November 2011

AGENDA

MEETING:  AUDIT AND REVIEW COMMITTEE

VENUE:  The National Park Authority Office, Yoredale, Bainbridge

DATE/TIME:  Tuesday, 8 November 2011 at 10.00am

Membership:  C Armitage, RK Bingham, WH Brown, P Charlesworth, R Gale, RG Heseltine, Mrs S Marshall, Dr KM Petyt, JK Roberts, RN Thwaite and R Welch

1. Membership of the Committee.

2. Election of Chairman.

3. Election of Deputy Chairman.

4. Minutes of the meeting held on 12 July 2011.

5. Public Questions / Statements.

6. Exclusion of the public from the meeting during the consideration of Item No 21 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.

7. Apologies for absence.

8. Declarations of lobbying.

9. Local Government Ombudsman - Ms Angela Bailey, Assistant Ombudsman who will be giving as brief outline of the work of the Ombudsman and take questions from Members.

10. Annual Report on Corporate Governance.

11. National Park Centres Performance Review.

12. Progress on Objectives - Half-year report.

13. Corporate Plan:  Progress on Actions at end of Quarter 2.

14. Customer Service Excellence Update.

15. Annual Review of Partnerships.

16. Lessons learnt from the GoDales! project.

17. Annual Review of the Effectiveness of the Arrangements for Risk Management.

18. Lessons learnt from the project to ‘Virtualise’ the Authority’s IT server environment.

19. Disability Equality Scheme – Annual progress report.

20. Compliments, Complaints and Comments – Half-yearly returns.

21. Mid-year Treasury Management Review:  Report of the Treasurer.

DAVID BUTTERWORTH
CHIEF EXECUTIVE

National Park Offices
Yoredale, Bainbridge

1 November 2011