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Council is responsible for setting the Budget and Policy Framework. The Budget and Policy Framework sets out the Council’s key policies and agreed budget for each year. All decisions must be taken in accordance with these agreed documents. Only Council can change the Budget and Policy Framework. Council also sets the Council’s budget each year. Council also appoints a number of committees to deal with regulatory and non- executive functions such as Planning and Licensing. See details of the Council’s Committees in Part 2). Meetings of the Council and other decision-making bodies are open to the public, except where personal or confidential matters are being discussed (see Access to Information Procedure Rules in Part 3). The Council has adopted an executive form of governance. This means that the Council appoints a Leader of the Council. The Leader then appoints a minimum of 2 and no more than 9 other Councillors who, together with the Leader, form the Cabinet and are responsible for certain decisions such as policy matters (including recommending the Budget and Policy Framework to Council), housing, education, highways and transport, social care, land and property and economic regeneration. Councillors that are not part of the Cabinet are largely responsible for the scrutiny of cabinet/ executive decisions and for making the types of decisions which are not permitted to be made by the Cabinet and may sit on the Council’s Committees.
Members
Doug Rathbone
· Chair
Mark Rudhall
· Vice-Chair
Adrian Waite
· Member
Ali Jama
· Member
Andrew Jarvis
· Member
Andy Coles
· Member
Andy Connell
· Member
Andy Hull
· Member
Anita Husband
· Member
Anne Burns
· Member
Ben Cooper
· Member
Ben Shirley
· Member
Beverly Morgan
· Member
Bill McEwan
· Member
Colin Atkinson
· Member
Daniel Edwards
· Member
Dave Taylor
· Member
David Cassidy
· Member
Derek Brook
· Member
Dyan Jones
· Member
Eamonn Hennessy
· Member
Frank Cassidy
· Member
Giles Archibald
· Member
Graham Simpkins
· Member
Hazel Hodgson
· Member
Helen Chaffey
· Member
Helen Irving
· Member
Helen Ladhams
· Member
Hilary Carrick
· Member
Ian Mitchell
· Member
Jackie Drake
· Member
Jane Murphy
· Member
Janet Battye
· Member
Jenny Boak
· Member
John Murray
· Member
Jonathan Brook
· Member
Jonathan Cornthwaite
· Member
Judith Derbyshire
· Member
Judy Filmore
· Member
Kevin Hamilton
· Member
Les Hall
· Member
Lorna Baker
· Member
Mary Robinson
· Member
Matt Brereton
· Member
Matt Severn
· Member
Michael Eyles
· Member
Michael Hanley
· Member
Neil McCall
· Member
Nicki Vecqueray
· Member
Niyall Phillips
· Member
Patricia Bell
· Member
Peter Thornton
· Member
Philip Dixon
· Member
Roy Worthington
· Member
Rupert Audland
· Member
Shirley Evans
· Member
Stephen Bavin
· Member
Suzanne Pender
· Member
Therese Assouad
· Member
Tim Bloomer
· Member
Tony Callister
· Member
Trevor Biggins
· Member
Vicky Hughes
· Member
Will Clark
· Member