The Last Mayor of Carlisle

Carlisle City council to elect its last mayor for the city.

Carlisle City Council will tomorrow Monday the 16th of May hold it’s  final Annual General Meeting at 11am in the Civic Centre in the border city.

As part of the AGM the city council will elect a mayor and deputy mayor for the coming municipal year.

As Carlisle City Council will along with Cumbria County council, Allerdale and Copeland councils all be scrapped and replaced by the new Cumberland council from the 1st of April 2023.

The Carlisle Mayor and deputy will be the last that Carlisle City Council elects.

Councillors voted in as Mayor and Deputy will be sworn-in at the Annual General meeting by subscribing to the Ancient Mayoral Oaths of the City.

As well as the last ever the Mayor the city council elects. The Mayor could be the last ever one the city has as the city council is scrapped next April.

In March government approved the structural change order that put in palace the legislation that scraps the city council and the other councils and forms the new Cumberland council.

The same legislation also scraps Cumbria as a local government area.

Although the legislation makes for preserving the ceremonial county of Cumbria and the roles of the Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria and the High Sheriff of Cumbria.

Alongside Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset have also had government place structural change order on them.

The North Yorkshire change order has the provision for creating two charter trusts to hold the titles and appoint mayors and retaining things like market charters.

After it came to light this had been totally overlooked by the city council and government when setting the wording of the change order.

The city of Carlisle not only risked not having the ability or rights to appoint a Mayor it also risks looking title to hold markets and the very status of City.

A mad rush to now try and fix the ball drop by the City council and Government on this is now underway.

In the few months left Government will now need to create provision in legislation to create a charter trust for the City of Carlisle to enable it to not only continue to have a Mayor but also retain the status of City.

If the charter trust is not put in place by the 1st of April 2023 then Carlisle will have no Mayor and could loose it’s City status.

The clock is fast ticking down for the city council and government to fix the ball drop in the change order.

So on Monday the 16th as Carlisle City Council appoints for the last time a city Mayor they could be appointing the last ever Mayor of Carlisle.