Article 1 - The Constitution
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1.01 Powers of the Council
The Council will exercise all its powers and duties in
accordance with the law and this Constitution.
1.02 The Constitution
This Constitution in all its parts, is the
Constitution of the Ashford Borough Council.
The purpose of the Constitution is to:
- Enable the Council to provide clear
leadership to the community in partnership with citizens,
businesses and other organisations;
- Support the active involvement of citizens in
the process of local authority decision-making;
- Help Councillors represent their constituents
more effectively;
- Enable decisions to be taken efficiently and
effectively;
- Create a powerful and effective means of
holding decision-makers to public account;
- Ensure that no Member of the authority will
review or scrutinise a decision in which they were directly
involved;
- Ensure that those responsible for decision
making are clearly identifiable to local people and that they
explain the reasons for decisions; and
- Provide a means of improving the delivery of
services to the community.
1.03 Interpretation and Review of the Constitution
Where the Constitution permits the Council to choose between
different courses of action, the Council will always choose that
option which it thinks is closest to the purposes stated above.
The Council will monitor and evaluate the operation of the
Constitution as set out in Article 15.
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9/30/2010