Meeting Date: AGM 9th May 2022
Venue: Withersdale Village Hall
Time: 7.30pm
- Committee Members
- Dennis Pye, Vice Chair, Present
- Thelma Brown, Resigned
- Yvonne Lidgate, Chair, Present
- Jimmy Kent, Present
- Richard Mattocks, Absent
- Sally Mckinnon, Present
- Mark Shortt, Present
In attendance: Lavinia Hadingham
Clerk: Liz Frere-Smith
- 1. Public Forum & Reports from Councillors – Report provided by Dennis Pye Chairman’s report. DP public thanked TB for her support as vice chair as she confirmed that she would be stepping down as a member of the committee this year.
- 2. Pecuniary Interest – None Declared
- 3. Minutes from previous meeting - Agreed as correct
- 4. Election of Chair
DP nominated YL as the Chair
SM seconded that decision - 5. Election of Vice Chair
DP nominated as Vice Chair
MS seconded that decision
YL gave her public thanks for all the DP had undertaken on behalf of the community and is looking forwards to continue to work with him closely during the next year. - 6. Finances
- Exemption certificate – Clerk confirmed the details of the required exemption certificate as part of the annual accounts return.
- Cheques – Clerk requested payment of the following invoices
- Reimbursement for laptop £490.80
- Salary £609.60
- HMRC £152.20
- SALC payroll costs £22.80
- SALC subscription costs £266.60
- Mendham Primary School hire £10
- DP and MS to be finance signatories and clerk would continue to chase up Barclays for the online banking service to streamline procedures.
- 7. Correspondence – All distributed electronically
- 8. Lorry Speeding report – YL explained the outcome of the request for road changes which have deemed to be unnecessary. She would continue to press for improvements to the roads.
- 9. Any other business.
- Bus shelter roof needs re-felting – MS has the felt and will complete this task asap
- SM would like to oversee the footpaths as part of her role.
- JK reminded that the bridge still hadn’t been reinstated across one of his fields and this was causing issues with walkers leaving gates undone and going the incorrect way.
- Continued closure of the Low Road was causing problems in the neighbourhood including the closure of the Marsh Larder. There was no confirmed date of repair and there was continued argument between departments regarding responsibility and costs.
- 3 current vacancies closing date 20th May
Notices then need to go up for 2 weeks for applications, clerk to collate replies accordingly.
- 10. Meeting dates
Venue Mendham Primary School
7pm- 18th July 2022
- 19th September 2022
- 21st November 2022
- 16th January 2023
- 20th March 2023
The meeting closed at: 8.00pm
Signed by Chair: …………………………………………………. Date: ………………………...........