But it gives the oversight council the ability to override the agency's recommendations.
Sam Barstow, service manager for public protection and anti-social behaviour, said: "This new power gives the police and council the ability to deal with issues associated with the on-street consumption of these substances in a more flexible way.
After FIFA's annual congress this month, Domenico Scala, the head of the organization's audit and compliance committee, resigned suddenly after rules were changed to give FIFA's governing council the ability to control the membership of FIFA's independent oversight bodies, including its ethics committee.
It appeared the ordeal was over on Tuesday when residents overwhelmingly voted to pass a referendum changing the governing structure of the town from "mayor-strong" to "council-strong," effectively stripping Bullard of his powers and giving the council the ability to rehire Moore.
The WLGA welcomed the report and said councils had the ability to give preferential treatment to people who urgently need homes.
Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary and chairman of the council, said the ability to designate so-called nonbank financial companies for heightened supervision was "one of the most important things that the Dodd-Frank Act did".
The council has the ability to designate funds as systemically important, a label that would subject them to even tougher rules.
"Councils should have the ability to tackle problem drinking through licensing powers and their new public health role.
About 10% of East Lothian's 5,000 council staff have the ability to work from home for some of the week.
Assigning the Treasury Department the job of spotting incipient trouble and addressing it quickly has support among senators from both parties, though several important provisions, including whether the council would have the ability to bypass existing banking regulators and impose its own rules on huge financial firms, remain to be worked out.
