Issue - meetings

The Mayor confirmed the appointment of Councillor Bernadette Lappage as Deputy Mayor for the 2015/16 Municipal Year.  The Deputy Mayor then made and signed a Declaration of Acceptance of Office and was invested by the Mayor with her badge of office.

Councillor Lappage then made the following acceptance speech:

“I would like to thank the Mayor for my appointment and I look forward to us working together.

It is a great honour to be the deputy mayor in a town where you have been born and raised and I thank my parents for coming here, from Ireland in the 1940s.

I want to thank all my colleagues across the Council, members and officers.

I want to thank the people of Jubilee for electing me and my ward colleagues Alev and Nesil Cazimoglu who I know will support me.

Last but not least I want to thank my family, my sisters, nieces and nephews, brothers-in-law and of course Andrew and Edward for their love and support.

I look forward to the year ahead and working with, and for, the wonderful community of Enfield.”

The Mayor confirmed the appointment of Councillor Patricia Ekechi as Deputy Mayor for the 2014/15 Municipal Year.  The Deputy Mayor then made and signed a Declaration of Acceptance of Office and was invested by the Mayor with her badge of office.

Councillor Ekechi then made a speech thanking the Mayor and Council for her appointment and highlighting the honour she felt at being nominated as Deputy Mayor.  She advised that she intended to do her utmost to support the Mayor in representing the Council and serving all the people of Enfield.