Familiar robes for third time Glen Eira mayor
CITY of Glen Eira Councillor Margaret Esakoff will don the mayoral robes for the third time, after last week being elected to the council’s top job.
CITY of Glen Eira Councillor Margaret Esakoff will don the mayoral robes for the third time, after last week being elected to the council’s top job.
Councillor Esakoff, now serving in her eighth year on the council – which administers suburbs including Caulfield, Bentleigh, McKinnon, Elsternwick and Carnegie – succeeded her Jewish colleague Steven Tang.
Their fellow Jewish councillor Jamie Hyams was appointed deputy mayor.
“I believe it is an honour and a privilege to serve the community and it’s a role I take very seriously,” Mayor Esakoff told The AJN.
In accepting the position, the new mayor noted the Glen Eira Sports and Aquatic Centre and improvements to the Caulfield Racecourse as projects she was looking forward to seeing completed.
Councillor Esakoff’s time in local government has not been without hiccups. She was elected mayor in 2006 for the second time, after her first tenure in the job ended in controversy when the Bracks government sacked the council in 2005 and appointed an administrator, after its behaviour was found to be “hostile” and “acrimonious”.
Down the road in the City of Port Phillip, Rachel Powning, a management consultant, was unanimously elected mayor for the first time.
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