Chair’s Announcements (Item A3)

Members stood for a minute’s silence as a mark of respect to former Member, Cllr Steve Iles whose death was announced earlier this month.
The Chair recorded the thanks of Members to the Station Leader and Crew at Rochester Fire Station for hosting this meeting and making Members feel welcomed.
The Chair welcomed the new Members as well as welcomed the existing Members back to the Authority.
The Chair welcomed Paul Cuttle, Grant Thornton; Frankie Smith, KCC Internal Audit and Jan Guyler, Interim Monitoring Officer to the meeting.
The Chair recorded Members thanks to Colin King, Assistant Director, Customer and Building Safety and Lee Rose, Assistant Director, Resilience on their recent retirements.
The Chair congratulated Chris Else, Assistant Director, Resilience; Matt Deadman, Assistant Director, Operations; Mark Woodward, Assistant Director Customer and Building Safety on their recent promotions.
The Chair welcomed Mark Rist to his first meeting as Director, Operations since his appointment.
The Chair, on behalf of Members, congratulated Richard Stanford-Beale and all staff involved for their hard work in contributing to the Service being awarded the Service Mark Accreditation from the Institute of Customer Service