Issue - meetings
Mayor's Announcements
Meeting: 20/09/2021 - Council (Item 5)
Mayor's Announcements (including any petitions received)
To receive any announcements from the Mayor.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Noted the announcements from the Mayor in relation to:
· Pride of Brent Youth Awards
· Count us In Engagement Programme
· Brent Council Staff Long Service Afternoon Tea
· Emergency Services Day & Flag Raising event
· Participatory Budgeting – “You Decide” Programme
· Petitions
Minutes:
The Mayor made the following announcements:
(i) Pride of Brent Youth Awards
The Mayor advised that she had been delighted to participate in the Pride of Brent Youth Awards, which had taken place in August in order to celebrate the achievements of young people across Brent making a difference in their community.
(ii) Count Us In
The Mayor advised members about the introduction of the “Count Us In” engagement platform, which had been set up with the aim of encouraging residents, businesses, schools/young people and council staff to make a pledge to take climate action. Further details on its launch would be released over the coming month.
(iii) Long Service Afternoon Tea
The Mayor advised she had also been pleased to recently attend a Long Service Awards afternoon tea recognising those members of staff who had completed 25 or 40 years’ continuous service and contributed so much to Brent Council.
(iv) 999 Emergency Services Flag Raising
Referring to the use of social media, the Mayor advised of her recent support and involvement in a flag raising ceremony undertaken on 9th September 21 to celebrate 999 Emergency Services Day.
The event recognised what she felt had been the heroic contribution made by approximately 2 million individuals who worked and volunteered across all of the UK emergency services as well as more than 7,500 individuals who had tragically lost their life in the line of duty working for the emergency services over the last 200 years.
Turning her attention to the last 18 months, the Mayor commended the emergency services for the way in which they had continued to provide essential support during such a difficult time often putting themselves in harm’s way to keep everyone safe.
(v) Participatory Budgeting – “You Decide”
The Mayor then moved on to highlight the plans being developed to introduce a ‘Participatory Budgeting’ approach within the borough.
Members were advised that further information about the initiative - called ‘You decide’ were due to be made available shortly.
(vi) Petitions
Finally, the Mayor referred members to the list of current petitions tabled at the meeting, in accordance with Standing Orders which also detailed the action being taken to deal with them.