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 present a petition
at the meeting, 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 may be referred to the
appropriate Cabinet Member, and an answer/response will be provided
to you.
- 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.
Please
note that the Chair of the meeting may not accept petitions or
questions which relate to:-
(i) matters not
being within the responsibility of the Local Authority or which
affects the City or its inhabitants;
(ii) judicial or quasi-judicial matters;
(iii) individual planning/licence/grant applications or appeals;
(iv) named officers or Members of the
Council;
(v) confidential matters of the type
referred to in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972;
or
(vi) matters of an irrelevant, repetitious,
defamatory, frivolous or offensive
nature or a general misuse of the opportunity.
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.
