The Cabinet collectively provides strategic leadership to the council. Specifically, it recommends the budget and key policy proposals to the Full Council for agreement. It also develops and implements most policies.
The Leader appoints a cabinet and allocates specific roles and responsibilities to Members of the Cabinet. Those roles and responsibilities are known as ‘portfolios’.
- Councillor Alan Baldock - Leader of the council
- Councillor Mike Sole - Deputy leader of the council and cabinet member for finance
- Councillor Michael Dixey - cabinet member for property, performance and oversight
- Councillor Pip Hazelton - cabinet member for housing
- Councillor Mel Dawkins - cabinet member for environment and climate change
- Councillor Charlotte Cornell - cabinet member for council services, culture and heritage
- Councillor Alex Ricketts - cabinet member for tourism, transport and rural champion
- Councillor Connie Nolan - cabinet member for community engagement, safety and enforcement
- Councillor Chris Cornell - cabinet member for economic development and inclusion, coastal towns champion