The Cabinet comprises the
Leader and 9 Cabinet Members and discusses and takes decisions on
the most significant issues facing the City Council. These include issues about the direction of the
Council, its policies and strategies, as
well as city-wide decisions and those which affect more than one
Council service.
Attending Meetings
Meetings of the Cabinet are open to the public.
There
is an opportunity for members of the public to ask the Cabinet
Members questions and to submit petitions under the agenda item
‘Public Questions and Petitions’.
The arrangements for dealing with questions and
petitions at meetings of the Cabinet 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 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 or Council officer.
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 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 remote
meetings will be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the
council’s website. See the Council’s
Webcasting Notice for more details.
Recording is allowed at Cabinet meetings under
the direction of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and photography provides
further information.
