2025 Trustee Election
Every three years the community elect who will represent us and serve on the board of Central Lakes Trust.
Nominations for the Central Lakes Trust (CLT) triennial trustee elections are now closed, with nine nominations received.
The nominated candidates for the 2025 Central Lakes Trust triennial trustee elections are as follow:
CHRISTIE, Mark
CURRIE, Dave
DEDO, Kathy
FORBES, Alexa
GILLESPIE, Neil
LEPPER, Tony
PHOON, Chris
REWI, Michael
WEBB, Trudi
Click here to download the Candidate Information sheet.
Three of these candidates are current trustees, with Lindsay Breen and Jim Boult not standing for re-election.
Five community-elected trustee positions will be filled from the nine nominees. They will join the three currently appointed trustees in guiding how the trust’s funds are managed and how grants are distributed to local projects and initiatives. CLT has distributed over $168.4 million back into the community since inception in 2000 and has assets totalling nearly $600 million.
Residential and ratepayer electors enrolled with the district councils within the CLT area are entitled to vote. Voter packs will be mailed out to those electors on Thursday, 16 October 2025 and voting will close at midday on Friday, 21 November 2025.
Click below to vote online using your PIN and password as noted on your voter pack:
Key dates
13 August 2025 ✅
Public notice of election given
14 August 2025 ✅
Nominations open
16 September 2025 ✅
Candidate evening
25 September 2025 ✅
Nominations close at midday
16 October 2025
Mailing of voter packs starts and voting opens
21 November 2025
Election day. Voting closes at midday.
Preliminary results posted ASAP thereafter.
By 25 November 2025
Final result published
CLT region
The CLT region follows the boundary of the former Otago Central Electric Power Board. The area stretches from Makarora in the north down to the southern point of Raes Junction, and from St Bathans in the east across to Glenorchy in the west.
Voting eligibility
Those eligible to vote in the election will be either resident and/or ratepayer electors within the CLT area as at midday on Thursday, 25 September 2025. The Returning Officer will compile a roll of eligible electors within that area and mail voting packs to them on 16 October 2025.
Contact Details
Returning Officer – Anthony Morton
Phone: 0800 666 033
Email: iro@electionz.com
CLT CEO – Barbara Bridger
Phone: 03 445 9958
Email: info@clt.net.nz
Campaigning guidelines
Election campaigning may commence after nominations close at midday on Thursday, 25 September 2025 and may continue up to, and including, election day (midday on Friday, 21 November 2025). This includes candidate hoardings, bill-boards and signage and all must comply with local authority by-laws. These controls are based on the existing legislation, policies and by-laws and provide a set of rules for controlling the timing, size, density and location of election signs and these can vary from one local authority to another.
The use of CLT’s logo and other resources is NOT permitted in election campaigning or any form of election campaign advertising or promotion of a candidate, such as flyers, newspapers, publications etc.
CLT will not pay for or reimburse candidates for any campaign expenditure.
No election material can contain any untrue statement defamatory of any candidate and calculated to influence the vote of any elector.
Frequently asked questions
The following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) have been compiled by Central Lakes Trust (CLT) to assist CLT staff to answer enquiries from electors and potential candidates.
Please note that the FAQs are not, and cannot be, inclusive of every question or query that may be asked about the local elections.
The FAQs also recognise that some types of questions received will need to be referred to the Returning Officer for answer due to their complex/sensitive nature.