The District Council has its first Full Council Meeting of the civic year next Tuesday at 7:30. You can find the agenda here.
This is where the new chair of the council , chairs of committees, and cabinet members are appointed.
Also each May each councillor has to sign a piece of paper to say which group they are in. This is normally pretty obvious , but there’s a curious omission this year. The Conservative group only has 28 members instead of the expected 29. One councillor is ‘non-group”:
It appears to be Councillor Keith Gordon, re-elected last week as a Conservative Councillor for Rochford Ward.? He is currently Cabinet member for the? Environment (covering recycling; open spaces; waste management; street scene; pollution control; flood prevention; emergency planning, Tree Preservation Order Service ? hedgerows and cemetery services) He’s not on the Conservative List:
We don’t know why he is shown as ‘non-group’ , it could simply be that he’s on holiday and not around to sign!? But this has never happened before in 30 years…? We are withdrawing the comments facility on this item.