The Parish Council met in the village hall on 12 May for the first time in several months. There were twenty village electors present. We are most grateful to the Church Wardens for allowing the Council to meet in the church while the project to extend and refurbish the village hall has been taking place. This is now (nearly) complete, save for some small jobs which still need to be done. Volunteers will be welcome, and for those who have not yet volunteered but still wish to do so, please contact the Chairman, Geoff Rumble (868738).
We held the Annual Meeting of the Parish Council. This is the Council’s most important meeting of the year where we elect and appoint office bearers for the forthcoming year, and approve the previous year’s accounts before sending them to the external auditors. Geoff Rumble was re-elected as Chairman, and Mike Cox was re-elected as Vice-Chairman. New appointments are Doug Hughes who joins the CHAFT committee as one of two Parish Council representatives, and Mike Cox who joins NAG. Other responsibilities are as described in earlier reports. The year-end accounts were approved.
The Annual Parish Meeting followed immediately after the Parish Council Meeting. The Chairman gave his annual report, which can be read in full in the May edition of Charney Chatter and on the Village Website. County Councillor Melinda Tilley briefed us on the new contractor for repairing the county’s roads and also on the new refuse collection arrangements that are to be introduced in the autumn. It was this issue that caused most concern to residents, and we look forward to finding out more about this in briefings that VWHDC are to give shortly.
Finally, Jim Harper led a vote of thanks for the work carried out by Geoff and Julie Rumble in seeing the village hall project to its completion, and to Elisabeth and Jash Dahele who had been the prime movers in fund raising and in progressing the project until they left the village. John Daglish took photographs of the occasion, and Geoff Rumble thanked all present for their good wishes.
Stephen Cowlam
Clerk to the Parish Council
May 2010.
STOP PRESS
The latest meeting of the Parish Council was held in the Village Hall on 14th July.
Draft Minutes can be seen on http://charneybassettpc.org.uk/?page_id=7