A suspended Liverpool Labour councillor is facing fresh calls to resign.
Colette Goulding has largely refused to attended local authority meetings since she was declared bankrupt in May last year amid links with charity The Big Help Group.
The representative for the West Derby Muirhead ward’s most recent participation at a Town Hall full member session was on April 1, a first in more than seven months.
In total, Cllr Goulding attended just four of the 16 meetings which she had been expected to attend as an elected local government member in the past 12 months.
She was suspended by Labour in December as part of an investigation into her previous role as trustee and assistant CEO of the Liverpool-based Big Help Project.
On March 10, Cllr Goulding was present for an adult social care and health committee but did so not in a position as a committee member.
It came a week before she would have incurred the six-month rule which would rule her out from being a member of the council due to failing to attend any meetings.
Liverpool’s Green Party has now launched a campaign to have Cllr Goulding, who was elected in 2023 following the Caller Report, removed as a sitting councillor.
She previously faced calls from the city’s Liberal Democrats branch to step down with their leader Carl Cashman writing to council boss Liam Robison on the matter.
“I think it really came to a head when she showed up in early March and sat in the back for a few minutes and as a result of that was able to carry on being a councillor and collect her annual allowance,” Greens leader Tom Crone told the Liverpool Echo.
“I feel like that was pretty blatant and people were a bit outraged by it, and we as a party, we’re just motivated to jump into the fray really and get a candidate sorted and start campaigning there because we feel that the people of West Derby Muirhead are currently been really badly let down by Labour.”