{"id":200714,"date":"2023-12-07T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=200714"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:52:03","slug":"city-of-kitchener-must-decide-how-to-fill-vacant-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/city-of-kitchener-must-decide-how-to-fill-vacant-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kitchener must decide how to fill vacant council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election of Aislinn Clancy to provincial politics leaves the Ward 10 seat empty.<\/p>\n<p>At City Council on December 4, Mayor Barry Vrbanovic congratulated out-going councillor and MPP-elect Aislinn Clancy on her byelection win on November 30 and put forward the City's options.<\/p>\n<p>Once Clancy resigns and the Ward 10 seat is officially declared vacant, Kitchener city council will have 60 days to decide whether by appointment or a by-election to fill the seat.<\/p>\n<p>While the cost of a by-election is a important consideration, with roughly three years still left in the mandate, some residents believe the Ward 10 seat should be decided by the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>The last regular municipal election was on October 24, 2022, and the next election is scheduled for Monday, October 26, 2026, which is just under three years away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election of Aislinn Clancy to provincial politics leaves the Ward 10 seat empty. At City Council on December 4, Mayor Barry Vrbanovic congratulated out-going councillor and MPP-elect Aislinn Clancy on her byelection win on November 30 and put forward the City&#8217;s options. Once Clancy resigns and the Ward 10 seat is officially declared vacant,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":200728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[29978,4527,33397,29218,28461],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201080,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200714\/revisions\/201080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200714"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=200714"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=200714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}