The Cabinet is responsible for most day to day
Council decisions. The Leader of the Council, Councillor
Simon Geraghty, appoints councillors to the Cabinet and these
Cabinet Members have specific areas of responsibility; there are
currently ten members of the Cabinet.
Meetings of Cabinet are open to the public and press and will
be held in public unless a matter to be discussed is
confidential or exempt. Meetings will be broadcast (where possible)
See recent
and future webcasts.
The Cabinet must make its decisions in line with the overall
policies, priorities and budget set by the full Council. Cabinet
also considers and responds to reports and recommendations from the
Overview and Scrutiny Performance Board.
Individual Cabinet Member with Responsibility are
authorised to take
Executive decisions, as specifically delegated by Cabinet
Find out more information about these decisions.
Certain types of decision which are the
responsibility of the Cabinet and Individual Cabinet Members with
Responsibility are called 'key decisions', and in most
circumstances, advance notice will be given of key and non key decisions in a
monthly publication published by the Leader of the Council called
the Forward Plan. A key decision is a decision
which:
- is in connection with the discharge of an
executive function and
- involves significant expenditure or savings having
regard to the budget for the related service or function;
or
- has a significant effect on communities in two or
more electoral divisions