Section 79 committees, also known as portfolio committees, monitor the delivery and outputs of the executive. Each one monitors a council portfolio and may call departments, municipal entities and members of the mayoral committee to account.

These committees play an oversight role and are not delegated any decision-making powers.

They are responsible for submitting reports to council.

The portfolio committees are:

• Corporate & shared services
• Community development
• Development planning
• Economic development
• Environment, infrastructure and services
• Finance
• Health and social development
• Housing
• Transport
• Oversight Committee on Gender, Youth and People with Disabilities
• Oversight Committee on Governance
• Oversight Committee on the Legislature
• Public Safety

Chairpersons

Ethics/Discipilinary

Municipal Public Accounts

Petitions and Public Participation

Programming

Rules