WHERE THE NEXT BRIGG TOWN MAYOR WILL BE INDUCTED PROMPTS INTERESTING DEBATE

A new Brigg Town Mayor is to be installed next month to serve as the community's first citizen.
Coun Brian Parker, currently Deputy Town Mayor, will be nominated by Town Council colleagues at the authority's annual meeting in late May.
But there will be an enforced change to the traditional Mayor-making ceremony when one holder of the post formally accepts the post and receives the chain to wear for official duties.
With some public building meeting venues unavailable for various reasons, the Town Council is now looking to confirm an alternative.
The Methodist Church on Barnard Avenue is one option, while Coun Rob Waltham came up with a very interesting suggestion during last night's Town Council meeting: Could the Mayor-making ceremony be held outdoors, to be followed by a formal meeting of the nine town councillors indoors?
If so, Coun Carl Sherwood wondered about using the Millennium Green on Elwes Street for the formal section of the evening.
Town Clerk Kerry McGrath explained it would be a legal requirement to hold the AGM as a "physical" meeting in May.
All council meetings since the Coronavirus emergency was declared by the Government in March 2020 have been held 'virtually' online using the Zoom platform because of continuing restrictions on public gatherings.
Coun Ann Eardley, a former Town Mayor, wondered whether the concert room at Brigg & District Servicemen's Club, off Coney Court, might provide a suitable venue.
But the Town Clerk explained that the law did not permit council meetings to be held on licensed premises. She also discounted the idea of holding the May meeting before 6pm because of time-related regulations.
After Brigg Town Council was formed by local government reorganisation in 1974, successive Town Mayors were inducted at ceremonies held in the ornate wood-panelled council chamber inside what's now the Hewson House office block off Station Road.
When the Town Council moved base in the mid-1990s to the Angel Suite, the converted former hotel ballroom became the venue for such ceremonies.
Coun Sharon Riggall, our current Town Mayor, is pictured above with Coun Parker, who is in line to be installed as her successor during Brigg Town Council's Annual Meeting next month - venue to be confirmed. In addition to being the current Deputy Town Mayor, Coun Parker also chairs the Planning Committee.
Although there may well be further Government changes to the current emergency regulations by the time the council's AGM is held in late May, Brigg Blog expects that a social aspect of the Mayor-making may well be ruled out - the serving of light refreshments at the conclusion of the meeting when people gather to congratulate the new first citizen on his/her election.