Full Council is a meeting of all
84 Councillors
and is chaired by the
Lord
Mayor.
Some important decisions can only be taken at Full Council,
such as setting the Council's budget and deciding the Council's
overall policies.
The Council appoints the Leader and at its Annual Meeting will
appoint Councillors to serve on its
Committees. It also appoints representatives to serve on joint
bodies and external organisations.
Attending Meetings
Meetings of
the Council are open to the public. Please access the agenda for the meeting on the
website for details of how to view the remote
meeting.
Public Questions and
Petitions
At
every Full Council meeting (except at the Annual Meeting and at
Extraordinary Meetings) there is an opportunity for members of the public to ask
questions about Council business to the Cabinet Members and submit
a petition under the agenda item ‘Public Questions and
Petitions’.
The arrangements for dealing with questions and petitions at
meetings of the Council which are held remotely are as
follows:-
- If you wish to ask a question or submit
a petition, you must submit the question/petition in writing at
least 2 clear days in advance of the date of the meeting, by email
to the following address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk. For meetings held on a Wednesday,
questions/petitions will need to be received by 9.00 a.m. on the
Monday of that week. You will also need to provide a contact email
and/or telephone number to enable a meeting invitation to be issued
to you to join the meeting remotely.
- The Lord Mayor (as Chair of the
meeting) has discretion as to how questions and petitions are
presented at the meeting and as to whether you are invited to ask
your question or present a petition at the meeting or they are read
out at the meeting. A response to the question or petition will be
given by the appropriate Cabinet Member. If you are not able
to attend the meeting, your question/petition will be read out at
the meeting, and an answer/response will be given by the
appropriate Cabinet Member.
- Where a submitted question or
petition cannot be answered because of a technological failure, if
time does not allow, or where a Cabinet Member undertakes to
provide a written answer/response, the written answer/response will
be provided to you and will be published on the Council’s
website.
Further
information is available on submitting petitions.
Recording of Meetings
Recording is allowed at Council meetings under the direction
of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and photography provides further information.
Please
note that remote meetings will be filmed for live or subsequent
broadcast via the Council’s website. See the
Council’s
Webcasting
Notice for
more details.
