Millom Town Council
Finance Committee Minutes
Meeting held on Friday 10th January 2020 at 10.00am in the Council Offices
Present: Mayor Cllr Angela Dixon (AD), Cllr Ruth Peter (RP), Cllr Barbara Crellin (BC), Cllr J Jakubowski (JJ), Cllr T Dixon (TD), Cllr R Kelly (RK) and Clerk Vicky Bradley
183/19 Apologies
Cllr T Fitzwilliam and Cllr J Brown
184/19 Declarations of Interest
None.
185/19 Precept – To Give Preliminary Consideration for the 2020/21 Precept Requirement
Cllr T Dixon thanked the clerk for preparing a draft budget for the 2020/21 year. Cllr T Dixon has looked thoroughly at the figures and the following comments and adjustments were made:
- Our headline draft figure is £133,480 – 10.8% which equates to approximately 3% of the total council tax. In monetary terms that means weekly amount for band D of £1.27 and band A 85p. It was noted that MTC are now subsidising more services in the area to keep these available.
- Our key aims in the coming year are: possibly revamp both toilets units, MUGA resurfacing & re-fenced, possible new items at Haverigg Park, the bus service will continue and maybe expanding.
- The committee went through each heading and the main changes were:
- Donations increase to £3000 to allow MTC to help more charities
- Seats and paths been changed to town maintenance and to increase to £500 to help assist HMP with the community work by supplying materials etc.
- Training and sundries up to £1500 to allow for clerk training and new councillor training
- Christmas lights – the contract is due for renewal this year so the figure is been kept to allow for new lights
- Project costs increased to £10k to allow us to carry out some of our key aims
- Xmas market – MTC now have 10 market stalls that are available for locals to hire out if they so wish at local events – Clerk to advertise this.
- All other costs were kept in line with current expenditure
- After all the adjustments the new figure for the precept was £131,680 which gives a % increase from last year of £9.27% which equates to band D £5.73 per year (£1.10 per wk.) and band A £3.18 per year (73p per wk.) – This figure will be agreed at full council on 29th January.
186/19 To Agree to Add CCTV onto Insurance Policy
The clerk has received a quote of approximately £107.44 – All AGREED
Action: Clerk to contact insurance company to confirm
187/19 Footway Lighting
The Clerk informed the meeting that she had received a letter regarding Copeland’s policy on footway lighting. It was agreed that we needed more information regarding which lights are affected and this is to be placed on the agenda for discussion.
Action: Clerk to place on agenda
The meeting closed at 11.15am
Meeting held on Friday 10th January 2020 at 10.00am in the Council Offices
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V Bradley, Clerk
Cllr A Dixon, Mayor………………………………………………………………………….
