The Council is responsible for all functions
and services administered or delivered in its name.
Some of the Council's functions may only be
exercised by meetings of the full assembly of Councillors, whilst
authority to deal with others may be delegated to Committees or
Officers.
The following table demonstrates how the
Council operates in relation to its Committees and the remaining
part of this Section describes the functions Council has delegated
to its Committees. Such arrangements do not in any way prevent the
Council from exercising all or any of the delegated functions
provided that the right to withdraw delegations must be subject to
any third party rights consequent upon a Committee’s or
Sub-Committee’s decision. Council reserves to itself the
following powers:
a) Adopting and
changing the Council Constitution, subject to the delegation to the
Monitoring Officer to make consequential changes arising from
Council decisions, changes in the Management Structure or new or
amended legislation;
b) Approving and
adopting the policy framework and strategies set out in Article 4
of the Constitution;
c) Considering all
proposals which seek to establish new strategy or policy, matters
which the Council has resolved to itself or any matter which seeks
to propose a significant departure from existing policy.
d) Approving the
revenue budget capital programme, supplementary estimates and
revised revenue budge, setting the council tax and authorising the
treatment of reserves and balances;
e) Approving or
adopting a plan or strategy for the control of borrowing,
investments or capital expenditure, or for determining the
authority’s minimum revenue provision;
f) Agreeing and/or
amending terms of reference for committees, sub-committees and
forums, deciding on their composition and making appointments to
them including the appointment of Chairs and Vice-Chairs;
g) Approving
Membership of, and appointing representatives to, outside bodies
and approved conferences
h) Adopting a scheme
for members allowances, following receipt of recommendations from
the Independent Remuneration Panel;
i) Confirming the
appointment or dismissal of the Head of Paid Service, Corporate
Director, Monitoring Officer or Chief Financial Officer
j) Making
arrangements for the discharge of any of the Council’s
functions by another local authority or a joint committee with
other authorities;
k) Making, amending
revoking, re-enacting or adopting bylaws and promoting or
petitioning against any bills in parliament
l) Approving any
proposals relating to local government areas and the transfer,
conferment or withdrawal of powers of local authorities;
m) Matters relating
to the variation of parliamentary and local government electoral
areas and representation;
n) Considering
petitions where this is required under the Petitions Scheme.
o) Considering
reports of statutory officers i.e. from the Chief Financial Officer
or Monitoring Officer.
p) Considering the
reports of the Head of Paid Service in relation to organisational
review and resources
q) Adopting the
District Council’s Code of Conduct for elected Members