Councillor Bill Spragg was first elected to the Adelaide Hills Council in 2000 and has been re-elected with an increased vote at each of the subsequent council elections. He chaired the Council's Development Assessment Panel until changes to the state legislation required the appointment of an independent chair. He is also a member of the Council's audit committee and represented the Council on the Reference group of the Hills Face review.

Bill has lived on a small property in the Adelaide Hills at Montacute since 1982. Bill is married to Erica Womersley (currently Principal of School of the Air, Port Augusta) and they have 3 adult sons. He has been a member of the local Montacute CFS Brigade for over 20 years and was honoured with life membership of the brigade at its 65th anniversary celebration in 2008.

In 2001 federal election he stood as an independent candidate for Mayo and achieved the second highest vote for an independent in South Australia.

In 1998 Bill achieved some notoriety, when he criticised the State Government over keeping secret the discovery of guardia in Adelaide's water supply. A full page photograph of him appeared in an article on the front page of the Advertiser newspaper and he appeared in the evening TV news.

Bill work for 9 years as a food scientist with several food processing companies in South Australia before joining the School of Food & Catering at Regency Park TAFE. He now works at www.tafesa.edu.au, City Campus as a lecturer in information technology and has a BSc in Food Science, a Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and a Graduate Diploma in Computer and Information Science. He is currently studying in an MBA program with UNISA.

Bill announced his intention to stand as an independent candidate in the Mayo by-election in the Mt Barker Courier 16/07/2008 and has already collected the 50 signatures required to nominate as an independent.

See Also

Mayo by-election, 2008

Australian Local Government Association

External links

www.billspragg.net.au

Adelaide Hills News: Councillors in bid for Mayo seat 17/7/2008

Mayo by-election coverage by the ABC's Antony Green