Issue - meetings

Report CSD220

The report sought authority to make some minor changes to the Council’s Constitution to ensure that it was up-to-date for the new Council to be elected in May 2022, and also proposed that Members enhance the status of the Audit Sub-Committee by replacing it with an Audit and Risk Management Committee reporting directly to Council.

The report proposed that this Committee should retain its responsibility for external audit and the annual statements of accounts, but Members considered that it would be more consistent for these to transfer to the new Audit and Risk Management Committee.  

RESOLVED that Council be recommended that -

(1) Authority be given to the Director of Corporate Services and Governance to make minor changes to the Constitution to ensure that the wording is kept up to date, in particular in respect of the reduction in the number of Members after the 2022 local election and officer titles.

(2) That (d) External Audit and Annual Statement of Accounts,” “(d) Probity Strategy,” “(e) Audit” and “(g) Fraud Prevention” be removed from the terms of reference of the General Purposes and Licensing Committee (with other items re-numbered) and an Audit and Risk Management Committee be set up in the new Council year to replace the Audit Sub-Committee, with the Terms of Reference set out in paragraph 3.2 in the report, subject to External Audit and Annual Statements of Accounts being included in the new Committee’s terms of reference.