17 May 2002
The chief executive and chief finance officer at Rugby Borough Council received 2,099 votes, 40 more than she polled last year. She claimed in her election manifesto to 'represent broad grassroots opinion on current issues'.
Colley was just ahead of Jeff Pipe, corporate governance adviser at Transport for London, on 2,020 votes, and Mike Weaver, director of financial services at Worcestershire County Council, on 1,964.
Pipe, who topped the poll five times on the trot in the 1990s, used a satire of William Wordsworth's famous poem as his manifesto. It began: 'I wander lonely as a cloud, Still not part of the Council in-crowd.'
Four new Council members were elected and three were voted off. The new entrants were Jaki Salisbury, chief executive of Mid-Bedfordshire District Council; David Poynton, finance director of the Birmingham and Black Country Health Authority; Kirsten Gillingham, finance director at Brighton University; and Ian Owen, local government product manager for ITNet.
Those losing out were Michael Redmond, finance officer and treasurer at Dublin Corporation; Ian Perkin, director of finance and IT at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust; and John Haste, risk manager at the Ministry of Defence.
Turnout was disappointingly low this year. In total, 3,613 people voted, representing 26.7% of the membership.
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