Agenda item

1. The Mayor reported that the first meeting of the Haringey Council took place on 26^th May 1964, with Haringey being formed by the merging of Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham, so the Council was now in the 50^th year of Haringey as a new Borough.  The Mayor informed the meeting  that the first Leader of the Council at that time was Cllr Donald McIllwain and it was hope to have him and other members from that auspicious committee at the next Full Council meeting.

2. The Mayor was pleased to report her attendance at the following events:

i.                    3^rd March – representing  the Borough at the Nelson Mandela Memorial service at Westminster Abbey – a  very moving occasion with over 2,000 people present.

ii.                  8^th March - International Women’s Day,  together with Councillors Mallett and Weber - presented awards to 49 women who had been nominated as Unsung women, one of the recipients was the DLL - Rosemary Warne.

iii.                10th March  – at the ceremony where the Mayor raised the Commonwealth Flag to commemorate Commonwealth Day, attended by many people plus Leaders of all different faiths from across the Borough. The mayor advised that she had read out a letter sent to us from the Queen to mark the occasion.

iv.               11th March – to attending and hosting  the second very successful meeting of the newly formed FAITH group, which comprised of many priests of all religions, plus Iman’s and Rabbis, and welcoming also the guest speaker the  Borough Commander Victor Olisa.

v.                  15^th March – attending the festival of Purim at the house of Mr Shmuel Davidsohn with the Leader of the Council, plus Councillors Goldberg and Basu, and meeting many residents of the area plus children who were all in fancy dress to celebrate the joyous occasion.

vi.                20^th March - at the Lords Cricket ground to witness the All London Finals of the Junior cricket teams, with over 250 teams from schools from all over London competing in the hope to get to the finals. Haringey was lucky in that a team representing Year 6 from St Michaels, North Hill got through to the finals. The Mayor had watched the team play and beat a team from Waltham Forest and then a team from Ealing to get the through to the final, played against Hackney and won on the final ball of the match, a very close finish. In attendance also was the Speaker of Hackney watching every ball played with baited breath. The Team was presented with the huge cup by cricketer Mike Gatting,. Well done St Michaels!

3. The Mayor reported that, as she had promised, she had visited many neighbourhood Forums from across the Borough and now would be  visiting all the Sheltered schemes coffee mornings. The mayor also advised that she also had had the pleasure of officially opening the new extension to The Haven day centre in Waltheof Gardens and so now there were 2 plaques with her name on,  as she had officially opened the Day centre when previously Mayor.

4.    The Mayor reported that as this was the last meeting of the current council, she placed on record her thanks to all councillors for the work they had done over the past four years, and in particular, to thank all Councillors who were standing down for their continuous work to improve the Borough.

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