Agenda item - Election of the Mayor of Brighton and Hove for the Municipal Year 2022/23

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Election of the Mayor of Brighton and Hove for the Municipal Year 2022/23

The Mayor will seek nominations for the Mayor for the municipal year 2022/23.

 

It is proposed that the Council elects Councillor Deane as Mayor for the municipal year 2022/23.

Minutes:

5.1      The Mayor called on Councillor Mac Cafferty to nominate the Mayor for 2022/23.

 

5.2      Councillor Mac Cafferty stated: I have the great honour to propose my colleague and friend Councillor Lizzie Deane for Mayor of Brighton and Hove 2022/23. Councillor Deane has been a councillor since 2010 when she was able to take the seat when our good friend Keith Taylor became an MEP causing a by-election. She has become a terrific champion for her Ward and a fantastic councillor. She started as she meant to go on after winning her seat with her maiden speech campaigning to save the Bright Start Nursery in her ward, which Lizzie and the campaigners saved against the proposed cuts. In the first Green administration in 2011 myself and Lizzie Chaired the two principal quasi-judicial committees, Licensing and Planning and we later went on to become the two deputy leaders. It was a frenetic time with an inordinate amount of rushing between King’s House and Hove Town Hall. It was during one of these commutes that myself and Lizzie were to discover with her characteristic laugh that for every one of my steps she had to take six. Please don’t mistake physical size for stature in the City or the esteem for which she is held across the Council. Lizzie consistently topped the poll city wide in every election and currently holds the record number of votes with over 5000 in 2015. Most of us would readily associate Lizzie with her sterling work on Licensing Committee and countless Licensing Panels. I know she is always thoughtful and conscientious listening to all the evidence and putting the city and residents first, and as such I know she will use those skills to great flair meeting the City’s many diverse and wonderful communities over the next twelve months. Lizzie has remained on the Licensing Committee and an endless supply of panels for the entire twelve years she has been a Councillor, and quite honestly some people get less time for murder. Lizzie has a strong record of helping residents in her city centre ward which is often fraught with difficulty, and a strong advocate for independent traders of our beautiful city. Her fixation on her work in the Ward and on one street in particular, and one set of Council minutes in 2017 referred to her as ‘Councillor Surrey Street’. Councillor Deane’s chosen charities speak of her broad interests outside of the Council Chamber with the fate of people and planet in her heart. Councillor Deane has as her consort Henry Bruce who has been her partner for the last 30 years. Henry please be assured that among the Green Group of Councillors we are proud of your partner our councillor colleague and her success in getting here. Appropriately Lizzie has chosen Fr. Dominic Keech of St Nicholas Church as the Mayor’s Chaplain. St Nicholas is the oldest place of worship in the City having featured in the Doomsday Book as well as being one of the most beautiful buildings and the treasure trove of Brighton’s history. In the past decade I have been all over the country with Lizzie and in that time I have got to know her as hard working and she’ll be a firm but fair Mayor. She’s pretty fearless but also a great laugh as well. Lizzie will be a brilliant advocate, bringing her many attributes for the good of the city and she will undertake the civic functions of the City’s First Citizen with both the seriousness and the dedication they deserve. With the very best of luck Lizzie in all your endeavours as Mayor. Congratulations.

 

5.3      The Mayor called on Councillor Shanks to formally second.

 

5.4      Councillor Shanks said that yesterday there was a new Mayor in Bristol and they had chastised the Council for not debating things properly, and she was sure that Lizzie would keep us all in order to do what we are supposed to do. She first met Lizzie when she helped campaign for her in her by-election, and it was great to see her being Mayor, whilst it will mean a lot of extra work in the ward as she does a lot of work and goes to many community meetings and to improve things for the city.

 

5.5      Cllr Atkinson noted that he wished it recorded that he would abstain on the mayoral vote.

 

5.6      Resolved – that Cllr Lizzie Deane be appointed Mayor of Brighton & Hove for the forthcoming municipal year.

 

5.7      The Chair stated: I hereby declare that Cllr Lizzie Deane is duly elected as Mayor of Brighton & Hove for the forthcoming municipal year 2022-23. May I offer her my congratulations. We shall now adjourn the meeting for a short period of time in order for the new Mayor to be robed and to return to the Chamber. We will then reconvene the meeting.

 

 


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