February 2025
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN and COUNCILLORS ARE SUMMONED to attend the meeting of Market Rasen Town Council, on Wednesday 12th February 2025 at 7.00pm in the Committee Room of the Festival Hall, Caistor Road, Market Rasen LN8 3HT.
Members of the public and the press are invited to attend. This is public meeting which may be filmed, recorded, and published.
Signed: A Driver
Town Clerk & Responsible Financial Officer
Date: 7th February 2025
AGENDA
1.Open Meeting
The Chairman to welcome those attending and make any announcements
2.Apologies
To receive apologies and resolve to accept valid reasons for absence
3.Public Forum
Members of the public may address the council for a period that shall not exceed twenty minutes in respect of the business on the agenda, or raise items which may become future agenda items.
4.Declarations of Interest
To receive declarations of interest in accordance with the requirements of the Localism Act 2012 and to consider any applications for dispensations in relation to Disclosable Pecuniary Interests.
Councillors may make a declaration of interest at this point and during the course of the meeting.
5.Minutes
To receive as a correct record the draft notes of the Town Council meeting held on 8th January 2025.
6.To receive the District and County Councillor reports.
7.To agree the date for the Annual Town Meeting which was deferred from the last meeting of the council, minute reference 00008(b) relates.
8.To agree the grass cutting contractor for 2025 and 2026.
9.Bell Park
a.To receive an update from Cllr S Bunney on the Community Orchard.
b.To approve an alternative site away from the river for The Station Group Sensory Garden to be located.
10.Finance
a)Resolve accounts for payment.
b)Agree the purchase of display poppies for around the town from the British Legion to a value of £300.
c)Resolve for the Clerk to purchase up to sixty hall chairs throughout the year.
11.Planning - access applications via: https://westlindsey-publicportal.statmap.co.uk/horizoNext/publicportal
To resolve responses to new planning and tree application received since the last meeting of the Town Council and any new applications received since the publication of the agenda.
a) 2-3 Market Place Walk, Market Rasen LN8 3GZ. Application Number: WL/2025/00088 - Proposal: Listed building consent for replacement of 2no. windows to rear of property. Location:
12.Closed Session
a). To resolve moving into a closed session under the Public Bodies Admission to Meeting Act 1960
Should this resolution be passed the public and press will be required to leave the meeting.
b). To resolve to confirm The Town Clerk in post following the completion of their probation.
c). To receive an update from the Clerk on employees of the council.