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Freedom of City

Meeting: 04/04/2022 - Executive (Item 51)

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To consider the report of the Director Corporate Services.

Decision:

Agreed:

 

RECOMMENDED to Council that:-

 

(1)  the title of Honorary Freeman of the City Status be conferred on Philip Bostock; and

 

(2)  the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor be requested to convene an Extraordinary Meeting of the Council to be held on the rising of the Ordinary Meeting on 19 April 2022, for the purpose of passing the appropriate resolution under Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972.

 

Reason for Decision: As set out in the report.

 

 

 

Minutes:

The Executive received the report which set out a proposal to offer the Freedom of the City to Mr Philip Bostock in recognition of his civic service to the city of Exeter, particularly as a former Chief Executive of the Council. The proposal met the criteria for nominations as set down in 2018.

 

Members welcomed the proposal and considered it to be a well-deserved honour.

 

RECOMMENDED to Council that:-

 

(1)   the title of Honorary Freeman of the City Status be conferred on Philip Bostock; and

 

(2)   the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor be requested to convene an Extraordinary Meeting of the Council to be held on the rising of the Ordinary Meeting on 19 April 2022, for the purpose of passing the appropriate resolution under Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972.