A meeting of the Knutsford Town Council Finance Committee will be held on 4th October 2021 at 7:00pm in the Lower Council Chamber.

Limited public seating will be available. The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom to enable remote public viewing and participation and livestreamed to Facebook. To join the meeting via Zoom, click here:   or use meeting ID 821 0560 5574 and password KTC-456189.

AGENDA

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 committee meeting held on 27th April.

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 27th April 2021

 

5 REVIEW OF YEAR-TO-DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

To review the committee’s income and expenditure year to date, the council summary income and expenditure year to date and the Mayor’s Charity Fundraising receipts/payments year to date.

Attachments (3) – Finance Committee IE Report 29/09/21, Council Summary IE Report 29/09/21 and Mayor’s Charity Fundraising Summary 29/09/21.

 

6 FINANCIAL IMPACT OF COVID PANDEMIC

To review the impact of the pandemic on the council’s finances.

Attachment – Report F-21-07 Financial Impact of COVID September 2021

 

7 AUDIT 2020/21

To note the Internal Auditor’s report and External Auditor’s report

 Attachments (2) – Internal Audit Report 2020/21 and External Audit Report 2020/21

 

8 COUNCIL CREDIT CARD

To consider the credit limit and number of cards.

Attachment – Report F-21-08 Council Credit Card

 

9 COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE LEVY MONITORING REPORT

To note the CIL Monitoring Report for the financial year ending 31st March 2021.

Attachment – CIL Annual Monitoring Report 2020/21

 

10 COMMITTEE BUDGET 2022/23

To consider the draft committee budget 2022/23.

Attachments (2) –Report F-21-09 Finance Committee Budget and Draft Finance Committee Budget

 

11 RATIFICATION OF DECISIONS TAKEN UNDER DELEGATED AUTHORITY

To ratify decisions taken by the Town Clerk during the suspension of formal meetings pursuant to the resolution of Council 21/011.

Attachment – Report F-21-10 Finance Committee Delegated Decisions

 

12 CREDIT MANAGEMENT POLICY

To consider the amendment of section 2.4 of the policy to read “For the council’s primary accounts, no manual invoices should be issued and all invoices must be in the format output from the accounting system. For the Mayoral Fundraising accounts all invoices must be in the format prescribed by the Town Clerk.”

 

13 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK

An opportunity for members to raise questions relevant to the work of the committee to the Town Clerk

 

14 ACTIONS LOG

To note that no actions under the committee are outstanding.

 

15 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 29th November 2021 at 7:30pm.

 

16 OUTSTANDING DEBTORS

 

To resolve to exclude the public and press on the grounds that publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest by reason of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted.

 

To review the council’s outstanding debtor report.

 

Date of Notice – 29/09/2021