Mr. Larry Iggulden was appointed to the Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board by the provincial government on April 4, 2007.  Mr. Iggulden previously served on the Police Services Board as Regional Council's citizen representative from January 2001 to February 2007.

Mr. Iggulden is a Chartered Accountant and has over 30 years of financial and public accounting experience. He is a partner in the firm of Partridge Iggulden LLP, Chartered Accountants and is currently a member of the Niagara District Estate Planners and the St. Catharines Downtown Rotary Club where he has served in the capacity as Director, Club Treasurer and is currently Past President.

His community and volunteer experience includes serving as a former member and Chair of the Board with the St. Catharines Hydro-Electric Commission, former member of the Board of Directors with the YWCA, Niagara District Chartered Accountant Association, and a past Chair of the Business Campaign for the Canadian Cancer Society - Brock Unit.

 

 


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Regional Councillor Doug Martin began his political career as a Councillor for the Town of Fort Erie from 1982 to 1994. He was elected Mayor of Fort Erie in 2006 and is currently serving his fourth term on Regional Council. Councillor Martin is Chair of the Region’s Corporate Services Committee, and a member of the Planning and Public Works Committee and the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority. He has also served as Chair of the Budget Review Committee, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Property Assessment and Taxation Reform. Councillor Martin represents Regional Council on the Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board and is Vice-Chair of the Board. 

Councillor Martin served as the Director of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Bridge Authority from 1993 to 1996. At present, he is the Chair of the Fort Erie Highland Festival, and Director of the Council on World Affairs Niagara. Councillor Martin is Past-President of the Kinsmen Club of Fort Erie and Director of the Greater Fort Erie Chamber of Commerce.

 

 


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Regional Councillor Bob Bentley was appointed to serve as a Regional representative on the Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board on December 11, 2003, and was re-appointed by Regional Council on December 14, 2006 for a four-year term. 

Councillor Bob Bentley was first elected as Alderman for the Town of Grimsby in 1994 and was re-elected in 1997 and 2000. In 1997 and 2000, Councillor Bentley was appointed to Regional Council to fill the seat vacated by Debbie Zimmerman, who had been elected as Regional Chair. Councillor Bentley was first elected as Mayor of the Town of Grimsby in 2003 and in this capacity serves as a member of Regional Council. Currently, he is a member of Corporate Services Committee, Planning and Public Works Committee, Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority as well as Honourary Chair of the Niagara West Community Hospice. 

As Alderman, he served on two Standing Committees, Finance and the Recreation and Parks Committee. Councillor Bentley was also elected a member of the Lincoln County Humane Society, Grimsby Sports Council and of the Board of Management of the Downtown Improvement Area.

As a Regional Councillor, Councillor Bentley has also served as Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Municipal Services, Co-Chair of the Ad-Hoc Committee of Council on the Review of Municipal Services, Vice-Chair of the Budget Review Committee, Vice-Chair of the Corporate and Financial Services and Audit Committee, member of the Community Health and Services Committee and the Smoke Free Public Places and Workplaces By-law Committee.

 

 


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Regional Councillor Bill Smeaton was first elected to political office in 1973 as an Alderman for the City of Niagara Falls. He held this position until he was elected to Regional Council in 1977. In 1984, following the resignation of the Mayor of the City of Niagara Falls, Councillor Smeaton successfully challenged for the position and served as Mayor until 1991. Since 1992, he has been a Regional Councillor and has served on a number of Standing Committees, being Chair of both the Planning and Development, and Finance Committees as well as former Chair of the Niagara District Health Council. Currently, Councillor Smeaton is Chair of the Planning and Public Works Committee, and is serving his second term as a Regional appointee to the Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board.

 

 


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Mr. Lawrence Tufford was appointed as a provincial representative to the Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board effective June 18, 2004.

Mr. Tufford is a Chartered Accountant with more than 35 years of financial and public accounting experience. Since 1962, Mr. Tufford spent his working career in the public sector with the City of St. Catharines serving as City Treasurer for 20 years and retiring as Chief Administrative Officer in 1995 after 33 years of dedicated service.

He is currently Chairman of the Board of Meals on Wheels Thorold-St. Catharines, and is a member of the Grantham Optimist Club and the St. Catharines General Hospital Auxiliary. He has an extensive record of community service, including being a member and past President of the Niagara District Chartered Accountants Association, past member of the Board of Governors of the St. Catharines General Hospital, and former member of the Board of the St. Catharines General Hospital Foundation.

Mr. Tufford is a long-time resident of the City of St. Catharines. He was born in Saskatchewan and has resided in Niagara area for 60 plus years.

 

 


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A long time resident of the City of Thorold, Mr. Woodhouse is an active member of the community having participated and served with a number of boards, agencies and commissions, including former member and Chair of the Thorold Hydro-Electric Commission, former Board Member of the St. Catharines General Hospital, former member of the Executive with the Niagara Regional Development Corporation and Board Member for the Niagara Region Commission on Government Reform.

Mr. Woodhouse is employed with Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology as Director of Facilities Management Services and since 1972, has spent his business career in the Niagara area. He began his political career as a Councillor for the City of Thorold in 1978 and served as Mayor of the City from 1994 to 1997.

He has an extensive record of community service, which includes being selected as Outstanding Young Canadian to represent Thorold, Welland and St. Catharines at the Constitutional Dinner with Queen Elizabeth II in 1981. He has volunteered for the Thorold Community Activities Group, Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society, Red Cross, St. John's Ambulance, Thorold Ambulance Association, Thorold Volunteer Firefighters, United Way, Thorold Amateur Athletic Association and the Thorold Girls Softball Association. He was a member of the Thorold Museum and the Business Improvement Area and the Thorold Court of Revisions. In addition, Mr. Woodhouse has been a regular columnist for Niagara Now, The Thorold News, and was also the producer and host for a community cable show Thorold Talks.

Mr. Woodhouse currently serves as a member of the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering, Council of Educational Facility Planners International, the Ontario College Administrative Staff Association, Canadians for Responsible and Safe Highways, and as an Executive Member of the Ontario College Directors of Facilities Management.

Mal Woodhouse was born in 1947 and has lived in the City of Thorold since 1968. He and his wife Judith have 3 children, Terri-Lynn, Krista, and Nathan.

 

 


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Mr. Todd Shoalts was appointed as a community representative to the Regional Municipality of Niagara Police Services Board effective March 1, 2007 to November 30, 2010.

Mr. Shoalts is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years of financial and public accounting experience. He is currently Vice-President and General Manager of Lester Shoalts Limited, a real estate development, construction and property management company based in Port Colborne. In this position, he is involved with all aspects of construction and property development, including preliminary design, financing and tenant leasing issues.

Mr. Shoalts has been recognized as a specialist in investigative and forensic accounting, and also holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Mr. Shoalts currently resides in Port Colborne with his wife and three children. He is an active member of the community having participated and served with a number of groups, including as a member of the Port Colborne Physician Recruitment Committee, Board member of the Port Colborne Economic Development and Tourism Corporation, a volunteer with the Canadian Cancer Society and ICAO Income Tax Clinics, and coaching youth basketball.

 

 


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