Finance Committee Agenda – 27/04/2021

A meeting of the Finance Committee will be held on 27th April at 6:30pm .

The meeting will be conducted via Zoom and members of the public can join on the following link: (Open Zoom Meeting) The meeting will also be livestreamed to our Facebook page.

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 19^th January 2021.

Attachment – Minutes of the meeting held 19^th January 2021.

 

5 YEAR TO DATE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

To note the council’s summary income and expenditure year to date, to note the committee’s income and expenditure year to date and to note the mayoral fundraising income and expenditure year to date.

Attachments (2) – Finance Committee IE Report 20/04/21 and Council Summary IE Report 20/04/21

 

6 INTERIM INTERNAL AUDIT

To note the interim Internal Auditor’s report for the financial year 2020/21

Attachment – Interim Internal Audit Report.  

 

7 COMMUNITY GRANT AWARDS

To consider the recommendations of the Small Grants working group for the first small grants round of the financial year.

Attachment – Report F-20-04 2021/22 Small Grant Scheme Round 1 Recommendations.

 

8 COUNCIL INSURANCE POLICY

To consider the award of the council’s insurance policy

Attachment – Report F-20-05 Council Insurance Renewal

 

9 FINANCIAL IMPACT OF COVID PANDEMIC

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

Attachment – Report F-20-06 Financial Impact of COVID April 2021

 

10 INTERNAL AUDIT WORKING GROUP

To consider an update from the working group on the 2020/21 internal audit working group work and an outstanding recommendation from the 2019/20 work.

Attachment – Report F-20-07 Internal Audit working group update

 

11 QUESTIONS TO THE TOWN CLERK

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

 

12 ACTIONS LOG

To note that no actions under the committee are outstanding.

 

13 DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING

To note that the next scheduled meeting will be held on 7^th June at 7:30pm.

 

14 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 consider if any additional action is necessary to purse debts.

 

Date of Notice – 20th April 2021