Welcome and Introductions
Minutes:
The Chair, Councillor Bradshaw, welcomed Members to the first meeting of Sefton Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services) in the 2024/25 municipal year.
Councillor Bradshaw especially welcomed Councillors Brodie-Browne, McNabb, Parker, Shaw and Thomas as newly appointed members of the Committee; and expressed her thanks to Councillors Evans, Grace, Killen and McGinnity and former Councillor D’Albuquerque for their help and involvement on the Committee during the previous year.
Councillor Bradshaw also paid special thanks to Councillor Lappin, former Cabinet Member – Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services for her invaluable help and attendance at meetings of the Committee during the last municipal year; and extended the best wishes of the Committee to Councillor Lappin in her newly appointed role as Cabinet Member – Regeneration and Skills.
Finally, Councillor Bradshaw welcomed to the meeting Councillor Howard as the new Cabinet Member for the newly named portfolio of Corporate Services; and again, on behalf of the Committee, wished Councillor Howard every success in her new role.