LITTON CHENEY PARISH COUNCIL

A Meeting of the Litton Cheney Parish Council will be held at
Litton and Thorner’s Community Hall
at 7:30pm on Tuesday 12 March 2024

1. Apologies for absence

2. Declarations of interest

3. Democratic time

4. Approval of minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on 9 January 2024

5. Matters arising since previous meeting not part of this Agenda - welcome new Parish Clerk

6. Dorset Council overview Cllr Mark Roberts (Ward Councillor for Chesil Bank)

7. Clerk’s/RFO’s report including:

· Year to date finance report (appended)

· Invoices for approval (appended)

· DAPTC commissioned videos to encourage residents to put themselves forward as local councillors. Consideration of DAPTC request for a voluntary £30 contribution towards these.

· Forthcoming PC elections nomination procedure and post election arrangements.

8. Councillors’ Portfolios: Planning (Mr Orchard, Chairman); Highways/Transport (Mr A Price); Playground/ Field/Allotments (Mr A. King); Agricultural Liaison (Mrs A. Spurrier); Footpaths/Rights of Way (Mrs A Spurrier and Mr Q Blacke); Village Fabric/ Maintenance/ DAPTC/BLAP/Administration and Probity (Mr J. Firrell); Climate Change and Environment (Ms S Hewish). Including

· Lamp Light of Peace – Cllr J Firrell

9. Planning Matters – no new applications for consideration at the time of publishing the agenda.

10. Correspondence not dealt with as part of agenda

11. Date of next meeting: The Annual Parish Assembly will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 14 May, followed by the Annual Meeting of the Parish Council

Meeting closed.

Maggie Walsh, Parish Clerk

Finance report as at 5 March 2024

Summary & year end outturn estimate: CIL receipts and items funded from reserves will mean that overall spend are significantly over budget, the net result of which will be a considerable excess of income over payments. Other revenue budgets are as anticipated with the exception of employee costs which will be £230 overspent due to a higher than anticipated pay award and the outgoing Clerk's final week's salary being paid within the current financial year instead of next

Parish funds	Total
Balance brought forward as at 1 April	£21,932.15
Income to date	£33,699.18
Expenditure to date	£18,221.25
Parish funds as at above date*	£37,410.08
* Of which the following is held in reserves or CIL (before the Queen's Bench expenditure is assigned)
Earmarked reserves	£12,000.00
CIL	£17,242.00
Playground (ringfenced)	£100.00
Community Bench Fund  (ringfenced)	£677.00
Total reserves/CIL held	£30,019.00
Approved spend since last meeting (all paid last financial year)
Employee costs	£768.88
Refund Clerk's expenses: MS 365 £11.76 (2 x months); print cartridges from Amazon £25.80	£37.56
Refund Cllr Firrell for tree lights purchased from Christmas World	£22.98
Vision ICT for website hosting	£60.00
	£889.42
Income since last meeting
Contribution from LATCH for website hosting	£50.00
Interest	£52.23
	£102.23
Invoices for approval at time of publishing agenda
DC for grass cutting	£1,148.95
Clerk's expenses MS 365 x 2 months subscription £11.76; USB key from Amazon £4.40; Royal Mail postage ££4.20	£20.36
Refund J Firrell for lamp light of peace	£55.00
Refund J Firrell for replacement glass for telephone kiosk from Bridport Tile & Glass	£10.00
	£1,234.31

Signed by Chairman

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