Issue - meetings

Appointment of a Lay Member to the Audit Committee

Meeting: 11/09/2019 - Flintshire County Council (Item 41)

41 Appointment of a Lay Member to the Audit Committee pdf icon PDF 91 KB

Report of the Chief Executive enclosed.

 

Purpose: To provide details of actions taken under delegated powers.

Additional documents:

Decision:

That Allan Rainford be appointed to the Audit Committee until the end of December 2023.

Minutes:

The Chair introduced a report to ask Council to consider appointing the preferred candidate for the Lay Member vacancy on the Audit Committee. 

 

                        The Chief Officer (Governance) advised that at the Annual Meeting, Council had decided to appoint an extra lay member to the Audit Committee.  There had been four applicants and, following interview, it was recommended that Allan Rainford be appointed.  He provided background information and referred to the pen portrait of Allan Rainford which was appended to the report.

 

Councillor Chris Dolphin, Chair of the Audit Committee, said that the Committee would benefit greatly from Mr Rainford’s skills and experience and strongly recommended that he be appointed as the new lay member to the Audit Committee.  Councillor Marion Bateman seconded the proposal.  On being put to the vote the recommendation was carried.

 

            RESOLVED:

 

            That Allan Rainford be appointed to the Audit Committee until the end of December 2023.