Issue - meetings

To adopt updated Audit Committee Terms of Reference and incorporate these into the Council’s Constitution.

Meeting: 27/05/2021 - Council (Item 10)

10 Updated Audit Committee Terms of Reference for Incorporation into the Council’s Constitution.

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Minutes:

RESOLVED that:

1.             The Council agree to the appointment of an Independent Member to the Audit Committee in accordance with the role description, skills and knowledge and person specification set out at Appendix 1 of the report; and that the Terms of Reference of the Audit Committee set out in Part 3a (Responsibility for Functions) of the Constitution of the Council be amended to:

2.             Incorporate the inclusion of an Independent Member

3.             Incorporate responsibility for scrutiny of the Treasury Management Strategy and associated reports, and consequentially amend the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Terms of Reference to remove Treasury Management Strategy (para 19 in Table 2 – Council Functions – Part 3a: Responsibility for Functions.