Regional Chair should be on the ballot: Ajax Council

September 28, 2005

Ajax council has voted to add the referendum question of direct election of the Chair of the Regional Municipality of Durham to the November 2006 municipal ballot. The question would give voters the choice to decide if council should ask the province to allow residents of the Region to directly vote for the chair.


Ajax Council are asking other Durham municipalities to support this initiative and to add the question to their ballots. In order for the result to be binding on council, at least 50 per cent of the eligible electors in Ajax must vote on the question and more than 50 per cent of the votes must be in favour.

Currently, the chair is appointed by a majority vote of regional council at the beginning of each term.