{"id":102455,"date":"2024-10-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballinatimes\/?p=102455"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:45:34","slug":"community-faith-in-tweed-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballinatimes\/news\/community-faith-in-tweed-leadership-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Community faith in Tweed leadership team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWEED Shire residents have re-elected Cr Chris Cherry as Mayor and Cr Meredith Dennis OAM as Deputy Mayor at an Extraordinary Council Meeting last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This is Cr Cherry&#8217;s fourth term as Mayor, having first joined the Council in 2016.Both Cr Cherry and Cr Dennis were elected unopposed after Cr James Owen and Cr Reece Byrnes declined nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Cr Cherry thanked the community for its endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community has told me they like stability in leadership at this time, and I want to provide that,&#8221; Cr Cherry said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/10\/mayor1_57334.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Chris Cherry and Deputy Mayor Meredith Dennis OAM have been re-elected to lead the Tweed. 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