Clyro Community Council
A. G .M Minutes 2008
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF
CLYRO COMMUNITY COUNCIL
HELD ON TUESDAY 13 MAY 2008
IN THE VILLAGE HALL, CLYRO
1. APOLOGIES: There were no apologies.
2. MINUTES OF LAST AGM: These were approved at June 2007’s meeting.
3. CHAIRMAN’S REPORT:
First of all I would like to thank all Councillors and our County Councillor for their support over the past year.
What has happened over the last year? Joy our clerk has been with us for over a year now and seems to be coping very well, getting to grips with the various legal procedures, and putting up with nine, sometimes noisy councillors.
Over the year we have dealt with 15-20 planning applications, some of which cause serious concern to the community.
Councillors have attended planning liaison meetings at Builth Wells, and Radnorshire Liaison meetings at County Hall, and we just can’t wait to get to the next one.
We have read and reported on many and various documents and recycled quite a few of them.
Our appointed School Governor Gerrard continues to give us progress reports on both academic and fun events at Clyro Primary School, and he seems to be gaining confidence in the job as time passes.
Our fire risk assessment and action plan seems to be working well, as is the appointing of responsible persons for the duration of the meetings.
We still do a monthly check on our physical assets which of course are the village green, four benches, a notice board and the information board, all of which are in excellent order.
PC Thomas visits from time to time with crime statistics and local updates, which we find every useful, as well as giving us the opportunity to ask him questions and report suspicious activities.
Margaret Morris, our County Councillor gives us a monthly update of events at County Hall and continues to raise questions on our behalf.
Tom Fairfield pops in from time to time to keep us abreast of ecological developments.
www.Clyro.org is still attracting quite a number of visitors, and receiving favourable comments. We have had 6,200 visits, with 10,400 page views. Almost 5,000 visits have been from the USA, over 2,000 from the UK, followed by Sweden and Germany.
An annual undertaking for the Community Council is to purchase a wreath for Rememberance Day; last year we changed to just send a donation to the same value and this seems to work quite well.
Following the December meeting, councillors stayed on for what has now become an annual event and that is to share a glass or two of wine and a few mince pies to celebrate Christmas.
Lastly, but most importantly, I think that during the last year councillors have worked extremely well together, with all meetings having a friendly atmosphere. Four councillors have now stood down from office and I extend my thanks for their support over the years, and hope that they might join our December meeting for our annual celebration drink.
Finally I would like to welcome our new councillors to our merry band and look forward to the contributions.
4. ELECTION OF OFFICERS:
Chairman 2008-2009 – Cllr Hood proposed that the current Chairman Brian Morgan continue for at least another year, remarking that he thought he had done an extremely good job over the years. Cllr Wheeler seconded this.
The Chairman then signed the Declaration of Acceptance which was witnessed by the Clerk.
Vice Chairman 2008-2009 – Cllr Green proposed that Cllr V Price continue as vice chairman and this was seconded by Cllr Hood. Cllr Price accepted.
School Governor 2008-2009 – Cllr Morgan proposed that Cllr Green continue as School Governor, this was seconded by Cllr Wheeler, all were in favour of this.
5. ACCOUNTS: The Clerk reported the balances in both current and reserve accounts. These were £2301.84 in the current account for year ending March 2008 and £2786.62 in the deposit account for the same period. Total expenditure was £2406.60. Cllr Hood proposed that this be accepted. It was seconded by Cllr Wheeler.
The meeting was then brought to a close.
SIGNED: ……………………………………… DATE:……………………….