Agenda and minutes

Corporate Committee
Thursday, 26th November, 2015 7.00 pm

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE. View directions

Contact: Helen Chapman 

Items
No. Item

34.

Filming at Meetings

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

35.

Apologies for Absence and Substitutions (if any)

36.

Urgent Business

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda items where they appear.  New items will be dealt with at item 11).

37.

Declarations of Interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

38.

Deputations / Petitions / Presentations / Questions

To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, section B, Paragraph 29 of the Council’s Constitution.

39.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 99 KB

To consider and agree the minutes of the meeting held on 24 September 2015.

40.

Follow up following schools not complying with audit recommendations pdf icon PDF 184 KB

Report of the Deputy Chief Executive to set out a process that will be followed by officers in the schools and learning service, in liaison with auditors, to ensure all schools subject to recommendations address them.

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41.

Internal Audit Q2 progress report pdf icon PDF 201 KB

Report of the Assistant Director of Corporate Governance to detail the work undertaken by the Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Teams in the quarter ending 30 September 2015.

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42.

Treasury Management Mid Year Update pdf icon PDF 141 KB

Report of the Chief Operating Officer to update the Committee on the Council’s treasury management activities and performance in the six months to 30th September 2015 in accordance with the CIPFA Treasury Management Code of Practice. It is a requirement of the Code for the report also to be considered by Council. A first draft of the proposed investment strategy for 2016-17 is also discussed.

Additional documents:

43.

Individual Electoral Registration pdf icon PDF 170 KB

Report of the Assistant Director of Corporate Governance to outline the status of the second year of the new Individual Electoral Registration system in the context of the “end of transition” to the system.

44.

Any other business of an urgent nature pdf icon PDF 318 KB

To consider any items admitted at item 2 above.

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45.

Date and Time of Next Meeting

Monday, 8 February 2016, 7pm.