Issue - meetings

To elect a Deputy Mayor and Vice-Chair of the Council for the 2021-22 Municipal Year.

To elect a Deputy Mayor and Vice-Chair of the Council for the 2021-22 Municipal Year.

Two nominations had been received: -

“That Councillor Tajamal Khan be elected Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing Municipal Year and that he be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of Section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.”

Proposer:– Councillor Cooksey             Seconder:- Councillor Beck

“That Councillor Tracey Wilson be elected Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing Municipal Year and that she be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of Section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.”

Proposer:– Councillor Barley             Seconder:– Councillor Elliott

On being put to the vote the motion to elect Councillor Wilson as Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing Municipal Year and that she be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of Section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 was declared as lost.

On being put to the vote the motion to elect Councillor Khan as Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing Municipal Year and that he be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of Section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 was declared as won.

Councillor Khan thereupon made and subscribed the statutory declaration of acceptance of office.

Resolved: - That Councillor Tajamal Khan be elected Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing Municipal Year and that he be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of Section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.

To elect a Deputy Mayor and Vice-Chair of the Council for the 2019-20 Municipal Year.

 “That Councillor Ian Jones be elected Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing municipal year and that he be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of Section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.”

Proposer – Councillor Clark                    Seconder – Councillor Jarvis

Resolved:- That Councillor Ian Jones be elected Vice-Chairman of the Rotherham Borough Council for the ensuing Municipal Year and that he be entitled to the style of Deputy Mayor by virtue of section 245(1) of the Local Government Act 1972.

Mover:-  Councillor Clark                       Seconder:-  Councillor Jarvis

Councillor Jones thereupon made and subscribed the statutory declaration of acceptance of office.