June 2008

AGENDA

MEETING:  AUDIT AND REVIEW COMMITTEE

VENUE:  Yoredale, Bainbridge

DATE/TIME:  Friday 27 June 2008 at 10.30am

Membership:  C Armitage, WH Brown, P Charlesworth, W Fenten, KJ Lancaster, SR Macaré, Mrs S Marshall, Mrs Y Peacock, Dr KM Petyt, JK Roberts and S Shaw-Wright.

Business

1. Minutes of the meeting held on 15 February 2008.

2. Public Question Time.

The National Park Authority has allocated up to 15 minutes at the start of meetings to allow members of the public the opportunity to ask questions and/or to make statements that relate to the work of the Committee.

Written notice of all questions and/or the intention to make a statement must be received by the Chief Executive (National Park Officer) at Yoredale, Bainbridge, Leyburn DL8 3EL no later than 12 noon on the day before the meeting.  Each person will be allowed to address the meeting for up to three minutes.

More detailed guidance on the above procedure is available from the Authority’s Secretariat.

3. Exclusion of the public from the meeting during the consideration of Item No 16 on the agenda on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

4. Apologies for absence.

5. Declarations of lobbying.

6. External Audit Plan.

7. Internal Audit reports:

• General IT Controls.

• Staff Travel and Subsistence.

8. Performance Improvement Reviews 2007/08:

• Customer Satisfaction with Toilets.

• .Planning Policy Service.

9. Lessons learnt from ‘Dales Woodland Restoration’ Project.

10. Review of Authority Performance in 2007/08.

11. Performance Improvement Reviews 2008/09.

12. Programme of Major Project Reviews.

13. Performance Indicators 2008/09 (for a copy of this report please contact the Secretariat team).

14. Planning – Survey of Consultees, Neighbours, Parish Councils/Meetings 2007/08.

15. Compliments and Complaints (half yearly returns) and Information about the Local Government Ombudsman.

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Private report circulated to members only

16. Details of Complaints – half yearly return.

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17. Such other business as, in the opinion of the Chairman, should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency.

DAVID BUTTERWORTH
CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Yoredale
National Park Office
Bainbridge

20 June 2008