Issue - meetings

            The Board received a report of the Strategic Director, Community and Resources, which outlined the work of the Tree Working Group. In 2015 Internal Audit issued a report on their audit of the tree inspection and management. They identified a number of the recommendations made by the previous Tree Working Group which had not been fully implemented. It was reported that the Tree Working Group had subsequently held six meetings and revisited four of the seven recommendations previously made to the Board in 2013. The detailed findings and recommendations of the Tree Working Group were set out in the report.

            The Board agreed that recommendations a, b, d and e of the Tree Working Group, as set out on page 78 of the report, be forwarded to Executive Board for approval. In respect of recommendation c, it was agreed that the Chair of the Board would seek clarification regarding the publics’ right of appealing to the Board in respect of the decision of the Divisional Manager.

            RESOLVED: That recommendations a, b, d and e as set out on page 78 of the report of the Tree Working Group be forwarded to Executive Board for approval.