A group set up to consider how Bristol City Council will be run from May next year face many major questions. After the next local election, the council will be run by a series of committees instead of a directly elected mayor, but it’s still far from clear exactly how this will work.
Questions include what powers a council leader will have, how the public can get more involved in decision-making, spreading power out of City Hall and across Bristol, who represents the city to the government, and how quick decisions can be made in emergencies.
After the referendum in May last year, 12 councillors have been meeting behind closed doors regularly to thrash out these details and hear evidence from experts. And on Friday, January 27, the committee model working group met for the first time in public.
