June 2022 Minutes
Anwick Parish Council
Minutes of Anwick Parish Council meeting held in Tuesday 7th June 2022, 6.45pm in Anwick Community Centre, River Lane, Anwick.
In attendance:- Cllr. T Curtis Chair, Cllr. E Coulson Vice Chair, Cllr. L Curtis, Cllr. R Greetham, Jeanne Flanagan Clerk to Anwick Parish Council, M Jacobs, R Coulson and C Pollington residents of Anwick.
1. Apologies for absence and reasons given – Cllr. M Head and Cllr. A Key due to previous meetings.
2. To receive any declarations of interest and to consider for dispensation in relation to DPI’s.
Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non Pecuniary Interests to be in accordance with Localism Declaration to consider any applications for dispensations are relation of DPI’s. The need for declaration to be based upon agenda items or at any suitable time during the meeting when it becomes apparent to a member. - There were none given.
3. Notes of the Anwick Parish Council meeting held on 26th April 2022 – already emailed to the Councillors – Were agreed as a true record, then signed and dated by the Chair. The Clerk to include on the Anwick Parish Council website.
ACTION:- JF
4. Queen’s Jubilee Celebration – ‘Picnic in the Park’ 4th June 2022 update – The Clerk has made arrangements to meet with one of the organisers and report back how the event went to the next meeting scheduled in July 2022.
ACTION:- JF
5. Revision of grass cutting for the cemetery – Due to tof grass cutting in the cemetery it was reported to the Clerk that the whole of the grass cutting in the cemetery is now required. M Jacobs has agreed to undertake this much extended grass cutting and the Parish Council AGREED to pay £100.00 to Martin for this extra work. In order to achieve this a strimmer will be purchased that will be suitable for the extra work involved around the Headstones etc. Cllr. T Curtis and M Jacobs to look at a suitable piece of equipment.
ACTION:- TC/MJ
6. Finance – Spreadsheet as at end of April 2022 – This spreadsheet had already been emailed to the Cllrs, which was AGREED, signed and dated by the Chair.
The Clerk had finalised the year end accounts and the following completed forms were AGREED, signed and dated by the Chair:-
Certificate of Exemption – AGAR 2021/22 Form
Annual Internal Audit report 2021/22
Section 1 Annual Governance Statement 2021/22
Section 2 Accounting Statements 2021/22
The Clerk to send the Certificate of Exemption to PKF Littlejohn – Government Accountants
The Clerk to have the above papers on the Anwick Parish website.
POST MEETING NOTE
The Clerk has produced a ‘Notice of Public Rights’ Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2022 which has been displayed and included on the website.
ACTION:- JF
7. Any Other Business
7.1 Reference was made to a flood on the A153 adjacent to the bus stop and whether it was a collapsed drain. Cllr. T Curtis agreed to log on to the LCC Highways website to report the problem. The reference number to be passed to Cllr. A Key.
ACTION:- TC
7.2 The problem with vehicles parking on the road to Wood Lane, even though there are double yellow lines painted on the road. A suggestion was to have concrete bollards but this would be deemed as a high risk. Or a raised bed planted with flowers or shrubs. Cllr. T Curtis to raise this issue with Cllr. A Key.
ACTION:- TC
7.3 It was advised that Resus Training will be taking place on 10th June 2022, 10.00am for up to five people in the Community Centre. Another session will be organised in September 2022.
7.4 An accident took place in River Lane and a suggestion was made whether a mirror could be installed at the junction. Another suggestion was to have a flashing sign at the junction.
7.5 The Clerk to contact Leanne Artley in order to look at refurbishing the kitchen in the Community Centre.
POST MEETING NOTE:- This has been arranged for Monday 11th July 2022 6.00pm with The Clerk, Cllr. L Curtis and Leanne.
Another area of improvement would be to have blinds installed for the main windows in the hall.
7.6 The issue of weeds growing over the footpath adjacent to Forman’s Lane and Anwick Drive was raised. The resident C Pollington very kindly volunteered to strim these.
7.7 Another issue was that the property next to the park has been burning rubbish in the garden. The Clerk to contact Cllr. M Head for his advice how to deal with this situation.
ACTION:- MH/JF
8. Date, time and venue of next meeting:-
Tuesday 19th July 2022, 6.30pm in Anwick Community Centre.