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Chapter 62: Corporate Scheme of Delegation - The Chief Executive, Monitoring Officer, Section 151 and Chief Officers
Corporate Scheme of Delegation - The Chief Executive, Monitoring Officer, Section 151 and Chief Officers
The Council may appoint such officers as it considers appropriate for the discharge of its functions. Currently the Council has appointed as its Corporate Management Team the following officers:-
The Chief Executive and the Corporate Directors may exercise any functions of the Council or the Executive which have been delegated to any other officer and may delegate decisions or functions to one or more officers in any of the Council's Directorates, except when prohibited to do so by this Constitution or by law.
Chapter 58 - Statutory and Proper Officers
Corporate Directors
may delegate decisions or functions for which they are responsible to one or more officers within their directorate provided that they maintain a Directorate Officer Scheme of Delegation which is notified to the Monitoring Officer.
The Corporate and Officer Schemes of Delegation are made under Section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 and all other powers enabling such delegation. They delegate all the powers and duties necessary for the discharge of the Council’s functions and not specifically reserved to the Mayor or the Mayor in Cabinet, the Council or a Committee or Sub-Committee of Council to the Officers. The delegations include:
Officers exercising delegated powers should also have regard to:
Officers do not take “key decisions” as defined in Chapter 11 of this Constitution, however any officer decision which results in the local authority incurring expenditure which is, or the making of savings which are, below the threshold for a key decision (currently £1 million for most decisions) but are above £250,000 must be published on the Council’s website ‘as soon as practicable’ (and following any guidance from the Monitoring Officer) after the decision has been taken.
Corporate Directors and Directors may further delegate their powers to officers within their Directorate or withdraw powers provided that:
Any such delegation, while being as near to the point of service delivery as possible, is only to officers within their Directorate that hold the appropriate level of responsibility