Certainly Labour councils set out to help the communities we serve to benefit from the prosperity that we help to create in the good times and to make it through the tough times whenever they come around.
In 2008, councils set out to formalise who could be recognised with the title, demanding that recipients must fulfil at least one of the following criteria: An individual or organisation of outstanding and acknowledged merit, with close links to the City and County of Cardiff.
At last week's Solace summit, Martin Reeves, the chief executive of Coventry council, set out an uncompromising vision for local authorities.
At a meeting on Thursday evening the council set out how it would deal with a £20m funding gap.
A recommendation that a visitor centre should be built had already been made in the 1990s, but two years ago the council set out to secure funds and build the centre in time for the 800th anniversary events.
If that gets you nowhere, submit a formal complaint to the council setting out why you believe it has failed to act properly in this case.
On Amendment 2, I agree with the principle, but the powers of the Commission and Council are already established in the EC Treaty, and the role of the regional advisory councils is set out in Article 31 of the basic regulation.
But this week, three New York City Council members set out to legislate in favor of morning brunching.
In October, NHS England and council leaders set out a £45m plan to close England's last NHS hospital for people with learning disabilities, plus up to half the 2,600 beds in the units.
Council leaders once tried to create a general reserve fund for such contingencies, but the concept never took hold, so council officials set out to devise their own response to the problem.
Human Rights Watch urged the council to set out concrete benchmarks for an effective justice and accountability mechanism, including a majority of international judges in an independent system and an independent international prosecutor.
