Issue - meetings

To receive such communications as the Mayor may lay before the Council

 

 

Meeting: 19/01/2009 - Full Council (Item 78)

To receive such communications as the Mayor may lay before the Council

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Minutes:

 

  1. The Mayor congratulated Joe Goldberg on his election as the new Labour Councillor for the Seven Sisters Ward at the by-election held on 15 January 2009. The Mayor welcomed Councillor Goldberg to the Council and wished him every success.

 

  1. The Mayor also congratulated all those local residents who had been honoured in the New Year honours list including May Richards,  who had received an MBE for her work since retiring, raising thousands of pounds for Sickle Cell and Thalassemia, as well as organising the annual Haringey Gospel Festival. Also to PC Elizabeth Kenworthy, a serving police officer in Haringey, who had received an MBE for her efforts helping injured passengers during the July 2005 tube bombings; as well as to other honoured residents charity workers Tamsila Tauqir, Narendra Mehta, Jennifer Bell, and pianist and composer Howard Shelley.

 

  1. The Mayor expressed his sadness at the sudden death of the serving Mayor of Croydon, Councillor Jonathan Driver. The Mayor reported that he had got to know Councillor Driver at a number of engagements over the past year and had sent his condolences to the family and colleagues at his untimely death.

 

  1. The Mayor reported that, on behalf of the Council, he had passed on sincere condolences to the family and colleagues of Cadet Corporal Anthony Smith a member of the 16F Wood Green and Hornsey Cadets who had died in a tragic accident in Scotland.

 

  1. The Mayor wished good luck to Councillor Matt Davies and Councillor Emma Jones who would be running in the forthcoming London Marathon. He expressed the hope that all his Member colleagues would show their support and sponsor them for their respective charities.