Issue - meetings

The Senior Policy and Programme Manager introduced the report and responded to members’ questions thereon.

He advised that since the report was produced the audit of Decision Making and Accountability had been finalised, with a substantial assurance opinion from SIAP.  Due to the timing, further details would be included in the Q1 report, due to be at the next meeting.

A query was raised in relation to asset management and the statement in paragraph 13.2 of the report that there was a question about condition surveys on council assets.  Subsequent to the meeting, further details were provided by the Corporate Head of Asset Management which confirmed details of the Planned Preventative Maintenance regime for operational properties and the full-repairing-and-insuring terms of the vast majority of investment properties.  This information has been circulated to all committee members.        

The Chief Finance Officer responded to questions regarding the TC25 decision-making structure outlined in Appendix 4 of the report.

RESOLVED:

1.           That the content of the report be noted, including the progress against the internal audit management actions.

2.           That the code of conduct complaint and resolution as set out in Appendix 2 of the report be noted.