Issue - meetings

To approve the designation of Councillor D Flude as the Mayor Elect and that a second Member be designated as the Deputy Mayor Elect, with a view to their formal election and appointment as Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Cheshire East for 2013/2014, at the Mayor Making ceremony to be held on 15^th May 2013.

(Councillors Dorothy Flude and Wesley Fitzgerald, having each declared a non pecuniary interest, left the meeting during consideration of this matter).

Consideration was given to the nominations for the office of Mayor and Deputy Mayor for 2013/14.

It was moved and seconded that Councillor Dorothy Flude be designated as the Mayor elect and that Councillor Wesley Fitzgerald be designated as Deputy Mayor elect, with a view to their formal election as Mayor and appointment as Deputy Mayor respectively, for the Borough of Cheshire East for the 2013-14 civic year at the Mayor making ceremony on 15 May 2013.

The Mayor reminded Council that Group Leaders had met together and had agreed that voting on the whole of this item of business should not be dealt with by the secret ballot procedure.  It was then moved and seconded that the voting on the whole of this item of business should be by show of hands and that Standing Orders should be waived in order for this to happen. The motion was declared carried.

RESOLVED

That Councillor Dorothy Flude be designated as Mayor Elect and that Councillor Wesley Fitzgerald be designated as Deputy Mayor Elect, with a view to their formal election as Mayor and appointment as Deputy Mayor for Cheshire East for 2013-2014 civic year, at the Mayor Making ceremony to be held on 15 May 2013.