The Cabinet is responsible for making day-to-day decisions
within the Council. It must ensure that
decisions are made within the Council’s agreed policies and
finances.
The Cabinet is made up of 8 Portfolios. A Portfolio is an area
of responsibility. A Cabinet Member is
the Councillor who has responsibility
for a service area.
NB: See the Membership section for details
of the Cabinet Members. The Portfolio responsibilities are listed
on their individual contact pages.
Cabinet Members are also able to make decisions individually
which fall within their portfolio or area of
responsibility. They may only do this,
if the decisions do not have a significant impact. Where a decision would have such impact, it is
called a 'Key' Decision and must be made by the Cabinet as a
whole.
SPEAKING AT CABINET MEETINGS
Persons (other than Members) wishing to address Cabinet must
register their intention to do so by 12 noon on the day of the
meeting.
NB: Please contact the Support Officer to
register to speak.
Only thirty minutes in total will be allowed for addresses, so
that if speakers each take three minutes no more than ten speakers
will be heard. Each speaker will be allowed to speak for a
maximum of three minutes at each meeting. Speakers will
normally be heard in the order in which they registered to
speak. However, the Chair of Cabinet may decide to depart
from that order in the interest of hearing a greater diversity of
views on an item, or hearing views on a greater number of
items. The Chair of Cabinet may also decide to allow a
greater number of addresses and a greater time slot subject still
to the maximum three minutes per address for such addresses for
items of special public interest.
Members who wish to address Cabinet shall notify the Chair
prior to the commencement of the meeting. Such addresses will
be for a maximum of three minutes unless the Chair exercises
discretion to allow longer. The time these addresses take
will not count towards the thirty minute period referred to above
so as to prejudice any other persons who have registered their wish
to speak.
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