Meeting: Finance Committee
Meeting Date: Monday 18th March 2024 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 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 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 11th December 2023.
Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 11th December 2023.
5 REVIEW OF YEAR-TO-DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
To review the committee’s income and expenditure year to date and the council summary income and expenditure year to date.
Attachments (2) – Finance Committee IE Report 11/03/24 and Council Summary IE Report 11/03/24
6 INTERNAL AUDIT WORKING GROUP REPORT
To consider the internal audit working group report for 2023/24 Q3.
Attachment – Report F-23-11 IAWG Report Q3
7 INTERIM INTERNAL AUDITOR’S REPORT 2023/24
To note the interim report of the Internal Auditor for 2023/24.
Attachment – Interim Internal Auditor’s Report 2023/24
8 BUDGET SETTING TIMETABLE
To consider the approval of a formal budget setting timetable
Attachment – Report F-23-12 Budget Setting Timetable
9 OUTSTANDING MATTERS LOG AND COMMITTEE WORKPLAN
To note that no matters are outstanding on the log and to note the committee workplan for the next twelve months.
Attachment – Finance Committee workplan (March 2024)
10 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK
An opportunity for members to raise questions relevant to the work of the committee to the Town Clerk
11 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING
To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 3rd June 2024.
12 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 and to consider the write off of a bad debt.