected	Votes	Percent
BOORA, Bal			5915	4.41
CHAPMAN, Ken			2865	2.14
CONNERS, James			1885	1.41
DALKE, Don			4733	3.53
DODIC, Rajko		X	7771	5.79
FENGSTAD, Glen M.			3421	2.55
FERGUSON, Lesley			2673	1.99
FRANCIS, Cary			983	0.73
GIRDWOOD, Sue			2250	1.68
IWASKIW, Liz		X	8343	6.22
JANZEN, Bob			1572	1.17
KURINA, Frank			1811	1.35
LACEY, Barbara	X	X	11313	8.43
LARSEN, Adam			4011	2.99
LeBARON, D.L. "Rick"			4874	3.63
McMULLEN, Jim			4064	3.03
PARKER, Ryan	X	X	14357	10.70
PAULHUS, Romeo			3834	2.86
ROEDLER, Chris			896	0.67
SIMMONS, Margaret			4483	3.34
SINGER, Chris			1253	0.93
TYSLAU, Ron			2833	2.11
VAALA, Leslie	X	X	9141	6.81
WARD, Shaun	X	X	9815	7.32
WEADICK, Joanne		X	6478	4.83
WICKERSHAM, Tom	X	X	12570	9.37

[edit] 2001 election

Mayors
Name	Elected	Votes	Percent
PETA, Frank		2244	9.5
PIERZCHALA, Mike		5939	25
SWITZER, Mark H.		3181	13.4
TARLECK, Bob	X	9459	39.9
WEADICK, Greg		2907	12.3

Aldermen
Name	Incumbent	Elected	Votes	Percent
BOLEN, John			881	0.6
BOORA, Bal			3683	2.7
CAMPBELL, Sandra L.			2667	1.9
CHAPMAN, Ken			1466	1.1
DARLINGTON, Lorne James			2674	1.9
DEMERS, Tyler D.			5044	3.7
DENNIS, Terry			1159	0.8
ELLIOTT, Bev			4069	3
FENGSTAD, Glen			2289	1.7
FLYNN, G.E. Kelly			1316	1
FORSYTH, Howard			1966	1.4
FUDRA, Frank			2123	1.5
GIBSON, Bill			4696	3.4
HEATHERINGTON, Dar		X	5701	4.1
ISFELD, Jason			675	0.5
KENT, Adrian			776	0.6
KOBAL, John			3397	2.5
LACEY, Barbara Ann	X	X	8515	6.2
LEBLANC (WEBBER), Bev			2371	1.7
LEES, Keith			2374	1.7
McCOLL, Aaron			800	0.6
McMULLEN, Jim			2436	1.8
MAURO, Joe	X	X	15330	11.1
MOLCAK, Jack			2449	1.8
NAKAHAMA, Ken			4280	3.1
NEUFELD, Randy			5426	3.9
PARKER, Ryan	X	X	11065	8
PASTOOR, Bridget A.	X	X	5722	4.2
ROSS, Rick			3517	2.6
SIEVER, Kim			946	0.7
VAALA, Leslie		X	6156	4.5
WALDERN, Gerald, D.R.			1976	1.4
WARD, Shaun	X	X	7905	5.7
WHITE, David			2170	1.6
WICKERSHAM, Tom		X	9579	7

[edit] 1998 election

Mayor
Name	Incumbent	Elected	Votes	Percent
CARPENTER, David B.	X	X	13479	57.2
OXLEY, Jon			6531	27.7
STEPHENSON, Mark D.			3553	15.1

Aldermen
Name	Incumbent	Elected	Votes	Percent
BAIN, Ron			6811	4.9
COFFMAN, Jeffrey A.	X		8927	6.4
DADSWELL, Al			6709	4.8
FENGSTAD, Glen			4616	3.3
FOSTER, Janice (Jan)			8593	6.2
LACEY, Barbara	X	X	12913	9.3
LAMDEN, Dan			2105	1.5
LOUGH, Victor			5426	3.9
MARTIN, Ed	X	X	9541	6.8
MAURO, Joe	X	X	11143	8
PARKER, Ryan		X	11741	8.4
PASTOOR, Bridget A.		X	9208	6.6
PETA, Frank	X	X	10091	7.2
TOMPKINS, Michele			7833	5.6
WARD, Shaun	X	X	11503	8.2
WEADICK, Greg	X	X	12362	8.9