Wellington Town Council December 2006 council meeting
The DECEMBER meeting of Wellington Town Council will be held in the main hall of the United Reformed Church in Fore Street, Wellington, on Monday, 4th December 2006 at 7pm.
The December planning meeting of the town council will also be held in the URC hall on Monday, 4th December 2006 at 6pm for which there is a separate agenda.
Tony Brown
Town clerk
AGENDA
1. APOLOGIES
1A. CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS.
1B. REPORT AND QUESTIONS/COMMENTS TO/FROM POLICE SERGEANT DOC NURSE. ALSO LETTER FROM CHAIRMAN TO POLICE RE WELLINGTON BEAT CRIME STATISTICS. TO FIX DATE FOR CCTV WORKING PARTY MEETING.
1C. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION TIME
2. TO CONFIRM THE MINUTES OF COUNCIL MEETINGS HELD ON 6TH AND 16TH NOVEMBER 2006
3. TO CONSIDER WHAT COMMENTS TO MAKE TO TAUNTON DEANE BOROUGH COUNCIL ON PROPOSED INCREASED CAR PARKING CHARGES (report to follow)
4. TO CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN WELLINGTON AND TO RECEIVE A REPORT ON THE SWITCH ON OF THE ILLUMINATIONS (Councillor D. Mitton to report)
5. TO RECEIVE A REPORT ON THE WELLINGTON FOOD TOWN LAUNCH (Councillor D. Mitton to report)
5A. TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE CELEBRATIONS TO MARK THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN POPHAM
5B. TO CONSIDER REQUEST FROM WELLINGTON IN BLOOM COMMITTEE FOR £1,250 GRANT FOR 2006 for decision: £1,250 in 2005)
5C. TO CONSIDER REQUEST FROM FRIENDS OF WELLINGTON PARK FOR A GRANT OF £1,650 FOR 2006 (for decision: £1,600 in 2005)
6. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES:
(a) Minute 14007 Mail box for Burrough Way: Letter from Royal Mail turning down request for additional box (for information)
(b) Minute 13974 (2nd October meeting) Beth Rowley grant request: Letter of thanks from Beth for grant of £200 (for information)
(c) Minute 14009 Grit bin for Tone railway bridge: E-mail from council’s insurers re question of councillors putting down salt/grit during icy conditions (for decision)
(d) Minute 13643 (9th January meeting): Appointment of internal auditor: Letter from Mr A. Bullen asking if the council wish to re-appoint him for 2006-07 (for decision: hourly rate £29 last year)
(e) Minute 13901 (7th August meeting) Electoral review of Taunton Deane Borough: To report that the Electoral Commissioners have accepted the final recommendations of the Boundary Committee for England, namely the transfer of 150 electors in the Waterloo Road and Corams Lane area from Wellington North ward to Wellington West ward and 70 electors in the Hoyles Road area from Wellington East ward to Wellington West ward to provide a better balance of electoral quality and quantity (for information)
(f) Minute 13916 (7th August meeting) Wellington planning complaints: Letter from Taunton DBC detailing 7 planning complaints received during third quarter of 2006 (for information)
(g) Minute 13608 (5th December 2005 meeting): Proposed Rotary sign at town entrance: Letter from Wellington Rotary Club asking council to support request for sign (for decision: clerk’s note: Last year the council decided not to support the request because it was felt it would lead to a clutter of such signs which other worthy clubs in Wellington might want to erect if a precedent was set and also because the council was told that the county council’s highway policy was not to allow such signs)
7. CORRESPONDENCE
(a) Letter from Somerset Playing Fields Association asking the council to become members of association (for decision)
(b) Letter from Somerset Trading Standards about weight limits on local roads (for decision: would like to know of any breaches of weight limits on roads in our area)
(c) Letter from Somerset County Council re carrier bag awareness campaign – Wellington pilot (questionnaire: for information)
(d) Letter from County Council re localisation and frontline councillors (for information)
(e) Letter from The Albemarle Centre re annual Wellington 10 mile road race on 15th July 2007 (for information)
(f) E-mails from County Council re provision of raised kerb by bus stop at Rockwell Green plus letter by clerk (for information)
8. WELLINGTON ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
(a) To receive a report from Mrs J. Thorne, assistant to clerk, meeting of Wellington Economic Partnership meeting held on 20th November 2006 (to follow) and to consider whether to make any recommendations/suggestions for inclusion on the agenda for the next WEP meeting on Monday, 22nd January 2007 at 6pm
9. TO REPORT PLANNING DECISIONS OF TAUNTON DBC AND SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL (List will be published on supplementary agenda on 4th December 2006)
10. COUNCIL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE TO END OF NOVEMBER 2006
11. ACCOUNTS FOR PAYMENT (List will be published on supplementary agenda on 4th December 2006)
12. ANY URGENT MATTER WHICH MAY BE RAISED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE CHAIRMAN
IN COMMITTEE ITEM: The council will be asked to pass the following resolution: “In view of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted, it is advisable in the public interest that the Press and the public be temporarily excluded and they are instructed to withdraw”
13. TO RECEIVE A REPORT FROM THE STAFFING COMMITTEE AND TO CONSIDER APPROVING ITS RECOMMENDATIONS (enclosed)
Tony Brown
Town clerk
AGENDA
1. APOLOGIES
1A. CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS.
1B. REPORT AND QUESTIONS/COMMENTS TO/FROM POLICE SERGEANT DOC NURSE. ALSO LETTER FROM CHAIRMAN TO POLICE RE WELLINGTON BEAT CRIME STATISTICS. TO FIX DATE FOR CCTV WORKING PARTY MEETING.
1C. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION TIME
2. TO CONFIRM THE MINUTES OF COUNCIL MEETINGS HELD ON 6TH AND 16TH NOVEMBER 2006
3. TO CONSIDER WHAT COMMENTS TO MAKE TO TAUNTON DEANE BOROUGH COUNCIL ON PROPOSED INCREASED CAR PARKING CHARGES (report to follow)
4. TO CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS IN WELLINGTON AND TO RECEIVE A REPORT ON THE SWITCH ON OF THE ILLUMINATIONS (Councillor D. Mitton to report)
5. TO RECEIVE A REPORT ON THE WELLINGTON FOOD TOWN LAUNCH (Councillor D. Mitton to report)
5A. TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE CELEBRATIONS TO MARK THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN POPHAM
5B. TO CONSIDER REQUEST FROM WELLINGTON IN BLOOM COMMITTEE FOR £1,250 GRANT FOR 2006 for decision: £1,250 in 2005)
5C. TO CONSIDER REQUEST FROM FRIENDS OF WELLINGTON PARK FOR A GRANT OF £1,650 FOR 2006 (for decision: £1,600 in 2005)
6. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES:
(a) Minute 14007 Mail box for Burrough Way: Letter from Royal Mail turning down request for additional box (for information)
(b) Minute 13974 (2nd October meeting) Beth Rowley grant request: Letter of thanks from Beth for grant of £200 (for information)
(c) Minute 14009 Grit bin for Tone railway bridge: E-mail from council’s insurers re question of councillors putting down salt/grit during icy conditions (for decision)
(d) Minute 13643 (9th January meeting): Appointment of internal auditor: Letter from Mr A. Bullen asking if the council wish to re-appoint him for 2006-07 (for decision: hourly rate £29 last year)
(e) Minute 13901 (7th August meeting) Electoral review of Taunton Deane Borough: To report that the Electoral Commissioners have accepted the final recommendations of the Boundary Committee for England, namely the transfer of 150 electors in the Waterloo Road and Corams Lane area from Wellington North ward to Wellington West ward and 70 electors in the Hoyles Road area from Wellington East ward to Wellington West ward to provide a better balance of electoral quality and quantity (for information)
(f) Minute 13916 (7th August meeting) Wellington planning complaints: Letter from Taunton DBC detailing 7 planning complaints received during third quarter of 2006 (for information)
(g) Minute 13608 (5th December 2005 meeting): Proposed Rotary sign at town entrance: Letter from Wellington Rotary Club asking council to support request for sign (for decision: clerk’s note: Last year the council decided not to support the request because it was felt it would lead to a clutter of such signs which other worthy clubs in Wellington might want to erect if a precedent was set and also because the council was told that the county council’s highway policy was not to allow such signs)
7. CORRESPONDENCE
(a) Letter from Somerset Playing Fields Association asking the council to become members of association (for decision)
(b) Letter from Somerset Trading Standards about weight limits on local roads (for decision: would like to know of any breaches of weight limits on roads in our area)
(c) Letter from Somerset County Council re carrier bag awareness campaign – Wellington pilot (questionnaire: for information)
(d) Letter from County Council re localisation and frontline councillors (for information)
(e) Letter from The Albemarle Centre re annual Wellington 10 mile road race on 15th July 2007 (for information)
(f) E-mails from County Council re provision of raised kerb by bus stop at Rockwell Green plus letter by clerk (for information)
8. WELLINGTON ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
(a) To receive a report from Mrs J. Thorne, assistant to clerk, meeting of Wellington Economic Partnership meeting held on 20th November 2006 (to follow) and to consider whether to make any recommendations/suggestions for inclusion on the agenda for the next WEP meeting on Monday, 22nd January 2007 at 6pm
9. TO REPORT PLANNING DECISIONS OF TAUNTON DBC AND SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL (List will be published on supplementary agenda on 4th December 2006)
10. COUNCIL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE TO END OF NOVEMBER 2006
11. ACCOUNTS FOR PAYMENT (List will be published on supplementary agenda on 4th December 2006)
12. ANY URGENT MATTER WHICH MAY BE RAISED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE CHAIRMAN
IN COMMITTEE ITEM: The council will be asked to pass the following resolution: “In view of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted, it is advisable in the public interest that the Press and the public be temporarily excluded and they are instructed to withdraw”
13. TO RECEIVE A REPORT FROM THE STAFFING COMMITTEE AND TO CONSIDER APPROVING ITS RECOMMENDATIONS (enclosed)
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