“As I understand it, nominations are vetted by the current and former Mayor”
is a quotation from Tuesday’s blog. A Councillor friend has kindly expanded my
limited knowledge of the selection process as follows…
The current Mayor [Ahmet Dourmoush] chairs the selection meeting while the
previous Mayor [Nick O’Hare] is vice-chair. The next previous Mayor [James Hunt]
is a member and Labour have a representative too. James Hunt was relegated to
just a panel member this year. Next year he will fade out of the picture - at
most just a substitute member.
The probability is that the Scouts will continue to submit more nominations
than anyone else. A criterion in the ‘Individual’ category is that service must exceed 20 years.
Many Scout and Guide leaders will easily reach that goal and being the largest youth group in the Borough it’s, like
you said, simple mathematics.
Hope that helps.
Councillors don’t usually (that is never) send in detailed information like that
which is deliberately false so it is the case that our Scouting former Mayor
could have been easily out-voted - but he wasn’t. If I was being really
mischievous I might remind @tony that the panel was 25% Greek Cypriot and 25%
Turkish Cypriot and two of the Awards went to Turks. Surely that has to be looked
into? 😃
Maybe @tony could submit one of his infamous FOIs asking for a list of nominees
by organisation who were rejected.