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Nominations for Honorary Councillors
The Committee will
consider any nominations if put. The
requirements to be satisfied are set out below:
1)
No person shall be eligible normally for election
as an Honorary Councillor unless s/he has served as a Councillor at least 10
years (or a person who has been Mayor, for 8 years) whether continuously or
not.
2)
Application for election as an Honorary Councillor
shall be made either by the applicant him/herself or by some member of the
Council on his/her behalf. Such application shall be submitted to the Chief
Executive for consideration by the Civic Affairs Committee of the Council. It
shall be in the discretion of the Civic Affairs Committee to make or withhold a
recommendation to the Council. The names of those applicants who are not
recommended by the Civic Affairs Committee shall not be recorded in the report
of that Committee to the Council.
3)
Election to the position of Honorary Councillor
shall be by a resolution of the Council passed on the recommendation of the
Civic Affairs Committee by not less than two-thirds of the members present and
voting thereon at a meeting of the Council, the summons to which contains
special notice that included in the business to be transacted is the election
of an Honorary Councillor.
4)
An Honorary Councillor shall be entitled to the
following rights and privileges –
a)
In civic processions, Honorary Councillors shall
take precedence immediately after serving Councillors and shall have precedence
amongst themselves according to the number of years service
on the Council.
b)
On request to receive a copy of the Council
summons, together with Council and Committee minutes.
c)
At each meeting of the Council to have a seat in a
block reserved for the use of Honorary Councillors.
d)
The use, in common with members of the Council, of
the Members’ Rooms in the Guildhall.
e)
To be invited, where circumstances permit, to those
civic functions to which all members of the Council are invited.
f)
To receive a copy of the Diary and Year Book issued
by the Council.
g) On death, to have a flag flown above the Guildhall at half-mast.
Minutes:
Resolved: (unanimously) to recommend to Council the appointment of the
following former Councillors as Honorary Councillors
·
Max Boyce
·
Sheila Stuart
·
Julie Smith