After elections comes Annual Council - the meeting that celebrates the success of candidates as new or returning councillor and the affords the pageantry befitting newly invested mayors. They are meetings full of colour, good will and life changing promises.

Annual Council is usually the meeting where amendments to the constitution are debated, agreed or - at the least - instigated as a piece of work to be undertaken over the long summer months.

Reviewing the constitution is seen as a dull and tedious job and will often be the role of the monitoring officer.