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Cambridge City Council

About council committees and meetings

Every councillor sits on a number of committees and helps make or review decisions on behalf of the council.

Regulatory committees make decisions that the executive councillors are not allowed to make, while decisions that they have made are reviewed by scrutiny committees.

Public health and wellbeing for in-person meetings

We stream meetings live on our YouTube channel. You can participate with meetings online, on our Microsoft Teams channel – you can speak to councillors without leaving home.

If you attend a meeting in person, please maintain social distancing at all times. We will provide hand sanitiser at the entrance to all meetings.

Email us by midday two days before the meeting to tell us you want to attend or speak.

Area committees

Councillors have decided to hold area committee meetings online. This will continue to give you the chance to raise issues with your local councillors in one forum, and to discuss regular matters such as community safety priorities.

We believe that continuing to hold the meetings online will make it easier for you to take part, particularly when you might have reservations about attending meetings in person.

Filming, recording and photography

The Council is committed to being open and transparent in the way it conducts its decision making.

The public may record (eg film, audio, tweet, blog) meetings which are open to the public.

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to stop or suspend recording if in their opinion continuing to do so would disrupt proceedings at the meeting. The circumstances in which this might occur include:

  • Excessive noise in recording or setting up and moving equipment
  • Intrusive lighting and use of flash photography
  • Asking people to make repeat statements for the purposes of recording
  • Moving to areas outside the area designated for the public without the Chair’s consent

Those recording meetings are strongly urged to respect the wish of any member of the public not to be recorded.

Agendas for, and signage at, meetings will make it clear that recording can take place. Anyone who does not wish to be recorded should let the Chair of the meeting know.

Recording and reporting the meetings is subject to the law and it is the responsibility of those doing the recording and reporting to ensure compliance; e.g. with the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act and the laws of libel, defamation and public order. Freedom of speech within the law should also be exercised with personal and social responsibility – showing respect and tolerance towards the views of others.

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