Agenda – Parish Council Meeting 14th Mar 2018

STOKE LACY PARISH COUNCIL

 

Dear Councillor

You are summoned to attend the meeting of the Parish Council to be held on Wednesday 14^thMarch 2018 in Stoke Lacy Village Hall at 7.30pm.

Yours sincerely

A.P

.Westwood                                                                                                7th March 2018

Clerk

AGENDA

18/14 To accept apologies for absence

 

18/15 To receive Declarations of Interest on Agenda items and written dispensation requests for disclosable pecuniary interests

 

18/16 To approve the Minutes of the previous Meeting of Council held onWednesday 10th January 2018

 

18/17 Ward Councillor’s and Police reports

18/17i Ward Councillor Jonathan Lester

18/17ii CSO Susan Berrett

                       

18/18 Public Participation

Members of the public may speak on other agenda items if invited to do so by the Chairman

 

18/19 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations)

To set up a GDPR Working Group to consider NALC’s GDPR Toolkit and report back to the next meeting of the Parish Council (com;iance date: 25^thMay 2018)

 

18/20 Finance:

Current Account balance as at 1^stMarch 2018: £6848.90

18/20 i. To approve accounts from 1^stJanuary to 28^thFebruary 2018 as distributed

18/20 ii Accounts for approval and payment:

• Lengthsman’s account of £699.60 (inc. £116.60 VAT) for works along Gravel Pit Lane, & gutter clearing along Stoke Lane and lane to Little Cowarne
• HALC Subs for 2018/19: £374.41 (inc £62.40 VAT)
• Second half of grant to Stoke Lacy Village Hall of £500
• To consider and approve request from Cider Press for grant of £200
• Note payment of Clerk’s half-yearly salary and tax and £5 expenses
• To discuss and approve ex gracia payment of up to £150to Mr Ryan Skyrme for snow clearance
• To appoint an internal auditor
• To authorise the Clerk to purchase a laptop and scanner for the Parish Council from the funds provided by central government in order to comply with GDPR

18/20 iii Costs for purchasing SIDs

 

18/21 Planning Applications

180287 & 180288The Hopkilns Woodend Lane: Solar panels; 180589:Bramble Cottage, Stoke Lacy (A465) addition of 2^ndstorey to cottage;174590The Maltings, Woodend Lane: Solar panels

Dealt with under Minor Planning Applications Policy.  The Parish Council had no objections to any of the above.

 

18/22 To discuss hosting Coffee Morning at church; date t.b.a.

 

18/23To note Information Sheet

18/23 i HALC courses and emails from Anthony Bush as already emailed

18/23 ii Clerk’s course on compliance with new Government Regulations

 

18/24 To receiveMatters for consideration for next Agenda

 

Date of forthcoming meetings:

Annual Meetings:

Wednesday 9th May: Parish meeting at 7.30pm; Parish Council Meeting at 8pm, both in StokeLacy Village Hall

Lampacre Cottage, Stoke Lacy, Bromyard, HR7 4HD.  01885 4902