Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a report containing the proposed programme of Council and Committee meetings for 2010/2011.

The Portfolio Holder for Resources proposed that the responsibility for considering and formally approving the Council’s Statement of Accounts be transferred from the Audit Board to the full Council and referred to the necessary amendment to the programme of meetings.

RECOMMENDED:

(a)       that the Committee Programme for 2010/2011 as set out at Appendix 1 to the report be approved;

(b)       that authority be delegated to the Head of Legal, Equalities and Democratic Services, in consultation with the Leader and relevant Portfolio Holder, to agree the programme of Council and Committee meetings for future years; and

(c)        that the responsibility for considering and formally approving by resolution the Council’s Statement of Accounts in accordance with Regulation 10 (3) of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2003 be transferred from the Audit Board to the full Council; and that, as a consequence, the proposed June meeting of the Council be changed to 30th June 2010.