{"id":737,"date":"2013-03-08T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/?post_type=tb_guides&#038;p=737"},"modified":"2018-05-08T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:05:45","slug":"part-2-committees","status":"publish","type":"tb_guides","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/guide\/a-guide-to-committee-meetings\/part-2-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The County Council has a Cabinet responsible for the\u00a0delivery of the council functions in its role as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education Authority<\/li>\n<li>Social Services Authority<\/li>\n<li>Highway Authority<\/li>\n<li>County Planning Authority<\/li>\n<li>Waste Disposal Authority<\/li>\n<li>Public Transport Authority<\/li>\n<li>Traffic Authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An example of what the Cabinet does would be to get\u00a0involved in the Council\u2019s budgetary process; direct the\u00a0Council\u2019s economic regeneration activities and address all\u00a0issues of importance or public concern to the County.<\/p>\n<p>Each Member of the Cabinet has responsibility for certain\u00a0services and can take decisions on them either as an\u00a0individual or with the other Members at a formal meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The County Council has also created three\u00a0Scrutiny\u00a0Committees with power to investigate policy issues and\u00a0question Members of the Cabinet, commission reports, invite\u00a0outside experts to give evidence and make recommendations\u00a0to the Cabinet and the County Council.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of other committees dealing with\u00a0Development Management, Public Rights of Way, School\u00a0Transport Appeals, Investment and Pension Fund and Farms\u00a0Estate.<\/p>\n<p>Every Committee has \u201cterms of reference\u201d which set out its\u00a0powers and responsibilities &#8211; in other words what it can and\u00a0cannot do. Sometimes it cannot make a decision either\u00a0because it does not have the power to do so or because it\u00a0needs the agreement of another Committee. In those cases\u00a0the decision will have to be confirmed by another\u00a0Committee or by the Council. Scrutiny Committees do not\u00a0have what are called \u201cexecutive powers\u201d, rather their job is\u00a0to advise other Committees who do have power to decide\u00a0what may be done.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed that some of the\u00a0minutes of Committees do not have an asterisk or \u201cstar\u201d by\u00a0the side of them &#8211; that means the decision has to be\u00a0confirmed by the parent Committee and\/or Council. All\u00a0meetings of the Council and Committees are open to the\u00a0public although in some cases you may be asked to leave\u00a0when they are discussing certain matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tb_guide":[1316],"class_list":["post-737","tb_guides","type-tb_guides","status-publish","hentry","tb_guide-a-guide-to-committee-meetings"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tb_guides"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/737\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tb_guide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tb_guide?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}