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Human Resources Committee
Oversees staffing and personnel matters (such as recruitment, salaries, and terms and conditions), manages council assets and property, address legal issues, and coordinate cross-cutting strategic projects. It acts as a central coordinating body, dealing with urgent or miscellaneous items and making recommendations to the full council on matters of overall policy and governance.
1. To formulate, review and ensure the continued implementation of a corporate strategic plan for the council, including related departmental plans and annual plans.
2. To formulate, co-ordinate and ensure the implementation of general policies on various aspects of council’s operations.
3. To prepare by-laws and regulations in terms of the relevant statutes and monitor their effective administration by the relevant Council departments.
4. To formulate, review and ensure the operation of a dynamic public relations policy by council to enhance its image to the public.
5. To ensure the provision of effective and efficient administrative and secretarial services to Council and its committees for the smooth discharge of its services.
6. To maintain an efficient and coordinated civil defense and disaster management service to the city, through a well-trained and equipped ambulance and fire brigade and municipal police personnel.
7. To ensure the introduction, implementation and monitoring of administrative and management internal control systems.
8. To formulate, monitor and ensure the implementation of comprehensive human resources policies covering personnel management, manpower development and training, work-study and industrial relations.
9. To prepare and review from time to time Employment Regulations (Conditions of Service), Health and Safety regulations and the Code of Conduct through the Employment Council of the Norton Town Council.
10. To exercise any other functions delegated to it by council from time to time.