Meeting: Finance Committee
Meeting Date: Monday 1st December 2025 at 6:30pm
Meeting Venue: Lower Council Chamber, 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 5 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 committee meeting held on 15th September 2025.

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 15th September 2025.

 

5 LARGE GRANT SCHEME APPLICATIONS

To consider applications under the council’s Large Grant Scheme:

  1. Toft Cricket Club
  2. Stable Minds
  3. Gauntlet Birds of Prey

To note the referral of an application from Knutsford Royal May Day application to Full Council for consideration as a multi-year funding agreement.

Attachments (5) – Report F-25-07 Large Grant Applications, Toft Cricket Club Grant Application, Stable Minds Grant Application, Gauntlet Birds of Prey Grant Application and Knutsford Royal May Day Committee.

 

6 COUNCIL BUDGET ENGAGEMENT

To consider output from the consultation on the council’s draft budget.

Attachment – Report F-25-08 Budget Engagement Summary

 

7 RESERVES POLICY

To review the council’s reserves policy and consider approval of proposed changes.

To consider a recommendation from the Town Centre Committee with respect to the Play Areas reserve.

To consider a recommendation from the Personnel Committee with respect to a pay reserve.

Attachments (2) – Report F-25-09 Reserves Policy and Draft Revised Reserves Policy

 

8 COUNCIL BUDGET 2026/27

To consider the draft council budget for the 2026/27 financial year and recommend a budget, precept and reserve allocations to Full Council

Attachments (2) – Report F-25-10 Draft Council Budget 2026-27 and Draft Council Budget 2026-27

 

9 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 8th December 2025.