8474 Minutes of the Special Parish Council meeting held on Monday 7th November 2005 in the Council Office at 7.15pm.

8475 Present: Councillor David Willacy (Chair), Councillors Ted Casey, Jean Colwell, John Gallagher, Ken Hargreaves, Terry Keefe, Pete McSweeney, Pat Pierce, the Deputy Clerk/RFO Mrs Jayne Beaumont.

8476 Apologies for Absence:

Received from Councillors Jack Baker (holiday), Sue Gibson (family commitment) and Ros Lishman (family commitment), the Treasurer, Mr Tony Cookson and the Clerk, Mr Peter Challenor.

8477 Receipt of Declaration of Members’ Interests relating to any items appearing on the Agenda:

There were no declarations of Member’s interests relating to any items appearing on the agenda.

8478 Receipt of the Draft Budget for 2006/07, as agreed by the Finance Committee:

a) This was received and discussed in detail.

b). The terms of the Draft Budget for 2006/07 were determined and any recommendations are detailed herewith.

Appendix 3 - there was a discussion regarding the reserves for tractor and pier railings and the fact that there is currently no policy for the use of reserves and it was RESOLVED that this policy should be discussed further at a future Ordinary Parish Council meeting.

Appendix 4 - it was pointed out that under Admin ‘office and other rents’ no allowance has been made for rent to the EI for the hire of a room for Wednesday/Saturday morning surgeries should the Parish Council office be relocated to the Cemetery Chapel. It was RESOLVED that an amount of £100.00 should be added.

Appendix 7 - it was RESOLVED that it should be recommended at the Ordinary Parish Council meeting that the rent for allotments be increased to £25.00 with effect from 1st April 2006.

There was a discussion regarding the estimates for water and electricity at the Cemetery Chapel which were considered to be on the high side. However, it was RESOLVED that they should remain as they were as they are at present an unknown quantity and it was felt that in future years a more accurate figure could be quoted.
Special Projects - it was RESOLVED that it should be recommended that the amount of £1078.10 be transferred and used accordingly, for example, the children’s playground, in order to reduce the Precept.

c). With regards to setting the Draft Precept for 2006/07, Cllr Keefe put forward a proposal as follows:

That £1,400 be transferred in an appropriate way from Arnside Parish Council Reserves to enable the proposed increase in the Precept for 2006/07 to be limited to around 2.9%. And that APC discuss as an agenda item at it’s December meeting all of it’s policies on Reserves and Special Projects, deciding at that time from which source the £1,400 be taken.

This was seconded by Cllr McSweeney and the decision was unanimous.

Being no further business, the meeting closed at 8.40pm.

Jayne M Beaumont

Deputy Clerk/RFO