NOW WE
KNOW WHY!
January
2017 Parish Council Meeting.
Me: (in an open part of the meeting considering a proposal, since approved,
to build dwellings off School Lane.)
“Thank you, Chairman. What are the projects that the Council would
spend the money (the CIL - Community Infrastructure Levy) on, if it is approved?”
Chairman
Strelczenie (on the film record) : Well,
we haven’t anything in line at the moment.
FOUND!
TUCKED AWAY AT THE BOTTOM THE COUNCIL’S
AUDITED ACCOUNTS FOR 2016/2017 THAT THE AUDITOR CRITICISED FOR THE FINANCIAL
RESERVES BEING TOO HIGH
– in
others words –
WHY
HAS THE COUNCIL BUILT UP A RESERVE OF PUBLIC MONEY THROUGHOUT THE FISCAL YEAR
AT PALTRY BANK INTEREST RATES, INSTEAD OF SPENDING THE MONEY ON THE RESIDENTS, AND
WHERE IS THE COUNCIL’S FORMAL AUTHORITY AND APPROVAL FOR DOING SO?
“FUNDING
IS REQUIRED FOR THE ACQUISITION OF MEMORIAL GARDEN AND ONGOING MAINTENANCE
COSTS.
I know
of at least one Councillor who was shocked when learning of that explanation.
It will be interesting to hear the answers from the Clerk to the Council, Mrs. Julie Leighton-Eshelby and Chairman Jan Strelczenie who, with his wife or civil partner, declared a beneficial interest or a license to occupy (for more than one month) land or property detailed as “Hemingbrough Community Memorial Garden” YO8 6QG owned by the ‘Parish of Hemingbrough Historical Heritage Society’ (PHHHS).
