Committee details
Council
Purpose of committee
The Council is composed of 66 Councillors elected every four years. Councillors are democratically accountable to residents of their ward. The overriding duty of Councillors is to the whole community, but they have a special duty to their constituents, including those who did not vote for them.
Functions and Powers
(b) Meanings
(ii) Budget – The approval or adoption of a plan or strategy for the control of the local authority’s borrowing, investments or capital expenditure, or for determining the authority’s minimum revenue provision, which meaning will include:
· the allocation of financial resources to different services and projects,
· proposed contingency funds
· the Council tax base
· setting the Council tax
· decisions relating to the control of the Council’s borrowing requirement
· treasury management functions
· the control of its capital expenditure and
· the setting of virement limits.
Wirral Council is fully committed to equalities and our obligations under The Equality Act 2010 and Public Sector Equality Duty.
We encourage people who have a protected characteristic to participate in public meetings and in the democratic process. If you have any adjustments that would help you attend or participate at this meeting, please let us know as soon as possible and we would be happy to facilitate where possible. Please contact committeeservices@wirral.gov.uk.
Public Questions
Public questions must be submitted no later than midday three working days before the meeting and are done so via this link: Public Question Form
Please
note, anyone submitting public questions via email will be referred
to the link above.
If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your
question by the deadline for submission, please telephone the
relevant Committee Services Officer to confirm we have received
your form. Their contact details can be found further down this
page, or email committeeservices@wirral.gov.uk.
Public Statements
A member of the public may speak on up to two non-procedural items on any Agenda if notice has been given no later than midday 3 working days in advance of the meeting. Please give notice to mailto:committeeservices@wirral.gov.uk
If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your statement by the deadline for submission, please telephone the relevant Committee Services Officer to confirm we have received your email. Their contact details can be found further down this page.
Petitions
Petitions may be presented to the Council if provided to Democratic and Member Services no later than 10 working days before the meeting, at the discretion of the Mayor. The person presenting the petition will be allowed to address the meeting briefly (not exceeding three minute) to outline the aims of the petition. The Mayor will refer the matter to another appropriate body of the Council within whose terms of reference it falls without discussion, unless a relevant item appears elsewhere on the Agenda. If a petition contains more than 5,000 signatures, it will be debated at a subsequent meeting of Council for up to 15 minutes, at the discretion of the Mayor.
Please give notice of presentation of a petition to: committeeservices@wirral.gov.uk
If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your petition, please telephone the relevant Committee Services Officer to confirm we have received your email. Their contact details can be found further down this page.
For further information about how we use the personal data of individuals speaking at Council and Committee meetings, please see the following document: Document Data Protection Protocol for Public Speakers at Committees | Wirral Council
Membership
- Councillor Ed Lamb
- Councillor Louise Luxon-Kewley
- Anna Perret (Committee Officer)
- Councillor Jeff Green (Mayor)
- Councillor Jerry Williams (Deputy Mayor)
- Councillor Stephen Bennett
- Councillor Jo Bird
- Councillor Max Booth
- Councillor Allan Brame
- Councillor Helen Cameron
- Councillor Chris Carubia
- Councillor Pat Cleary
- Councillor Christopher Cooke
- Councillor Tony Cox
- Councillor Angela Davies
- Councillor George Davies
- Councillor Steve Foulkes
- Councillor Andrew Gardner
- Councillor Phil Gilchrist
- Councillor Harry Gorman
- Councillor Naomi Graham
- Councillor Elizabeth Grey
- Councillor Judith Grier
- Councillor Andrew Hodson
- Councillor Kathy Hodson
- Councillor Jennifer Johnson
- Councillor Tony Jones
- Councillor Mary Jordan
- Councillor Stuart Kelly
- Councillor Brian Kenny
- Councillor Daisy M Kenny
- Councillor James Stewart Laing
- Councillor Ian Lewis
- Councillor Julie McManus
- Councillor Paul Martin
- Councillor Simon R Mountney
- Councillor Amanda Onwuemene
- Councillor Cherry Povall, JP
- Councillor Sue Powell-Wilde
- Councillor Lesley Rennie
- Councillor Jean Robinson
- Councillor Paul Stuart
- Councillor Jason Walsh
- Councillor Janette Williamson
- Councillor Vida Wilson
- Councillor Gillian Wood
- Bryn Griffiths (Committee Officer)
- Councillor Ann Ainsworth
- Councillor Colin Baldwin
- Councillor Paula Basnett
- Councillor Gary Bennett
- Councillor Graham Davies
- Councillor Brenda Hall
- Councillor Gail Jenkinson
- Councillor Paul Jobson
- Councillor Tom Laing
- Councillor Craig McDonald
- Councillor Grahame McManus
- Councillor Ruth Molyneux
- Councillor Kieran Murphy
- Councillor Tony Murphy
- Councillor Richie Pitt
- Councillor Helen Raymond
- Councillor Mike Redfern
- Councillor Mark Skillicorn
- Councillor Kaitlin Stuart
- Councillor Mike Sullivan
- Councillor Ewan Tomeny
Contact information
Support officer: Daniel Sharples. Democracy Business Manager
Postal address:
Wallasey Town Hall
Brighton Street
Wallasey
Wirrral
CH44 8ED
Phone: 0151 666 3791
Web site: http://www.wirral.gov.uk