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Councillors and Committees
In this section you will find details about all aspects of the Council's democratic process, including an archive of agendas and minutes for Council and Committee meetings as well as meetings of the Executive and decisions taken by individual Executive Members.
The Council is made up of 52 elected Members representing 30 wards. All Councillors meet together as the Council about five times a year. The Council decides the overall policy framework and sets the budget each year for all the services the Council is responsible for. The Council elects one of its 52 Members to be the Leader of the Council. It also appoints members to the Overview and Scrutiny Commission (responsible for holding the Executive publicly accountable, for monitoring service performance and policy development); the regulatory committees (which make decisions on non-executive functions); and the Standards Committee.
Information about your Councillors, including photos, telephone numbers, addresses, Committee membership. If you're not sure which Ward you're in or which Councillor(s) represent your area? Find out on this page . . .
To provide its services to local people - and to agree Council policies and act as a community leader, West Berkshire Council needs a system for making a large number of important, formal, decisions.
The Council is responsible for the compilation and maintenance of the Register of Electors, there are currently just over 112,000 electors registered in 60,500 properties in West Berkshire. Additionally the service deals with all applications for postal/proxy votes and processes applications from Service and Overseas voters.
West Berkshire District Council has produced a Constitution which sets out how the Council operates, how decisions are made and the procedures which are followed to ensure that these decisions are efficient, transparent and accountable to local people.
An A4 version of the Council Yearbook for 2012-13 for viewing or printing. Links to the information contained in the Yearbook are also listed on this page.
This page was created on 05/08/2010 and last updated on 24/08/2012. - Print this page.
