FE012/09 | Present: Cllrs. Woodman; Goff; Bates; Kay; Osselton; Peach; Savin; Smith. F.Sawyer (Minutes Secretary)
5 members of the public: one member of the press | Action |
| - The Chairman informed members that the Clerk’s father had died that morning.
- The Chairman had asked Peter Goff to take over as Chair for the time being as he was heavily committed with domestic responsibilities.
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012/09.1 | Apologies; Clerk (bereavement) | |
012/09.2 | Declarations of interest: Cllr Peach (re Youth Club trustee) | |
012/09.3 | Review of budget 2010-11 | |
| - Cllr Goff went through the budget headings, giving explanations where needed. There was discussion of some items which lead to the agreement that the item ‘rent for new building’ be removed from the budget and ‘street lighting’ added to the general maintenance budget. Cllr Kay asked that this budget heading be altered to read Street Lighting’ in future. This gives a revenue surplus of £683.
A member of the public audience, Len Potts asked to speak to the budget and this was accepted by members present. He stated that he had picked up the Clerk’s working papers after an earlier meeting and found that £10,000 of General reserve had disappeared. - In the absence of the Clerk, there were no accurate figures for the forecast reserves at the end of financial 2009, but Cllr Woodman estimated that the General Reserve would be about £15,000. The council should not hold more than 3-6 months precept in the reserves.
- Cllr Smith wishes to uncommit to the expenditure previously agreed to the HFWP, because of ‘a hole’ in the accounts. . Cllr Peach said that uncommitting from agreed expenditure could not be done at this meeting.
- Cllr Bates said that if there was any dubiety about the accounts there should be no expenditure until the January meeting, apart from contractual payments.
- Various suggestions were made for looking at the accounts, ranging from a panel of councillors to an external auditor (CO/RS). A proposal that Cllrs Goff and Savin carry out this work was rejected
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012/09.4 | Agreement to precept Cllr Bates said that if the precept was not agreed at the meeting, the council would lose most if its income. Any further review should take place after the beginning of January. Cllr Woodman proposed the 0% increase precept, Cllr Savin seconded. Carried unanimously | |
012/09.5 | Review of the presentation of budget figures
This item held over to 2010 | |
