Issue - meetings

To consider an update to the Council’s Write Off Policy.

(Report attached)

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the draft Write Off Policy included at Appendix 1 to the report be approved; and

2)         the Council’s Scheme of Delegation to Officers and Financial Regulations be amended accordingly.

Members received a report within which was an amended policy for the write off of debts due to the authority.

A recent LEAN processing review had identified a number of weaknesses in the existing system for writing off debts, primarily in the sense that the process was unnecessarily lengthy and required too many levels of authorisation.

Members agreed that the regular reports received by the Committee in this regard served little useful purpose.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the draft Write Off Policy included at Appendix 1 to the report be approved; and

2)         the Council’s Scheme of Delegation to Officers and Financial Regulations be amended accordingly.