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Daily Archives: 12 Jun 2014
EDDC accounts: public inspection of accounts – dates and procedures
in. public notice in today’s Express and Echo, EDDC has announced that the annual period during which the public can inspect its accounts will be
1 July 2014 – 28 July 2014
between 08.30 and 5.00 pm Monday – Friday
This refers not only to accounts but also to other documents referred to in Section 15 of the Audit Commission Act 1998.
Requests for unaudited accounts should be made to Simon Davey (Head of Finance) at the usual council address or by email to: sdavey@eastdevon.gov.uk or telephone 01395 517490,
The unaudited accounts will be on the council website on 30 June 2014.
Notice is also given that Grant Thornton (the council’s auditing body) has been appointed.
Tuesday 29 July 2014 at 10.00 am as the date on or after which local government electors for the EDDC area (or any representative of such elector) may exercise their right under Sections 15 and 16 of the Act to question the auditor about or make objections to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014.
Any objections to the accounts must relate to the matter in respect of which the auditor could take action under section 17 of the Act (namely, an unlawful item of account or failure to bring the amount into account) or to make a report in the public interest Section 8 of the Act.
No objection may be made by or on behalf of a local government elector unless the auditor has received written notice of the proposed objection and the grounds on which it is made. In addition an elector is required at the same time to send a copy of any notice of the objection to East Devon District Council.
The addresses of the auditor are:
B Morris, Appointed Auditor, Grant Thornton UK LLP, Hartwell House, 55-61 Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6FT
EDDC:
Simon Davey, Head of Finance, EDDC, Council Offices, Knowle, Sidmouth, Devon EX10 8HL
A copy of the Audit Commission Act 1988 is here
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/18/contents
and a very useful FAQ about the workings of the Act is here:
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/about-us/frequently-asked-questions/
“No punishment for Eileen” – Exmouth Town Council shows more common sense than EDDC
Under the heading of “No punishment for Eileen” today’s Express and Echo reports that, although the EDDC Standards Board had recommended that town and district councllor Eileen Wragg (Lib Dem) be censured by the town council, they unanimously decided to ignore the “advice” and to take no action against her. This included Tory members of the town council even though it was the town’s Conservative group that reported her in the first place!
She had been accused of “being extremely rude” to former Town Mayor John Humphreys at last year’s town meeting.
She refused to attend the EDDC Standards Board meeting, branding it “an appalling waste of taxpayers’ money” and saying she had “real life things” to do.
For two diametrically opposite views on this see:
http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/exmouth-life/if_you_can_t_take_criticism_resign_1_3609931
or
http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/exmouth-life/a_sorry_affair_1_3600292
More on EDDC’s ‘joint body’ at tonight’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee ( Thurs 12 June, 6.30pm at Knowle)
The O&S Committee seem to have forgotten the still simmering issue of EDDC’s close connections with the old East Devon Business Forum (now vaporised), which Chief Executive Mark Williams famously described as a “joint body” with his Council.
But the CEO, who shares his task with South Somerset District Council, is busy with this other joint body …See the item 12 EDDC/SSDC joint Working Initiatives, on tonight’s agenda.
12 June 2014, 6.30 p.m. Knowle – Overview and Scrutiny meeting Agenda HERE.
George Osborne has finally discovered brownfield sites!
Hurrah! Guess he doesn’t come across them much …..
East Devon Watch 