Issue - meetings

To consider a proposed Work Plan for 2012/13.

The Committee considered a proposed work plan for 2012/13.

At the Committee’s meeting in September 2011, it was agreed that separate Member/Officer groups, to deal with specific areas of audit and governance work, would be set up as a means of developing specialist in-depth knowledge and expertise. The individual groups had now met on several occasions. A list of the groups, their memberships and terms of reference was circulated at the meeting.

Members noted a proposal coming before the next Council meeting that the Committee’s terms of reference be amended to include responsibility for the Member Code of Conduct. The Committee would be required to appoint three panels and sub-committees which would meet on an ad hoc basis to consider alleged misconduct and breaches of the Code. The membership of the bodies would be drawn from a pool of 15 members comprising the members of the Audit and Governance Committee and five others.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   the proposed work plan for 2012/13 be approved subject to the following:

(a)           the Committee at its September meeting receive a quarterly progress report on Lyme Green;

(b)           the Committee at its September meeting consider a report on whether contractual regulations are being complied with, including specific examples; and

(c)            training be provided on the Member Code of Conduct for those Members who will sit on the proposed ad hoc bodies;

(2)   it be noted that the plan will be periodically brought back to the Committee for further development and approval; and

(3)   any changes to the memberships of the specialist Member/Officer groups, and any expressions of interest in joining a group, be notified to the Internal Audit Manager.