{"id":27219,"date":"2021-05-19T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27219"},"modified":"2021-05-19T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:12:42","slug":"abingdons-first-mayor-from-the-green-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27219","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon’s Mayor 2021-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAt the annual meeting of the Council this evening (19th May) Councillor Cheryl Briggs was elected Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames for the civic year 2021-2022. <\/p>\n

Cheryl will be Abingdon’s first Mayor from the Green Party (as far as I know).<\/p>\n

The meeting was held behind closed doors because of Covid-19 safety regulations.<\/p>\n

Councillor Charlie Birks was the outgoing Mayor and served for 2 years from 2019-2021. Mayors in Abingdon normally serve for one year but Charlie showed great dedication and agreed to serve for 2 years because of these unprecedented times.<\/p>\n

(Picture above shows Caroline Lucas and Cheryl Briggs after a meeting in the Brewery Tap in January 2019. Picture thanks to Helen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the annual meeting of the Council this evening (19th May) Councillor Cheryl Briggs was elected Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames for the civic year 2021-2022. Cheryl will be Abingdon’s first Mayor from the Green Party (as far as I know). The meeting was held behind closed doors because of Covid-19 safety regulations. Councillor Charlie Birks was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}