Tom Marks new Elgin warden

Central Elgin Deputy Mayor Tom Marks was named head of county council after a secret ballot of members, besting Central Elgin Mayor Sally Martyn in an unusual contest, on Tuesday night, Dec. 8.

He will serve as the head of county council for the next year.

The special meeting where he was elected was beset by technical problems with an anonymous online polling system used for the secret ballot, but eventually Deputy Mayor Marks was named the winner.