1.
Powers and Duties of the full
Council
(a)
adopting and changing the Constitution;
(b)
approving or adopting the policy framework and the
budget;
(c)
approving the statement of accounts;
(d)
approving any application to the Secretary of State
in respect of any Housing Land Transfer;
(e)
appointment of the Mayor;
(f)
determining the size of the Executive;
(g)
appointing the Leader and Members of the
Executive;
(h)
approving annually the Allocation of
Responsibilities in Part 3 of the Constitution;
(i)
subject to the urgency procedure contained in the
Access to Information Procedure Rules in Part 4 of this
Constitution, making decisions about any Executive functions which
are contrary to the policy framework or contrary to or not wholly
in accordance with the budget where these have been referred to the
Council by the Call In sub-committee;
(j)
agreeing and/or amending the terms of reference for
the Committees of the Council, deciding on their composition and
making appointments to them;
(k)
adopting the Scheme of Members’ Allowances set
out in Part 6 of the Constitution;
(l)
appointing the independent members of the Standards
Committee;
(m)
changing the name of the area, conferring the title
of honorary alderman or freedom of the borough;
(n)
confirming the appointment of the Head of Paid
Service or the dismissal of the Head of Paid Service, Chief Finance
Officer or Monitoring Officer;
(o)
deciding whether to reject or uphold an appeal
against a disciplinary sanction (including dismissal) imposed on an officer by the
Chief Officers’ Employment Panel;
(p)
making, amending, revoking, re-enacting or adopting
by-laws and promoting or opposing the making of local legislation
or personal bills;
(q)
to determine the meaning of
“significant” in relation to “key”
decisions (Article 13 refers);
(r)
deciding whether to make a delegation of a
non-Executive function or accept a delegation of a non-Executive
function from another Authority;
(s)
to receive reports and consider recommendations from
the Executive, Scrutiny, Standards and other Committees as
appropriate; and
(t)
making appointments of Members to outside bodies;
and
(u)
all other matters which by law must be reserved to
Council.
Information on how to
submit a petition,
deputation or public question is available on the council
website.