It looks like there will be a lot of familiar faces sitting in council chambers coming up for the inaugural meeting Monday in Saskatoon. Charlie Clark is once again Mayor of Saskatoon handily beating out Rob Norris in second place and former mayor Don Atchison who came in third.
It has been a tight race all night in Ward 1, both incumbent Darren Hill and newcomer Kevin Boychuk in the lead at different points in the evening, but in the end Hill won by 56 votes.
Troy Davies was acclaimed in Ward 4. In ward 3 where no incumbent ran there were eight candidates and David Kirton has nailed down the spot. Other incumbents who will be back for another term include Hilary Gough – Ward 2, Randy Donauer – Ward 5; Cynthia Block-Ward 6; Mairin Loewen – Ward 7; Sarina Gersher – Ward 8; Bev Dubois – Ward 9; Zach Jeffries – Ward 10.
The COVID-19 pandemic and a once in a decade snowstorm didn’t stop Charlie Clark from getting elected to a second-term as Saskatoon’s mayor. The incumbent is headed back to the mayor’s chair after receiving more than 27 thousand votes in Saskatoon’s postponed election. That’s 12,116 more votes than Rob Norris who finished in second while former mayor Don Atchison finished in third with 11,722 votes. Clark, who served as a City Councillor in Ward 6 prior to his first term as mayor says his first priority will be to sit down with the new council and to hear what all 10 councillors have for goals. In addition to meeting with the new council, Clark says the COVID-19 pandemic will be front and center. “Because we’re going through this situation with COVID, it’s also to make sure that I am able to do my…show leadership and convene and bring the community together to figure out how we’re going to effectively implement the restriction that we’ve heard today (Friday) and get that message out as clearly as possible. Clark was Saskatoon’s Ward 6 councillor for 10 years from 2006 to 2016 before being elected as mayor in the 2016 Civic Election.
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