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Establishment of Appointments Panel for Independent Lay Member recruitment

We’ve set up a group to hire an independent community member for the Audit Committee, and they’ll pick the best candidate to recommend to the Council.

Audit Committee·2026-05-22·Resolved

Plain-English summaries and outcome labels are Cornwall Political Watch's own AI extractions from the published minutes, not Cornwall Council wording. Where a “From the minutes” quote is shown, it is verbatim from the minutes the outcome was extracted from.

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An Appointments Panel was established to undertake a recruitment process for an independent lay Member to the Audit Committee, with authority delegated to the Panel to select candidates and make recommendations to Council.

From the minutes

It was moved by Councillor German, seconded by Councillor Boase and RESOLVED that 1. That an Appointments Panel, comprising of three Audit Committee Members, including the Chairman of the Committee be established to undertake a recruitment process for an independent lay Member; and 2. That authority be delegated to the Appointments Panel...

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