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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)   On death, to have a flag flown above the Guildhall at half-mast

Councillor O’ Connell proposed the nomination of former Councillor Colin Rosenstiel as an Honorary Councillor

Councillor Benstead seconded the nomination.

Resolved (unanimously) to:

Recommend to Council the appointment of the former Councillor Colin Rosenstiel as an Honorary Councillor.

To receive an oral update on the recruitment of the Independent Person and Deputy.

The Democratic Services Manager explained interviews were held for the position of Independent Person and Deputy on the 13 February 2018. The interview panel was made up of the Chair of the Civic Affairs Committee and Opposition Spokes, with the Head of Legal Practice.

Because of the timing the Panel were not in a position to make a recommendation to the meeting of the Civic Affairs Committee on 14 February 2018. 

A report from the panel will therefore be presented to the Civic Affairs Committee in March so they could make recommendations to Council for the meeting to be held in April 2018.