Minutes:
The Mayor informed the meeting that Tony Haines, former borough councillor and a co-opted member of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committee, recently passed away.
Mr Haines was first elected as a Labour councillor for the Central Ward in 1987. He was re-elected on numerous occasions, latterly as an independent councillor in the Wexham Ward. During his time on the council, he sat on various committees and served as the Cabinet Member for Housing between 2004 to 2008 and retired as an elected member of the council in 2012.
More recently, he had joined the Audit and Corporate Governance Committee as an independent Co-opted Member in December 2023.
The Council observed a minute silence in memory of Tony Haines.