Attending Meetings
Meetings of the Committee are open to the public.
There
is an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions and
submit petitions under the agenda item 'Public Questions and
Petitions'.
As we
are still operating under Social Distancing Rules, 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. This
is necessary to facilitate the management of attendance at the
meeting and to maintain social distancing.
Due to
health and safety restrictions in place to ensure current social
distancing rules in our meeting rooms, we are unable to guarantee
entrance to observers, as priority will be given to registered
speakers. To observe the meeting as a member of the public, please
click on the ‘view the webcast’ link provided on the
meeting page of the website.
The
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 Member or Council officer. If you
are not able to attend the meeting, your question/petition may be
referred to the appropriate Member, Council officer
or organisation and an
answer/response will be provided to you.
Where a
submitted question or petition cannot be answered because time does
not allow, or where a Member undertakes
to provide a written answer/response, the written answer/response
will be provided to you and will be published on the Council
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.
Please note that meetings will
be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the council’s
website. See the Council’s Webcasting
Notice for more details.
Further
information is available on submitting petitions.
Recording is allowed at Governance Committee meetings under
the direction of the Chair of the meeting.
The protocol on audio/visual recording and
photography provides further information.