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The Chairman to be heard.

The Chairman highlighted that there were currently three Aldermanic elections on progress that would see five candidates contest the election in the Ward of Cordwainer, two in the Ward of Aldersgate and two in Cornhill. The Committee were reminded that these elections would take place on Thursday 26^th May. Thereafter, it was intended that a special meeting of the Court of Aldermen would be convened in order to swear in any newly elected Aldermen. It was also likely that further letters of resignation would be received at a future, special meeting of the Court which would trigger a second round of Aldermanic elections set to take place in July. It was envisaged that another special meeting of the Court of Aldermen would then need to be scheduled for 18 July in order to trigger any remaining rounds of Aldermanic elections for 2022.

An Alderman commented that a question had been raised at the last meeting of the Policy and Resources Committee to highlight that the current Aldermanic elections were not advertised on the Speak for the City website in the same way that Common Council elections had been. He questioned whether there was any update on this matter. It was reported that there was further work being undertaken on this by the City’s Election Engagement Manager and that the current candidates had now been contacted to provide profile information and photographs for this purpose. It was hoped that this information would go live in the coming days. It was clarified that the names of candidates for each Ward were, however, already available on the City Corporation’s own webpages.

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