THE CITY’S new mayor is set to be appointed at a meeting of the full council on Monday.

Carlisle City Council’s final Annual General Meeting is set for Monday at 11am in the Civic Centre.

And as is tradition, the council will elect a mayor and deputy mayor for the coming municipal year.

They will be the final civic representatives that Carlisle City Council elects before being replaced by Cumberland Council in 12 months time.

Councillors voted into the roles will be sworn-in at the meeting, subscribing to the Ancient Mayoral Oaths of the City.

Outgoing mayor Pamela Birks said that it has been a “privilege and honoured” to have served this past year.

“To meet so many people in Carlisle that we would never know about doing such great things. We have so many unsung heroes it’s unbelievable.

“I hope I’ve done the best I can for the city.”

Cllr Birks said: “I only got about five months but the culture and heritage and the history and people that are doing fabulous things for Carlisle, we don’t shout about it enough.

Cllr Birks added that she has been invited to a number of moving art exhibitions in her time as a mayor.

“The different art groups have absolutely blown me away, I think we have so much talent here.”

In their final year, the existing county, city and borough councils are working to ensure that legislation is put in place so that these Civic traditions continue after the two new councils are established next April.

To date there have been 434 mayors of Carlisle.

Cllr Birks said: “We’ve got such a marvellous history and we go back so far in history, I hope we don’t lost the mayor because yes, it’s a bit of pageantry, not everybody agrees with it but it brings people together.”