Finance & General Purposes Committee

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SHREWSBURY TOWN COUNCIL
Livesey House
7 St John’s Hill
Shrewsbury
SY1 1JD

(Please be aware that this meeting is not recorded)

To Members of the Finance & General Purposes Committee 

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

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 17 April 2023 at 6.00 pm at Council Chamber, Shirehall 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 6 February 2023 & 11 April 2023.

  Attachments:

  • 23.02.06 F&GP Minutes
  • 23.04.11 Extra F&GP Minutes

• 4MATTERS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS

  To consider any matters arising from the previous meeting

• 5UPDATE ON COMMITTEE & WORKING GROUP ACTIVITY

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

  (i) Youth Working Group – 23 March 2023
  (ii) Civics Working Group – 2 February 2023

  Attachments:

  • Youth Services Minutes 23.03.23
  • 2023.02.02 - Civics Working Group

• 6PAYMENT SCHEDULES

  To approve the payments schedules for the period 28 January 2023 to 31 March 2023

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 6 Payment Schedules

• 7PREPARE END OF YEAR ACCOUNTS

  To receive a report from the RFO regarding the closure of the 2022/23 Accounts

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 7 - Year end accounting 22-23

• 8INTERNAL AUDITOR

  To receive the Internal Audit Report 2022-23: Interim update

  Attachments:

  • Shrewsbury TC Interim Update Report 2022-23

• 9CAPITAL PROGRAMME

  To receive an update on the Capital Programme

  Attachments:

  • 2022-23 Capital Projects Action Plan

• 10SHROPSHIRE CYCLE HUB

  To revisit the offer agreed at Min 75/22 (5th December 2023) to include additional running costs

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 10 - Shropshire Cycle Hub
  • Agenda 10 - proposals for eCargo bike library letter 070223

• 11TENDER WORK

  To receive a report on recent tendering activity

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 11 - Tender Works
  • Agenda 11 - Tender Progress

• 12MARKETS UPDATE

  To receive an update on the Markets operations within Shrewsbury

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 12 - Market update April 2023

• 13GREENFIELDS RECREATION GROUND

  To receive an update on progress in relation to the potential purchase of land

• 14HENCOTE JUDICIAL REVIEW

  To receive progress in relation to actions at the extraordinary meeting of the Committee last week

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 14 - Hencote Judicial Review

• 15ST JOHNS HILL ACCOMMODATION UPDATE

  To receive an update in relation to the recent move into Livesey House

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 15 - St John's Hill

• 16VISIONING WORK

  To receive an update in relation to the ongoing visioning exercise and other planned actions

  Attachments:

  • Agenda 16 - Visioning

• 17EXCLUSION 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).

• 18GREENFIELDS RECREATION GROUND

  To consider any matters in relation to legal proceedings