Environment - 11th February 2021
I hereby give you notice that a meeting of the Environmental Committee of Ruskington Parish Council will be held remotely on Thursday 11 February 2021 at 7.00pm. Members of the public and press are welcome to attend and may ask questions or make short statements to the Committee at this time. Please contact the Clerk in advance of the meeting for this to be arranged.
All Councillor Members of the Environment Committee are summoned to attend for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business to be transacted at the meeting, as set out hereunder.
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Signed: K. H. Locke Clerk to the Parish Council |
K. H. Locke |
Date: 1 February 2021 |
Agenda
1. To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.
2. Receive declarations of interest and consider applications for dispensations in relation to DPIs.
Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests is to be in accordance with the Localism Act 2011. The need for Disclosure is to be based upon agenda items or at any suitable time during the Meeting when it becomes apparent to a Member.
3. Notes of the meeting of the Environmental Committee held remotely on Thursday 12 November 2020 to be approved as Minutes.
4. To request/receive an update on financial matters:
4.1. Expenditure to date.
5. To request/receive an update on Sleaford Road Cemetery:
5.1. Update on replacement of bushes in the boundary hedge.
5.2. Update on consideration of an ashes scattering area in the Cemetery.
6. To request/receive an update on the Memorial Garden:
6.1. Refurbishments of the Memorial Garden.
6.2. To consider future plans for the Garden.
7. To request /receive an update on Horseshoe Hollow:
7.1. To receive an update on the planting of 30 saplings, awarded from the Woodland Trust, that were planted in December 2020.
7.2. To receive an update on the information noticeboards for Horseshoe Hollow and consider the next steps to take this forward.
7.3. To consider if the Council can do anything to mitigate flooding to properties on Manor Street, such as the planting of willow trees to help reduce water levels.
7.4. Update from Cllr. Fryer - Friends of Horseshoe Hollow.
8. To request/receive an update on the allotments. (Report via R.F.O.)
9. To elect an Environment Committee representative for the Finance & Policy Committee.
10. Correspondence - for information only.
a. Resident - Flooding of gardens on Station Road
11. To consider storage / removal of waste and rubbish by the Council operatives.
12. Delegates/Councillor Reports.
No resolutions may be passed under this item, but requests for matters to be placed on the next agenda can be made.
13. To resolve whether to exclude the public and press, in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960, to discuss the following staffing, legal and contractual matters. Should this resolution be passed, members of the public and press will be required to leave the meeting.
14. To consider the grass cutting in the village, including that cut by the council operatives.
15. To consider quotes for an alternative, ecologically experienced contractor for land management at Horseshoe Hollow
16. To receive an update on Environment Enforcement Warden’s working hours, pay, and extension of contract.
17. To consider the role of the Environment Warden and consider the purchase of a “dust cart”.
18. To consider the vacancy and role for a Council caretaker.
19. To consider the lease for the public toilets on Church Street.