Finance & 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, R Wilson

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 June 2022 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 April 2022.

  Attachments:

  • 22.04.04 F&GP Minutes

• 4MATTERS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS

• 5PAYMENT SCHEDULES

  To approve the payments schedules for the period 1 April 2022 – 22 May 2022

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 5 - Schedule of payments

• 6END OF YEAR ACCOUNTS

  To recommend to Council in accordance with the Accounts & Audit Regulations 2011 and subject to sign-off by the Internal Auditor, the approval of the annual accounts

  (i)            Annual Report

  (ii)           Statement of Accounting Policies

  (iii)          Annual Governance Statement

  (iv)         Income & Expenditure Account

  (v)          Statement of Movement of Reserves

  (vi)         Balance Sheet

  (vii)        Annual Return

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 6 - STC draft accounts YE22

• 7INTERNAL AUDIT

  To consider the report of the Internal Auditor in relation to the final audit of the 2021/22 accounts

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 7 Shrewsbury TC Final update report 2021-22

• 8UPDATE ON COMMITTEE & WORKING GROUP ACTIVITY

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

  1. Youth Services Working Group – 5^th April 2022

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 8 - Youth Services Minutes 22.04.05

• 9BUS SHELTER REPORT

  To receive a report on replacement bus shelter options

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 9 Bus Shelter Replacements

• 10UKRAINE SUPPORT GRANT FUND

  To receive a draft Ukraine Support Grant Fund scheme and application form

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 10 2022 - Ukraine Support Fund Grant Application Form
  • Agenda 10 2022 - Ukraine Support Fund Grant Guidance Notes

• 11MARKETS

  To receive an update on the Markets operations within Shrewsbury

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 11 - Market update June 22

• 12TENDERS

  To receive a report on recent tendering activity

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 12 - Tender Works

• 13CAPITAL PROGRAMME

  To receive an update on the 2022/23 Programme

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 13 2022-23 Capital Projects Action Plan

• 14BIG TOWN PLAN UPDATE

  To receive an update on the work of the Big Town Plan Partnership from the Town Council’s representative (Councillor Mosley)

• 15VEXATIOUS COMPLAINANT POLICY

  To approve the draft Vexatious Complainant Policy

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 15 Vexatious Complaints Policy 2022

• 16DRAFT SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL HOUSING ALLOCATION POLICY

  To consider any representations to Shropshire Council in relation to the draft Shropshire Council Housing Allocation Policy

   

  Housing allocations policy | Shropshire Council

   

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 16 - Draft Shropshire Council housing allocations policy for consultation May 2022

• 17OFFICER DELEGATION REVIEW

  To review the current Officer Delegation

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 17 - Scheme of Delegation

• 18EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC

  To consider exclusion of the Press & Public on the grounds that the consideration of the following items may involve the likely disclosure of confidential information (s1(2) Public Bodies (Admission of Meetings) Act 1960).

• 19INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

  To receive a report on commercial properties owned