DECISION-MAKING OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL FROM THE ASPECT OF EXPRESSION OF CITIZENS OF THE MUNICIPALITY AND THE CONTENT OF THE ADOPTED DECISION

Municipalities represent the foundations of public administration in the Czech Republic, entrusted with an utterly irreplaceable role at the community level. They play this role thanks to charged competencies in wide-ranging areas of life by means of municipal bodies. The author focuses on certain problematic contemporary aspects of the decision-making process of a municipality - specifically the municipal council. Problematic aspects that the law has never efficiently regulated mainly include the requirement for professional knowledge of council members when making decisions on relevant questions, i.e. an erudite approach to decision-making, and the possibility of the citizen to engage into the decision-making process of a municipal council.