Felton Joint Cemetery Committee meeting 29 April 2025

00:00 Intro
01:25 Finance
01:38 account statement to 31 March 2025 Clerk
02:20 Salaries a little bit higher than anticipated. (Why so, given a 50% increase in the paid hourly rate)
03:17 Chair, my concerns are the salaries
04:30 Agree financial statement
04:48 agree financial payments (going back to November 2024)
05:50 Cemetery clerk report (Gave her notice in almost two years ago)
26:30 Policies and procedures review (Post 2014 policies not relevant)
29:14 Announce setting up separate account for FJCC on advice of recently subscribed Scribe account software provider, will incur extra costs to the subscription. Extra cost not mentioned at FPC meeting on previous day. (Since 2014 Joint cemetery committees are no longer corporate entities, so have to be audited and accounted for within the member councils individual accounts. Funds are held in the lead authority bank account, so what is being proposed will not meet 2014 legislation)
34:01 Chair wrongly states lead authority is based on number of households. (its not, its based on Parish the cemetery is located in and therefore fixed)
39:43 Cllr Day queries proposal as salaries are already over budget, without approval from other parish councils. Chair blames poor visibility for salary overspend. (Whereas its due to 50% hourly rate increase, hence next years budget increasing from £6000 to £9000 for Cemetery casual work.)
42:20 Chair announces she wants to close meeting to the public even though there is no proposition on the agenda to do so.
44:48 Public explain the agenda should have included a separate resolution to do so. The lawful process was not followed from this point on as no written or verbal proposition was proposed and no vote took place. The recording of the meeting ended at this point.