Finance and Governance — 27 September 2021
Meeting Agenda
| Meeting Date: | Monday 27 Sep 2021 |
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| Time: | 18:30 |
| Councillors | Jon Aldridge, Angela Baker, Sarah Compton, Alan Damodaran, Alan Layland, Nick Lloyd Chairman, Stuart McGregor, Stephen Sumner Vice-Chairman, Bob Todd. |
| Committee: | Finance and Governance |
| Venue: | Rickards Hall. 72a High Street Edenbridge, TN8 5AR Kent |
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| Summary: |
Agenda
Minutes
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The disclosure must include the nature of the interest. If an interest becomes apparent to a member during the course of a meeting that has not been disclosed under this item, the member must immediately disclose it.
To approve the Financial Income and Expenditure Statements as of the 30 June 2021
Do Members/ the Committee ratify the attached report?
| 5_1 Invoiced Expenditure Transactions.pdf |
Do Members/ the Committee approve the attached payment?
| 5_2 Payment Run.pdf |
Do Members/ the Committee receive the attached report?
| 5_3 Invoiced Income Transactions.pdf |
Do Members/ the Committee accept the attachedreport?
| 5_4 Consolidated Balance sheet.pdf |
Do Members/ the Committee accept the attached reports?
| 5_5 Financial Budget Comparison.pdf |
Do Members/ the Committee confirm and accept the attached reports?
| 5_6 Expenditure.pdf |
Do Members/ the Committee approve and accept the attached report?
Do Members/ the Committee note and accept the attached report?
Do Members/ the Committee accept the above report?
| 5_9 Expenditure over 500.pdf |
Covid-19 resident’s shopping: To provide an update on the outstanding invoices for residents shopping. The majority of invoices have been paid, but there are still three elderly residents who have not paid; approximately £700 outstanding (as accounted in
2020/21). Office resources have been 2 stretched, but efforts are being made to recover this money. An update will be given to the Finance Committee. As a reminder, at the beginning of the pandemic, it became apparent that the Council had to take on responsibility to provide shopping and ‘payment facilities’ in the interim on for vulnerable residents who were unable to access cash. At the regular Covid-19 emergency meetings, it was agreed that up to £1k may be used for unexpected shopping/resident support, but that residents would be expected to reimburse the council once the restrictions were lifted.
The Council grant application process is now open for this year, closing date for applications is the 1 November 2021
The request for the Rates for the Public toilets to be reassed by Sevenoaks District Council has been refused, we will be looking into this with the Valuation Office, KALC and NALC.
One option for you would be to raise via your KALC Area Committee to look at this as a pan parish issue and raise local political pressure. The other option for you as a Direct Access Council with NALC would be to contact NALC Legal for a formal legal view. As you know this was something of a NALC campaign and so they should be in a good position to offer you legal advice on how best to proceed. NALC will also have a national perspective that should be valuable.
The AGAR has been signed off by the External Auditors. There is a query that the Asset Value which is recoded as the Valuation rather than Insurance Value, see the comment of the AGAR which we are disappointed that it has been recorded as ‘The AGAG was not accurately completed before submission for Review’ both the Internal and External Auditors were contacted with regards to this, and both agreed that we were able to use ‘any reasonable valuation method’.
| AGAR.pdf |
Eden Christian Trust will not be applying for a grant from the Town Council this year. We were very fortunate to have been the chosen charity in the Sevenoaks District to be awarded the Centenary Grant from the Kent Community Foundation. This has boosted our finances this year and enabled us to continue to provide the much-needed activities for our local young people.
We thank the Town Council for their help in the past, which has allowed us to provide high quality services in the town and hope that they will be able to help in the future when needed.
15 November 2021