February 2016

Finance, Risk, Audit and Standards Committee 

• Decide budgeting and financial matters, in accordance with the Authority's Financial Regulations
• Monitoring the performance against budgets and set financial targets and budgets for future years
• Monitor the Authority's performance against targets
• Consider, adopt and monitor corporate personnel policies and practices
• Steer the organisation towards the highest ethical standards and the fullest possible compliance with Nolan Principles and the organisation's Values and Codes of Conduct

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Meeting: Finance, Risk, Audit and Standards Committee

Venue: The National Park Office, The Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley

Date: Monday 1 February 2016 at 10.00am

Business

1. Apologies for absence

2. Public Minutes of the meeting held on 23 November 2015

3. Members are reminded that it is their responsibility to declare the nature of any personal, prejudicial and/or disclosureable interests relating to any agenda item immediately prior to its consideration and are encouraged to complete a written declaration using the form provided.

4. Emergency Evacuation Procedure – The Chair to inform Members of the Public of the emergency evacuation procedure.

5. Exclusion of the public from the meeting during consideration of each of the items of business shown in Column 1 of the following table on the grounds that each involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 specified in Column 2:-

  Item No on the Agenda        Paragraph No

          14                                         1,2,3,4
          15                                         1,2,3,4
          16                                         1,2,3,4
          17                                         1,2,3,4

6.  Finance Update 

7.  Treasury Management and Prudential Code

8.  Budget Estimate 2016/17

9.  Business Plan 2016/17

10. Annual Standards and Ethical Review

11. External Funding

12. Health and Safety Update

13. Risk Management Strategy Update

Private Business - Minutes/Reports Circulated To Members Only

14. Private Minutes of the meeting held on 23 November 2015.

15. Complaints and Compliments Update

16. Update on the Visitor Centre Business Plans and Working Group Meetings

17. Financial Service Provision (verbal)

18. Such other business as, in the opinion of the Chair, should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency.

Andy Wilson
Chief Executive (National Park Officer)

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