Meeting: Town Council Meeting
Meeting Date: Wednesday 13th January 2025 at 7:00pm
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 November 2024.
Attachments – Minutes of the meeting held 13th November 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.
All minutes have been published on the Town Council website.
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-24-20 Cheshire East Councillors’ Report January 2025
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-24-21 Members’ Reports January 2025
8 KNUTSFORD HERITAGE CENTRE ANNUAL GRANT VALUE
To determine the value of the grant to Knutsford Heritage Centre for the 2025/2026 financial years.
Attachment – Report C-24-22 Knutsford Heritage Centre Annual Grant
9 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY PARADE
To consider whether to change the order of services on Remembrance Sunday to revert to parading to a service at St John’s Church instead of parading to the Centennial War Memorial.
Attachment – Report C-24-23 Remembrance Sunday Parade
10 CORPORATE PEER CHALLENGE
To receive the Corporate Peer Challenge report and an update from the working group.
Attachments (2) – Report C-24-24 Corporate Peer Challenge and Corporate Peer Challenge Report
11 STRATEGIC PLAN ACTIONS 2024/25 and 2025/26
To consider an update on progress in delivery against the current year action plan and the agreed actions for 2025/26
Attachment – Report C-24-25 Strategic Plan January 2025 Report
12 COUNCIL BUDGET AND PRECEPT 2025/26
To approve the council budget, reserves and precept for the financial year commencing 1st April 2025.
Attachments (2) – Report C-24-26 Council Budget 2025/26 and Draft Council Budget 2025/26
13 MAYORAL DUTIES
To note the duties undertaken by or on behalf of the Town Mayor.
Attachment – Report C-24-27 Mayoral Engagements 22/10/2024 to 12/01/2025
14 PAYMENTS
To note the payments approved and made since the previous ordinary meeting.
Circulated – Payment Schedules (4th November, 25th November and 16th December) and Card Payments (01/10/2024-31/12/2024)
15 OUTSTANDING MATTERS LOG
To review the outstanding matters log.
Attachment – Full Council Outstanding Matters Log January 2025.
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 17th March 2025 at 7pm.