With mayoral elections due each year, Georgetown’s Chief Citizen, Patricia Chase-Green will have her stewardship put to the test and the current controversy over the parking meters contract could be a defining moment.
Hamilton Green served as mayor of Georgetown for 20 years and during that time the council, which served for 22 years held mayoral elections only twice. The only other person who functioned as an elected mayor during that period was Ranwell Jordan. Mayoral elections ceased in 1997 which was the year in which fresh local government elections were to be convened.
According to the Municipal and District Council’s Act: “The term of office of the Mayor and of the Deputy Mayor shall… be one year commencing on the first day of the month following their election.”