Committee details
Council
Purpose of committee
The Council comprises 45 councillors. One-third are elected three years in four. Councillors are democratically accountable to the residents of their ward. The overriding duty of councillors is to the whole community, but they have a special duty to their constituents, including those who did not vote for them.
All Councillors meet together at a meeting known as Council. Council meetings are normally open to the public and at these meetings Councillors appoint the Leader, determine the policy framework, decide the Council’s overall policies and set the budget each year, in addition to decisions relating to other important Council business. The annual meeting held in May is mainly a ceremonial meeting to elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
Members of the public are permitted to ask a question at these meetings, further information on how to do this can be found here.
Membership
- Councillor Eddy Humphreys (Mayor)
- Councillor James Baker (Deputy Mayor)
- Councillor Richard Biggs (Leader)
- Councillor Victor Lewanski (Deputy Leader)
- Councillor Gemma Adamson
- Councillor Rod Ashford
- Councillor Hannah Avery
- Councillor Michael Blacker
- Councillor Joseph Booton
- Councillor Giorgio Buttironi
- Councillor Paul Chandler
- Councillor Victoria Chester
- Councillor Zelanie Cooper
- Councillor Jed Dwight
- Councillor Martin Elbourne
- Councillor Jonathan Essex
- Councillor Kate Fairhurst
- Councillor Ben Green
- Councillor Peter Harp
- Councillor Bob Harper
- Councillor Nick Harrison
- Councillor George Hinton
- Councillor Jerry Hudson
- Councillor Frank Kelly
- Councillor Shasha Khan
- Councillor Andrew King
- Councillor James King
- Councillor Stephen Kulka
- Councillor Stephen McKenna
- Councillor Rich Michalowski
- Councillor Nadean Moses
- Councillor Caroline Neame
- Councillor Simon Parnall
- Councillor Andrew Proudfoot
- Councillor Ruth Ritter
- Councillor Kanika Sachdeva
- Councillor Sue Sinden
- Councillor Mark Smith
- Councillor Christian Stevens
- Councillor Mus Tary
- Councillor Christopher Thompson
- Councillor Jason Thorne
- Councillor Della Torra
- Councillor Sam Walsh
- Vacancy
- Annette Wiles (Secretary)
Contact information
Support officer: Democratic Services (01737 276182). Email: Democratic@reigate-banstead.gov.uk
Postal address:
Town Hall
Castlefield Road
Reigate
Surrey
RH2 0SH
Phone: 01737 276182