At the moment, only 10 out of the 84 councillors have the power to make nearly all decisions!
The referendum is our opportunity to get better decisions – and to create a council that is more open and which listens and works positively with others. NO MORE RULE BY THE FEW!
News & updates
Our questions at the Full Council meeting voting on the new committee system design
23RD MARCH 2022 EXTRAORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING Today Sheffield City Council is meeting to vote on its design for the new modern committee system. They are doing the basic technical shift - a glacial inching forward, and it is a better, more basically democratic...
Questions about the Council’s new governance design
The Council has published its design for the new committee system. Unfortunately, the design seems to have ignored quite a lot of the work done by, and the evidence submitted to, the Governance Committee over the last few months. The report announcing the design was...
Our Final Comments on the “Governance Principles” created by Sheffield Council
We published our final comments on the "Governance Principles" created by Sheffield Council. Our detailed comments and criticisms are based on the 20,000 face-to-face conversations about governance that our volunteers had with Sheffield citizens....