Decision details

Election of New Councillors

The Mayor congratulated all of the Councillors who were re-elected to office following the Local Government Elections held on 7 May 2015, and extended a warm welcome to the following 7 new Councillors elected to office, who stood up in the Council Chamber to introduce themselves to the other Members of the Council:

Harry Bliss, Clare Carragher, Timothy Hale, Simon Jamieson, Daniel Terence Lewis, John Sayers and Paula Spencer.

Councillor Not Re-Elected

The Mayor indicated that he wished to place on record the gratitude of the Council to Tony Robertson, the  former Councillor who was not re-elected to office, for his dedicated service to the Borough of Sefton over a period of 16 years.

Annual Council and Installation Dinner

The Mayor thanked all of the Councillors who attended his Installation Ceremony and Dinner on 19 May 2015 and expressed the hope that they had all enjoyed themselves.

Dr. Janet Atherton, Director of Public Health

The Mayor reported that this would be the last Council meeting that Dr. Janet Atherton, Director of Public Health, would attend before she left the Council at the end of June 2015.

Janet had worked in Sefton as the Director of Public Health since 2002 formerly as part of the NHS and since 2013 as an employee of Sefton Council.

Janet trained in medicine and Public Health in the North East before moving to the North West in 1994. She had played a significant part in Public Health over the last 20 years and had gained a national reputation, having been President of the Association of Directors of Public Health for the last three years.

The Mayor indicated that Janet was off to pursue a career in consultancy and on behalf of the Council he extended best wishes to Janet for every success in her future ventures.