Annual Town Council Meeting Agenda – 13th May 2024

Meeting: Annual Town Council Meeting
Meeting Date: Monday 13th May 2024 at 7pm
Meeting Venue: Manor Park School, Manor Park North, Knutsford

Public seating will be available. The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom to enable remote public listening and participation and an audio stream will also be broadcast to Facebook. To join the meeting via Zoom, visit  or use meeting ID 821 0560 5574 and password KTC-456189.

1 ELECTION OF THE TOWN MAYOR

To elect the Town Mayor and receive their declaration of acceptance of office.

 

2 ELECTION OF THE DEPUTY TOWN MAYOR

To elect the Deputy Town Mayor and receive their declaration of acceptance of office.

 

3 APPOINTMENT OF THE MAYOR’S CADET

The Town Mayor shall announce the appointment of the Mayor’s Cadet.

 

4 APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES TO OUTSIDE BODIES

To appoint members to represent the council on external bodies

Attachment: Report C-24-01 Proposed External Representative Appointments

 

5 APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES, SUB-COMMITTEES AND BANK SIGNATORIES

To appoint members and Chairman/Deputy Chairman of the council’s committees and sub-committees, to confirm the council’s bank signatories.

Attachment: Report C-24-02 Proposed Committee Memberships 

 

6 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive apologies for absence.

 

7 DECLARATIONS OF MEMBERS’ INTERESTS

To receive declarations of personal, prejudicial and pecuniary interests from members relevant to items under discussion at the meeting.

 

8 STATEMENT FROM THE NEWLY ELECTED TOWN MAYOR

To receive a statement from the newly elected Town Mayor.

 

9 STATEMENT FROM THE OUTGOING TOWN MAYOR

To receive a statement from the retiring Town Mayor.

To record a vote of thanks to the retiring Town Mayor.

 

10 CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

To receive and confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 25^th March 2024.

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 25^th March 2024

 

11 ANNUAL GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REVIEW

To approve the annual governance statements 2023/24.

To approve the annual accounting statements 2023/24.

Attachment – Draft Annual Governance and Accountability Review sections 1 and 2 

 

12 MAYORAL ALLOWANCE

To approve a sum of £800 to be paid to the Town Mayor for the civic year 2024/25.

 

13 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

A period not exceeding 15 minutes for members of the public to ask questions or submit comments.

 

14 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on Monday 8^th July 2024 at 7pm.