NOTICE OF A MEETING OF NORTHILL PARISH COUNCIL
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Dear Sir/Madam
Notice is hereby given a meeting of Northill Parish Council will be held via a Zoom conference call (meeting ID 534-306-6108 password 123123) on Thursday 28th January 2021 at 7.30pm. All members of this Council are hereby summoned to attend for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business to be transacted at the Meeting as set out hereunder:
Dated this 22nd day of January 2021.
Lesley Rowe
Clerk
AGENDA
1. To receive apologies for absence.
2. To receive declarations of interest from councillors on items on the agenda that have not previously been registered.
2.1 To receive any written requests for dispensations for disclosable pecuniary interests.
2.2 To grant any requests for dispensations as appropriate.
3. To approve the minutes of the meetings held on 10th December 2020.
4. To receive any updates on resolutions from the last meeting. (Clerk).
5. Open forum for 10 minutes to allow members of the press and public to speak on any open agenda item.
6. Police reports November and December 2020.
7. To note minutes/reports from committees/working groups
7.1 Planning Minutes – 12th January 2021.
7.2 Finance & General Purposes Minutes – 14th January 2021
7.3 Luton Airport consultation on the change to arrival flight paths.
8 An update from Richard Fuller MP
9. Central Bedfordshire Council
9.1 To receive a report from CBC Councillor F Firth.
9.2 To consider whether to have salt delivered under the CBC Salt Bag Scheme
10 Finance
10.1 Accounts to be approved.
10.2 To consider quotes for honeycomb plastic or concrete by the bottle bank on Caldecote Green.
10.3 To consider the appointment of an Internal Auditor.
10.4 Income and Expenditure to 31st December 2020.
10.5 To consider a request from CPRE for a further donation of £100 for this year’s membership due to the impact of Covid-19 on their funds.
10.6 To consider adding a further signatory to the bank mandate.
10.7 To consider the amended wording to the Cemetery Fees as recommended by the Finance & General Purposes Committee.
10.8 To consider quotes for the felling of 6 trees in Caldecote Cemetery.
11. Parish Matters
11.1 Ickwell Green
a) To consider sending a reminder to residents of Ickwell Green regarding a contribution to the maintenance fund. b) To consider responses to letters written regarding the ditch around Ickwell Green. c) An update on a potential play area at Ickwell Green. d) To consider a different speed limit onto and off Ickwell Green. e) To consider an environmental policy for Ickwell Green/Northill due to the amount of litter being thrown onto the verges. f) Correspondence regarding various parish matters.
11.2 Update from the Redgate Track Working Party.
11.3 Caldecote Church Rooms project.
11.4 To consider putting an advert on the website for Northill Parochial Charities.
11.5 To consider where to store the sandbags and the sand for use in the event of flooding in the parish.
11.6 To consider the Lychgate renovation.
11.7 Housing Needs Survey report.
11.8 Correspondence regarding the memorial bench in Caldecote Cemetery.
12 Information and communications
12.1 General correspondence for circulation – The Clerk January 2021; Bedfordshire Matters Winter 2020; Bedfordshire Bugle January 2021.
12.2 Correspondence regarding HM Land Registry survey.
12.3 Correspondence regarding Community Led Housing – Launch Events.
13 Staff and Councillor matters.
14 Proposed Temporary Road Closure – ZUC151 from UC147 to UC150 Southill.
15 Items for the next agenda
16 To resolve that under Section 1 of the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act and in view of the confidential nature of business about to be transacted, it is advisable in the public interest that the press and public be temporarily excluded and they are instructed to withdraw whilst matters pertaining to item 17 are discussed.
17 Item in closed session
Woodland Play Area Project – Ickwell Green
18 Date of next meeting – Thursday 11th March 2021.
19 To note: – closure of meeting.
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