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Hi
everybody,
my
name's
paul
brewer,
I'm
director
for
digital
sustainability
and
resources
at
adrian
worthing
councils,
really
pleased
to
to
do
this
session.
For
you,
I've
been
asked
to
talk
to
you
about
how
local
government
works
and
how
decision
making
works
for
us
locally.
Here,
it's
a
little
bit
of
a
complicated
system
nationally
in
as
much
as
councils
work
differently
in
different
areas.
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A
Then
there
are
unitary
authorities
like
brighton
hove
who
again
run
the
full
range
of
local
government
services
and
then
in
some
areas
you
have
a
two-tier
system,
which
is
the
one
we're
in.
So
you
have
west
sussex
county
council
in
our
case
running
services
at
the
county
level,
and
they
are
responsible
for
things
like
education,
highways,
transport
planning,
passenger
transport,
adult
and
children's
social
care,
libraries,
waste
disposal
and
strategic
waste
management.
So
waste
disposal
is
an
interesting
one.
A
So
at
the
district
council
level
and
worthing
is
a
borough
council,
which
means
we
have
a
mayor
and
ada
is
a
straightforward
district
council
with
a
chair
person,
but
their
duties
and
responsibilities
are
the
same,
so
they're
both
actually
district
councils
in
the
formal
sense,
and
we
do
things
like
housing,
leisure
and
recreation,
environmental,
health,
waste
collection,
as
I
say,
planning
applications,
obviously
administering
council
tax
and
distributing
housing
benefit,
and
so
those
are
the
functions
that
we
perform.
A
So
they
can
often
be
from
a
resident
perspective.
There
can
often
be
some
confusion
about
who
does
what
and
occasionally
we
also
get
confused
ourselves
in
terms
of
the
democracy
and
those
arrangements
we
have
elected
members
and
you'll
know
that
in
in
in
may
we
have
local
elections
which
institute
new
people
into
into
the
groups.
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On
the
ada
side,
we
have
at
the
moment
seven
labour
elected
members,
four
independents,
16
conservatives
and
one
ukip.
On
the
worthing
side,
we
have
23
conservative
members,
10
labor,
three
lib
dems
and
one
ukip
and
the
ultimate
decision
making
bodies
are
called
full
councils
now
that
the
council's
run
separately.
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So,
there's
a
full
council
for
worthing
and
a
full
council
for
ada
where
all
of
the
members
attend
it's
a
public
meeting
and
decisions
are
taken
there,
but
those
many
of
those
decisions
start
their
life
at
joint
strategic
committee,
where
the
two
cabinets
make
decisions
which
many
of
which
get
referred
up
to
full
council
for
final
decision
now.
The
cabinet
system
is
a
particular
way
of
operating
where
the
leader
will
nominate
portfolio
holders
and
that
smaller
group
of
people
will
generate
decisions,
take
decisions
and,
where
appropriate.
According
to
our
constitution.
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So
that's
how
that's
how
things
are
set
up
in
terms
of
how
officers
generate
reports
and
decisions
for
elected
members
to
take
we're?
Obviously,
in
the
business
of
creating
new
projects
getting
decisions
on
various
matters
and
we'll
write
reports,
we
will
consult
with
the
public
where,
where
it's
appropriate,
to
do
so,
which
is
often
the
case
and,
of
course,
with
elected
members,
to
get
their
views
and
we'll
generate
a
report
that
will
then
get
tabled
to
joint
strategic
committee
for
a
decision.
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That
meeting
itself
is
in
public
online
at
the
moment
and
then
that's
debated
and
decisions
are
taken
and
votes
are
cast
and
then
all
of
those
decisions
are
either
implemented.
Sometimes
decisions
decision
making
authority
is
delegated
to
a
senior
officer
and
then
other
decisions,
bigger
decisions
will
go
up
to
full
council
for
debate
and
decision.
A
So
in
terms
of
the
national
picture,
we
have
a
relatively
limited
influence
on
national
legislation,
but
we
do
have
have
a
local
government
association,
which
is
a
body
which
is
representative
body.
So
quite
often
we
will,
through
elected
members,
who
sit
on
various
groups,
that
the
lga
runs
will
influence
up
to
provide
local
insight
into
our
views
on
matters
coming
forward
in
for
to
the
uk
parliament,
so
we'll
influence
up
that
way.
A
Sometimes
that
will
be
through
working
groups
that
then
report
formally
into
either
the
ministry
of
housing
and
local
government
or
other
central
government
departments
to
get
formal
consultation
of
the
local
government
sector
up
into
policy
making
nationally,
but
in
terms
of
the
sustainability
gender
agenda.
A
Some
of
the
big
things
that
we
need
to
see
happening
in
in
terms
of
things
like
the
feeding
tariff
has
gone
and
other
other
other
things
in
terms
of
incentivizing,
domestic
energy
transformation
from
gas
to
heat
pumps
or
whatever.
Quite
a
lot
of
that
stuff
is
out
of
our
hands
and
we'll
influence,
often
through
the
lga,
but
otherwise
our
hands
are
somewhat
tied
on
a
local
level.