Extraordinary Meeting, 7 April 2008

Master for Signature
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HELMDON PARISH COUNCIL
Minutes of the Extra Ordinary meeting of Helmdon Parish Council held on Monday 7th April 2008
in the Reading Room, Church Street, Helmdon at 8:09pm
Present: Councillors Barnes, Burns, Coatsworth, Duncombe, England, Thorne, Crouch, Stothard
Parish Clerk: Liz Hart
Action
1
Apologies
Cllr Turner had sent apologies due to work commitments.
2
Finance
To consider the recommendations of the Finance Committee regarding the following items of expenditure:
a) £50 for the hire of a mini digger to clear a vacant plot b) The purchase of a manual pump for extracting water from the brook together with installation costs c) The clearance of the overgrown vegetation from the brook bordering the allotments and the ash on the vacant plot
The Finance Committee advised that a) would be completed free of charge and that having considered b) and c) they would recommend purchase and installation of a pump for £39.96
plus VAT with installation of approximately £60 and acceptance of a tender for £745 plus
VAT from Richard Clay for tree clearance works. Cllr Crouch proposed, seconded by Cllr
England that these recommendations be accepted.
All were in favour.
The Clerk confirmed that no licence was required for water extraction.
The meeting closed at 8:10pm.