Breakfast radio co-host Kevin Poulton is making a bid for a seat on Wodonga Council even though he is an Albury resident.
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His decision to stand comes amid fresh doubts emerging about the Victorian local government elections being held in October due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis in the state.
Poulton said he had clarified his eligibility with the Victorian Electoral Commission and Wodonga Council and would be a candidate regardless of the election being delayed.
As a director of the Albury-Wodonga Community College, which pays rates to Wodonga Council, he is eligible to run.
"It's not a new idea for me to run for council," he said.
"It's something I've toyed with over the past eight years and have been encouraged to pursue by many past and current leaders of our community.
"I think we are so lucky that Wodonga has developed the way it has.
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"But you can't deny as the economic situation of the state looks to change, we need to be prepared for what is ahead.
"Every regional community is going to be wanting support and ideas so it's going to be a very competitive environment to lobby for investment attraction and state and federal funding."
Poulton has been a director of the AWCC since 2010 and became chairman five years later.
The AWCC chief executive Rod Wangman is a former Wodonga mayor and long-term councillor with present mayor Anna Speedie a past senior AWCC senior staff member.
Mr Poulton has been a radio host for the most part of the last decade at both FM 105.7 The River and 2AY.
"My career in radio started out as a hobby, but as a profession has enabled me to discover a lot about people and the real issues in the community," he said.
"My family has a business background and I've worked in a lot of different industries, and where time has been available I've also taken on volunteer roles with community groups."
Meanwhile, Cr Speedie supports local government elections being delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis.
"It would seem an odd time to be conducting elections," she said.
"In a regional city community leaders, mayors, councillors, provide a different role than what you see in metropolitan areas.
"People really connect, they know you, they stop me in the supermarket, wanting to have someone they can talk to.
"To remove that and potentially put in new people they don't have a relationship with or a trust with, it could harm our regional and rural communities."