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    All decisions taken are reported & opposition members have the ability to scrutinise them.

    It they are scrutinised the sessions are in public & the decision has to be justified to a scrutiny committee. The public can speak if allowed by the chairman of the scrutiny committee. The chairmen are always opposition politicians [unlike KCC].

    In my role as Leader I appoint all Cabinet members & Chairmen of Committees [with the exception of Scrutiny].

    All Executive powers are vested in the role of Leader. In my case I chose to delegate those decisions to my Cabinet colleagues & those professional staff appointed for the their specialist expertise.

    These are legislative requirements put in place by the former government.

    A return to the Committee system would further slow down decision making [it is already deadly slow] & start the trend to increase admin staff to service the committee structure, place pressures on professional staff to produce Committee reports, the majority of which would be given the nod & delay action.

    It is not a very clever move when staffing numbers are being reduced due to the national financial situation. Indeed the implication of that would be more admin staff for the same budget-result cuts in frontline services to employ staff.

    The system & how it works can be found on the Council's website under the heading of the Council's Constitution.

    The practice of how it is implemented is also shown.

    The website is up to date, describes Agendas, decisions taken, Delegated decisions & how they are acted on.

    Hope this is helpful.

    If the public have concerns my diary is always available to meet the public as members of this Forum have experienced.

    Watty

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