Issue - meetings

This report sets out the reports to be received by the Audit & Governance Committee for the 2021/22 municipal year.

The Committee considered a report a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'K' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

This report sets out the reports to be received by the Audit & Governance Committee for the 2021/22 municipal year.

The Chairman referred to the next meeting on 9 September 2021.  He explained that he had introduced additional meetings to deal with specific business that the Committee felt was pertinent to its role and remit and was timely as far as the Council was concerned with this work coming from suggestions from Members of the Committee which were governance issues that need to be looked at. He explained that the item for the next meeting was a review of the BH Live Contractual and Governance arrangements.  The Chairman referred to a meeting that both he and the Vice-Chairman were due to attend the following day relating to the report for the September meeting to ensure that all the governance issues were addressed in the report. 

The Head of Audit and Management Assurance reported on the detail in the plan and in particular the statement of accounts for 2021 which may slip to the meeting on 2 December 2021. He reported that the RIPA policy would be added to the evolution list so would come before the Committee in March 2022. The Head of Audit and Management Assurance reported that there had been a request following the meeting in June 2021 on the review of parks governance for the Monitoring Officer to come back to the Committee with a report on governance arrangements in more detail .  He reported that currently the internal audit team and the Legal team were doing the preparation work for the report and it was now necessary to agree the proposed meeting when the report would be considered by the Committee.

RESOLVED that the Audit & Governance Committee approves the forward plan set out at Appendix A subject to the comments made above and the item on parks governance being added to the Forward Plan for the meeting on 28 October 2021.

Voting: Agreed
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