Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk which requested the Committee to conduct their annual review of the Committee’s Terms of Reference. The report also provided the Committee with an agenda plan for 2016.

A Member asked whether responsibility for Risk Management should be included in the Terms of Reference of the Committee. The Town Clerk explained that this question had also been asked at a recent meeting of the Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee, and advised that the Town Clerk’s Department had discussed this issue and would consider that Risk Management was already implicitly enshrined within the Terms of Reference of all Service Committees by virtue of their duties in monitoring the Department.

A Member suggested that this should be an issue for the Audit and Risk Management Committee to consider and make a recommendation to Service Committees. Members agreed that this would be appropriate.

RESOLVED – That the Committee approves the changes to the Terms of Reference as set out within the report.