There are three types of
Council meeting:
·
the annual meeting
·
ordinary meetings
·
extraordinary meetings
The
Council undertakes the following duties and functions:
·
Approving or adopting the Budget and Policy Framework, and making any application to the
Secretary of State related to transferring housing land.
·
Making decisions on any executive function that falls under the
Policy Framework or Budget, where the decision-maker plans to act
in a way that goes against the Policy Framework or Budget, unless
it's an urgent situation covered by the rules in the Budget and
Policy Framework Procedure.
·
Electing the Mayor and appointing the Deputy
Mayor.
·
Electing and removing the Leader of the
Council.
·
Setting up and defining the roles of Council Committees and
Overview and Scrutiny Committees, and, unless required by law,
deciding their membership and making
appointments to them, including choosing Chairs and Vice-Chairs,
unless the Council decides otherwise.
·
Adopting a Scheme of Members’ Allowances and
appointing Independent Remuneration Panel members.
·
Determining Mayoral and Deputy Mayoral
allowances.
·
Adopting a Code of Conduct for Councillors and
co-opted Members.
·
Confirming the appointment of the Head of Paid
Service.
·
Confirming the dismissal of the Chief Executive,
Head of Paid Service, Monitoring Officer
or Chief Finance Officer.
·
Deciding the main delegation of Council (or non-executive)
functions.
·
The duty to review the official reports from the Head of Paid
Service, the Monitoring Officer, and the Chief Finance Officer
·
Consideration of Public Interest Reports issued by
the External Auditor.
·
Receive the annual Pay Policy Statement.
·
Agree a Council Tax Reduction Scheme.
·
All other matters that, by law, must be decided by the Council.
Unless specifically delegated otherwise, only
the Council will carry out the following Council (or
'non-executive') functions:
Elections:
·
Duty to appoint an officer responsible for managing the electoral
register.
·
Power to dissolve small parish councils.
·
Power to group parishes together, dissolve those groups, or
separate parishes from groups.
·
Duty to appoint an officer to oversee local government
elections.
·
Duty to divide a constituency into different polling districts.
·
Power to divide electoral divisions into polling districts for
local government elections.
Changing the names and status of areas or
individuals:
·
Power to change the name of the district;
·
Power to change the name of a parish; and
·
Power to confer title of honorary alderman or woman
or an honorary freeman or freewoman.
Miscellaneous
functions
·
Power to make, amend, revoke or re-enact byelaws.
·
Power to promote or oppose local or personal
Bills.
·
Power to create rules for how meetings are run.
Power to create rules for managing contracts.
Duty to ensure proper management of financial matters.
(Duty to appoint an officer as head of the authority’s paid
staff and provide necessary support.
·
Duty to appoint an officer as the monitoring officer and provide
necessary support.
Powers related to overview and scrutiny committees, including
voting rights for co-opted members.