COUNCIL as defined in legislation and case law, is a body corporate made up by a pre-determined number of individuals are who elected by a majority vote in a pre-determined geographic area.
COUNCIL makes decisions on the activities of the geographic area to which they were elected. COUNCIL only acts at the COUNCIL table via motions that are put forth at the Council table during a regular meeting, always in open session and if passed they become resolution and part of the corporate record.
Individually they are referred to as COUNCILLORS. A COUNCILLOR can act individually doing whatever they want, but only if it is directed by COUNCIL at the Council table via a motion is it part of the public record for poeple to know and read about.
Tomorrow, for those who need it, a little update on the provisions of the Municipal Act, 2001 and when COUNCIL is permitted to go into closed session (and just to be clear, one of those reasons is not because there is someone sitting in the gallery that they don't want to hear what is doing on).
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