Consultation on Leadership Models

New legislation requires Warwick District Council to adopt a new governance model for its executive leadership. For Warwick this has to take effect from our council elections in May 2011.

This could be either a ‘new style’ Leader and Cabinet or an elected Mayor and Cabinet. A consultation took place between August and October 2010.

Decision

This Council has decided to adopt the “new-style” Leader and Cabinet executive model to commence after its elections May 2011.
 
From that time Constitution be amended to enable:

• A Leader be appointed by the Council from among its elected councillors for a four year period;
• The Leader must decide either to carry out the Council’s executive functions or delegate executive functions to the Cabinet (that shall be known as the Executive), its members or Council officers;
• Two but no more than nine Councillors be appointed to the Executive by the Leader (the Executive shall comprise of no more than ten members including the Leader); and
• The Leader ceases to hold the position of Leader:
  (i) at the Annual meeting after their 4 year period expires;
  (ii) when the Council removes them from the position ( which can be at any time);
  (iii) they resign from the position;
  (iv) they are suspended from being a councillor (although they can resume the position at the end of the suspension); or
  (v) they cease to be a Councillor.