Agenda item

Report of the Director of Legal and Governance Services.

Council received a report of the Director of Legal and Governance Services, which set out a proposal for A Long Service Award to Councillor Mrs Lurline Champagnie and her 25 years’ service to the Borough.

The Council on 18 July 1985 (Resolution 192) had agreed that the completion of 25 years’ service on the part of Members of Council should be recognised by awarding a framed, illuminated copy resolution of appreciation.

The proposal was agreed.

RESOLVED:  That the following formal resolution be adopted:

Councillor Mrs Lurline Champagnie S.R.N., N.D.N. OBE: 

Recognition of Long Service

The Council of the London Borough of Harrow do hereby record their appreciation of the twenty five years’ service by Councillor Mrs Lurline Champagnie, OBE to the London Borough of Harrow.

Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE was first elected in May 1986 as Councillor for the Pinner Ward, which she has represented continuously since then.  She is currently serving her seventh consecutive period in office, for the life of the current Council 2010-2014.

Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE has served on various Council Committees, including the Social Services Committee and the Environment Services Committee.  Her particular interest has, however, been with educational issues, giving rise to extended service on the Education Committee.  In that time, she variously held the offices of Chairman of the Licensing and General Purposes Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Education Committee, Vice Chairman of the Social Services Committee and Chairman of the Arts Panel.  Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE first served on the Education Committee in 1986, commencing a period of service on that Committee in its various guises and its sub-committees.  Latterly, Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE has also served on the Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education, the Standards Committee, and scrutiny sub-committees.  Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE has represented the Council on numerous outside bodies including Age Concern Harrow, Deputy Lord Lieutenant’s Committee, Harrow Unified Mental Health Service Partnership Board and Relate North West London.

Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE wasHarrow's first black female Mayor. During her Mayoral Year of 2004/05, Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE served as the First Citizen to the Borough and attended approximately 600 engagements, with personal highlights including a private audience with Nelson Mandela at South Africa House.  As Deputy Mayor, she hosted Her Majesty the Queen in the Town Centre on Harrow's 50^th Anniversary Celebrations on 1 April 2004.

CllrMrs Champagnie, OBE also attended the 50^th Year Celebration of the Borough Garden Party at the Grimsdyke Hotel.  During this year she also received as Mayor the Queen’s Colour Squadron exercise its right to undertake a RAF Freedom March through Harrow, plus a fly past.

In January 2010, Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Local Government and diversity.

In recognition of her completion of twenty-five years’ of public service to Harrow, this resolution be engrossed on vellum and publicly presented to Councillor Mrs Champagnie, OBE at the Annual Council Meeting in May 2011.”