Gloucestershire council leaders to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
The full council meeting on Wednesday will go ahead, but with only one item on the agenda
Civic leaders in Gloucestershire will speak on behalf of their communities at a meeting dedicated to the memory of Queen Elizabeth II this week.
Gloucestershire County Council leaders say the full council meeting will go ahead on September 14 but with only one item on the agenda.
All other business which was scheduled for the day will be pushed back to the next council meeting in November.
This will allow councillors to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and has been succeeded by King Charles III.
County council chairman Alan Preest (C, Lydney) said: “It’s important that we meet as a county so all the councillors can contribute on behalf of their communities in the memory of Queen Elizabeth II. All the rest of the agenda has been shelved.
“Everybody is agreeable on that, myself, the group leaders, the officers that we just have a formal pleasant chance for elected members to speak. Long live the King.”
Cllr Preest also explained the public and councillors who submitted questions would be contacted separately and given opportunities to ask supplementary questions.
“Their questions will be answered. Instead of going on the agenda they will be contacted separately.
“If they have additional questions an opportunity will be given. The next full council meeting will be in early November and normal business will go on then.”
The meeting is scheduled for 10am on Wednesday and will take place at Quayside House in Quay Street, Gloucester.