A FRANKSTON councillor has received an award for ten years of service.
Councillor Kris Bolam has now surpassed a decade with Frankston Council. He served between 2008 and 2012, then from 2016 to present.
Bolam (pictured above) served as Frankston mayor in 2010/2011, and 2020/2021. He said his proudest achievements during his tenure had been the “infrastructure funding I have been able to secure for my ward and the wider municipality, and the dozens of process improvements in the realm of good governance.”
“Public office should be about solutions not grandstanding or rhetoric. That’s been my approach and I’ve been able to achieve a tremendous amount without the need for pageantry,” Bolam said.
“The problem with politics nowadays is that the public are now conditioned to expect theatrics and sensationalism from the political process. We’ve gone from politics as a serious exercise in civics to politics as something akin to say a wrestling match or a really bad soap opera. There’s a whole bunch of reasons for this decline but for the sake of our future generations and a healthy civil society. It must change.”
