Agenda item

To receive the Mayor's Communications.

Meeting of Council, Thursday, 27th January, 2022 7.00 pm (Item 55.)

Minutes:

Members were informed that Maureen Atkinson, former councillor and Mayor of Slough passed away in December. Maureen was a councillor in Kedermister Ward and held the role as the Mayor and first citizen of Slough in 1996/1997.

The Mayor stated that it was Holocaust Memorial Day - which marked 77 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Council observed a minute silence in memory of former Mayor, Maureen Atkinson and in commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Following the Council’s decision at its extraordinary meeting of 18^th January to postpone the May 2022 local elections, the Mayor updated the meeting with the response received from the Minister of State for Equalities and Levelling Up Communities. The Council’s request was not supported and consequently the local elections would go ahead as planned.