Meeting: Town Council Meeting
Meeting Date: Monday 8th July 2024 at 7pm
Meeting Venue: Lower Council Chamber of the Town Council Offices
Public seating will be available. The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom to enable remote public viewing and participation and a video stream will also be broadcast to Facebook. To join the meeting via Zoom, visit https://bit.ly/KTC-Meeting or use meeting ID 821 0560 5574 and password KTC-456189.
1 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
To receive apologies for absence.
2 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS
To receive declarations of personal, prejudicial and pecuniary interests from members relevant to items under discussion at the meeting.
3 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
A period of up to 15 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.
4 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES
To receive and confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 13th May.
Attachments – Minutes of the meeting held 13th May 2024
5 COMMITTEE MINUTES
To note the minutes of committees which have been published since the previous ordinary meeting and raise questions to the committee chairman:
- Assets and Operations Committee (10th June)
- Community Committee (29th April and 20th May)
- CIL Projects Advisory Committee (17th April)
- Environment and Transport Committee (15th April and 24th June)
- Finance Committee (3rd June)
- Personnel Committee (3rd June)
- Planning Committee (8th April, 29th April, 28th May, 10th June and 24th June )
- Town Centre Committee (22nd April and 17th June)
6 CHESHIRE EAST COUNCILLORS’ REPORTS
A period of up to 15 minutes to receive reports from and raise questions to Cheshire East councillors.
Attachment – Report C-24-03 Cheshire East Councillors’ Report July 2024
7 MEMBERS’ REPORTS
To receive reports from members on attendance at external meetings or events and an opportunity for members to bring matters of interest to the attention of the council for information or future discussion.
Attachment – Report C-24-04 Members’ Reports July 2024
8 APPOINTMENT OF MARJORIE HURST CHARITY TRUSTEES
To appoint trustees to the Marjorie Hurst charity.
Attachment – Report C-24-05 Marjorie Hurst Trustees
9 APPOINTMENT TO FILL PLANNING COMMITTEE VACANCY
To consider the appointment of Cllr Coan to fill the vacancy on the Planning Committee
10 CORPORATE PEER CHALLENGE
To consider a recommendation from the Personnel Committee that the council engage in a Corporate Peer Challenge with NALC/LGA and to appoint a CPC working group.
Attachment – Report C-24-06 Corporate Peer Challenge
11 PROPOSAL FOR SPRINGFIELDS ALLOTMENT SITE
To consider a proposal to utilise redundant space on Springfields for a small allotment site.
Attachment – Report C-24-07 Springfields Allotment Proposal
12 BANKING RESOLUTION
To resolve to confirm that the council’s RBS bank account should be in the name ‘Knutsford Town Council’ with a second account in the name ‘Mayor of Knutsford Fundraising Account’
13 MAYORAL DUTIES
To note the duties undertaken by or on behalf of the Town Mayor.
Attachment – Report C-24-08 Mayoral Engagements 25/03/2024 to 07/07/2024
14 PAYMENTS
To note the payments approved and made since the previous ordinary meeting.
Circulated – Payment Schedules (1st April, 22nd April, 13th May, 3rd June and 24th June) and Card Payments (01/03/2024-31/05/2024)
15 OUTSTANDING MATTERS LOG
To review the outstanding matters log.
Attachment – Full Council Outstanding Matters Log July 2024.
16 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
A period of up to 5 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.
17 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK
An opportunity for members to raise questions on any matter to the Town Clerk.
18 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING
To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 2nd September 2024 at 7:30pm.