Agenda Annual Finance and Policies Review Meeting January 2022

THE ANNUAL FINANCE MEETING FOR BOZEAT PARISH COUNCIL WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, 10^th JANUARY 2022 AT BOZEAT TLC, DYCHURCH LANE, BOZEAT, NN29 7JP, AT 7pm. UNLESS OTHERWISE ADVISED. 

*please note that meetings may be recorded.

A G E N D A

1. To consider accepting apologies for absence.

2. To accept declarations of interest from members of the Council for items included on the agenda.

3. Employees.
4. to review the following salaries [please refer to the report and summary of salaries].

(i) Clerk/Burial Registrar.

(ii) Allotments Manager.

1. to note that all Parish Council employees are employed and that PAYE is operated.
2. Pensions – to ensure that the requirements of the Pensions Regulator are fulfilled.

4. Cemetery.
5. to review the Cemetery fees [please refer to your Policies Manual – last amended September 2017].
6. to review the Cemetery guidelines [please refer to your Policies Manual – last amended September 2017] and consider adding an additional guideline for the Green Burial Area.

5. Allotments.
6. to review the rents for the year 1^st January – 31^st December 2023.

Rents for 2022 = £44 [full plot]; £22 [half plot] with primary tenants over 65 paying £28 [full plot]; £14 [half plot]. [please refer to your Policies Manual – last amended January 2021].

1. to review the Allotment guidelines [please refer to your Policies Manual – last amended March 2019].

6. To review insurance cover [please refer to the report].

7. To review all policies [please refer to your Policies Manual – [last reviewed January 2021].

8. To review risk assessments and to make any necessary amendments to the schedule [please refer to your Policies Manual – [last reviewed January 2021].

9. To review all Terms of Reference [please refer to your Policies Manual – last reviewed January 2021].

10. To review additional Standing Orders [please refer to your Policies Manual – last reviewed 2021].

11. To review the Parish Plan Action Plan – [last reviewed January 2021 – please refer to the report and copy].

12. To review the Parish Council Community Project List – [please refer to the copy of the list – last reviewed January 2021].

13. To review all GDPR documents and report any data breaches – [please refer to your copies of the documents – last reviewed January 2021].

14. To review the Emergency Plan – review currently in progress.

15. To review the effectiveness of internal controls for audit purposes – [please refer to the report].

16. To review the Training Policy – [please refer to the report and draft policy].

17. Precept for the year 1^st April 2022 – 31^st March 2023 – to review the council’s budgets and agree the precept for the financial year beginning 1^st April 2022.

Tax base = 768, which is unchanged from the previous year.  [Please refer to the report and Precept Calculation Sheets which include payments from April to December 2021 inclusive.

L.D PAYNE, CLERK