NRS-20751 | Committee Reports to Council [Campbelltown Municipal Council/Campbelltown City Council]

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This series is comprised of reports of meetings by various committees that were presented to the Campbelltown Municipal Council/Campbelltown City Council.

Upon presentation to the Council, a committee's recommendation could be accepted, amended, rejected, or sent back to the committee for further discussion. The recommendations in the reports were not binding upon the Council unless, and until, adopted by the Council as shown in the minutes of the Council meeting.

Section 109 of the Municipalities Act of 1867 (Act No.12a, 1867), which was assented to on 23 December 1867, allowed municipal councils to appoint either standing committees or occasional (special) committees, composed of councillors, and to delegate to the committees "any inquiry negotiation or arrangement or power to do any emergent act or to carry out any work which such Council may have ordered, agreed to, or directed". However, committees had to report to the Council at the earliest opportunity