Finance and General Purposes Committee

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SHREWSBURY TOWN COUNCIL
Riggs Hall
The Library
Castle Gates
Shrewsbury
SY1 2AS

To Members of the Finance and General Purposes Committee

Councillors: A Mosley (Chair), P Moseley (Vice-Chair), M Davies, R Dartnall, J Dean, N Green, A Phillips, D Vasmer

Cc All other members of the Council for information

Dear Councillor

You are hereby summoned to attend the meeting of the Town Council’s Finance & General Purposes Committee scheduled to take place on Monday 6 December 2021 at 6pm via Microsoft Teams in order to transact the following business.

Helen Ball
Town Clerk

Meeting Agenda Items

• 1APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

  To receive and accept apologies for absence.

• 2DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

  To receive Declarations of Pecuniary Interest in accordance with the Code of Conduct.

• 3MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

  To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 4 October 2021.

  Attachments:

  • 21.10.04 Finance Minutes

• 4MATTERS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS

• 5PAYMENT SCHEDULES

  To approve the payments schedules for the period  25 September – 27 November 2021.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 5 - Schedule of payments

• 6BUDGET PROPOSALS

  To consider the following in readiness for further discussions regarding the setting of a budget and precept levy for the 2022/23 financial year.

   

  (i)    General principles, implications and assumptions including:

  (a)  Forecast outturn of the 2021/22 budget

  (b)  Any ongoing implications of COVID

  (c)  Implications of Brexit

  (d)  Resulting impact of the Spending Review

  (e)  Inflationary pressures

  (f)  Interest rates

  (g)  Tax Base Calculations

  (ii)   Proposed Fees & Charges

  (iii)  Revenue expenditure items from committees/members for consideration into budget preparations

  (iv)   Capital expenditure projects for consideration in the Capital Programme to be funded through:

  (a)  2022/23 Revenue Budget

  (b)  Community Infrastructure Neighbourhood Fund

  (c)  Any other ringfenced budgets/reserves

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 6 - Budget Setting
  • Agenda 6ii Scale of charges 2022-23 draft

• 7INTERNAL AUDITOR

  To receive and accept the report of the Internal Auditor following his first inspection of the 2020/21 Accounts.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 7 - Shrewsbury TC First Interim report 2021-22

• 8TENDER WORK

  To receive a report on recent tendering activity.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 8 - Tender Progress
  • Agenda 8 - Tender Works

• 9MARKETS

  To receive an update on the work of the general market.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 9 - Market update December

• 10ROUNDABOUT SPONSORSHIP

  To consider proposals by Shropshire Council to outsource all roundabout sponsorship to an outside agency and resultant impact of Shrewsbury in Bloom operations.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 10 - Roundabout Sponsorship
  • Agenda 10 - Appendix 1 - Highway Assets Advertising Proposal Final
  • Agenda 10 - Appendix 2 - Highways Assets Advertising Policy Final
  • Agenda 10 - Highways Asset Advertising Policy

• 11UPDATE ON COMMITTEE & WORKING GROUP ACTIVITY

  To receive an update on activity of the the following Committees/Working Groups that report to this Committee:

   

  (i)    Climate Change Standing Committee – 7^th October 2021

  (ii)   Youth Services Working Group – 18^th November 2021

  (iii)  Civics Working Group – 25^th November 2021

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 11(i) - 21.10.07 Climate Change Minutes
  • Agenda 11(ii) - Youth Services Minutes 21.11.18
  • Agenda 11(iii) - 2021.11.25 Civics_Minutes

• 12BIG TOWN PLAN

  (i)    To consider continuation funding & amendments to the partnership agreement for the Big Town Plan Partnership.

  (ii)   To receive an update on the procurement of a Movement strategy.

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 12 - Shrewsbury Big Town Plan Partnership