November 2007

AGENDA

MEETING:  AUDIT AND REVIEW COMMITTEE

Membership:  WH Brown, W Fenten, D Heather, KJ Lancaster, SR Macaré, Mrs S Marshall, A Osborne, Mrs Y Peacock, Dr KM Petyt, S Shaw-Wright, Ms N Stedman.]

VENUE:  Yoredale, Bainbridge

DATE/TIME:  Friday, 2 November 2007 at 10.30am

[NOTE:  At the Authority meeting on 31 July it was agreed that Declarations of Interest should be taken at the start of each item rather than ‘en bloc’ at the start of the meeting.]

Business

1. Minutes of:

• the ‘ordinary’ meeting held on 3 August

• the Special meeting held on 25 September 2007.

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.

3. Exclusion of the public from the meeting during the consideration of Item No 14 and 15 on the agenda on the grounds that they each 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. Annual Audit and Inspection Letter.

7. Annual Review of Risk Management.

8. Best Value Performance Indicators – Progress Report.

9. Best Value Performance Plan 2007/08 – Progress on Actions at the end of Quarter 2.

10. Standing Orders.

11. Annual Report on Corporate Governance.

12. Local Government Ombudsman - Annual letter.

13. Compliments and Complaints – Half-yearly returns.

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Private reports - Circulated to Members only

14. Local Government Ombudsman - Annual letter.

15. Compliments and Complaints – Half-yearly returns.

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16. 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

National Park Office,
Bainbridge

26 October 2007