2 January 2025 Finance & Budget
CHAPEL ST LEONARDS PARISH COUNCIL
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE FINANCE & BUDGET COMMITTEE
Monday, 6th January 2025 at 10.00am
Present: Cllr S. Whitmore (Chair), Cllr G. Ward,
Cllr B. Holmes, Cllr P. Robinson
In Attendance: Cllr D. Wilson, Cllr P. Hamilton, Cllr. C. Briggs
Assistant Parish Clerk: Mrs. V. Worley
The Chair welcomed and thanked all present to the meeting. Cllr C. Jude was absent from the meeting and sent his apologies. There had been no minutes for approval from the previous committee meeting.
FBC01/01-25 Internal Control to be completed 1st week of January 2025
Internal Control completed.
FBC02/01-25 To improve the documentation of how the finances are
operated in the office leading to being put onto the computer.
Items inputted and descriptions.
This item will be carried forward to the next Finance & Budget
Committee Meeting.
FBC03/01-25 Methods of control for payments correlating to the Bank and
Scribe.
This item will be carried forward to the next Finance & Budget
Committee Meeting.
FBC04/01-25 Update on Cllr Whitmore being on the Lloyds Bank Account.
Cllr Whitmore informed the Committee that she had received an
Email from Lloyds but as yet, she was not a signee.
FBC05/01-25 To discuss systems of authorising payments out of the office
and amounts.
FBC06/01-25 Brief discussion of how to go forward efficiently.
This item will be forwarded to the next Finance & Budget Committee
Meeting.
FBC07/01-25 Budget Setting/Precept
Members of the Committee thoroughly discussed the precept and
looked through financial figures and details of payments, incomings
and outgoings of previous and the present year as produced by the
Assistant Parish Clerk through Scribe.
The Chair called for a vote from Members of the Committee as to
whether the Precept should be raised or stay at the same amount.
It was unanimously resolved for the Precept to remain the same as
the previous year.
FBC08/01-25 Date and time of next meeting.
To be advised.
The Meeting concluded at 11.15am.