Minutes:
The Mayor welcomed Ade McCormick and Christine Durrant, the Council’s newly appointed Executive Directors, to their first meeting of the Council. He also expressed the Council’s best wishes to Councillors Mick Brady and Kate Sarvent, who were unable to attend the meeting due to ill health.
The Mayor referred to the following recent Mayoral engagements which he and the Mayoress had attended:
· The annual Whit Walk at the end of May;
· An event at Staveley Memorial Gardens to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings;
· Hosting Children from St Mary’s and Cavendish schools on visits to the Mayor’s Parlour;
· The Peak FM awards, recognising the outstanding achievements and bravery of people from Chesterfield;
· The concert at the Winding Wheel where Lesley Garrett performed with the Philharmonic Choir and the Choir of Chesterfield Parish Church;
· The Treaty of Versailles event, marking the 100th anniversary of the date that the treaty was signed to put an end to the conflict of the First World War.
The Mayor thanked members of the Council for their support of the Mayor’s Appeal, and he referred to the bottle stall to be held at the Medieval Market on 30 July, 2019.