Please Note
Note 2 to Note 28 on page 73 of the Statement of Accounts 2023/4 (Appendix 2 of Agenda Item 4) incorrectly states that the service of the former Chief Fire Officer ended on 15th January 2024. The correct date of 24th January 2024 was included in the draft Statement of Accounts presented to Audit and Risk Committee on 26th July 2024. This was incorrectly changed to state 15th January 2024 as a result of a clerical error in the course of the audit of the accounts. This error does not affect the understanding of the financial position of WMFS and will be corrected in the comparative data for 2023/24 which will be included in the accounts for 2024/25.
Under Section 2, Paragraph 6.1 n) of the Authority Constitution, the committee may "consider any other items of business, not on the agenda, but which the person presiding is of the opinion should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency." In this instance the two urgent papers are supplementary to the Audit Findings report and Statement of Accounts to be considered under Item 4 of the agenda.