Decision Making

Executive Decisions (including all key decisions) are taken at the Executive and Members Board.

The Executive and Members Board meets in public each fortnight to consider reports and make decisions.  The Chief Executive Officer, acting in the capacity of Council Manager, will make the decisions legally effective shortly afterwards.

All decisions made are "provisional" for seven days before they can be implemented. A list of decisions is published fortnightly.

All councillors can contribute to the decision-making process through their overview and scrutiny activities.  They also have the opportunity to call-in Executive decisions (with the exception of day-to-day matters)  about which they have concerns.  These decisions are then reviewed further before they are implemented.

Any elected member can call-in a decision by obtaining the signatures of at least five other elected members. The Leader of a political group consisting of six or more members of the City Council can also call-in a decision.

Any called in decisions are referred to the appropriate Overview and Scrutiny Committee. They can either confirm the decision or suggest alternatives to the decision being taken. The Executive then has ten days to decide whether to process the original decision or to take into account the Committee's views.

For any further information about Executive and Members Board Decisions, please contact Member Services, on Tel: 01782 236039 or e-mail ellen.washington@stoke.gov.uk

Follow the link to the right to the Executive and Members Board page, where you will find details of Executive Decisions taken from July 2007 onwards. For an archive of Executive Decisions taken before this date, follow the various links to the left.