Minutes:
Members of the Council were informed that this would be the last meeting to be attended by Ms Frances Foster (Director of Finance, Assets and Information Services) before her retirement from the Authority.
The Mayor, Councillor Burgess, Councillor Gardiner (Cabinet Spokesperson for Corporate Services), Councillor Sir Steve Houghton CBE (Leader of the Council), Councillor John Wilson (Leader of the Conservative Group), Councillor J Carr (representing the Leader of the Barnsley Independent Group) and several other Councillors asked to place on record their thanks and appreciation for the services of Ms Frances Foster for her hard work and dedication to the Authority and to Local Government in general both at a local level and also regionally and nationally.
The Mayor and all Members of the Council expressed their best wishes for the future in the usual manner.