{"id":2668,"date":"2024-10-15T16:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2024-10-15T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:50:23","slug":"candidate-bob-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/2024\/10\/15\/candidate-bob-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate – Bob Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Sanders is seeking another term at this year’s Ararat Rural CIty Council election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s his pitch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is your chance to re-elect and elect councillors that will continue the great work that has been occurring within the ARCC over the past four years.<\/p>\n

This period has been, I consider the most progressive and forward thinking time Ararat and surrounds has seen, with zero rate rises, a strong financial position, infrastructure well maintained throughout our large LGA, staff who work tirelessly for you and a very stable group of councillors.<\/p>\n

A balanced council has come about by seven different people from different life experiences being able to come together and formulate plans in a respectful and safe environment.<\/p>\n

Having been part of this, I know we are seen as very lucky in the ARCC as many other\u00a0 councils struggle to even come to sound decisions because of political or personal views.<\/p>\n

You have seen what happens when council is dysfunctional, seven years ago, and I certainly do not wish for us to return to where the ARCC was then, so please use your vote sensibly and be aware of your candidates.<\/p>\n

Some of the major projects that council has been looking at are the outdoor pool restructure, new indoor basketball courts, the Aradale master plan, redevelopment of the McDonald centre, a wine discovery centre and continued growth within the ARCC including our small rural townships which I will push for if re-elected whilst ensuring good governance and sound fiscal principles are at the forefront of all decisions I make for you.<\/p>\n

I have taken great pride in being part of your council for the past four years having been a councillor, deputy mayor and mayor and I urge you to vote 1 Bob Sanders and I ask you to support my fellow councillors standing again and endorse three new candidates in Luke Preston, Peter Joyce and Teli Kaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Sanders is seeking another term at this year’s Ararat Rural CIty Council election. Here’s his pitch. This is your chance to re-elect and elect councillors that will continue the great work that has been occurring within the ARCC over the past four years. This period has been, I consider the most progressive and forward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2023-12-22-16.33.57-2-002-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2248&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-H2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}