Appointment Of Audit & Risk Committee External Member

Okay. Hello, Councillors, so this report is recommending the appointment of Ian Rushworth as the new member of the Audit and Risk Committee. There are two external members on the committee. The other two members are two Councillors, currently the Mayor and Councillor Wegener. The previous incumbent of the role was Kerry Phillips and her term ended in March, so we put out an and expression of we received 35 applications, and they were shortlisted to five, and those five were interviewed and assessed, and Ian came out as the preferred candidate, so a little bit of background to Ian is that he's currently head of internal audit with the department of children, youth, justice and multicultural affairs. He's quite experienced in this space and I've been advised by the selection panel that he does have a strong understanding of ICT and cyber security. Issues so so the report is primarily dealing with the appointment. What it also flags though is that we're currently undertaking a review of the effectiveness of the Audit and Risk Committee and that's being done independently and it's really appropriate because. QAO have actually identified that the effectiveness of audit and risk committees is really important going forward so that review has just commenced it's an independent review and we're also looking at our internal audit function and independent review of that the same firm is doing it so the reason I'm raising that is that we're expecting that there will be a number of recommendations that will come from that review and it may highlight opportunities for us to improve the operations of the committee it might be numbers of members makeup of the committee it's etc so that's something to further consider the actual membership of the committee is dealt with in a charter for the Audit and Risk Committee so and that's a Council resolved policy changes to the committee and the makeup etc will require a change to the charter and that will that would require so a further report coming to Council for further consideration so I just wanted to highlight that because that is happening as well.

Tom Wegener248:26

I was on the committee that interviewed him and he was you know I'll just everybody gave him a very high score right off the bat and the last audit risk committee said look you really need to look at your ICT you have to look at property you have to look at you know the potential for you know going wrong in there and so this person just seemed to be the perfect person at the time to show up and take on the new audit risk committee member.