Issue - meetings

ELECTION OR MAYOR

Meeting: 22/05/2019 - Council - Annual Meeting (Item 1)

ELECTION OF MAYOR

1.       The retiring Mayor will announce that the first item of business is the election of the Mayor.

2.       The retiring Mayor will invite nominations. If there is more than one nomination a ballot will take place. The retiring Mayor will then announce the result.

3.       The retiring Mayor will ask the newly-elected Mayor to make the statutory Declaration of Acceptance of Office. The new Mayor will then read the statutory declaration and sign it. The declaration will be witnessed by the Chief Executive.

4.       The newly elected Mayor will take the chair.

Minutes:

The first business to be transacted being the election of the Mayor, it was moved by Councillor Pearce and seconded by Councillor McEwan and CARRIED:

 

That Councillor Woodward be elected Mayor of this Borough.

 

No other candidate having been nominated, Councillor Woodward was duly declared elected.