To receive Mayor’s Announcements.

The Mayor noted that this would be the last full Council meeting attended by the Monitoring Officer and Assistant Director of Legal and Democratic Services Mike Graham. Mike’s first Council meeting had been in February 2020 just before the Covid pandemic and he had played a key role in supporting the Council’s decision-making through the time of online meetings and many challenges since then. The Council thanked Mike for his service to Reading over the last six years.