Agenda item

Condolences and Minute Silence

Minutes:

1.1

The Lord Mayor (Councillor Tony Downing) reported with sadness, the death, on 29th March 2020, of Councillor Pat Midgley, who had served as a Member of the Council since 1987 and was Lord Mayor during the Municipal Year 2000/01.

 

 

1.2

The Lord Mayor also reported with sadness, that former Councillors Mike Bower, Keith Hill, Howard Knight and George Mathews, had passed away since the last meeting of the Council held in March 2020.

 

 

1.3

The Lord Mayor extended his condolences to the families and friends of those former Councillors and also to the families and friends of all those loved ones lost from within the Sheffield community since the outbreak of the pandemic.

 

 

1.4

Members of the Council observed a minute’s silence in memory of their former colleagues, and agreed to allocate time at the next meeting of the Council to pay tribute to them.