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Meeting Minutes:

Finance and Governance

Meeting Date: Monday 10 Oct 2022
Time: 19:30
Councillors Jon Aldridge, Angela Baker, Sarah Compton, Alan Damodaran, Michael Gemmell Smith, 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
Notes:
Summary:

Apologies were received, noted and accepted from Cllrs Sumner and Todd

Resolved: that the minutes of the Finance Committee meeting held on 18 July 2022 be duly signed by the Chairman as a true and accurate record of the meeting; pages 9758-9760.

Members, Ratified: the expenditure to the 31 August 2022.

Members, Resolved: the list of expenditure payments

Ratified: the expenditure over £500 up to 31 August 2022

Ratified: the income to the 31 August 2022.

Members received and, Resolved: the financial Income and Expenditure comparisons budget up to the 31 August 2022

Members received and, Resolved: the Income and Expenditure Account to the 31 August 2022

Members received and Resolved: the Consolidated Balance Sheet to the 31 August 2022.

Members received and, Resolved: the Financial Summary Report Cashbook to the 31 August 2022.

Cllrs Lloyd and Sumner confirmed they had seen the reconciliations.

Members Ratified: the Bank Reconciliation statements and Procurement Card statements for July and August 2022.

Members, Ratified: the transfers into, out of and between bank accounts.

Nothing to report.

Members discussed the budget comparison report and said that it was not clear to understand easily if council was on budget/target. The RFO said she would look at the EDGE reports to see if this report could be presented in a different format.

The Lloyds Bank account should be closed by the next meeting, members were asked to approve transferring the balance of £128667.40 into the CCLA account.

Members Resolved: to transfer of funds to the CCLA account?

This was received and noted at the Town Council meeting on the 3 October 2022, the Town Clerk and RFO where again thanked for their work with the end-of-year accounts and AGAR

Members Resolved: the legal fees of £1000 towards the potential Land transfer if required.

14 November 2022