Meeting Details

Meeting Summary
Audit Committee
18 Oct 2022 - 14:00 to 16:20
Occurred
  • Documents
  • Attendance
  • Visitors
  • Declarations of Interests
  • Webcast

Documents

Agenda

Public Agenda
1 Notice of Recording/Webcast

The Chair to advise/meeting to note that this meeting will be webcast for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council's meeting You Tube site (www.youtube.com/channel/UCT2kT7ZRPFCXq6_5dnVnYlw) and that members of the press/public may record and take photographs except where there are confidential or exempt items.

2 Apologies
To receive any apologies.
3 Declarations of Interests

Members are reminded that they must declare all relevant  pecuniary and non pecuniary interests arising from any business to be discussed at this meeting. If a disclosable pecuniary interest is declared a Member must not speak or take part in that agenda item. Any declarations will be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

4 Exempt Information – Possible Exclusion of the Press and Public

a) To consider whether any matter on the agenda contains exempt information within the meaning of Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and where it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

 

 

b) If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-

 

 

RESOLVED – That, in accordance with Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation order) 2006, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information.


To confirm and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held 28  September 2022.

(45 minutes allocated) (1405 – 1450)

 

Verbal discussion

 

The Cabinet Member of Digital, Culture, Heritage & Tourism with the Assistant Director, Digital & Customer Services, Head of Community Partnerships, Commonwealth Games, Head of Library Services and Head of Cultural Development & Tourism 

(15 minutes allocated) (1450 – 1505)

 

Report of the Assistant Director Audit and Risk Management

(10 minutes allocated) (1505 – 1515)

                              

Report of the External Auditors

(15 minutes allocated) (1515 – 1530)

 

Report of the City Solicitor & Monitoring Officer

11 Date of Next Meeting
The next meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 22 November 2022 at 1400 hours in Committee Room 6, Council House.  
12 Other Urgent Business
To consider any items of business by reason of special circumstances (to be specified) that in the opinion of the Chair are matters of urgency.
13 Authority to Chair and Officers
Chair to move:-

'In an urgent situation between meetings, the Chair jointly with the relevant Chief Officer has authority to act on behalf of the Committee'.

Attendance

Attended - Other Members
Name
No other member attendance information has been recorded for the meeting.
Apologies
NameReason for Sending Apology
Councillor Miranda Perks 
Absent
NameReason for Absence
Councillor Amar Khan 
Councillor Shafique Shah 

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
Councillor Paul Tilsley Non-executive Director for Birmingham AirportNon-PecuniaryN/A

Visitors

Also in attendance at the above meeting were:

  • Councillor Jayne Francis - Cabinet Member for Digital, Culture, Heritage & Tourism
  • Dawn Beaumont, Head of Library Services,
  • Cheryl Doran, Assistant Director, Digital & Customer Services
  • Symon Easton, Head of Cultural Development & Tourism.
  • Janie Berry - City Solicitor & Monitoring Officer
  • Sara Pitt - Director of Finance (Deputy S151 Officer)
  • Sarah Dunlavey - Assistant Director, Audit & Risk Management
  • Craig Price - Principal Group Auditor
  • John Preston - Group Auditor, Corporate Fraud
  • Mohammed Sajid - Interim Head of Financial Strategy 
  • Nicola Coombe - External Auditors, Grant Thornton 
  • Surina Aujla, Head of Employment Law
  •  Robert Harris, Senior Solicitor Employment Law
  • Andrew Hardingham - Independant Technical Advisor (Audit Committee)

Webcast



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