Issue - meetings

Minute 551 refers.

RESOLVED – that (A) the report be received: and

(B)   the proposed response to the external auditor’s recommendations, as now submitted, be approved.

To Follow.

The Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Community Services submitted a report informing Members of an objection received by the external auditor to the 2011/12 accounts, the external auditor’s statement of reasons in response and the proposed response to the external auditor’s recommendations.

The Audit Committee was advised that this report covered the recommendations that were being made by Grant Thornton.

Councillor J Wing requested that future reports from the external auditor comply with RNIB guidelines.  Also, he queried whether the issue raised by the objection would be referred to the Independent Remuneration Panel.

The Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Community Services advised that his report had included a document that had not been initially intended for publication as a committee report.  He also advised that the issue raised by the objection would be referred to the Independent Remuneration Panel.

Members noted the report and requested that the proposed response to the external auditor’s recommendations be recommended to Council for approval.

RECOMMENDED – that (A) the report be received: and

(B)   the proposed response to the external auditor’s recommendations, as now submitted, be approved.